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Originally Posted by EricH

I'd call the worst deal the 200 credits for a Classmate. If I had absolutely no other laptop that was usable for the drivers' station and no way to get one, I might think about it. Maybe. The only way it could be worse? If teams were allowed to get three.

The classmates are useful if a student wants to program but has no laptop available. The laptops are small but they're perfectly good for programming or researching tools and parts on the internet. And it would be a last-minute backup for a driver station if your primary station laptop malfunctions (this happened to us last year at our regional when our laptop decided to stop communicating over Ethernet)