Acer Provides 16k Olympic Laptops to UK Schools

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With the close of the Olympics today, Acer will be collecting its laptops used in the games, refurbish the units and provide them to school systems around the UK. This could have been a home run for Acer if the company had given the laptops away for free, but chose instead to sell them at a greatly reduced price, scoring a triple bagger for Acer.

The PCs were used for everything from planning athletes' travel to supporting broadcasters zinging out footage of the dressage to the world, but in their new lives will be turned to crunching tasks like Year 6 maths homework, as part of a one-child, one-computer programme.
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It's not really news when they sell it to the schools. Not narking on [H] more so the fact that Acer decided to make a PR announcement at all.
 
The laptops will be wiped and refurbed by Acer then sold to schools at 17 per cent of their normal price: £145 each with a 12 month Acer guarantee. The laptops are Travelmate 6593Gs which normally sell to consumers for £827. The special "Used in the Olympics" stickers seem to get thrown in for free.
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For a company that isn't even based out of the UK, that is pretty generous.
 
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