| Should you buy or lease a laptop for school? |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| With the Digital Education Revolution (DER) project now completed and ongoing government support for student laptops drying up, parents now face growing pressure to acquire laptops through their own means. Do you buy a laptop through the school’s purchasing program, lease it or buy it yourself independently? In an ideal world you’d buy your own, since you can choose the best possible laptop at the best possible price, and not have your child end up with crippleware like the netbooks that were handed out by the government as part of the DER program. Even when the schools’ IT departments make their own calls on what laptops to choose for student purchasing or leasing programs, they’re not renowned for selecting the best possible current hardware. Instead, the schools pick the best deal that local suppliers can produce and aim to keep a single model of laptop in every year. This makes the laptops easier to manage because they’re known quantities and the school doesn’t have to keep many different spare laptops on hand. So the school may not want your child having a different laptop to the other kids. |
| Source: TECHlife Australia (AUS) | Published: May 21st, 2013 |
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