{"id":45251,"date":"2009-11-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/mobilecontenttoday\/netbooks\/brief_encounter_with_a_dell_latitude_2100_kidfriendly_netbook_143512.asp?c=rss"},"modified":"2009-11-18T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T09:00:00","slug":"brief-encounter-with-a-dell-latitude-2100-kid-friendly-netbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/45251","title":{"rendered":"Brief Encounter with a Dell Latitude 2100 Kid-Friendly Netbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dell_lat_2100_netbook.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/mobilecontenttoday\/original\/dell_lat_2100_netbook.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had a chance to take a brief look at the touch screen&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/us\/en\/k-12\/notebooks\/laptop-latitude-2100\/pd.aspx?refid=laptop-latitude-2100&#038;cs=RC1084719&#038;s=k12\">Dell Latitude 2100<\/A><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;aimed at the K-12 educational market with its optional touch screen, rubberized surface, optional carrying handle (I wish all netbooks had one!), and optional anti-microbial keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>It is basically a low-end kid-friendly version of the Dell Mini 10 (N270 processor and 10.1&#8243; screen). This one was running Windows XP although Windows 7 (and Ubuntu Linux too) is available for it from Dell. Its touch screen seemed less responsive than the Asus Eee PC T91MT I&#8217;ve been using for the past week. I&#8217;m not sure if this is an artifact of the screen or because it used Windows XP instead of Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>Its keyboard felt pretty good. And, it was nice to see actual hardware buttons for controlling sound volume and mute.<\/p>\n<p>New Career Opportunities Daily: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/joblistings\/?c=rss\">best jobs in media<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a chance to take a brief look at the touch screen&#8230; Dell Latitude 2100 &#8230;aimed at the K-12 educational market with its optional touch screen, rubberized surface, optional carrying handle (I wish all netbooks had one!), and optional anti-microbial keyboard. It is basically a low-end kid-friendly version of the Dell Mini 10 (N270 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}