Although both student groups indicated positive reactions to the personal impact of using laptop computers, laptop students were significantly more positive regarding increased computer skills, having more fun, being more interested in learning, and wishing to get better grades. The groups were also significantly different in all three categories of usage, with the laptop students indicating that they were much more likely to use their computers alone every day and to work in pairs several times a week. When looking at student laptop use by subject area, laptop students were significantly more likely than cart students to respond that they used laptops for language arts, mathematics, social studies; however, to a lesser degree than for language arts. No significant differences between the groups emerged for science.