And the profit of the chosen informatics supplier! Oh yes! There is always Open Source for the OS...Linux for example :D

There are a few password keepers, like LastPass, and as you only need 1 password for access, it does seem to me to be possible for any one of any age to keep one word in memory. If not, the school kids will be in a sad state at exam time

Dead right it works. If not my Email would be full of replies to my requests for new passwords. You do need to remember one password, but most of us, at any age, can manage that!

We are being told all the time about back problems in children, caused by the heavy school bags they need to take to and from school each day. The weight of the poor kids bags is well over the recommendations. Now young adults are complaining of back problems, and maybe this is, among other causes, related to the school bags they carried in their time. Tablet PCs are a very practical solution to the weight problem and also a very useful introduction into the future work environment, which will be more and more ruled by informatics. In my opinion it is both healthier and educational for today's children to use Tablet PCs or whatever, but PCs, for their school and home studies, and those who do will have a definite advantage in the search for a job, their education finished. Not to mention the obvious economies made in paper and the trees which are so vital for our atmosphere.