The Best Travel Laptops

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Choosing the perfect laptop for your next trip or continued travels doesn’t have to be a terrible or excruciating experience. You’re shouldn’t be looking for the best of the best laptop since really, that doesn’t exist in absolute terms. There is the right laptop out there for every traveler, and this website is your guide to finding it. We have used and tested countless laptops and have experience from a variety of fields to help you come to the right decision.

Find The Best Travel Laptops

You can break down each of the steps to deciding on the best travel laptop by following our guide on how to pick the right travel laptop for you. Once you begin to learn more about travel laptops and break down what seems like a mammoth quest, you’ll find it’s really a straightforward and fun process.

How To Pick The Best Travel Laptop For You

July 4, 2010
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Selecting the right laptop isn’t a matter of picking a perfect laptop, because there isn’t such a thing. You’ve got to find the best laptop for your needs, travel style, and of course budget. We’d like to help guide you to break down this big decision, which can be complicated if you don’t know where [...]

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Free Software Options For Your Laptop

June 20, 2010
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Travelers can save a lot of money and time by choosing free software options over the more expensive program suites many people use. Most free alternative software does what the paid versions do and while the interfaces are different, it usually doesn’t take very long to get used to them. On top of that you [...]

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Things To Consider Upon Purchase Of A Laptop

June 20, 2010
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Depending on your traveling style and how long you’ll be traveling for, there are some special considerations and costs to take into account right before ordering and as soon as you open up your new laptop. First off, we don’t recommend you spending any additional money on an extended or store warranty on your new [...]

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How To Protect Your Laptop When Traveling

June 20, 2010
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Once you decide on the perfect laptop for you and your travels, you’re going to need to protect it both physically and digitally. Both are fairly easily done and with a few simple modifications and good habits can keep your laptop out of trouble in most cases. Physical Security Protecting your laptop physically is the [...]

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Understand Laptop Hardware – What It Does And What It Costs

June 20, 2010
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When looking for a good travel laptop, you begin with the exterior. You should consider the size, do you want a full grown laptop or need more information about netbooks? Size is, of course, a major consideration in a travel laptop but once you peg that down and figure out your rough budget, it’s time [...]

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7 Recommended Travel Laptop Accessories

June 20, 2010
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You want to maintain your light load but still be as functional as ever and these recommended laptop accessories will help you do just that. Many travelers forget about these items until they realize at 35,000 feet that the headphones they pass out on airplanes don’t insulate the engine noise or that a lock in [...]

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How To Extend Laptop Battery Life

June 20, 2010
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Battery life on laptops varies quite a bit. Netbooks and Macbook Pros are usually on the higher end of the spectrum but all travelers have come up on battery warnings hours away from the next electrical outlet. You can increase the life and extend your battery on each charge by making your laptop an efficient [...]

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The Advantages Of Using Linux

June 20, 2010
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Many people are intimidated by the word “Linux” and many more yet don’t even know what it means. Linux is the name given to a group of operating systems, called “distributions”. These Linux “flavors” as they are refereed to are based on UNIX, much like Mac OS X. The Linux flavors are an attractive alternative [...]

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Windows Vs. Mac

June 20, 2010
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One of the oldest arguments in recent computer history, this is a question more and more travelers are coming up on as they consider a new laptop. We’ll shine the light on the major differences so you can make an educated decision with which way to go. There is a great deal of misunderstanding among [...]

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Information About Netbooks

June 20, 2010
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Netbooks, which can also be referred to as ultra-light or ultra-portables, are a class of laptop that are exceptionally small. They are in fact, the smallest laptops you can find and typically have screens less than 11 inches (~28 centimeters) when measured diagonally. Netbooks are also about 6 inches wide (~15cm) and around 1-2 inches [...]

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