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Re:Microsoft offers ad-free Bing for the classroom to battle... by freehunter on Thursday August 22, 2013 @04:53PM (#6260000)
Where can you get a bunch of outdated Thinkpads with custom hardware installed (in my experience, the T400 released four years ago doesn't come with a 128GB Samsung SSD) for that price? How would a school district go about buying a thousand of these off-market, custom-modified laptops?
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Re:Microsoft offers ad-free Bing for the classroom to battle... by harrytuttle on Thursday August 22, 2013 @05:05PM (#6260079)
UK IT brokers have hundreds of them if not thousands floating around. Mine wasn't even used. SSD costs more than the unit. It doesn't take a genius to source that quantity.

HOwever, the school district should buy a pile of shit dell desktops and bolt them to the desks like they probably did before rather than succumb to a low priced promotional Trojan.

Someone probably gets a promotion for saving the cash but do they realise how inflexible the machine is and how tied onto the vendors' platform it is.

Selling out is the only description.

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Re:Microsoft offers ad-free Bing for the classroom to battle... by freehunter on Friday August 23, 2013 @12:52PM (#6264732)
It's also a machine the kids can't screw up and takes next to no IT resources to administer. Unlike a shit Dell bolted to a desk.
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