Laptops or tablets

I was just involved in a meeting today that was focused on choosing the best tablet for a 1 to 1 initiative in a local high school. I went to the meeting hoping to convince them that a laptop at a similar price range was probably more logical because they can do everything the school wanted as well as provide better typing features and more durability. The problem: the school has until the end of the month to spend the grant money, and there is no time for bidding anymore. So... they are going with an Asus model on the Android operating system. They are pretty sweet. I just hope it works out for them- I will be working a lot to help the implementation, which should be cool.