Affordable Dell Latitude 2100 Netbooks for Students
Dell Latitude 2100 netbooks are now available at a starting price of Rs 23,205 in India, providing an affordable classroom computing solution. The netbooks are specially designed for students, giving modern classrooms a new gateway to discovery and collaboration.
The netbooks are light in weight, easy to carry around and come in five different colors, catering the needs of not only school-going kids, but also public sector and enterprise customers.
Standard specification of Dell Latitude 2100
- Processor: Intel Atom processor N270
- Optical Drive: External DVD+/-RW via USB (Optional)
- Connectivity: 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet, full suite of wireless communication options
- Weight: 1.32 kg (with a 3-cell battery)
- Storage: Hard disk drive or solid state drive
- Battery: 3-cell or 6-cell battery
- Additional: Three-in-one Media Card Reader, VGA port
- Operating System: Windows XP Home/Windows Vista Home Basic/Linux Ubuntu
The good thing Dell’s done is by keeping the prices low and quality relatively high, which will make these laptops a lot more popular among students.
Features
- Colorful lids
- Rugged rubberized designs
- Options for a carrying handle and shoulder straps
- Anti-microbial keyboard
- Touchscreen LCD
- Solid-state drives
- External DVD-RW optical drive
- Dell Mobile Computing Station docking cart
Link: Dell Latitude
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This netbook may be suitable for school going kids, but it simply doesnot pack enough punch in it.
This leaves much to be desired considering Dell’s entry level notebook “Dell Inspiron 1545″ costs just 7000 rupees more than this netbook but offers much better value for money.
But sadly solid state drives max at 16GB (as per Dell spec sheet) and is the default option. An 80GB HDD will setyou back by another 1000 rupees while 160GB HDD by 1800 rupees.
Touch screen and External DVD drive are optional, thats means it will cost extra and not included in the base price.
External DVD Drive costs around 4500 rupees extra while touch screen will cost another 2000 rupees extra.
Taking all these into considerations, atleast now this is not a good option.
As @Prasannan pointed out, its not a good bargain.
We already have better priced Netbooks available in the market presently.
@ Prasannan, Vaibhav, Shishir,
Thanks for sharing some good points with us here.
rather go for acer aspire 1 mini laptop costs only abt 19000 and comes with more features like a web cam 160gb hd other specifications remaining the same and a better battery life of uptp 4 hours..going for linux op will cost abt 2000 less
rather go for acer aspire 1 mini laptop costs only abt 19000 and comes with more features like a web cam 160gb hd other specifications remaining the same and a better battery life of upto 4 hours..going for linux op will cost abt 2000 less
i am not agree with prasana because it has a big problem of hard drive and DVD drive so, we have to pay a big amount for get these facilities……and i think this is not a good deal for corporate peoples and right now we have great options like acer aspire and hp mini notebooks…i think vaibhav is right.