I remember and know all about them, as I was in HCPS during the 4 years in which we had iBooks. We, the students, were given the chance to buy them first, and were offered to the public because they were switching to either IBM or Dell (can't remember which), but what do you expect for $100?
Were they shitty? Yeah because they had been used in a public school system for 4 years. Did I buy mine? Hell no, I knew what it had been through.

The dude made it sound like the whole thing was "illegal," which is what I was interested in hearing his take on. While I'm sure they could have done a better job organizing who gets what, you can't always estimate how badly people wanted laptops and what they were going to do to get one.