Google to rent notebooks to schools for $20/mo each

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Originally Posted by DaFace

It sounds like a good deal on the surface, but you can BUY netbooks for $300 or less these days. That's barely over a year's worth of use.

I think where it starts to make sense is not having to have IT staff to support them and the warranty. Having run help desks (a long, long time ago) I can tell you the expense isn't really in the hardware. It's supporting what some idiot has done with their software. If Google is serious about handling that well they could make some inroads there.