Advice for best traveler's laptop requested

Quote from bali_survivor:

You are welcome.

One last thing that I forgot to mention.

I do not know where (and how) you are travelling to but my late father put me onto this after his Dell was broken for the x-th time (crushed in the overhead luggage): Use a Pelican box to put your computer in. It is water proof, air proof (if you lock the airvent - good when you are close to the sea / at sea and want to keep the salt out) and it can withstand 400+ lbs. In addition it will even float with your computer in it (when you are travelling by open boat then this can be very usefull). See the www.pelican.com website for some amazing stories on this!

Maria
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These are way kool ..... Which one do you use ?
 
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These are way kool ..... Which one do you use ?
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Have many here, use them for suitcase too (the 1600). The Toshiba's fitted into the 1500, the IBM A31 was a tad too wide (deep) and we got the 1520.

Have also got a 1200 for homeopathic medicines (which don't like other odors like camphor very much: it antidotes them)

Maria

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when travelling to poor countries they can easily put a knife through a soft sided suitcase. And stuff walks too. So I have a 3 mm thick stainless steel wire of 2 mtr with an eyelet at each end and I padlock them together and to some fixture. Not easily removed.... :D Got it from a rigging outfit for yachts. Added benefit is that most do not realise that there is a computer in the smaller one...
 
I bought my wife one of the new 17" Dell laptops with the ultrasharp display. Its pretty sweet, I upgraded almost everything and it came to aound $2,400 but once I stacked coupons and discounts we go it for just over $1,400. We've had it since Dec and so far are very happy with it.
 
I have been travelling and trading using only a laptop for the past 3 years so will throw in my 2c.

laptop weight is important as airlines are getting really tough on cabin baggage weights.

I take two laptops, a 1600x1200 p4 and a 1024x768 p3 "mini" as my backup.
I hate using the smaller screen as I cannot fit my charts, tws and dom on the screen properly. So my advice would be to get the best screen resloution possible - that's what you are gonna be looking at all night/day long!
I am also using virtual screens to free up some screen real estate - but have difficulty getting around the "out of sight - out of mind" feeling with what is on the other desktops. In my case my stock charts and their trading platform.
If you are staying at hotels net access is easy. If not it may be hard work sometimes to get reliable access - i use anything from a cell phone (gprs) to wifi/adsl.
I also use some other programs to help with screen clutter.
I have lately (when I have been staying somewhere for any more than a few months) been buying an external crt monitor and when I leave donating it to a local school (the cost of the monitor is peanuts).
Hope that helps
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