Thousands of Windows machines are being replaced in schools with MacBook Neo and iPads

The classroom laptop fight just got a real-world stress test. Kansas City Public Schools has already bought more than 4,500 MacBook Neo units for students in 8th grade and up, putting Apple’s new low-cost Mac into schools at a scale that goes well beyond a pilot program. The district plans to retire more than 30,000 existing devices over time. That gives Apple a visible education-sector win as cheaper classroom laptops become more competitive, and it gives school IT teams another reason to rethink the old Windows, Chromebook, and Mac divide. Why is KCPS going all Apple KCPS says the move is meant to simplify how students and teachers work across devices. Instead of supporting several platforms at once, the district is moving toward one Apple-based setup across classrooms.

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