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.
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.
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.