Indiana legislators could soon be using iPads for their legislative work hoping to save on paper.
A legislative study committee members will use iPads given to them by the state Legislative Services Agency and work with them the next two months as part of a test run. The members must provide feedback daily using a suvey the LSA created.
The LSA's goal is to investigate whether the General Assembly would benefit by using iPads for legislative work
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The potential savings are largely in the potential for iPads to replace laptops. iPads are about half the cost of existing laptops
"Existing laptops" are ones that have already been paid for, so they're free, and they don't count.
A good iPad is $721 at the Apple store. A similarly equipped Windows laptop computer is half that at Tiger Direct.
Holy crap...once again Leo and I agree. I see this as a terrible waste of money.
Ipads are much more limited in function than laptops- so any cost "savings" is negligible