Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Re: Netbooks

Alex--

We love the S10's as well (as I have posted on here before).

In terms of take-home environments... We did a little test recently
where we gave our head of school's 7th grade son a S10 to try out. We
told him to push the computer's limits in terms of capabilities (gaming,
etc.) and not to treat the computer roughly to see how it holds up.
We've been surprised by the results. On the capability end, the netbook
has done virtually anything he has wanted (only with 3 or four
applications open did he run into any slow-downs). In terms of
durability, the machine looks and seems to operate as if it was new even
though we know he throws the thing around quite a bit (no casing, his
mother finds it on the floor, he stuffs the computer into his locker at
school). Now, of course, that is only one test. But, again, we've been
happily surprised by the results.

We are going to put a number of netbooks into lower school classrooms
over the next year (going to deploy 8 into 4th grade classrooms later
this week).

Hope that helps.

-- Brad


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Brad Rathgeber
Director of Technology=20
History Teacher
Holton-Arms School

Office: 301-365-6114

brad.rathgeber@holton-arms.edu


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex Inman
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 10:51 AM
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Subject: Re: Netbooks

Can anyone speak to how they hold up in a 1:1 take home environment?

I am deeply evaluating the Lenovo S10e and Acer. The Acer was not
robust
enough and kids complained about the keyboard. I agree, it seems just a
little too small. I am surprised with how many of the High School kids
like
the Lenovo. I am getting the HP for review. I am leaning heavily
toward
the S10 model right now.

Take care,
Alex

Alex Inman
Whitfield School
St. Louis, MO

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