With the economy in the toilet, our school has 1300 Apple laptops but our budget has run dry. We are exploring other options if we have to abandon Apple. I was looking into the XO laptop (one laptop per child) and a few minis: Dell Mini, Acer, MSI. Is there any laptops good enough for a middle schooler grades 6-8 for doing word processing, networking, goup work and project creations?