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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has required incoming freshmen
to have laptop computers since 1995. Each incoming freshman class
has a unit selected for them by the Institute after thorough
evaluation and testing and each student is required to purchase
the machine their first year. Students may also elect to place the
computer on a four year payment plan.
Included in the Laptop Bundle is the computer itself, software,
free upgrades on most software for as long as a student attends
Rose-Hulman, insurance, four year warranty, carrying case,
mouse, cables, Ethernet connection and wireless network
interfaces.
While on campus, students use the campus network
which includes approximately 7,000 wired Ethernet ports located
throughout the campus and an extensive IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless
network with coverage in all academic and administrative
buildings. The wired Ethernet infrastructure is a fully-switched
100Mbps network with a 45Mbps connection to the Internet.
All residence hall rooms have connections for each resident as
well as virtually all classrooms and laboratories. Even the snack
bar in the student union has network connections!
The freshman class of 2008-2009 laptop model is the HP 8510w
Mobile Workstation:
| Processor/System RAM |
Intel Core
2 Duo
Processor, T7800 (2.60 GHZ), 4 GB RAM,
2 DIMM,
4 MB L2 Cache, 667 Mhz FSB |
| Hard Drive |
120 GB 7200 SATA HDD |
| Optical Drive |
DVD +/- RW SuperMulti Dual Layer
Light Scribe |
| Display |
15.4" Wide Screen Display, WUXGA
(1920x1200) WVA (Wide Viewing Angle) |
| Graphics |
NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M graphics, 256
MB dedicated memory, 512 MB TurboCashe |
| Network Interfaces |
10/100/1000 Intergrated Intel Gigabit Network, 802.11a/b/g Wireless, Bluetooth |
| Battery |
8 Cell (73WHr) battery |
| USB |
4 USB ports, 1 Firewire port |
Software Suite:
•Windows
XP Professional
•AutoCAD
•Engineering
Equation Solver
•Logger
Pro
•McAfee
VirusScan
•Maple
•MATLAB or
Eclipse
•Mechanical
Desktop
•Microsoft
Office 2007 Professional
Excel
OneNote
Outlook
PowerPoint
Publisher
Word
•Solid
Edge
•Working
Model
•Van
Dyke Secure CRT
•Van
Dyke Secure FX
•Xilinx
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•Software
upgrades
•Insurance
policy
•Four
year warranty
* Note that not all applications in the
software suite are included in the software image for the
freshmen laptop computers.
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Institute of Technology
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