It looks like they’re the same one. To quote Susan Lawson(who was there) fromThe Register, “This morning watching the news I saw that some were already on eBay and fetching $285+.”
The only eBay auction I could find at the moment was this one, but the auction seems to have been yanked since it was first reported here.
Again, this is curcuitous - the price now only reflects their perceived value, not the price the school could have got in a single job-lot sale. “They’re the ones that caused a riot when they went on sale? Then the must be worth something, I’d better get bidding!”
I grew up and went to school one county over from Henrico. Half of Henrico has beautiful homes worth 1/4 - 1/2 million dollars, the other half is somewhat on the border of being slummy. There are a lot of things that they could be doing in that county instead of buying brand new laptops.
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So the kids from poorer neighbourhoods leave school with no computer-related schools, while those from richer places get all the advantages? Nice. Maybe you should ask why there isn’t simply more money being put into projects for the neighbourhood, so the school isn’t trying to make up a shortfall by itself?
What exactly do you want to know? How much the computers are “really” worth? There’s no answer; they’re worth what someone is willing to pay for them. There’s no reason to think these particular laptops would be any more valuable for being part of the Henrico Co. fire sale; as others have noted, Mac hardware holds its resale value quite well, even without an OS installed.
Exactly. The amount their “worth” is based on the age old supply and demand theory. Apparently the ‘demand’ for a notebook of this type for $50 outweighed the ‘supply’ resulting in the chaos. Proving that it was grossly underpriced and should have fetched a price somewhere that the demand was equal to the supply.
There must be some local story behind this law, because it makes no sense. If my city was selling off stuff, I’d expect them to get every possible dollar out of it.
Because it’s the fucking national passtime. Nobody takes responsibility for anything these days, and anything that can be blamed on the media IS. If the media is involved and something went wrong, presto, the media made it go wrong.
In beautiful, shiny Dunbar, PA this kind of scene was a routine thing when the Pechin’s Shopping Village got in a new shipment of meat. Fist fights would break out over the stuff.
It’s sick what people will do to get cheap stuff.
If the Airport wireless card inside those laptops were still working, you could easily get $60-$80 for that alone on eBay.