Even with a discount on the $700 USD price point, Chromebooks can start way lower price point wise, as low as like $100-200 USD with some mid-rangers in the $300-400 USD price point.
Some places could go Apple, but it’s hard to usurp Google’s foothold in the K-12 space.
I just hope they don’t follow Microsoft’s idiocy with releasing Surface Laptop Go’s without backlit keyboards for like $700.
Target is school district Chromebook bulk purchases. Don’t worry about speed as the use case will be basic compute.
Even with a discount on the $700 USD price point, Chromebooks can start way lower price point wise, as low as like $100-200 USD with some mid-rangers in the $300-400 USD price point.
Some places could go Apple, but it’s hard to usurp Google’s foothold in the K-12 space.
I just hope they don’t follow Microsoft’s idiocy with releasing Surface Laptop Go’s without backlit keyboards for like $700.
Hadn’t thought of it but it makes sense that these would be made to be bulk purchases by schools and educations centers.
I remember when the schools I’d go to would have computer labs full of the old bulky iMacs so it certainly seems like a thing.
Only issue is I imagine it might cannabilze places that are giving iPads to their students too.
It’s possible that this low-cost MacBook is partly an admission that the iPad in school push hasn’t worked out as well as Apple expected.