This is a crazy order for a collection of MacBooks to go in a local school depending on the model and specification these will cost between £524,300 ($997,266) and £1,174,600 ($2,234,204) This is a crazy amount of money for a school to spend on equipment!
Video below of the kit after it arrived.
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Wibble’s Blog » Blog Archive » 1,200,000 laptop sale - cheap compared to YouTube · October 11, 2006 at 21:20
[...] Recently I reported on the school that bought 700 macbooks for children to use. The Libyan government has gone one better and decided that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation was worth the investment and have placed an order for a laptop per school child currently in the system as well as a server for each of the schools in the country. All in all this comes to a spend of £135,000,000 which will help OLPC to develop orders with other countries around the world. [...]