I am currently part of a laptop program at Villanova University. It is good for the fact that you shouldn't ever have to find a lab. Unfortunately implementation is extremely costly and complicated. 90% of the students who have them use them as glorified typewriters and internet terminals. For the other 10% who use them to their fullest potential, they are inadequate to run anything beyond an office suite and a few other programs. Unless the school is well endowed financially and they are prepared to offer advanced computing topics to a dedicated student body(it all sounds so idealistic, doesn't it?) you can forget about it. MBA program = great idea college = ok/maybe not high school = joke.
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I am currently part of a laptop program at Villanova University. It is good for the fact that you shouldn't ever have to find a lab. Unfortunately implementation is extremely costly and complicated. 90% of the students who have them use them as glorified typewriters and internet terminals. For the other 10% who use them to their fullest potential, they are inadequate to run anything beyond an office suite and a few other programs. Unless the school is well endowed financially and they are prepared to offer advanced computing topics to a dedicated student body(it all sounds so idealistic, doesn't it?) you can forget about it. MBA program = great idea college = ok/maybe not high school = joke.