Why?

I'm not quite sure why but....in this grant program I am participating in there was a lot of hoopla about what technology we could get...and things we would be doing with it...well, now that we are down to looking at technology, the whole idea has changed...the teachers are using mac books and ipads, and touches...the students (not in stone yet but ?) will be using netbooks...so...originally there was the "apps"  we had to have i things for the apps but now if we go with netbooks, then we can have  more $ to spend on other stuff...in using the mac book, i don't really see any difference from my pc laptop...and no one can tell me what the "apps" are that were so important...????On Thursday, the team involved in the grant will be meeting with technology consultants....we will see how that goes....