Central York discusses switch from MacBooks to iPad 11 in wide-ranging device-refresh presentation

Central York School District board members on April 7 heard a detailed presentation on a proposed technology refresh that would replace a large portion of the district's current student laptops with Apple iPad Gen 11 devices under a multi-year financing agreement.

The presentation, delivered by Ryan Billet (identified in meeting materials as the presenter), said the district is two years into a four-year payment plan on the current student laptops and is paying annual repair costs “north of $50,000 a year.” Billet told the board the district has secured a take‑all resale agreement for its 1,800 high‑school laptops that guarantees $420,000 in revenue and expects an additional roughly $25,000 from selling older iPads, for an estimated $445,000 in proceeds to apply against the transition.

Billet said the proposal would buy roughly 3,215 new iPad devices (the presentation referred to this total) and emphasized AppleCare as a cost component: “with these new iPads we would have AppleCare, which is a really fantastic program where if…