The idea of using laptops over ipads (other than politics and money) is the fact that it can just do more than an ipad.
oh so you finally admit that a Laptop do more than a tablet, I'm gone keep this one in memory
How can you say IT will prefer Windows 8 tablets , IT peoples prefer thing they know working fine for a certain time, never ear that IT always wait to the release of a service pack before deploy an OS, Windows 8 tablet is too new, they will not touch that for a large deployement. Actually I don't thing many IT will deploy any Windows 8 product. I just come from a VMware training, you should see what real pro IT think of Windows 8 , IT are not the kind of peoples you meet at BB and Staple. Get excited with a new products and have to support it 40 hours a week is very different
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downloading all these apps other than for education on their devices"; you never ear of something call proxy server ?
For printing I said they develop apps, they have one witch on you can print from a iPad ( wifi) to any printer running on a Mac Servers