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| Thread ID: 112069 | 2010-08-22 21:43:00 | Travelling with laptops | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 1130715 | 2010-08-23 02:31:00 | Thanks all, I think I may stick with the internet at the accomodation, I can backup my pictures onto a USB stick too. I've got my belongings down to 6-7kg with a SLR camera. Much of the time it would be in my room - SLR stuff and the Netbook or a Ultraportable together might be a bit heavy. I may get one when I travel within NZ or with others thou .. :) One thing that puts me off the Pads is that I am a touch typist but they do weigh half to a Netbook. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1130716 | 2010-08-23 03:06:00 | I travel with a full sized toshiba laptop . Used to use a laptop bag but some months ago switched to a custom made back pack which includes a very well padded laptop section, plenty of room for documents, chargers, mouse, phone's etc and room left over for ipods and water bottle . Biggest hassle of international travel is having to take out your laptop for screening . This was solved by the top zipping of the back pack . Weight is better distributed over my back rather than hanging off one shoulder, especially if you are also carrying bags of duty free booze . Cellphone's must also be screened if carried on you personally but are ok in your bag . And of course you cannot carry bottles of water through screening but you can at some airports pick up duty free liquids and leave the airport and check back in at another terminal or multiple airports enroute and screening won't bat a eye . Other airports it is a big no no even if you have the receipts . In the USA you can be asked to open your laptop and turn it on for a inspection and it can be taken away for a deeper inspection which can at worse take weeks . Not usually a problem unless you are coming in from a country where child sex is a issue or if you have come to there attention for some reason . Singapore can also request you to turn on your laptop and refusing to release your password to the laptop or refusing or declining to admit to hidden partitions and there passwords is asking for problems . In saying that though, I have never had any hassles with laptops at Singapore or the USA or any other airport anywhere . At various airports, they will sometimes pull my bag aside for closer inspection, it is always the containers of USB Flash Drivers and cords and portable drives that get there attention as they cannot quite make out on there screen what it is . It is usually the larger portable hard drives that cause confusion on the screen . Bars of soap can also come up funny on the screening radar thingee . Happy Travels |
PinoyKiw (9675) | ||
| 1130717 | 2010-08-24 10:05:00 | Full size laptop :D One of the senior managers I worked with had just a HP Netbook with a wireless mouse, he commuted betweeen Wellington and Auckland regularly. He could plug a network cable in his Netbook and access all the resources (roaming profile). I am looking forward to something like a We Pad with USB ports which means I can stick in a memory card (camera) and copy it to the Pad for backup or to a USB stick. Half the size to the Netbook, for non work jobs, I won't be using MS Office / Adobe Photoshop, it may be brilliant. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1130718 | 2010-08-24 21:27:00 | Just been thinking . . if I travel with others I may hack a We Pad or something . To me a Netbook is maybe still on the heavy side, cos I don't use a keyb on travel, when I travel alone I usually have 6kg of stuff . Or maybe a smaller one, the We Pad weights more than the iPad . . And someone said to me the best is a USB stick and I thought a Netbook may cost $500, for the 3-4yrs I choose to keep it, I doubt I would spend $400 on internet cafes thru my travels :rolleyes: |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1130719 | 2010-08-24 22:51:00 | (snip) And someone said to me the best is a USB stick and I thought a Netbook may cost $500, for the 3-4yrs I choose to keep it, I doubt I would spend $400 on internet cafes thru my travels :rolleyes: Well, like I said earlier, I think internet cafes are the way to go when travelling, and a usb pendrive with the U3 system on it means you have all your emails, calendar, contacts, and documents on it and it goes in your pocket. And it costs diddley squat to buy compared with a netbook. Only two downsides to internet cafes: 1. I sometimes found it a bit tough getting onto a PC - they are a very popular facility in a place like Britain with the millions of incomers keeping in touch with 'home'. You get to know the times when they are quiet. 2. It is easy to forget that you have put your pendrive into a slot, and you can walk out without it. Next time I travel, I will put a long lanyard on the thing, and attach it to my belt, just in case. I have never lost one, but I did leave some papers behind once. The owner of the cafe had them at the desk when I went back later in the day. You also have to be careful about internet banking, but I only did that once through an internet cafe - taking a calculated risk to transfer funds that came in after we left NZ. Obviously it depends where you are going - when we travelled through Britain we often found a guest PC in the B&Bs we stayed in, and there were internet cafes everywhere. No problems in Oz either. Whereas in other places like China... Things have probably changed there by now. |
John H (8) | ||
| 1130720 | 2010-08-25 12:02:00 | hi there,well i will travel in many countries with my personal laptop and i love to travel in different cities man.... | Yanni3 (15942) | ||
| 1130721 | 2010-08-25 19:50:00 | hi there,well i will travel in many countries with my personal laptop and i love to travel in different cities man.... That's nice. |
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