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Re:Chromebook demand is plummeting as the pandemic eases by michaelt on Friday October 01, 2021 @04:58AM (#28716143)
If you're a school district, presumably a quarter of your users graduate every year and are replaced by new students. Which means new chromebooks.

Albeit not as many as they needed at the start of the pandemic.

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Re:Chromebook demand is plummeting as the pandemic eases by dheera on Friday October 01, 2021 @12:19PM (#28720378)
> Which means new chromebooks.

They'll most likely reuse them for many years, OR have a student keep a single chromebook through many grades. Schools in the US aren't that well funded that they can give every student a free laptop every year.

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Re:Chromebook demand is plummeting as the pandemic eases by Dma54rhs on Friday October 01, 2021 @05:07AM (#28716189)
Students get to keep them in the US?
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Re:Chromebook demand is plummeting as the pandemic eases by michaelt on Friday October 01, 2021 @09:46AM (#28718363)
I can't imagine they re-use four-year-old laptops that have been getting carted around to and from school by teenagers for years. Nobody buys a Celeron laptop with 4GB of RAM thinking they're getting a future-proof system that'll last a decade.

At most, you might issue returned ones to people who lost or broke the one they were issued.

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