Vacation with laptop or not?

[Anonymous]

I take a cheap Amazon fire tablet which I use to read e- books, download travel guided and to connect to WiFi at the hotel. It's pretty light but a bigger screen to do these things than a phone.

[Anonymous]

Get an Android tablet. You can download and store on it unlike an ipad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Why on earth would you bring it???

I was thinking of the plane trip entertainment and booking tickets and organizing photos, maybe even like a travel journal, but I could probably do all that on my phone, minus crafty layouts of photo books and text.

It just feels weird to have a packing list without laptop and charger since most of my travel has been work related or required me to work part of the trip.

Yeah I don't get these other replies - Bring it not for work, but for entertainment and planning. I always find it 10x easier planning with a real laptop and multiple browser tabs compared to a phone/tablet.

Agree with this take. 99% of the time I'm taking my laptop for personal reasons. One time I was searching for coveted seats to open up on a flight, and it would have been so much harder to jump on that with just my tablet/phone.

[Anonymous]

I'm travelling right now with just a small iPad and smartphone. This works.

[Anonymous]

Depends on your company. My work
Computer’s VPN will Only authenticate to US-based networks, and in Europe I pay for international phone data so won’t be using it as a hot spot.

We are on the run during the day and resting or eating otherwise. I wouldn’t have time to donate time to my job, especially if they forbid me to work.

[Anonymous]

It's useful to have a personal laptop for planning and reserving things.

[Anonymous]

I'm really surprised by these responses. Do people not have personal laptops?

[Anonymous]

I would not work at all on this trip if you don't have to. Enjoy it.

I only bring my laptop if I have to work.

Otherwise, if not working, a smartphone and Ipad with keyboard work just fine for most tasks.

[Anonymous]

Op here. Thanks for the replies. I don't own a tablet as my previous job basically tethered me to a laptop at all times so there was never a point to a separate device. Maybe I'll get one but probably not before I leave on Wednesday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm really surprised by these responses. Do people not have personal laptops?

I have one but aside maybe from watching a movie I don’t see the benefit in lugging it around on vacation.

[Anonymous]

I’m doing a long complicated trip. You don’t need a laptop. You really can do it all on a phone. iPad would be nice at times. I bring a personal laptop on driving trips, but it’s one more thing to carry on the plane.

[Anonymous]

I always bring mine but mostly it is to check in on work, or to work on the plane back. But I don't have out of country restrictions since I have to travel outside the US for work anyway. My DH usually doesn't bring a laptop on vacation trips.

[Anonymous]

We have our iPhones - and an iPad for videos.

To protect company intellectual property, work laptops are never allowed on vacation and are only rarely taken on overseas work trips.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm really surprised by these responses. Do people not have personal laptops?

Desktop at home. Laptop is for work.

[Anonymous]

I take mine on photography trips but not family trips. For family trips, my Nikon z7 can hold 1500 pics shot in raw, and if I am going to fill that up I am probably not paying enough attention to my kids!