I agree with both your points Harold. I merely sound a note of caution. However, 3 or 4% of the world's information on the internet is hardly ubiquitous. I think the most promising aspect of laptops in schools is their ability to produce a neat, clean product. In other words, visual attributes. I know we need them, but we have to be able to think past them as we're all immersed in our presentmindedness. "It is the purpose of education not to prepare children for their occupations but to prepare them against their occupations". C.G. Sampson