Laptop Universities

BusinessHigher EducationK-12

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IBM – ThinkPad University

http://www-1.ibm.com/industries/education/doc/content/solution/362597110.html

http://www.acs.nmu.edu/media.php#thinkpadu\

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“In September of 1993 UMC became the very first university to provide each and every full-time student and faculty member with a portable notebook computer.”

Student Computer Rental 12 or more credits $ 500 (Notebook issued for the semester) 8 to 11 credits $ 290 (Notebook checked out daily) 3 to 7 credits $ 85 (Notebook checked out daily) Personal liability - $500

Dell Latitude PIII – 1.2GHz 256 Mb RAM – 40GB Hard Drive

http://www.crk.umn.edu/technology/thinkpadu/thinkpadu.htm

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NMU's Teaching, Learning, and Communication (TLC) notebook

initiative

Fall 2000 start Over 7,000

Students Faculty / Staff

PC or Mac – 2 year lease cycle Damage - $50 deductible Theft - $500 deductible Mac – only for art & graphic design students

http://www.nmu.edu/initiatives/tlc/laptop.htm

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Enrollment in Mobile Computing Program is mandatory $700 / semester Up to $1000 – lost, stolen, damaged 

This fee is already computed into the total cost of education at SHU, and financial aid packages are developed using that total cost. 

2 year replacement cycle IBM Thinkpad R-Series Model 2682-HU2

Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor - M 2.2GHz 512MB RAM 40GB Hard Drive

http://technology.shu.edu/page/Mobile+Support!OpenDocument/

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Laptop Universities

What do you think?

Are laptop high-schools too far behind?

What are the issues? Student point of view Faculty point of view

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K – 12 …

http://www.liverpool.k12.ny.us/laptops.html http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/

siliconvalley/news/local/7019905.htm http://homepages.moeller.org/laptop/ http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/198/

northwest/Laptops_proposed_for_all_5th_gradersP.shtml

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