macs are a waste of money.. now I like them.. but you can get an equal machine for less money. I find mac jerks boring.
my kids (adults now :) although not outta school.. I think they read too much about crappy economy etc.. but I digressed as usual. My kids say google is taking over and apple is yesterday ;-) I say if they are pushing chrome because it's cheaper than apple products in the elementary/high school level Apple better take a good hard look.
I travel a bit.. sometimes we travel a lot and I see laptops returning for business anyway.. tablets are for games.. you can get fake keyboards, invisible keyboards, etc.. but there is nothing like a good old laptop.