John Siracusa

IT spends more time managing my graphic design classroom of 28 iMacs than they spend managing 1,900 Chromebooks.

There's no way the IT director would ever consider MacBooks, says Henry.

Ari writes, My wife is on the local school board and was on a budget call.

They happen to be approving this year's one-to-one student laptop purchases.

That is to say, you know, one laptop per kid.

The district uses iPads in kindergarten and first grade, Chromebooks in second through seventh grades, and MacBook Airs in high school.

This year's MacBook Air order was about 1,000 units.

I mentioned the Neo to my wife, and she asked the head of IT his thoughts on the call.

Quote, We're incredibly excited and have five on order for testing.

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There were already plans to consider moving to MacBook Airs for the middle group and replace them every four years due to AppleCare costs not working out in the district's favor.

No one will miss those Chromebooks.

Even if that doesn't happen, our district is looking at between $400,000 and $500,000 in cost savings.

So in summary, Henry says, no freaking way that they will go to Chromebooks.

And Ari says, no freaking way they would ever go to the MacBook Neo.

And Ari says, they're absolutely going to go to the MacBook Neo.

Two different places.

But it's just funny, the whiplash of these two comments.

All right, let's talk about the M5 Pro and Macs and their, I guess, medium cores.

We have a 9to5Mac write-up that's about an article on the Mac and I website, which is in German.