Thread: NXT Kits: Education Version vs. Commercial Version
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Re: NXT Kits: Education Version vs. Commercial Version
The education sets come with a nice plastic bin and includes a rechargeable battery. They have fewer LEGO pieces than the retail sets. As was mentioned, they don't come with NXT-G if that matters to you. If building more than a simple test robot is important, then I agree you'd want to get the education resource kit in addition to the base set.

The retail set has more parts than the education set but fewer than the education set and resource kit combined. It comes with a slightly different version of NXT-G that doesn't include support for legacy Lego sensors.

If just learning Labview is the goal, I guess it comes down to whether you'd like more Lego parts and a cardboard box with the retail kit, or fewer Lego parts, a plastic bin and a rechargeable battery with the educational set.