Technology for Traveling
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Have you considered an iPad Mini 2 for the tablets? Under 1lb, extremely portable, and still functional. And super cheap too..
As for the computer equipment I'd look at some of the ultrabooks, not cheap by any means, but super portable, with enough power and ports to make it worth the expense.
I'm pretty sure you said you weren't a fan of Acer but.... here
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@DustinB3403 said:
Have you considered an iPad Mini 2 for the tablets? Under 1lb, extremely portable, and still functional. And super cheap too..
Same size and the Mini that we have now.
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The Acer S7 is 2.87 Lbs
Throw in a USB 3.0 BluRay player that you can just tuck in your bag and be golden.
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Something like this maybe if you have bluray content.
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@DustinB3403 said:
The Acer S7 is 2.87 Lbs
Throw in a USB 3.0 BluRay player that you can just tuck in your bag and be golden.
We certainly are not traveling around the world with things on discs. This isn't the 1990s. We are purely online content.
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@DustinB3403 said:
I'm pretty sure you said you weren't a fan of Acer but.... here
With its RAID 0 Solid State Drive, the Aspire S7 reacts up to twice as fast as laptops with normal SSDs.
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Not starting the kids off on Linux? Just curious.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@DustinB3403 said:
I'm pretty sure you said you weren't a fan of Acer but.... here
With its RAID 0 Solid State Drive, the Aspire S7 reacts up to twice as fast as laptops with normal SSDs.
And will lose data faster if something happens.
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@scottalanmiller
If they both have iPads - why get a Kindle Fire? -
@gjacobse said:
@scottalanmiller
If they both have iPads - why get a Kindle Fire?- because they are not from us
- the iPads are huge and heavy, the Kindles are small and light
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huh, if iPads are huge and heavy, what is the Chromebook?
How old are your girls?
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@Dashrender said:
huh, if iPads are huge and heavy, what is the Chromebook?
How old are your girls?
They are 4 and 6. And they are big time gamers.
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The Chromebooks are actually more portable than the iPads.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The Chromebooks are actually more portable than the iPads.
How is that?
Same size and weight but less fragile.
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Will the Chromebooks play all the games they like?
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What about a Surface? where you can drop the keyboard?
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@Minion-Queen said:
Will the Chromebooks play all the games they like?
Chromebooks don't play games. All games will be on the Steam Machine and the Yoga 2.
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@scottalanmiller said:
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- Family Devices: Steam Machine, Kindle Fire TV Gaming, iPad Mini
- Scott: HP Folio Linux Mint
- Dominica: Samsung Chromebook 2
- Liesl: Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro Windows 10, 3DS, Kindle Fire
- Luciana: Acer Chromebook, Kindle Fire, 3DS?
So many variables. What will be useful, how much does it weigh, do we really need that much?
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%BOLD% absolutely!
I tend to have a lot of backup gadget devices with me. Typically N*2 where N is amount of kids in a family.
- I'd add external recharge batteries!
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@KOOLER said:
- I'd add external recharge batteries!
A must for the full time traveller, there are some really slick LiPo packs on ebay these days.
I'm working on a project to build my own, but I prefer 18650's as I get them for free.
