Comments on: 4 Best Travel Laptops

By: Stefan

Stefan — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:50:41 +0000

As an alternative for the Asus Eee PC I like the Samsung NC 10 (http://www.sammynetbook.com/samsung-nc10) or its successor the N110 with a larger touchpad and longer battery life (9.5h I believe).

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By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:39:47 +0000

I have a eee901 as well, which I think is obsolete since the 904 came out. It’s almost a year old, and my only complaint – a minor one – is the battery life. You failed to mention that the 904 claims up to a 7 hour battery life.

I love my 901, and no longer hesitate to take it with me when I travel. I generally do not like notebooks, and have a desktop at home, but the Asus is adequate for checking email, writing up blog entries and sorting pictures. I don’t find the limited storage on the Asus a problem. Everything I do needs to end up on my home desktop anyway, so I just carry a large (8 GB) thumb drive with me, and all my work is on that. The solid state nature of the storage on the Asus makes it very sturdy.

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By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:18:57 +0000

I just dropped my Asus eee PC901 18 inches onto a wooden floor on my boat and it still works perfectly. It has a 12-Gb solid-state hard dri ve. This must surely make it a candidate?

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By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:33:42 +0000

@Eva: Like Craig, I use the same on all the time– a Toshiba Satellite. It's a bit worse for the wear after having been trekked around the US and Latin America for 2+ years, but it's held up fairly well, all things considered. It's heavy, but as you said, when you're working on the road, you do need many of the bells and whistles.

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By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:54:28 +0000

@Eva – Same one all the time. A 12" Apple Powerbook G4. It's got some serious dents in it nowadays though. My wife and I have been sharing it for the almost-3 years we've been travelling full time. We recently bought an ASUS Eee 900 so we can stop squabbling over who gets the laptop. Sometimes we play frisbee with it, but it's not very aerodynamic.

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By: Eva

Eva — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:55:08 +0000

These sound pretty cool, but I have to admit I've never understood the travel laptop phenomenon — either I'm working from the road, in which case I need all the bells and whistles of a full-blown laptop (not to mention a normal-sized keyboard and screen, since I'll be putting in a ton of hours) or I'm not working, in which case I don't need a lappy at all. I'm curious if travel laptop users have a different laptop they use at home, when they're stationary? Or do you use the tiny one all the time?

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By: tom

tom — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:54:37 +0000

Great overview. I have been looking at travel laptops and keep running into these same four. I finally went with a Mac but worry that if it breaks, it will be more difficult to fix in PC-dominated countries. I also wanted to mention the MSI Wind, which has a keyboard that seemed a bit easier to use than the other tiny-PC's.

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By: Tim Patterson

Tim Patterson — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:45:05 +0000

Great article! I love my new Eee PC – typing on it right now!

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By: Hal

Hal — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:35:36 +0000

Thanks for the roundup! I think I see one of these in my future.

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