Dell India has launched “Latitude 2100” laptops in India. According to the company, the notebooks are rugged, affordable and durable, heavy duty laptop computers.

Latitude 2100 provides wireless connectivity that can be monitored by educators with a ‘network activity light’ available on the netbook lid. The notebook is available in five smashing colors.

For educational netbooks, there is also an option of touch screen.

The net book is powered by Intel Atom N270 (1.60 GHz, 512KB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB) processor and Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic SP1 or Genuine Windows XP Home SP3 available via downgrade rights Ubuntu Linux version 8.10 operating system.

With a 3-cell or 6-cell “Smart” Lithium-Ion Primary battery, it weighs only 1.32 kgs.

The Dell Latitude 2100 notebooks are available at the starting price of $495 (approx. Rs 23,205).