Difference - but not meaningful difference.
I’ve been running $400 laptops for 7 years. My 99%ile and 95%ile sons had no trouble learning using them.
And I would imagine they just might have some purchasing power - buying 2,000 at a time.
Whether it is Apple - or somebody giving a relative a giant commission check - it is all the same - government giving away what even upper middle class American taxpayers can’t afford.
My newish desktop unit is $350. (sans $100. monitor). My laptop is a Dell that is about 7 years old.
The boondoggle is the cost of “setting up the curriculum”. And I don’t approve of providing computers for everyone.