This article makes an interesting read (IF you have been at all interested in the Education rollout of PC’s) – And or, might be interested in being employed in a technical support role.
Massive roll-out: NSW Education picks Win7
By Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet.com.au
03 August 2009 10:45 AM
Tags: digital education revolution, microsoft, windows 7, nsw, department of education and training, government, laptops, lenovo
READER-POSTs on this article make some very good points on both sides.
CORRECTION: The S10e for the DET NSW – Lenovo Deployment has 2GB RAM! – (DOUBLED the RAM installed on the standard-model listed on the Lenovo website, which is a really good thing to have specified)
AND; The answer to the follow questions are answered by these Government Policies on the ‘Schools.nsw.edu.au’ website
What happens if my child’s laptop breaks?
What happens if the laptop is accidentally lost or damaged?
What happens if the laptop is stolen or vandalised?
If the laptop is lost, damaged or stolen, what will happen to my child’s schoolwork?
How should my child back up their work?
Are there any health risks using laptops?
What’s to stop an unscrupulous student selling their laptop and then claiming it has been stolen?
Under what circumstances can my child lose the right to a laptop?
AND – HERE; Is a list of the software that is installed on this machine – same website – different page (TITLE;- The laptop and its software)
THIS LINUX OS; Is the one used on the NSW – DET Ideapad
Splashtop is an instant-on commercial Linux distribution targeting PC motherboard vendors and other device manufacturers. It is developed by DeviceVM. It uses Bootsplash[5], SquashFS, Blackbox, SCIM, and the Linux kernel 2.6
Concept [The Wikipedia Overview]
Splashtop is intended to be integrated on a read-only device and shipped with the hardware, rather than installed by the user. It does not prevent the installation of another operating system for dual booting. It boots in about 5 seconds, and is thus marketed as “instant-on.”
MORE >>> Other products featuring Splashtop
Lenovo IdeaPad S9e, S10, S10e, S10-2, S12, which rebrands Splashtop as “Lenovo Quick Start”
MORE URLs (Pasted below)
With Splashtop, you can access the Internet and your favorite applications seconds after turning on your PC.
The S_series Lenovo Ideapad S10e (deployed by NSW – DET 09)
CNET Article By Erica Ogg – Republished at cnn
In theory, the value of a Netbook — with its small keyboard, small screen, and lack of an optical drive — vs. an ultralight laptop with a long battery life and a full-size keyboard for roughly the same price was very low.
But now that we’re actually seeing how PC makers are packaging and selling CULV notebooks (take Dell’s recent introduction of its Inspiron 11z notebook) it’s obvious: Netbooks are nothing more than smaller, cheaper notebooks.
The distinction made some sense early on. The first Netbooks were very small, around 7 or 8 inches, and were used for little more than getting online.
Time to drop the Netbook label
Price Search the ‘S10e’ at http://www.lenovo.com/au/en/index.html [Thursday 27th August 2009][AU$599 - With 160GB Harddrive] – And it also include the 6 Cell Lithium-Ion.
In Googling around this product, I have found a number of cheaper products with smaller 80GB harddisk, half the RAM at 512MB, US-Supplier $349
Two examples of the innovative technologies introduced by Lenovo with the IdeaPad S10e include advanced network security and remote manageability tools. Advanced network security tools prevent users from accessing unauthorised internet content and control access to NSW DET networks. Remote manageability tools allow NSW DET to remotely monitor and manage the devices on demand, wherever they are located, maximizing their efficiency and effectiveness.
The Lenovo IdeaPad S10e features ground breaking theft protection features such as hardware level reporting, retrieval and remote disabling functions and RFID tagging. The Lenovo IdeaPad S10e presents a zero value theft proposition thereby removing any incentive for them to be stolen and protecting the students and teachers that use them.
In-built connectivity options such as wireless LAN and WAN, bluetooth and ethernet enable the Lenovo IdeaPad S10e to be used in a variety of settings – the classroom, the library, the playground, in the home, on the bus – anywhere students study, collaborate and learn.
AND-THIS; (What the S10e can actually do)
the S10e offers Internet connectivity features to enable students to do online research, sharing and collaboration tools, and email, social networking and other web applications. It also features basic functionality for word processing and light multimedia presentation functionality.
INFORMATION: L4L – Project;
Lenovo Announces Partnership with the NSW Department of Education and Training
SYDNEY, Australia: March 31, 2009 – Lenovo today announced that it has secured a partnership with the New South Wales Department of Education and Training to provide laptop personal computers to New South Wales government secondary school students and teachers.
Cost of S10e in Australia = $579.00
Visit citysoftware.com.au
After googling ‘Ideapad S10e’ I found this site, which has a review and mentions the ‘Instant-On OS’.
QUOTE; Author >>> Andy Vandervell <<< via Trusted-Review-Website
It’s called Lenovo QuickStart, but this is slightly misleading since it’s essentially a re-branded version of DeviceVM’s well known Splashtop software. This has a small component embedded into the BIOS that allows it to boot more or less instantly from the moment you hit the power button – in the case of the S10e it’s around five seconds. Based on Linux, it offers very basic functionality, comprising a fully-featured web browser, a photo gallery, a music player, instant messaging and Skype chat.
Combined with the power, flexibility and familiarity of Windows XP, on paper the IdeaPad S10e delivers an ideal balance of functionality. Such a combination has, after all, been much sought after by netbook communities for a while now.
Need to Reinstall Windows in the IBM / Lenovo S10 netbook, .. This link might a good starting point before using google to find more stuff on this topic.
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