Scotty,
I hope all is well with you and I look forward to seeing you soon!  My son will be going off to boarding school in the fall and we need to purchase a new laptop for him.  Do you think he should get the macbook or 13 in macbook pro?  We would like it to make it through his high school career.
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The most popular choice for high school kids is really the macbook.  It has the plastic case which makes it very durable.  A little less investment considering what teenagers can do to computers.  And it's plenty powerful enough for their needs.  The one things I do find that kids like to do that the macbook is a bit less capable of doing is gaming.  Playing video games on a mac laptop is not the most spectacular experience.  Even the macbook pro's are not scream machines in this area but their dedicated graphics cards do a better job.  If you can do without that, then the macbook should be just fine.