Anonymous
06/23/2025 06:50
Subject: Vacation with laptop or not?
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!
Anonymous
06/23/2025 06:46
Subject: Vacation with laptop or not?
Anonymous wrote:I'm really surprised by these responses. Do people not have personal laptops?
Desktop at home. Laptop is for work.
Anonymous
06/23/2025 06:44
Subject: Vacation with laptop or not?
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.
To protect company intellectual property, work laptops are never allowed on vacation and are only rarely taken on overseas work trips.
Anonymous
06/23/2025 06:08
Subject: Vacation with laptop or not?
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
06/23/2025 06:04
Subject: Vacation with laptop or not?
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
06/23/2025 00:40
Subject: Vacation with laptop or not?
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
06/23/2025 00:38
Subject: Vacation with laptop or not?
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
06/23/2025 00:29
Subject: Vacation with laptop or not?
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.
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
06/23/2025 00:07
Subject: Vacation with laptop or not?
I'm really surprised by these responses. Do people not have personal laptops?
Anonymous
06/23/2025 00:06
Subject: Vacation with laptop or not?
It's useful to have a personal laptop for planning and reserving things.
Anonymous
06/23/2025 00:01
Subject: Vacation with laptop or not?
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.
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
06/22/2025 23:50
Subject: Re:Vacation with laptop or not?
I'm travelling right now with just a small iPad and smartphone. This works.
Anonymous
06/22/2025 20:14
Subject: Vacation with laptop or not?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
06/22/2025 20:05
Subject: Vacation with laptop or not?
Get an Android tablet. You can download and store on it unlike an ipad.
Anonymous
06/22/2025 18:57
Subject: Vacation with laptop or not?
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.