<p>The deal for free ipod touch is presently going on.</p>
<p>While I am a mac person, you should check your school. At my D’s school, 90% of students and faculty were Macs and IT fixed them. They liked them for all of the above reasons. I understand one of the HADES schools used to require PCs and has now changed to Macs. But, check with your school and call the IT dept and ask them.
Other advantage of macs is that they all have wireless built in without having card. If you get free ipod touch, you can use its calender and wireless at school too and sync to your mac (also itunes, etc). You can also get an application for the ipod to use internet phone system so can use the ipod as a phone (for free).</p>