As millions of American kids start the school year virtually, school districts are facing a laptop shortage and long delays in orders, particularly for the low-cost Chromebooks popular in K-12 schools across the country.
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The world’s three biggest computer companies, Lenovo, HP and Dell, have told school districts they have a shortage of nearly 5 million laptops, in some cases exacerbated by Trump administration sanctions on Chinese suppliers.
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The supply of laptops can't keep up with exceptionally high demand. It's the same reason that toilet paper and other pandemic necessities flew off shelves a few months ago.
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AP's investigation found that school districts in at least 15 states were waiting on orders for Chromebooks and other equipment. Among them are some of the biggest in the country: Los Angeles; Clark County, Nevada; Wake County, North Carolina; Houston and Palm Beach, Florida.
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Smaller districts in New Hampshire, North Dakota, Texas, Ohio, Indiana and elsewhere say their delivery dates have become moving targets.
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“Who would have ever thought that computers and Clorox Wipes would be on the same level of need in our country,” says one Texas school official.
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Want to buy your own Chromebook? Good luck. Best Buy's website shows 36 models of Chromebooks priced under $500, the low-cost models that are popular for students. As of this week, 33 of those models were sold out.
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Teachers, who are underpaid, already spend their own money on supplies for the classroom because the school doesn’t provide enough. But buying the kids laptops?
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we bought a computer and backpack for our granson when he went to college and we could not afford a mobile laptop
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