stepped into the world of classroom computing Wednesday with the debut of its Mini 100e Education Edition, a netbook designed specifically for elementary-level classrooms.
The 3.19-pound clamshell device is powered by a low-power Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) Atom N455 processor using the NM10 Express chipset. It comes with 1 GB of DDR3 memory and has three- and six-cell battery options.
Customers can select Windows XP Home, Windows 7 Starter or Suse Linux operating systems.
First Entry
While several other HP Mini netbook offerings have students among the customer base, the Mini 100e is HP's first effort at providing a notebook computer made specifically for the education market, Sarah Bussell, the company's senior manager of product marketing for business notebooks, told TechNewsWorld.
