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NSM Laptop Initiative

The College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics is committed to providing state-of-the-art IT infrastructures for its students, faculty and staff. For this reason, the college implements many useful services through VNet.

VNet is a modern Internet service portal for students, faculty and staff. It is changing the way the University community communicates and exchanges information by creating a centralized information environment for administration and academic services. This new system also provides modern technology multimedia services such as streaming of course lectures. VNet is a very useful service and communication portal for students, faculty and staff.

Some of the many VNet modules available for student use: (select a module to learn more)

VClass Streaming Video Modules help make courses accessible from anywhere over the Internet
For more information or to open a VNet account, visit http://www.vnet.uh.edu.
Students who wish to acccess these services on a regular basis while on campus may wish to consider purchasing laptop computers. There are numerous wireless connection points around the university campus.
To help make acquiring laptop computers more affordable for our students, we have negotiated special rates on products. We recommend you purchase a product with at least the following minimum configuration:

Apple Laptop Discount Pricing

Dell Laptop Discount Pricing

Minimum recommended MAC laptop configuration:
- 900 MHz Power PC G4
- 256MB SDRAM
- 40 GB
- DVD-ROM/CD-RW
- 32MB VRAM
- 10/100 BASE-T
- USB
- 802.11 WiFi card
- Mac OS X

Minimum recommended Windows laptop configuration:
- 1.5 GHZ Pentium M
- 256MB SDRAM
- 40 GB
- DVD-ROM/CD-RW
- 32MB VRAM
- 10/100 BASE-T
- USB
- 802.11 WiFi card
- Windows 2000 or XP
 
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