Interesting, in my M.S. classes the last few semesters, everybody had a laptop of some kind, only one or two people had macs, and all of them booted them into W

Interesting, in my M.S. classes the last few semesters, everybody had a laptop of some kind, only one or two people had macs, and all of them booted them into Windows. About 30-40% had netbooks for precisely the "easy to carry around long battery life" reason. Plus they are also dirt cheap.