The state has long struck deals with Apple to provide laptops for many of its students, and according to a report by the Associated Press, it’s in negotiations with Apple to expand the deal this year, putting a MacBook on the desk of every public school student from grades 7 to 12. The 100,000 laptops would run to a cost of roughly $242 per computer per year, or an annual total of close to $25 million.

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Jamie,

Do you have any data on cost for a "comparable" Windows machine. My old data was about $450 to $500 per year per computer.

Those are about the same numbers that I've seen recently. However, it is anticipated that the (TCO) costs for Apple laptops are going down slightly with the unibody models.