What do you get for $20
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Is it a $20 book just to educate yourself on how the Chrome Book operates? If you can create documents, etc, all online, I might be interested in knowing how....
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I think if you know how to use Word, Excel, Powerpoint, or other MS Office product, you can do what you want with Google Docs (all on-line, all open or private depending on your share settings). All free, by the way. Don't know how a Chromebook would change this other than by speed or connectivity. I'm leaning towards a wifi myself.
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The details are not completely clear yet, but I think that this represents a very significant value for the Education community. We often spend huge amounts of money on hardware that is not necessary and software that is overpriced and has more functions than are typically necessary. That doesn't even include all of the IT costs involved. I think that this will be the wave of the future in most Districts.
It will be the wave of the future for sure, the price cannot be beat. All the features included for the price is more then worth it. Google still benefits from it greatly from the mass amount of students buying a ChromeBook and for supporting education.
The price is good, but another big plus is chromebook APP's for education. APP's will probably be the next biggest thing for the education system once they see the benefits
True but...
Yes that is true, but we might have some people on the forum who are associated with educational institutes who might want to know the answer to something like this. Someone who would rather ask here than look dumb in front of their peers.
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The pricing is $20 per month. If you plan to use it for 2 years, the cost comes to about $480 (24 months x $20). It maybe cheaper just to buy one if you plan to keep it longer than that.
Which is fine, Trees...but Google has their own resources for people like that. This is a fan-made message board with lots of misleading information, such as the one above, which was even posted after my comment regarding subscriptions.
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help from google
I am a teacher and am interested, can google actually answer these questions instead of all of us guessing
I am a teacher and am interested, can google actually answer these questions instead of all of us guessing
How does a school sign up for Chromebook leases?
How does a school, district or affiliation of schools sign up for Chromebook leases?
What criteria will be used to determine the order in which organizations leases will be fulfilled, FIFO? i.e. first come, first served?
How does a school, district or affiliation of schools sign up for Chromebook leases?
What criteria will be used to determine the order in which organizations leases will be fulfilled, FIFO? i.e. first come, first served?
You can find all of the information here Ordering FAQs - ChromeOS Enterprise Help
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