School of Visual Arts Student Laptop Purchase Recommendations

The School of Visual Arts is recommending that students purchase one of the computers and the software packages that are listed below. Currently these are only a recommended purchase, not a required purchase.

You may purchase your unit from Penn State's Computer Store, Penn State's Apple Custom Store, or from the store of your choice. However, wherever you make your computer purchase, The School of Visual Arts recommends that your unit adhere to the following specifications.

If you wish to purchase your laptop from the Computer Store's stock, we have made it easy and put everything together for you.

Note: Students considering New Media and/or IDS majors working with high end graphics, film and video applications are strongly encouraged to choose either a Mac Pro or a MacBook Pro.

Recommended Configuration 15" MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 512 MB of VRAM 250 GB hard drive 8x double-layer SuperDrive 2 GB of RAM $2249.00 - purchase this MacBook Pro $2299.00 - with 3yr. Applecare Warranty	Extended Configuration 17" MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 512 MB of VRAM 250 GB hard drive 8x double-layer SuperDrive 2 GB of RAM $2689.00 - purchase this MacBook Pro
Minimum Configuration 13" MacBook 2.4 GHz Core Duo 160 GB hard drive 8x double-layer SuperDrive 2 GB of RAM $1199 - purchase this MacBook	Desktop Configuration Mac Pro Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors 1 GB of RAM 250 GB hard drive 16x double-layer SuperDrive NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics with 256MB memory Penn State's Apple Custom Store

The School of Visual Arts recommends that you purchase the following software packages from the Computer Store in order to get the Student Licensed price. Click on the part number to purchase the software.

It is highly recommended that you purchase Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium. However, you may choose another CS3 package, be sure that the package you choose includes Photoshop.

SBAPSE008	Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium	$299
SBAPSM003	Office 2008 Mac Personal Purchase	$52.88