Hey folks, I oversee IT at a small K-8 private school.
Should I go with the base i3 or spend the extra $100 to get i5's even if it means I end up with 1-2 fewer devices overall?
After not getting any funding for teacher devices for several years, we finally have a big pot of money to begin upgrading teacher devices. My boss has given me the go ahead to start getting macbook air's for the faculty. Normally I would get to the nearest Apple store to Demo both devices, but that isn't happening with COVID, as our nearest apple store is closed.
I'm hoping to replace about half of teacher computers with Macbook Air's this year. None of these devices will be doing graphics intensive work, mainly keynote/ google classroom/ word processing/ email/ zooming if we go distance learning/ and showing videos to students. Ideally we would want to get 5 years or more out of these machines and If ARM devices weren't on the horizon I would go for the i5, but now i'm second guessing that decision.
Should I go with the base i3 or spend the extra $100 to get i5's even if it means I end up with 1-2 fewer devices overall?
After not getting any funding for teacher devices for several years, we finally have a big pot of money to begin upgrading teacher devices. My boss has given me the go ahead to start getting macbook air's for the faculty. Normally I would get to the nearest Apple store to Demo both devices, but that isn't happening with COVID, as our nearest apple store is closed.
I'm hoping to replace about half of teacher computers with Macbook Air's this year. None of these devices will be doing graphics intensive work, mainly keynote/ google classroom/ word processing/ email/ zooming if we go distance learning/ and showing videos to students. Ideally we would want to get 5 years or more out of these machines and If ARM devices weren't on the horizon I would go for the i5, but now i'm second guessing that decision.