Dell today launched the Latitude 3330, designed for schools and educators teach offering a full computing experience, thin, lightweight, durable design, and long battery life at an attractive price for challenged budgets.

The Dell Latitude 3330 laptop packs a 1.8GHz Intel Core i5-3337U dual-core processor (up to 2.7GHz in turbo mode), Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU, 2GB of RAM, a 128GB solid state drive or 320GB hard drive, and a 13.3-inch display with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, and a 720p webcam.

Equipped with Wi-Fi, D-Sub, HDMI, USB 3.0 ports and optional USB docking. It is pre-loaded with Windows 8, Windows 7 or Ubuntu Linux operating system.

The Dell Latitude 3330 is available in late April 2013 and starts at $419. The Dell Mobile Computing cart is also available in late April and starts at $1899.99 for the unmanaged configuration and $2799.99 for the managed configuration.

Lenovo has announced laptop for education institutions and student, called the ThinkPad X131e Chromebook, It’s highly customizable laptop PC built with rugged features for the daily rigors of K-12 education.

The ThinkPad X131e Chromebook has features a 4GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, an 11.6-inch anti-glare display with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, and runs Chrome OS.

Other features include Wi-Fi, a webcam, two USB 3.0 and one USB 2.0 ports. Moreover, the Lenovo’s first Chromebook provides D-Sub and HDMI output, and a 6-cell battery that enabling up to 6.5 hours of use. Weight of ThinkPad X131e is 1.78kg.

The ThinkPad X131e Chromebook will be available starting February 26th and pricing starting at $429.

Lenovo has announced the new ThinkPad X130e laptop that ruggedized for for education, student in grades K-12 and schools.

The new Lenovo ThinkPad X130e is comes with choices of AMD Fusion E-300 and E-450 CPU with Radeon HD 6300 graphics. or Intel second generation Core i3-2367M ULV processors with Intel HD 3000 integrated graphics.

The ThinkPad X130e is equipped with an 11.6-inch display with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, a 2GB of RAM (expandable to 8GB), a 320GB or 500GB hard drive, a 4-in-1 card reader, 0.3-megapixel webcam, three USB, HDMI, D-Sub ports, and optional mobile broadband.

The ThinkPad X130e laptop will be available on December 20th, 2011 and starts at $469.

Gallery: Lenovo ThinkPad X130e

The Sony VAIO S Series ultraportable laptop is powered by an Intel Core i5-2410M/2520M or Core i7-2620M CPU, up to 8GB of DDR3 SDRAM, up to 640GB HDD or 512GB/1TB SSD, a 512MB Radeon HD 6470M or 1GB Radeon HD 6630M graphics card.

Sony VAIO S Series packs a 13.3-inch display with 1366 x 768 or 1600 x 900 resolution, DVD or Blu-ray drive, a HD webcam, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, an USB 3.0 ports, an SD card slot, and a HDMI output.

Gallery: Sony VAIO S Series

Best Buy is offering the new Samsung Q430-11 laptop for $830. The Samsung Q430-11 is powerful enough for most students that need performance on multimedia applications as well as gaming.

The Samsung Q430-11 is powered by a 2.4GHz Intel Core i5-450 processor, 14″ LED high-definition display with 1366 x 768 resolution, NVIDIA GeForce 310M with 512MB memory, 4GB of memory, 500GB hard drive, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, HDMI and VGA outputs, 3-in-1 media reader, three USB 2.0 ports. The display lid is made of a black aluminum and the keyboard deck is brushed aluminum.

The Samsung Q430-11 is based on Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit OS and is priced at $829.99.

Gallery: Samsung Q430-11

Lenovo has produced a ThinkPad Mini 10 netbook to schools in New South Wales Australia, which has not been sent sales in other markets. Lenovo ThinkPad Mini 10 is powered by 1.6GHz Intel Atom N450 processor, 10-inch display with resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels, and up to 3-4 hours with 6-cell battery.

Source: Engadget

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