When a district buys student devices, it’s also committing money and staff time to configuring, licensing, managing, repairing and retiring them — expenses that accumulate across thousands of endpoints and several budget cycles.
This makes factoring in the total cost of ownership (TCO) critical to the purchasing decision. A device with a higher price tag may ultimately cost less when it lasts longer, requires fewer repairs and consumes less staff time.
An effective comparison follows each option through the district’s expected refresh cycle and normalizes the result per device, per year,…
