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Hi, nine months ago i signed a "Student Mobile Computing Program Agreement" with Remington College that bound me to using their issued laptop and not my own.
I want to be able to use my laptop (Dell Inspiron 5000e, 750Mhz P3 CPU) instead of their crappy IBM A21E ThinkPad(celeron 600 CPU) that was issued to me.
I was forced to use their laptop because they would not take the cost of the laptop($6,000) out of my tuition bill ($22,800) even if I had refused their issued laptop.
Now the head of their computer department is harassing me to stop using my beautiful, powerful with a nice big LCD screen Dell laptop. He wants me to use the issued laptop. As a programmer, i like the big screen of Dell laptop, which makes me much more productive instead of using the
He gave me a copy of the signed agreement, which he happily highlighted the clause that reads "The student-issued ThinkPad is a necessary part of the learning experience of the College and no other laptop, notebook or ThinkPad may be used at the College."
I was just wondering about the legality of a clause like that concerning a student's education. What are my rights in this matter? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you for your time.
P.S. All they want to do is keep students from using laptops that are much cheaper and much more powerful in fear that other students might want to get their own instead of paying the hefty $6000 for a $1500 computer (price listed on the IBM website, Jan 2001). The students also don't get to keep any software once they graduate since the licenses for those software are those of Remington's. So we get a $1500 with NO LICENSES to "CERTAIN SOFTWARE" upon graduation. As i see it, since the students will not be getting an "image" cd for reinstallation nor will they get individual cds of any software contained on the issued laptop, they have no means to get their computer (with all the programs) back up and running in an event that the computer programs become corrupt or the whole computer becomes unbootable.
I want to be able to use my laptop (Dell Inspiron 5000e, 750Mhz P3 CPU) instead of their crappy IBM A21E ThinkPad(celeron 600 CPU) that was issued to me.
I was forced to use their laptop because they would not take the cost of the laptop($6,000) out of my tuition bill ($22,800) even if I had refused their issued laptop.
Now the head of their computer department is harassing me to stop using my beautiful, powerful with a nice big LCD screen Dell laptop. He wants me to use the issued laptop. As a programmer, i like the big screen of Dell laptop, which makes me much more productive instead of using the
He gave me a copy of the signed agreement, which he happily highlighted the clause that reads "The student-issued ThinkPad is a necessary part of the learning experience of the College and no other laptop, notebook or ThinkPad may be used at the College."
I was just wondering about the legality of a clause like that concerning a student's education. What are my rights in this matter? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you for your time.
P.S. All they want to do is keep students from using laptops that are much cheaper and much more powerful in fear that other students might want to get their own instead of paying the hefty $6000 for a $1500 computer (price listed on the IBM website, Jan 2001). The students also don't get to keep any software once they graduate since the licenses for those software are those of Remington's. So we get a $1500 with NO LICENSES to "CERTAIN SOFTWARE" upon graduation. As i see it, since the students will not be getting an "image" cd for reinstallation nor will they get individual cds of any software contained on the issued laptop, they have no means to get their computer (with all the programs) back up and running in an event that the computer programs become corrupt or the whole computer becomes unbootable.