Google Chromebooks steeply discounted for classrooms (with a catch)

Set a fundraising goal on Donorschoose.org, and if you hit your goal by Dec. 21, Google will sell your public school teachers the $249 Samsung Series 5 Chromebook for $150 off the list price.?

By Matthew Shaer / December 10, 2012

A Samsung Series 5 Chromebook. Google has partnered with Donorschoose.org to offer Chromebooks to public school students at deeply-discounted prices.

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Google has partnered with the online charity platform?DonorsChoose.org to offer a discounted line of Samsung Series 5 Chromebook computers for public school classrooms.

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In a post on the Google blog, product manager?Rajen Sheth said that beginning this week,?full-time public school teachers can request the Series 5 Chromebook for $99 a pop ? approximately $150 off the $249 list price.?

"For many students and teachers, the hassles of traditional computing often prevent them from making the most of technology in the classroom," Sheth wrote. "Schools that have adopted Chromebooks, however, have been able to bring the web?s vast educational resources ? whether it?s conducting real-time research or collaborating on group projects ? right into the classroom. Chromebooks are fast, easily sharable, and require almost no maintenance."

Here's out it works: Navigate over to Donorschoose.org and set up a project page with your location and the number of Chromebooks you're requesting for your classroom. Hit the goal by December 21, and Google will sell you the Chromebooks at the $99 subsidized price. So, for example, if you raise $1,000, your school gets 10 computers, not four.

Alternatively, if you're a donor interested in helping to give a few Chromebooks to a public school in your area, you can browse active projects here.?

In a recent review of the Series 5 Chromebook, Jared Newman of Time said the machine performed pretty well, for the price.?

"It?s not the best laptop you?ll ever use. It?s not even the best Chromebook you can get," Newman noted. "But it?s thinner and lighter than many other notebooks on the market, it gets you into Google?s Chrome browser in practically no time, and it handles the desktop web deftly. If all you ever do on your computer is hang out in a web browser anyway, this $250 Chromebook does the job at a price that borders on miraculous."?

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