Princeton City Schools, in one of Cincinnati’s northern suburbs, plans to try out 288 thin client laptops with first- through fifth-graders when Heritage Hill Elementary students move into their new school next month, said Tim Dugan, the district's director of technology and information. Eighty-five percent of the school’s students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, and less than a fifth of families have a computer

Nearby Lakota school district has about 800 thin clients among its 5,200 personal computers. John Laws, director of technology at Lakota, says the cost of thin client laptops, including a server for every 50 of them, comes to about $420 a unit, about half the cost of a desktop.

Source : Columbus Dispatch, More districts putting basic computers in students' laps