HP for schools with new notebooks, software and Sprout Pro – Tom’s Hardware

HP introduces new products and tools designed for students: among the novelties in the foreground notebook, school packs and Sprout Pro 2.0 software.

 
 

Among the features of the two new notebooks, HP Probook 11 G2 EE and HP x360 310 G2 EE , a battery are reinforced to provide greater autonomy, a wireless optimized, more robust and various tools for education.

 
 

HP Probook 11 G2 EE and HP x360 310 G2 EE

 
 

The ProBook is purpose-built to withstand bumps and accidental falls. It has a shell made of rubber resistant to withstand the “stress” that can occur in a crowded classroom, and according to HP The battery has a range of 18 hours . Based on Windows 10, under the body we find Intel Core, while the touchscreen is offered as an option.

 
 
 
 

will be available from next month, the starting price is 349 €.

 
 

‘s 310 x360 G2 is characterized by the rotatable screen that allows you to use it in tablet mode. Always based on Windows 10, available processors are the Intel Celeron or Pentium, while storage will be based on SSD, the maximum capacity of 256 GB.

 
 
 
 

Available in March, the starting price will be 319 Euros. We wanted to give more technical information, but is not currently available. We will give you more information as soon as possible.

 
 

School Pack

 
 

The School Pack 2.0 is a collaborative solution that allows teachers to communicate easily and directly with students and includes various applications: HP Adaptive Learning created by Fishtree, Prime HP Graphing Calculator App, Classlink single sign-on, Codecademy for Learning How to Program, Corinth Classroom Curriculum Matrix, Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary and PASCO SPARKVue. The main purpose of this package is create a sort of “social network” for each class , so that students and teachers can work together, eliminating all barriers that technology not economical risks creating .

 
 
 
 

The novelty of this package is “Touchpoint Manager for Education”, a cloud application that lets you manage the devices more easily and keep your data safe. Who will manage the school computers can then act more quickly on all systems.

 
 

Sprout Pro

 
 

HP has also Pro Sprout, the All in One designed for business applications and Education . Based on Intel’s sixth-generation DDR4 memory, this desktop features the TPM chip, and solutions such as HP External Display Mixer, Magnifier and HP Scan.

 
 

Sprout is designed to combine different devices, a computer with a scanner and a projector.

 
 

What makes this product unique is contained in the software, which enables various functions. Display Mixer is a software function that Sprout turns into a kind of electron microscope , and allows you to zoom in on a second screen, or raggrupare multiple images from different sources (such as a webcam or a second screen), so as to enable the collaborative tools.

 
 
 
 

With HP Scan you reach a level of professional image capture, to digitize photos, notes or any source useful for learning or work.

 
 
 
 

The main communication tool is used Skype for Business, which allows you to capture and share two video inputs (the camera front and bottom) that can then be transferred to other images, such as documents, and not show himself only for Webcams videoconferences.

 
 

Available from May, the starting price will be 2599 euro .