Microsoft Introduces Affordable Laptops for Education Microsoft is hoping to steal some of the education market back from the clutches of Google with an attractive $189 price point for its Windows 10 notebooks. Lenovo's 100E is the cheapest machine, starting at $189 with an Intel Apollo Lake Celeron processor. There is also the Classmate Leap T303 ($199) and Trigono V401 convertible with pen and touch functionality ($299). Analyst firm Futuresource estimates that in the third quarter of 2017, Google's low-cost Chromebooks accounted for 59.8 percent of the laptop market for K-12 education. Microsoft Windows devices' 22.3 percent share.