http://regulartech.com/2009/04/02/tips-and-tricks-for-staying-connected-while-you-travel/ Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:25:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://regulartech.com/2009/04/02/tips-and-tricks-for-staying-connected-while-you-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-4 HeathenLife Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:42:00 +0000 http://regulartech.com/index.php/2009/04/02/tips-and-tricks-for-staying-connected-while-you-travel/#comment-4 For someone that doesn't travel for business all that often but does tour on occasion and visits friends out of town from time to time, my Acer netbook is probably the best investment I've made since upgrading from a crappy Samsung flip-phone to a Blackberry. Although my BB is handy for checking email and staying connected to the outside world there's just something about having a tiny netbook that fits in any piece of luggage I decide to bring along. Not only that but upgrading the 3-cell battery (2 hours) to a 9-cell (8 hours) makes charging a (deal with it when I get to where I'm going) non-necessity. I can watch movies on it too without it dying right when I'm about to find out that Jack Burton does in fact conquer Lo Pan. For someone that doesn’t travel for business all that often but does tour on occasion and visits friends out of town from time to time, my Acer netbook is probably the best investment I’ve made since upgrading from a crappy Samsung flip-phone to a Blackberry. Although my BB is handy for checking email and staying connected to the outside world there’s just something about having a tiny netbook that fits in any piece of luggage I decide to bring along. Not only that but upgrading the 3-cell battery (2 hours) to a 9-cell (8 hours) makes charging a (deal with it when I get to where I’m going) non-necessity. I can watch movies on it too without it dying right when I’m about to find out that Jack Burton does in fact conquer Lo Pan.

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