School iPads to cost nearly $100 more each, revised budget shows

[bobclark86]

31. Apple used to give mad discounts to schools...

That's why I was using a lab full of Apple IIe's in a poor, rural elementary school ... of course, the model had been discontinued for 15 years by the time I got there, but they still had to buy them at one point, and institutional buyers never buy used.

In college, we had labs go from iMac G4 stations, eMacs, G5 iMacs, and then Intel iMacs... that was in four semesters in the same labs. No, no private school, I went to a state school.

One school in my area bought iPads for the kids. Another school bought some in-room iPads for the little kids, but got industrial-grade netbooks for the older ones on a 2- or 4-year replacement cycle. The reason? To quote a teacher, "iPads are better for consuming information -- we want the kids to create information."