A bit early for Christmas gifts ideas, but....

[AbbyMom]

How about one of those backpacks designed specifically for holding laptops for students? They're heavy and if she ends up hauling it around, her shoulder will begin hurting. (Speaking from experience here).


P.S. When I started giving cash instead of purchased gifts to the nieces and nephews, I suddenly became the most popular aunt.

[anna_66]

My brother sent us a MC gift card and there was no activation fee on it. I used it to buy a corless mouse for our lap, I love it!

[Hellow]

Well, i would reccommend a web camera for the iming and a microphone for the same thing. I would also reccommend a carrying case and a wireless travel mouse.
PS: im going to be getting about $800 for christmas so im going to buy a HP dv6500t laptop:

[emily_the_spoiled]

What about something like a wireless mouse? (She may get really tired of the mouse feature on a laptop.)

Here is a link for www.cnet.com and their peripherals. They are divided out by price, so you can lookat way if you want.

http://shopper.cnet.com/2001-3132_9-0.html?tag=shfd.dir

[mina'smomma]

There are all types of accessories that are for laptops. As stated a wireless mouse, a webcam, some software for photos, a hard case carrier will be very nice especially if she goes away to college next year. (I was always glad to have mine when my nieces and nephews were visiting because then it didn't get damaged.) You could also buy her a photo printer that she could use.

[Freedom]

When I bought my laptop, I was amazed at how many "other" things I HAD to have. Many of them you need toi know the size of the laptop (like the shoulder bag I bought; the one I LIKED was too small. ) I see someone mentioned a jump drive, yup that is a great one, works no matter which one she buys. Is she planning to buy the laptop at the sales on the Friday after Thanksgiving? That would still leave plenty of time for ANOTHER shopping trip to get the bag for it.

Staples sells retractable connectors for your laptop to connect to the printer it's about $10, and that was a great item for me. (The printer is set up connecte to the desktop.) I also got the mouse with the retractable cord, easier for me than worrying about batteries. The laptop I decided on did not come with Microsoft Office (home / student edition) only with MS Works. So I bought that as well.