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Mobile Computing Program
The Mobile Computing Program offers a complete laptop package including a state-of-the-art IBM ThinkPad loaded with a special suite of software ready for your Rensselaer course work and specially configured for easy connection to the Rensselaer network.
The benefits of participating in RPI’s Mobile Computing Program include: value, commonality, appropriateness, and service and support.
Currently, in partnership with IBM and Lenovo, we are able to offer this laptop package at a substantially discounted price via purchase or lease. You will receive the greatest value for your dollar and on-campus repair and consulting facilities to help you get the most out of your laptop.
All undergraduates are required to have a laptop computer that meets Rensselaer specifications.
The laptop computers are currently used in Math, Computer Science, Physics, Introduction to Engineering Analysis, and Freshmen Studies. Additional laptop courses are being planned.
MBA students in the Lally School of Management & Technology are also required to have laptop computers.
Why Rensselaer’s Gone Mobile
No matter where you are, you will be able to:
- use e-mail to converse with family and friends, professors and classmates,
- access the Internet to complete research assignments and explore new ideas,
- access a wide variety of software applications that will meet the demands of your curriculum, and
- participate in computer-enhanced instruction, where learning will evolve from the interaction of material, instructor, and classmates.
You can connect your laptop computer to the network in the more than 24 classrooms around the campus wired for laptops, and at any of the hundreds of laptop jacks in public areas, including Folsom Library, the Voorhees Computing Center (VCC), the Student Union, and other study spaces around campus.
Wireless access is available in over 30 buildings across campus such as the VCC, the Student Union, Darrin Communications Center (DCC) Great Hall, Folsom Library, and several classrooms. Service is continually expanding.
In addition, every room in the residence halls has a network connection for each student.
The Mobile Computing Package for Fall 2007 is made up of an IBM Thinkpad T61, a comprehensive software suite, a Kelty laptop carrying case, an ethernet cable, an iClicker personal response unit, and a security cable. The laptop is specially configured for easy connection to the Rensselaer network, and is fully supported by on-campus repair and consulting facilities. Accidental damage protection, in addition to the three-year warranty, completes the package.
Hardware Specifications
- Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 processor at 2.0 GHz (4 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB, 64-bit CPU)
- 2GB RAM
- 15.4” WSXGA+ (1680x1050) TFT display
- 160GB 5400RPM hard drive with Intel Turbo Memory hard drive cache
- 128MB NVIDIA Quadra NVS 140M graphic processing unit
- CD writer/DVD writer (dual layer)
- 10/100/1000 on-board Ethernet and 56K modem
- 802.11a/b/g/n integrated wireless
- Ports: 3 USB 2.0, Docking/Port Replicator, External Display, Headphone / Line out, Microphone / Line in
- PC Card Slot, ExpressCard Slot, Media Card Slot
- UltraNav (touch pad/TrackPoint) pointing device
- Fingerprint Reader
- Bluetooth
- Firewire (IEEE 1394)
- 9-cell Lithium-ion battery (one-year warranty)
Learn more about Rensselaer’s Mobile Computing Program.
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