Maine educators cool to HP, Microsoft

Published June 15, 2013 1:47am ET



PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine schools didn’t exactly embrace the state’s preferred option for laptops to be distributed to more than 70,000 middle and high school students, opting instead to stick with what they know: Apple.

Figures released by the Maine Department of Education on Friday showed school districts overwhelmingly opted to stay with Apple instead of Hewlett-Packard for new laptops and tablets this fall.

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