HP India and Avid Technology announced an exclusive partnership to provide an educational pre-bundled PC at a special price for the media educational sector. This special product is aimed at educational institutes offering professional and vocational courses in mass media and students pursuing such courses.

The bundled solution is configured on latest HP XW 4600 workstation and has Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3.00 4MB/1333 CPU, 4 GB RAM, Quadro FX570 256MB PCIe Graphics. It is shipped with Avid Media Composer software. The solution can store over 15 hours of DV25 video and is priced at INR 105,000.

Worldwide HP and Avid have been working together to provide customers with path breaking solutions. Extension of this relationship in India would bring availability of complete solutions to users at their doorsteps from single source at special prices and better customer support. The solution will be offered through educational channel partners of HP and Avid.

"Technology in the field of mass media is changing constantly. While industry adopts new technologies very fast, educational institutes often lag behind due to limit on their affordability. To have real competitiveness in field, students require to be trained in cutting edge technology that is used in the industry. This agreement is a major step in our efforts to provide students the latest in technology at affordable prices and address the gap in their skill set vis-à-vis industry standard products," said Mr. Krishan Sanghi, Country Head, Avid Technology. "With this agreement, we aim to provide wider access to technology, resulting in more skilled media students ready to soar in their professional fields."

"At HP, we believe in understanding deeply the customer needs and thus developing products and solutions to suit their requirements. Backed with a strong research and development team, HP is able to deliver the right mix of productivity, ease of use and customized technology and software to the education sector," says Anurag Gupta, Country Manager -- Workstations, Personal Systems Group, HP India. "With this partnership, we aim to reach out to the student fraternity and provide them with a unique value proposition," he further added.

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