[Leica] Travel hard drive?

[scheng at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng)]

Craig,

Nathan has a good suggestion. I will simply add that not all of these  
"netbooks" has hard drives built-in. So if you want to use a netbook  
as photo storage, make sure you buy one with a built-in disk.

Regards,
Spencer

On Jan 8, 2009, at 13:05, Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> Hi Craig,
>
> I see you got a lot of replies already, but I will still throw in my  
> ?0.02.
>
> I travel a fair amount, and usually I take my Powerbook G4 with me.  
> On the 2-week trip to Poland and Germany I just finished, I used a  
> big Domke bag as my only carry-on item. It held the laptop, the M8  
> and 2 lenses, my organizer, passport, chargers, spare batteries,  
> reading stuff for the plane and various other odds and ends. In my  
> checked suitcase I put an empty Domke 803 satchel. Once I arrived at  
> my sister's, I transferred the M8 and lenses to the 803 and left the  
> computer at her apartment. Same thing when we went to Berlin  
> (substitute hotel for apartment). The advantage of this setup is  
> that the Powerbook has enough horsepower to process images in  
> Lightroom so that when I came home Tuesday afternoon, I had already  
> processed the 1000 images from the trip during the evenings.
>
> But if you really do not want to carry a laptop, then you should  
> consider the new 9" tiny notebooks from the likes of Acer and Asus.  
> They are small enough to fit in an 803 satchel, come in Windows or  
> Linux versions, and despite their small size are fully-featured  
> computers. They cost no more than the better stand-alone devices  
> from Vosonic etc. but do so much more.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan