Ditching Laptops On Travel
For those who know me, I basically refuse to buy laptops (the only ones I have ever had have been provided by employers) for lots of reasons, a few of which are:
- The bang-for-the-buck is much lower than desktops
- The upgrade path for a laptop is generally “buy a new one”
- With size constraints, laptops are necessarily less powerful than desktops. That matters when you work with memory hogs like Oracle
Still, I’ve started doing enough traveling where the idea of skipping through security and *not* having to remove my laptop for inspection by the intrepid folk at the TSA becomes ever more appealing. I’ve tried to travel without one, on the thought that I can do almost everything on a BlackBerry. As I learned on this last vacation, not everything can be done on a three inch screen (ever tried reviewing and annotating a legal document on a BlackBerry? *That* may explain this…).
One of O’Reilly’s people has tried to travel in Europe with only an iPod Touch. Here is his experience. I don’t know if I would trust only the opportunity of open WiFi at this point in time, but it’s an interesting experiment.
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