Well since I made some money this summer I'm in the market to get a notebook pc so I can move my work around with me since I'll practically be living in McNutt this semester. Where are some good places to get started looking around for moderately priced notebooks? I've already looked around newegg.com and found some decent deals but any comparable places would be good to know of as well.

iBook or PowerBook depending on how much you want to spend. If you are going to be living in McNutt, you probably want great battery life so that you do not need to find outlets all the time. All of Apple's laptops offer amazing industry leading battery life. I assume you are going to want wireless too. Considering that Apple has been building WiFi antennas into thier machines since 1999 and the vast majority of PC manufacturers still do not, Apple is a good choice for that. Portability will never be an issue with any of Apple's products; they are all small and light which ensures that you will not have a huge thing that won't fit in your bookbag with a book or two. The fans on Apple laptops run really quiet too. You can expect silent operation from fans that do not use ball berrings but instead are magneticaly levitated.

Think! You are probably not going to be gaming on your laptop. You need it to do work type stuff and carry some music and movies for when you get bored. Mac OS X does all of that better just about any PC laptop. The Mac version of Word will even record audio along with your class notes so that you can play it back and listen to the lecture and view what you typed as that was being said.

Oh and for the Comp Sci in you...
BSD = the core of OS X

Umm, the core of OSX is not FreeBSD, it's a BSD kernel called Darwin.

Jesus Christ. I swear you could be a spokesman for Apple with how much biased information you say about them. He was asking for places to go to search for good deals on notebooks, not why you think an iBook is better than a Dell Inspireon.

Places I'd recommend besides NewEgg...

http://www.pricewatch.com (in conjunction with http://www.resellerratings.com)
http://www.excaliberpc.com
http://www.computergeeks.com
http://www.mwave.com

With PriceWatch, if you're looking at ordering from an unknown company, you don't know what their service, support, etc. is like. That's where Reseller Ratings comes into play. I'd look around PriceWatch and Reseller Ratings to find a good site with a high rating (NewEgg has a lifetime rating of like 9.76 or something, eXcaliber PC has a lifetime rating of like 9.6). I've done a lot of business with eXcaliber PC, they're very comparable to NewEgg in both pricing & service. And although I've never done any business with Computer Geeks or MWAVE, a couple guys in my house swear by them, and refuse to order anything from anywhere else.

Just a couple suggestions.

While I do think that ibooks or powerbooks are nice, they're more than likely out of his price range. He said he wanted something moderately priced.

Blasphemy! There is no comp sci in me whatsoever, and if there was I'd dig it out with a rusty dull knife.

Thanks for the links swirls