$50 iBook if you live in/near Richmond, VA

NOTICE - Public sale of iBooks for the general community has been moved from August 9th to August 16th and now the iBooks will only be available for residents and taxpayers of Henrico County

The Henrico County iBook sale scheduled for August 9th has been changed. A sale open to Henrico County residents and taxpayers ONLY will be held on August 16th at the Richmond International Raceway.

The main gate will open at 7 a.m. and the sale begins at 9 a.m. Overnight parking and camping will be prohibited.

One thousand laptops will be available on a first-come first-serve basis - limit one per person. The cost is $50 each. Cash or personal checks will be accepted.

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http://henrico.k12.va.us/ibooksale/index.html

Anyone live in Henrico County that could help me out?

Sounds pretty sweet!

1000 available?

I have a feeling E-Bay is gonna see an influx of iBooks

I was just about to say the same thing!

Looks like this became quite a mob scene:

"$50 iBooks cause stampede!" (tuaw.com)

"Panic ensues in rush for cheap laptops" (cnn.com)

I just read about it on slashdot. Man talk about crazy/hilarious/sad....

That's where I found it. Good choice of words.

Wow, that's dedication!

Why didn't they just give the computers to the kids to take home?

If their goal was money, hell, Ebay them.

(As of now, there are not any iBooks from VA posted on Ebay today)

now they're going to be mad when they get home and cant load ms office on those bad boys.

Definitely not worth it for outdated crap.

What are you talking about?

If anyone from XOC went, I heard there was a stampede of 5100 people for the computers. Some lady pushing her baby in a stroller got trampled. Sad.

Yes, that did happen. Along with a grown woman, with two small children, publicly pissing on herself so she wouldn't lose her place in line.