Mobile Computing Program
Program Overview
Acquiring Your Laptop
Program Support
FAQ
Laptop Specs
Using Your Laptop

Acquiring Your Laptop - Spring 2008

The Mobile Computing Package 2007-2008 is made up of the ThinkPad T61, a comprehensive software suite, a backpack carrying case, an ethernet cable, a security cable, and an iClicker personal response unit . The laptop is specially configured for easy connection to the Rensselaer network, and fully supported by on-campus repair and consulting facilities.

Complete Specs
"Go Mobile" Brochure (pdf)

Note that all incoming undergraduate students are required to have a laptop computer. Each year, every matriculated student is allowed to purchase one laptop computer through the Mobile Computing Program.

Purchase Form - $1850
Lease To Own Form - Three payments of $750

What about insurance?
Haylor, Freyer and Coon Collegiate Student insurance offers a policy with a low deductible which covers computers and other electronic equipment. Go to www.haylor.com/student and select Personal Property Protection for more information and an on-line enrollment form.

Division of the Chief Information Officer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, New York 12180-3590

Please send questions to MOBILE-L@rpi.edu.

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