[Swordmaker]

More of Henrico County's planning and preperation with computers... avoiding viruses, spyware, and zombieware on Dell laptops being distributed to students replacing the Apple iBooks that were used for the last 4 years without an infection... PING!!!

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[Swordmaker]

"Never in the history of the laptop program in the school district of Henrico County, Va., have the students' Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iBooks fallen victim to a fast-spreading virus or worm.

Henrico dumped Apple's for Windows because Dell came in with a slightly lower initial bid... the bid savings were smaller than the losses generated by selling the 1000 surplus iBooks at below market price at $50 each.

It should be interesting to see how the TCO comparison will come out in four years... or even in the first month of deployment.