By Idaho Education News
October 23, 2012
As part of the Students Come First laws, Idaho has contracted with HP to provide HP ProBooks 4440 as part of the 1:1 initiative. A few key points from the press release are below.
- Idaho is paying $249.77 per student/teacher for the managed service of providing the device, maintenance, security and technology support. If you include wireless infrastructure and professional development, the state is paying $292.77 per student/teacher
The statewide contract includes:
- 3% spare devices for students to swap out immediately in case a device needs maintenance. Any devices that are broken or damaged will be repaired at HP’s Boise campus.
- Batteries that last the length of the school day.
- Wireless in every Idaho high school by December 2013. The first one-third of schools scheduled to receive devices for students in Fall 2013 will be equipped with wireless infrastructure before school begins next year.
- Professional development provided by HP, in partnership with Idaho Digital Learning Academy.
- Microsoft Office Professional on every device. In addition, the standard image on the device will be customizable for each district.
- Content filtering and anti-virus software
- 7 GB of cloud storage and collaboration space
- 4-year warranty on every device