{
  "id": 19072629,
  "title": "Philippines' DepEd buys 172,000 MacBooks, first-time teacher recipients get priority",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/philippines-deped-buys-172-000-macbooks-first-time-teacher-recipients",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-09T02:17:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/technology/philippines-deped-buys-172000-macbooks-first-time-teacher-recipients-get-priority-1.500740676"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Department of Education in the Philippines recently purchased 172,654 Apple MacBook Neo laptops for teachers and administrative staff at roughly ₱43,000 each. Deliveries are planned from November to March 2027, marking Apple's largest education deal for Mac computers. The laptops, priced at approximately ₱7.4 billion altogether, will primarily go to teachers and officers without prior laptop allocations. These devices come with a five-year warranty, a significant improvement from the standard one-year retail warranty. Competitive bidding was conducted, and the price includes the laptop, built-in productivity software, delivery, and teacher training. The allocation brings the total number of teacher laptops to 231,725, covering roughly one in four public school teachers in the country.",
  "summary": "MANILA — The Department of Education has procured 172,654 Apple MacBook Neo laptops for public school teachers and administrative officers at about ₱43,000 each, with deliveries scheduled from November through March 2027. The acquisition, which Apple described as its \"largest education deal\" for Mac computers, will allocate 169,008 laptops to teachers and 3,646 to administrative officers,…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}