Hold on. The Henrico School District in CA bought 23,000 iBooks in one
shot. I think that was last year.
William
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 01:32 PM, John Goggan wrote:
> I know of very, very few districts that would ever be able to afford
> buying
> 200 machines at a time. And, of those, I don't know of any that could
> pull it
> off doing it with Macs.
>
> Basically, any districts that I know of that have that kind of cash,
> also have
> a very active and vocal local support (parents, businesses, and so on)
> that
> would never let them buy that number of Macs in this day and age...
> It's sad,
> but it's the truth.
>
> In fact, I'd find it hard to recommend myself. I mean, regardless of
> how
> cool/awesome/whatever someone might think some current Mac is, I'm not
> sure
> I'd recommend a large body of students grow up using them at school.
> It just
> isn't likely to be what they will be using later...
>
> - John...
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