Windows 11 SE, Surface Laptop SE… Aiming at the education market

Microsoft has announced Windows 11 SE and Surface Laptop SE, which optimize the performance of low-cost devices for educational purposes.

Windows 11 SE is designed to provide a user experience for education. Microsoft 365 applications are included in the operating system. Offline use of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, OneDrive and other apps under a Microsoft 365 license based on the fact that more than 16 million children in U.S. educational institutions do not have access to the Internet outside of school It is possible to automatically synchronize data when accessing the Internet at a school or the like.

Third-party applications also support Zoom and Chrome. IT administrators can safely provide appropriate applications and policies to all student terminals using the Intune For Education program that can easily introduce and manage Windows 11 SE-equipped terminals.

A student terminal equipped with such Windows 11 SE is the Surface Laptop SE. If you look at the specifications, you can put Intel Celeron N4020 or N4120 on an 11.6-inch TFT LCD that supports resolution of 1366×768 and 135ppi, and you can choose between 4GB of DDR4 or 8GB of RAM. The storage space is eMMC 64 or 128 GB and the graphics are Intel UHD Graphics 600. In addition to IEEE802.11ac wireless LAN and Bluetooth 5.0 LE, it is equipped with one USB Type-C and one Type-A, one DC connector, and one 3.5mm headphone and microphone jack. It supports a front camera that supports 720p and 30 frames, a 2W stereo camera, a single digital microphone, and a TPM 2.0 chip for enterprise security. It measures 283.70×193.05×17.85mm and weighs 1,112.4g. The price is 249 dollars. Sales are scheduled for the second half of this year to 2022. Related information can be found here.