Apple Supplying Henrico Middle Schools with iBooks
Henrico County (Richmond, Virginia) has decided to renew their contract with Apple in supplying iBooks to their middle school students.
Henrico had previously dropped Apple from their High School program in favor of Dell. The high school Apple iBooks were sold off for $50 a piece and drew a lot of interest as well as a stampede.
The new contract is worth $16 million and supplies Henrico with 12,675 iBook laptops for $1,246 each. Interestingly, Dell's bid for the middle school contract was $1,111 per laptop.
Henrico had previously dropped Apple from their High School program in favor of Dell. The high school Apple iBooks were sold off for $50 a piece and drew a lot of interest as well as a stampede.
The new contract is worth $16 million and supplies Henrico with 12,675 iBook laptops for $1,246 each. Interestingly, Dell's bid for the middle school contract was $1,111 per laptop.
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78 months ago
You have to wonder why they took a bid for $171,000 more. I guess the Dell purchase at the high school level has proved less than successful.
78 months ago
Apple may have said that iBook updates were imminent. Apple may possibly have let them in on what the future holds. Also the county would probably have to purchase mass amounts MS licenses. Apple may offer iWork for cheap... who knows.
Nuc
Nuc
78 months ago
$1246 is expensive for 12" iBooks, no?
And they better be getting the new Intel based ones. Maybe Herlico could purchase the G4 ones for less money.
And they better be getting the new Intel based ones. Maybe Herlico could purchase the G4 ones for less money.
78 months ago
Apple may have said that iBook updates were imminent. Apple may possibly have let them in on what the future holds. Also the county would probably have to purchase mass amounts MS licenses. Apple may offer iWork for cheap... who knows.
Nuc
That is possibly true. Lower total cost of ownership has always been lower for Macs. Also very likely to have factored in the decision is Apple's student information system, PowerSchool.
78 months ago
$1246 is expensive for 12" iBooks, no?
And they better be getting the new Intel based ones. Maybe Herlico could purchase the G4 ones for less money.
They've probably got some updated specs (RAM, HDD) and some extra software on top of the stock model. Maybe Apple's given them some .Mac access too, who knows?
78 months ago
$1246 is expensive for 12" iBooks, no?
I think it's even expensive for a 14" when buying over 12000.They know something we don't.
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