Mission Bit doesn't have permanent classrooms. All of the equipment needs to be portable and standalone, so laptops are a requirement. Small HDMI computers such

Mission Bit doesn't have permanent classrooms. All of the equipment needs to be portable and standalone, so laptops are a requirement. Small HDMI computers such as Raspberry Pi are no longer cheap once you start looking at adding a keyboard, mouse and display. We standardize on Mac to keep the experience as uniform as possible. A huge issue that few people consider is that if you have a fleet of mismatched laptops you're going to spend a lot of time and/or storage space sorting out which power supply goes to what and it's going to take a lot longer to build a single image that's going to work well for all of them (regardless of OS). We're doing a pilot class with Chromebooks this semester, but we have to buy most of those ourselves. We've found that it's often easier to get a donation of an old Mac laptop than ~$220.