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I think that from just a financial standpoint, this has the potential to be either a very good, or bad thing. As a business major, my textbooks usually cost about $600/semester. If an iBook were cheaper than that, it would help out students who were on financial aid or had financial hardships and couldn't have afforded to buy textbooks. On the other hand, my boyfriend goes to an engineering school, and as part of the school's contract with IBM, all of it's students are required to lease a Thinkpad from the school at the rate of $500/semester. This comes out to $4,000 for a 4 year period. I used to have a Thinkpad and it was the shittiest computer ever. It kept on breaking and crashing until it broke to the point that when you pressed the power button, nothing happened. He has the same problem, so basically he's paying $4,000 for a laptop that doesn't work and he keeps on having to fix.
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