Laptop or photo stoage when on the road

[mailking]

Get a new MacBookAir, with Solid State Disk inside. No moving parts, excellent Light 11.5 " perfect travel companion.

Adventurous greetings,
Coen

[oldbmw]

When going to internet cafes etc. It is a good idea to move the r/w tag to read only. that way your cameras sdhc wont get any unwanted 'extras' added to it.

[Simon R]

EEEPC's are the way to go. I carried mine from Japan to Spain no worries. survived desert heat and freezing cold in Finland. My back up 500g hard drive did not fare well for no known reason, so I glad that I didn't delete the photos from my laptop after transferring them to the back up.

Simon

[mekongfrank]

I wouldn't travel without a netbook ever again. Great thing to have on the road. I usually store it vertically in the pannier, the backup HD in the other one. I find SSDs of sufficient size still too expensive and I expect the netbook HD to have a reduced life due to vibrations, not to speak of an accident. Therefore regular backups on the external HD are essential.

[MountaineerWV]

With the availibility of internet cafes and photo storage dumps, I imagine it would be easy enough to just install a few mobile apps on a thumb drive with a SD card reader embedded.

If you are building updating a website and editing photos on the road this may not be the best method...

[TurboCharger]

Originally Posted by HillbillyWV

With the availibility of internet cafes and photo storage dumps, I imagine it would be easy enough to just install a few mobile apps on a thumb drive with a SD card reader embedded.

Using mobile apps and internet cafes greatly depends on the upload bandwith of the country you are travelling in, not to mention whether they have internet cafes. In theory uploading to online photo storage dumps (I presume Hillbilly is talking about) can reduce photo resolution to upload. Be careful not to rely entirely on this or any one source for back ups.

Accidents do happen, either with viruses, accidental deletion, corruption, vibration damage or other electronic failures.

[MountaineerWV]

Uploading your photos in RAW should stop the decrease in quality when using a photo storage site.

No matter the method, always have back ups and multiple copies. Storage devices are cheap and compact, there is no reason use only one method. I think there are SD cards with 32 Gbs of space on the market. 32!

[Oo-SEB-oO]

Originally Posted by mailking

Get a new MacBookAir, with Solid State Disk inside. No moving parts, excellent Light 11.5 " perfect travel companion.

Adventurous greetings,
Coen

Euh... that doesn't exist.
In an Air there is Flashdrive, so already no physical HD, so it is the same as your flashdrives etc...

Anyways, I use a 11" MacBookAir with a 1GB external HD. Works PERFECT.
And yes, I do offroad and yes, they both survived africa and europe etc...

I am no fan (=I hate) anything from Windows, so if you are willing to spend the money take the Air, wheights nothing, is solid and take the Apple Care Protection plan for 3 years. Basically you don't pay if something goes wrong with your mac. And it always could happen driving offroad... ;-)