KUALA LUMPUR: Masterskill University College of Health Sciences (Much) purchased 10,000 X100e ultraportable notebooks from Lenovo Malaysia for use by its students.
The move is part of the university's "One Student, One Netbook" project to equip its students with the right learning tool in their quest for knowledge.
To date, 5,000 netbooks have been delivered to the university, with the remaining units expected to be sent before year end.
According to university vice-chancellor Datuk Professor Dr Nik Rahimah Nik Yacob, Much is already seeing a significant return on its investment.
"The netbooks are used by the students on and off campus, and gives them constant access to the Internet and Much online resources, such as course materials that enable them to prepare for their lectures," she said.
The project has also helped raise efficiency and productivity levels of the lecturers.
According to Nik Rahimah, the inclusion of Lenovo's ThinkVantage Technologies - a set of system support utilities - is another reason why the university selected the netbook.
"Like any large organisation, the Much IT-team has the unenviable task of managing and administering the netbooks to ensure that they are constantly updated to help maximise system performance and minimise security risk," she said.
The IT team leverages on the ThinkVantage System Update feature that intelligently knows the status of any PC. It can sort through available updates and select the ones needed by each device.
When the students move between wireless and wired environments, the ThinkVantage Access Connection is smart enough to make the appropriate connections without any user intervention.
Also, with the ThinkVantage Rescue & Recovery system, most system corruptions can be corrected in three minutes or less, making this the fastest recovery solution available in the market today, according to Lenovo.
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