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Discussion on: Do you bring your laptop on vacation?

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Ryan

I used to bring laptops on vacation in case I had to do something "complicated" online while out of town, especially when traveling to the US (from Canada).

In my mind "complicated" included things like:

  • Figuring out where to eat and how to get there (reading restaurant reviews, pre-planning parking etc)
  • Emergency online banking, in case of some kind of account fuckup
  • Reading and responding to long/important emails.
  • Probably other things I'm forgetting.

I stopped bringing a laptop for this purpose a few years ago. Around the time when my cellphone provider started offering (somewhat) reasonable US roaming rates and more sites became more mobile friendly.