Apple @ Work: Apple says MacBook Neo is pulling schools away from Windows and Chromebooks

Apple @ Work: Apple says MacBook Neo is pulling schools away from Windows and Chromebooks should be explained through that lens before any broad claim is made. Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle , the only Apple Unified Platform. Apple’s latest earnings call included some K12 sales numbers around the MacBook Neo that are super interesting, considering how pricing is progressing in electronics. The piece keeps the context, impact, and follow-up signals in view so readers do not stop at the headline.

What happened

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Practical impact for readers

Apple’s latest earnings call included some K12 sales numbers around the MacBook Neo that are super interesting, considering how pricing is progressing in electronics. MacBook Neo is beginning to displace Windows and Chromebooks in K-12 in a rapid fashion.

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Who should act or wait

Apple’s commentary highlighted some large district deployments moving to Neo Pinellas County Schools, one of the largest districts in Florida, which is moving its 25k students off Windows and onto MacBook Neo across its 18 high schools. In Washington, Peninsula School District 401 moved over its 8,000 students from Chromebooks to MacBook Neo. Midwest City-Del City School District in Oklahoma purchased more than 6,000 MacBook Neos to become an all-Apple district for students.

What is still unclear

The part of this that stood out most to me was that about half of MacBook Neo’s large purchases from US education institutions last quarter displaced Windows or Chromebook devices. That’s not replacing old MacBook Air fleets with Neos. This is districts switching from ChromeOS/Windows to the Mac. According to Apple, close to half of MacBook Neo’s large purchases by US education orgs last quarter replaced Windows or Chromebooks.

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