$499 for general educational discount, but I am betting that school districts will get volume discounts above that. It's going to be very price-competitive.

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asadotzler an hour ago | parent | next [-]

They famously don't. Betting and guessing doesn't work well here. Best to ask the question instead of make the assertion.

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adgjlsfhk1 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I doubt schools will be getting this much cheaper. This is already a really aggressively priced product.

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Imustaskforhelp 10 hours ago | parent [-]

These are probably gonna have a decent resell value. Macbook products have a very higher resell value compared to say chromebooks/normal laptops.

I can imagine schools buying them for their students and then taking them after the semester is over and then giving to next but also reselling it at a very nice value if they might want the next line of product at a decent price.

Also this not only applies to school but normal people who buy the Macbook Neo too

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wilsonnb3 8 hours ago | parent [-]

My understanding is that students are very hard on school provided laptops, I don’t think many of them that have been in use for a year will be in good resale condition.

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Imustaskforhelp 8 hours ago | parent [-]

My mother is a teacher and the idea there is that if students break/damage the school provided (tablets in that case), the students have to pay the fine.

And even after that, yes, children are absolutely hard on their tablets I agree but they operate and the resale value of those could be decent aside from a very few IMO. There is a way to create a culture of preservation or atleast steer things that way but yeah I agree it can be hard.

	▲	bombcar 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Only the smallest or independent schools are bellying up to the Apple Store to buy 250 laptops on educational discounts; almost all of them go through companies that handle the details; and it can be structured as a lease or a purchase, depending on where they want to allocate capital and expense.