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This would make one hell of an impact at my school in Australia, our school sells shitty cheap laptops for $1200 AUD (around €723), but the licenses for software are provided by the government and the laptops tend to cost less than half the school sells them for, so the framework laptop 12 would definitely be preferable, including with the add-ons you mentioned.
A little sidenote, I have no clue how it's legal for the school to price gouge us like that for literally the cheapest ThinkPads or other laptops possible.
Is it a form of funding for the school? Or are they getting ripped off too?
At the campus I'm currently at, it's funded pretty well, we have good quality buildings, we have doctors that come in every couple days and have "chillout tuesday" where we have activities and free food in the seminar room. The other two campuses are definitely falling behind in those regards.
Either they may not be getting enough from the government and are supplementing it, or they are getting ripped off by Lenovo, although it seems to be due funding the school, since there are also the out for uniform days, where you have to pay $10 unless you don't want to participate for the rest of the year.