Originally Posted by Manic_Skafe

Fair enough, textbooks on a laptop aren't exactly comfortable but I'd like to see these things loaded with a tablet-style screen and the ability to share documents via bluetooth or a local network. That's eliminate the need of textbooks and notebooks, revolutionize the classroom and be awesome for the environment.

But, to answer the op, I don't see students lining up to shell out 5 bills over one of these.