I guess a lot depends on the Applications that the students want to use. My understanding is the ChromeBook is more web app focussed (though it does have the a

I guess a lot depends on the Applications that the students want to use. My understanding is the ChromeBook is more web app focussed (though it does have the ability to run some local apps) - but the MacBook could have the full suite of 40-50 apps that a student might want to use loaded on the Mac. I was a student technician in our Micro Computer Facility at SFU, and we had Windows, Macintosh Facilities - and each one of them had a _ton_ of instructor provided applications, course-directed application, and department provided applications, in addition to the standard Word Processing/Graphics/Spreadsheet/Stats/Graphing packages. I have to believe that as Bandwidth (Hello 802.11ac!) and device performance improves, the pendulum will swing back to web apps again. Still 3-5 years early for that though.