Undergraduate Laptop Program

Babson College currently provides all of its undergradute students with a Lenovo business-class laptop for their personal and scholastic use, which comes pre-configured with all needed software for your selected curriculum. 

Commencing with the Class of 2027, students will no longer exchange their laptop model after two years of use, but instead will keep their Babson-issued laptop throughout their studies.   This laptop will be theirs to keep at no further cost upon their graduation.

This policy is subject to future change.

For the 2024-2025 year, the selected model is the ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 (9th generation) -- an ultraportable touchscreen convertible-laptop with pen. Its hardware specifications are as follows:

• 14th Generation Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 125U Processor 
• 16GB LPDDR3 6400MHz
• 256GB SSD PCIe Gen 4 storage
• 14" WUXGA (1920 x 1200 resolution) screen, IPS panel, Anti-Reflective, Touch, 100% sRGB color gamut coverage, 400 nits brightness, Narrow Bezel
• IR 1080p camera, Fingerprint Reader supporting Windows Hello
• Bluetooth 5.3 / Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211 wireless card

Graduate students who wish to purchase this same model and receive hardware support for it through the IT Service Center may do so through Lenovo's Babson affiliate webpage.

The Babson Network

With over 9000 network ports on campus and wireless access points in every building, you are rarely far from a network connection. Our wired network supports access speeds up to 1000 Mb/sec while our wireless network supports speeds up to 150 Mb/sec.

Please review the Laptop Agreement (pdf).