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Price, Performance Lead Princeton's OIT To Select Dell for Student Computers

Posted on: Wednesday, 5 November 2003, 06:00 CST

ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 2003--The Office of Information Technology (OIT) at Princeton University has selected Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) to provide its 2003-04 freshman class with notebook computers to aid them in their studies.

More than 500 other colleges and universities in the United States now gain access to the latest standards-based technology through Dell's Student Computing Initiative. The program enables school administrators to choose a common computer platform for their students, helping to reduce network incompatibilities and customer support costs for the school.

For students, it allows them to take advantage of the university's volume purchasing power to buy computers more affordably. IDC analyst David Daoud said that such student computing programs are becoming more common on college campuses.

"At a time when more than half of universities require students to have computers, student computing programs help bring down the cost of computing for students, increasing their access to technology and ensuring they have access to the information and computing tools they need," he said. "These programs also benefit colleges and universities by standardizing hardware and software, eliminating incompatibility burdens."

Dell began the student program in 1997. Other participants include the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering; St. Mary's University; and the University of California at Irvine's Graduate School of Management.

Princeton students can log on to the Princeton Web site to order Dell(tm) Latitude(tm) D600 notebooks, complete with Intel Pentium M processors, 40 gigabyte hard drives and DVD/CD-RW combo drives. The notebooks come standard with integrated wireless cards that allow students to access the Internet via the school's wireless network.

In related news, Dell today announced that Princeton's Office of Information Technology has deployed a high-performance computing cluster made up of 34 Dell PowerEdge servers to help chemists, biologists, physicists and engineers on a range of projects, from studying genetic networks and circuits to analyzing air quality for environment policy research. (See related announcement.)

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