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When you Travel; What do you bring?

TechieJustin

TechieJustin

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I have a friend who is traveling the world. He's skipping across continents like no other!
His laptop decided to take a dump - see attached picture. I told him how to fix it (hopefully) but it required booting from the Windows CD.

My question is, do you bring your OS reinstall DVDs with you when you travel?
I copied my Snow Leopard DVD along with Office 2008 and the 10.6.2 update on a CD.
Does that make sense?
 

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When I travel, if it's for a short duration, I bring my laptop, the power adapter including the extension cord, screen cleaning wipes, and an ethernet cable. If it's for a longer period of time, I take a backup copy of any and all install media for the laptop, along with an external hard drive with a Time Machine backup of my data, and mini-USB and FireWire 800 cables in addition to the materials brought along on shorter trips.
 
I always take with me either a WD Passport drive that has my Time Machine backup on it or the one with the SuperDuper! backup. Can't be without a backup (not since I was on a business trip in Ireland and my HD needed to be replaced). :)

Sometimes we have to learn the hard way.
 
Wow, never got it in my mind to take along some sort of restoring disk with me, but I only make one trip a year and that's down the Oregon coast for like a small weekend.

So I never really consider I need to bring it, maybe i should consider it, just in case.
 
For better or worse, I end up traveling for work across the US by plane pretty much every week, usually each time to a different city.

As for my laptop bag, I bring my MacBook Pro. I also bring my iPhone and my external iPhone battery charger in case I run low on planes from playing too many games. I have a "Built NY" cargo case that i keep my power adaptor, Logitech Triple.Fi earphones, MovieWedge, iPhone charger, and 32GB flash drive. I have a black notebook and a book (whatever i'm reading at the time) in the bag as well. In the side pocket, I keep a clear plastic envelope for receipts and one pen. I have a small pouch with business cards and my VGA adaptor for my macbook for presentations.

And that's it :D.
 
I also travell a lot... I learned that if you're travelling for less than a month dont get ridiculous, usually first time travellers take 100 accesories, with a MBP I'd just take the power cable a sleeve and q mouse, if you have a MB Air also get a A USB hub, maybe a backup of your important stuff on my 32 gig USB stick, if your OSX copy breaksdown just take it to apple instead of caarying 5 kg of stuff, I like to go light with my handluggage
 
When travelling my laptop is with me, but I have to admit rarely are the DVDs. I mean if it's for a few days, even if it crashes, it does not really matter...
 
Boot discs on a USB stick is a useful way to go. Or having it on a small USB powered hard drive.
 
I went to california a little less than a year ago. Took my powerbook and the charger and my clothers. That was it.

Now that I have a new one and quite a few externals, I will probably bring it and one mini external and my thumb drive in case I have to fix anyone's pc while out. Hey you never know :rolleyes:
 
Just a MBP and my iPhone. Sometimes a bluetooth mouse. I would perhaps do the USB restore thing, but since its just for vacations and not business, its not a big deal.
 
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