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Post by Don Cuevas on May 16, 2013 16:04:29 GMT
For short, overnight or two trips, I carry my iPod Touch (an earlier model). It's slow and it's miserable to type on. It's fine for reading email, wretched for composing letters. I carry it in a small, soft drawstring bag in my shirt pocket.
For longer trips, I carry a MacBook Air, in a lightweight shoulder bag case. It's made by Case Logic. Overall it is vastly superior to the iPod Touch. The MBA weighs just under 3 lbs, plus the case.
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Post by lagatta on May 17, 2013 3:12:34 GMT
Kerouac, as per Qwerty vs Azerty, remember that I'm most typically typing on a Québec keyboard (or nowadays, configuration) which has the accents. I don't have to do a second stroke to find them. Yes, even writing in English I have far too many proper names in French to have to hunt and peck for them.
And you get used to switching over when you have to, in a hurry, working on text for a conference or whatever, behind the scenes.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 17, 2013 4:18:46 GMT
Don Cuevas, the MacBook Air is a "real" computer isn't it? I.e., it has a full-sized keyboard and ample oomph to do anything a desktop computer could do, right? Is it touch screen?
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Post by Don Cuevas on May 17, 2013 10:57:10 GMT
Don Cuevas, the MacBook Air is a "real" computer isn't it? I.e., it has a full-sized keyboard and ample oomph to do anything a desktop computer could do, right? Is it touch screen? Bixa, it's a real computer, with a very nice keyboard. Weight, about 3 lbs. IIRC, there are two display configurations available, an 11 inch and a 13, the one I have. No touch screen (good!) but the track pad is gesture savvy. I use a mouse, preferring it to the trackpad. (Photos not mine.)
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Post by fgrsk8r1970 on May 17, 2013 15:56:35 GMT
I also have the MacBook Air above and travelled with it to Italy and Ireland and what a difference in weight (it doesn't have a DVD drive so that makes it so slim). It also has a memory slot so uploading pictures into iPhoto is a snap. When I travelled with my iPad i got used to typing on that board (horizontal view) but it was annoying (I am also a touch-typer) and on the last Paris trip I actually brought my wireless keyboard with me which is super light and it was awesome as it connects to the iPad2 (not the first one though) through bluTooth. That helped me so much typing out my blog. I used the memory card adaptor from apple to transfer my photos and edit them with the basic options. It worked fine for the moment, but I prefer doing it all on my macbook now.
as far as keyboards, although both English and German are QWERTY I am used to the english one now (17 years in the US have reprogrammed my fingers) but I found since I have the German one in my keyboard option setup added it will after a few minutes recognize that I am trying to type German words and "fix" my umlauts. I can type around it (i.e. an "ä" can be typed out as "ae" - same as the o and u umlauts and every German can read it) but I prefer to type it with the umlauts, so that's a nice thing my mac does automatically recognizing it and doing this for me without me having to switch to the German layout.
So long story short - Love my MacBook Air and would not travel personally without it!
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2013 16:58:50 GMT
I will probably buy a new netbook (if they still exist) when Windows Blue comes out.
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Post by spindrift1 on May 20, 2013 21:55:38 GMT
I am thoroughly confused... more than before.
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Post by Alex on May 25, 2014 5:43:01 GMT
Is anybody using a Chromebook?
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Post by lagatta on May 25, 2014 14:06:35 GMT
I was advised to get the little MacBook Pro rather than the air; perhaps due to the capacity, and I may be using DVDs (dictionaries, etc). It is a bit heavier than the MacAir, but still far lighter than any other portable computer I've had.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2014 17:11:41 GMT
I just replaced my trusty but weak old netbook (running on XP) with a Chromebook, which is slightly larger and heavier than I would have liked, but netbooks seem to be a thing of the past now. I have not yet travelled with it, but one thing has already annoyed me -- I can't install Silverlight which is a closed source Microsoft product, and that is necessary to watch live television programmes on the various systems here. I will admit, however, that it only annoyed me because I tried it at home. On any trip that I take, there is almost always a television right across from the bed, so I have absolutely no reason to want to watch television on a laptop. On the other hand, it could be worthwhile when stuck in an airport for many hours.
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Post by fumobici on May 25, 2014 19:30:32 GMT
I got a cheap little Asus 10.5" laptop for travel with Windows 8.1 and it was perfect for my recent trip, which was the test. I looked at tablets and Chromebooks, but I wanted a portable that can do everything my desktop can and can use all the same software. There is so much software out there for Windows compared to any other OS, it's no comparison and besides tablets and Chromebooks have what to me anyway are completely ridiculously undersized hard drives. A friend bought a Samsung tablet that cost more than my little netbook and it has the same (or less even, I can't remember) memory than my $18 camera with one of my 32GB SD cards in it! Why? Just why? I even love the touchscreen for certain tasks, if not for most. Being able to zoom and move within images with two fingers is brilliant. The little onscreen keyboard is fine for small SMS sized messages and the physical keyboard is there for real writing. It pops into a small daypack and is so small and light you don't even really notice it's there.
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