Best Laptop For World Travel

[thefarang]

Maybe if your trip is short but definitely not for long term use.

Depends.

I bring my iPad and Apple wireless keyboard on trips. It works great and is a lot lighter than my MBP. For email, general stuff, it's great.

But it's not supposed to be a full-blown replacement for a laptop of desktop. It's decent for traveling and I recently read a story about a professional blogger/writer who ditched his other computers for a year only using his iPad and a wireless keyboard. It can be done.

For an entire 36 weeks . . . I would probably go with the MB Air or the MBP Retina (it's only about 1.5 lbs heavier).

And as others have said, just Bootcamp or VMWare it for Windows.

 

[EricVonDoobie]

Macbook Air, zero contest.

 

[GoldMarketing]

Transparent OLED Screen for Samsung Notebooks - CES 2010 - YouTube

Why would any want to use that laptop?

 

[erect]

Why would any want to use that laptop?

To give to your opponent in ....

 

[Netphase]

Macbook Air, but if you want PC my friend has a Sony Vaio Z, it's ultra thin and light + they have a battery sheet ( $150 ) that adds another 5-6 hours. They say up to 15, but my friend said it was more around 10-12 for him. which is a pretty good day without having to plug it in. Expensive as fuck tho, all in all like $2500 for laptop + battery.

This^^^ i got a sony Z and i love it... Macbookr Air is cool though

I also like the Sony Vaio Z.

Don't get Sony, it's way overpriced IMO as compared with other brands.

Does a cheaper laptop with similar specs exist?

13.1" Display with a native resolution of 1920 x 1080

RAID Solid State Drives

Both integrated and dedicated graphics cards which can be switched depending on what you are doing

 

[SirKonstantine]

Lenovo ThinkPad X130e Reviewed | Student Laptop Reviews

8 hr battery. <4lbs. Super rugged--designed for elementary school students. Very small size.

I own one and I'm very happy with my purchase. It's also only $400 so if it gets stolen when I'm traveling, I wouldn't cry over it.

The processor is a little slow but I swaped out win for Linux so its super fast now IMO. I also maxxed out the ram (very important since my version came with only 2gb ram).

 

[Netphase]

For a cheap option... Subigo posted a good review of this in another laptop thread. Add more RAM and a SSD. The battery life is under 4 hours though.

Acer - Aspire One 11.6" Laptop - 2GB Memory - 320GB Hard Drive - Ash Black - AO756-2623

Amazon.com: MWebb's review of Acer Aspire One AO756-2808 11.6-Inch Netbo...

 

[goldmercury]

+1 for Macbook air - nothing beats a desktop for productivity though

 

[Wwalton]

Going on my second world travel trip for the next 36 weeks. Last time I had a shitty netbook. Considering the Macbook Air but was wondering is there anything better preferably with Windows.

Use my macbook air 90% of the day while my 4 screen office setup gets 10% of the daily action. Also travel with it frequently without any issues.

 

[jsphfcll]

Top Ultraportable Laptops | PCWorld

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

Grab one of these bad boys:

Compaq III Portable computer

Only $5000 for one with a 20MB hard drive! Or if you're feeling crazy, you can upgrade to a 40MB hard drive for only an extra $800.

 

[Fatbat]

The Sony is awesome but now that the Asus Zenbook has full 1920x1080 res, that would be my choice at less than half the price and I will most likely be purchasing one in the next month.

 

[Jameel]

For a cheap option... Subigo posted a good review of this in another laptop thread. Add more RAM and a SSD. The battery life is under 4 hours though.

Acer - Aspire One 11.6" Laptop - 2GB Memory - 320GB Hard Drive - Ash Black - AO756-2623

Amazon.com: MWebb's review of Acer Aspire One AO756-2808 11.6-Inch Netbo...

I bought this, put the 8gb ram, didn't get SSD and install Linux. It's extremely solid.

The only cons I can see:
If you plan on listening to music I'd buy any external usb souncard the one onboard does not go that loud. Unless the room is totally silent you can't hear anything coming out of the speakers.