I would suggest that you include a graphics tablet. The field you describe is wide. Ranging from heavy number cruncher to equation pusher, so the capabilities of the laptop needed will vary a lot. ( But as a student that's probably not her next laptop but the one after that. )

Also if she needs very heavy processing the university will provide that.

However any physicist will make good use of a graphics tablet, especially a Cintiq type tablet. Though you could save yourself a ton going for Bosto or Yiynova. II understand there are also kits out there that will convert an LCD monitor to a Cintiq clone. BUt such a mod may make your laptop unclosable.

Keep in mind that most of the remaining case is IBM suing SCO. most of the other part has gone away( but not all.).

One can only hope.

Have sex.
Unless you are planning on becoming a pr0n star.

Like the recent meme "he's supersmart so he must be autistic".

but one question comes immediately to mind.

You couldn't figure that out.

PS THis week with luck I finally get to rearrage my desk so my hands do not hit the bottom of a drawer when typing.

OK. I have not yet read the entire article, but one ques4tion xomwea immediately to mind.

Is it still secure after you root it?

Logitech still lists them and I've found them on many sites.
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/...

I love trackballs and I think they may be the answer, but if he jerks a lot they may not be.

I agree about the TBM's but remember TBMs are one off. I think they may have more reusabilty in space, but still the TBMs you need on the moon are smaller. I think you can create a self-sustaining colony of 100000 on the Moon with TBM's and some seed materials ( oxygen, nitrogen, etc ... ) much more easily on the Moon.

Once such a colony is built there, then it can be used much more easily to build a colony on Mars.

Stupider scientists.

Footnote: THe smarter people being driven to do something else.

Make Pixie sticks out of them.

They are turning into series that are meganovels.
Lord of the Rings, I don't of as an example of this phenomena, but mnore a precursor.

Lois McMaster Bujolds Vorkosigan series does seem to be one of the major ones.

The prototypical ones are the Harry Potter series.

It recently came to me that the kind of behavior they talk about has traditionally been inoculation against the Dunning-Krueger effect.

Doh! GPL uses copyrights not patents.