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Originally Posted by Ether
To clarify, I meant "Why Apple?".
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For a large school contract, the purchase cost for Apple vs. non-Apple tends to be about the same. However, support costs are significantly lower for a fleet of Apple/OS X computers than for a fleet of Windows computers. (It's especially problematic trying to support Windows at the moment, with the Windows 8 transition currently underway. The changes in UI and OS behavior are significant.)
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Are you saying the school pays less for a loaded Apple laptop than for an equivalent Windows-based laptop?
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I think he's saying that a Windows license is an additional expense for the Apple users when they need to run a program that's supported only under Windows. However, depending on how far you want to stretch the word "equivalent", a Windows laptop with the same performance, reliability, and rugged portability indeed does tend to cost more than its Apple counterpart.