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Should I Buy a Computer

In the time you are here at the GSAPP you will have nearly unlimited access to computers and a 1-to-1 student to computer ratio for your last 2 years (MArch students work in pairs for the first year and AAD and UD students have this ratio for all 3 semesters.) We buy high quality workstations and they are available to you 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. In general we don't recommend that you buy a computer for 2 reasons: • You will need to spend a significant amount of money to buy your own legal copies of the software that we provide in the labs. • You will have a computer at your desk for the entire time you are here. If you buy a computer, by the time you are graduating that computer will be 'outdated.' Technology moves so quickly that we recommend that you buy a machine as close as possible to the time you will graduate as this is when you will no longer have access to GSAPP computers and will ensure that you get the latest technology while you can still take advantage of the available educational discounts. What kinds of hardware discounts are available to students? There are numerous discounts available for students at Columbia. You can find specific information on Apple, Dell and other brand hardware here: What about Software? In general you can find discounts on software at sites such as www.journeyed.com or www.studica.com. However, we are working with a few of our vendors to try to make accessible packages of software suited to the needs of GSAPP students. We have one such deal in place with Adobe and you can access your GSAPP specific catalog and pricing by going here: www.govconnection.com/columbiaadobe. Once you register on the site you can order Adobe products (Creative Suite Premiere, After Effects, etc.) at a rate substantially discounted from the standard student rate. You can also download student versions of all Autodesk (AutoCAD, 3ds Max, etc.) from http://students.autodesk.com/. We also have licensing for Microsoft Office so please contact John Ramahlo (john@arch.columbia.edu) for more information about this program. What about installing software on the studio computers? Generally, we will not install any additional software on the studio computers during the course of the semester. If we receive a request for specific software from a professor during the semester for his/her studio we will consider …