AlphaSmart: Neo by AlphaSmart.www.alphasmart The AlphaSmart is a brand of portable, battery powered, word-processing keyboards manufactured by AlphaSmart, Inc., currently owned by Renaissance Learning, Inc. Background .com Hardware, $249 per unit, $7,850 and up for a classroom set of 30 This two-pound device, the latest of AlphaSmart's series of computer companions, offers twice the memory and a 50 percent larger screen than its predecessor, the AlphaSmart 3000. Neo displays up to six lines of text, with larger fonts for young students, and has an enhanced word processing system Noun 1. word processing system - an application that provides the user with tools needed to write and edit and format text and to send it to a printer word processor featuring spell check, a thesaurus, writer's tools, Spanish-English word look up and the ability to name and save files. Up to eight files can be open concurrently. The device has a built-in built-in - (Or "primitive") A built-in function or operator is one provided by the lowest level of a language implementation. This usually means it is not possible (or efficient) to express it in the language itself. industry-standard infrared An invisible band of radiation at the lower end of the visible light spectrum. With wavelengths from 750 nm to 1 mm, infrared starts at the end of the microwave spectrum and ends at the beginning of visible light. wireless port also enables documents to be beamed between devices or to IR-enabled printers. Neo also delivers more than 700 hours of battery life. Educational discounts starting at $229 are available. CIRCLE #528 FOR INFORMATION [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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