Hear hear Kevin! The only windblows machines I have here at work (a NASA facility BTW) are the ones used for emails and web use. ALL of the ones doing the real work are UNIX and LINUX machines. (Though I do sneak my personal Mac in)
Schools shouldn’t be foisting computer choices onto the students, especially since all types of computers can do the same basic stuff the schools need. (I.e. Word Processing)
As to the topic at hand I never had a laptop in school. Oh sure I’ve grown up with computers but Laptops were too bulky, expensive, and slow when I was in College to bother with. Let me have my Quake II machine in the dorm anytime. (Shows how old I am. 
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In the end the teachers in College were all the same. Yammer on and on about whatever all class time long. I learned diddly during the class because I was basically forced to read and learn it my own way anyway. Luckily I figured that out part way through the year and stopped going to the really boring lectures. (More sleep!)
What really matters though is not whether they have laptops in the classroom or not, but whether they’re LEARNING anything or not. Isn’t that what’s school is all about? LEARNING?
