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> You could travel with a cheap throwaway Chromebook and know you can still get work done. If it gets stolen or lost, you can get a replacement the same day and
by hiram112 7y ago
> You could travel with a cheap throwaway Chromebook and know you can still get work done. If it gets stolen or lost, you can get a replacement the same day and get back to work.
If I'm traveling light, a 1.5KG Macbook Pro or X1 Carbon Thinkpad is not going to cause me problems, and I'd much rather go without extra t-shirts or sandals (which I can buy and toss) than my laptop.
OTOH, one of my biggest issues with traveling, especially to foreign countries outside the West, is lack of decent internet. Numerous times I basically just had to work offline the best I could using my real IDE and local git repos, and then sync up at an expensive hotel or restaurant with decent wifi, in which I wasn't staying or eating (i.e. use it quickly to sync, not sit there all day).