Dell Education Netbook Good?

[twotone]

Do you think the Dell Latitude 2100 education netbook is a good choice for my son? He's going into junior high school and I want an inexpensive netbook for him to use in school.

I heard this one was good for students but thought I'd ask here first.

The junior high student in my family doesn't take his netbook to school. It's home based and loaded with 8 hours of his choice of music. Yes, he does browse for report info and writes up his reports but at home. Talk it over with your son. Let your son make the choice.

[ThisIsNot]

I don't think it is very good. The odd aspect is that this netbook is more expensive than other offerings from Dell. It just offers a more ruggid exterior. Other than that, the netbook is overpriced when compared to what other companies (such as Acer, Asus, Gateway, and HP) are offering.

I think your son would be better off with an Asus Eee PC 1000HE. Sure, it is older but it still runs an Atom N280 processor, comes with 1GB of RAM, has a 160GB hard drive, is a little more rugged than other netbook models, and can last for 8 hours (real world usage) on a single charge. You can find the 1000HE online for about $360-$380 depending on where you look.

[Chris]

I've heard a bunch of school districts are buying these netbooks and "renting" them out to students for use.

I don't know about you, but I'd prefer to pick my own netbook than be stuck with what they have to offer.

[ThisIsNot]

My Mom is the assistant principal for a high school in my home town (about an hour away from where I live). They recently canceled their order for a server+wireless network+Dell Latitude cart. These carts cost about $35k but they come with 20 notebooks (part of the expensive, business class Latitude series), a wireless N router, and a small dual-core server that comes with some pretty nice software (it pretty much sets everything up itself, just plug it into a couple of ethernet connections and you are ready to go).

They did this in favor of using their older carts (which had working servers and wireless routers, the notebooks were all trashed) with these Dell netbooks. They don't charge a rental fee to the students but Dell was charging the school $6k ($200 for the cost of each netbook and additional fees for their warranties) for ordering 20 netbooks. The school spent a little over $35k upgrading all of their cart systems and computer labs to these netbooks.

Sounds good if you are a school but the end-user would be better off getting less expensive options such as the Inspiron Mini 10, Mini 10v, HP Mini 110XP, Gateway netbook, Lenovo S10-2, the Toshiba series out now, Eee PC 1000HE, Eee PC 1005HA, Eee PC 1008HA, and many others.

[mukeshsoftona]

hi dear.

I am new in this forum site. and i have dell netbook. and dell laptop also. But both are facing with low speaker sound quality.

[andrewsir]

Though many Americans are still discovering these lightweight, low-cost laptops, PC maker Dell ( DELL - news - people ) expects hundreds of thousands of children to use its netbooks when they return to school this fall.


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