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I have one of those, it's perfectly fine for everything I do. 8GB of RAM isn't a lot, but I've never run into issues with it not being enough.

The M1 and A18 seems rather similar, but I might be concerned that the integrated GPU isn't as capable as the one in the M1. I guess they picked the A18 because they make them and because the NPU much better and Apple cares more about AI than I do.

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> I might be concerned that the integrated GPU isn't as capable as the one in the M1

This is the A18 Pro, specifically, which should have a faster GPU than the M1?

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> Apple cares more about AI than I do.

I’m not sure they do. They love their AI chip, but that might be where the live ends.

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$499 for general educational discount, but I am betting that school districts will get volume discounts above that. It's going to be very price-competitive.
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They famously don't. Betting and guessing doesn't work well here. Best to ask the question instead of make the assertion.
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I doubt schools will be getting this much cheaper. This is already a really aggressively priced product.
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These are probably gonna have a decent resell value. Macbook products have a very higher resell value compared to say chromebooks/normal laptops.

I can imagine schools buying them for their students and then taking them after the semester is over and then giving to next but also reselling it at a very nice value if they might want the next line of product at a decent price.

Also this not only applies to school but normal people who buy the Macbook Neo too

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My understanding is that students are very hard on school provided laptops, I don’t think many of them that have been in use for a year will be in good resale condition.
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My mother is a teacher and the idea there is that if students break/damage the school provided (tablets in that case), the students have to pay the fine.

And even after that, yes, children are absolutely hard on their tablets I agree but they operate and the resale value of those could be decent aside from a very few IMO. There is a way to create a culture of preservation or atleast steer things that way but yeah I agree it can be hard.

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Only the smallest or independent schools are bellying up to the Apple Store to buy 250 laptops on educational discounts; almost all of them go through companies that handle the details; and it can be structured as a lease or a purchase, depending on where they want to allocate capital and expense.
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I think it might be 2020 when the M1 was released since I remember i had bought a mac book in 2019 and it was still intel
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It was Christmas gift. so maybe 2020... not super positive about this
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November 2020
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M1 came out Nov 2020.
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