Use ipads over local wireless network to view a webpage hosted on a mac book pro?

My only experience of Apple products is my much loved iphone 4.
I am an event  photographer currently using windows laptops  at events. My staff download my images to a powerful host laptop, select those for use and build a webpage stored in a shared folder on the host laptop. This laptop is hard wired to a wireless router, and 3 or 4 further laptops ( much lower spec as web browsing is all that is required)  connect to the network and access the webpage allowing potenital customers to view the images on site at the event. It all works very well. After the event  an online web gallery with ecart is created and added to my website.
There are a couple of problems with my 5 yr old host laptop - battery is dead and now the screen backlight has died- so I need a new one, and am for the first time I am considering a Mac. Probably a top spec  mac book pro 15 inch for portability - the current one is 17 inch with a power supply the size of  a house brick (and heavier an than a brick!)  and I am trying to reduce the weight and physical volume of kit I am carrying to events.
Can I replicate my windows set up using ipads and a macbook pro?  Is so, would  first generation ipads (which  I could pick up second hand on a well known auction site perhaps?) suffice or would it need to second gen?
Thanks for your time people, if anyone can help it would be great!

I'm not getting a clear picture at all of what problems you're seeing. If you are seeing online accounts have their passwords changed, those accounts are being hacked. Someone may already have access to some account and is using that access to reset passwords on other accounts. Change the password on EVERY online account you have. Be sure to use a strong password, and don't use the same password on more than one site.
If you are seeing changes to your bookmarks and browser history, your Apple ID may be one of the accounts that has been hacked. After changing the password on your Apple ID, you need to lock it down with two-factor authentication:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5570
Beyond that, we will need additional details about what specific symptoms you're seeing in order to help further. One thing I can say, though, is that these problems are very unlikely to be due to any kind of malware. See my Mac Malware Guide to learn more on that topic.

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