“Apple Computer Corp. agreed Friday to a revised deal that will place laptop computers in roughly one-third of Maine’s public high schools this fall, Education Commissioner Susan Gendron said. ‘I’m absolutely delighted,’ said Gendron, who had been working with Apple officials to salvage the program after her department failed to sign up enough schools to account for 8,400 laptops,” The Associated Press reports.

AP reports, “Apple agreed to lower its minimum participation level to 6,000 laptops without changing its annual rental price of $300, the same low price it charged for laptops in Maine’s 242 middle schools, she said… About 35 to 40 of the state