When I read stories like this one, I cannot help but wonder why they do not offer desktop computers instead?

The state that was first to provide laptops to every seventh and eighth grader in its public schools is taking its campaign to the high schools, and Maine’s top education official vowed Thursday that every high school student will have a laptop computer within two years.

The 67,000 computers currently being distributed at more than half of the high schools will give students the skills they’ll need to compete in the workplace, said Don Siviski, superintendent of Regional School Unit 2.

Is it because they want students to have the portability to do their schoolwork at home as well as at school? I just think the desktop hardware would hold up a bit better than laptops, especially where kids are concerned.

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