Apple proposal could extend Maine laptop program
updated 05:15 pm EDT, Wed May 5, 2004
Maine laptop program
A to rent laptops and defer payments for a year may help finally expand Maine's laptop computer program from middle schools to high schools. A day after several lawmakers declared it dead, The Portland Press Herald reports that Apple's proposal would give high schools the ability to have laptops for ninth-graders this fall and "could put pressure on the next Legislature, which will be seated in January, to fund the expansion into high schools" and a plan to spend $8 million in capital improvement funds to install wireless networks and related equipment in high schools could also help build momentum - or political pressure - for the laptop program.
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What's 4.5 BILLION for?
It's good to see Apple trying to accomodate the Maine iBook program. They really need to make MORE of this kind of gesture to increase their education marketshare. You can BET that Dell shills do some serious brown-nosing to win all the contracts we hear about.
Another suggestion:
Apple should bite the bullet and spend some of that 4.5 billion dollar war chest and undercut Dell to get a few big school system or university contracts. Soup to nuts; XServes, AirPort, eMacs and iBooks... the works. AND they should keep it quiet and just do it. Just make some new customers happy and they'll get more!