Do you take your laptop on holiday

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Don't have a laptop and would not take it if I did. I do take my (work provided, would not buy an Apple product myself) iPad so I can still read emails, play games, and watch youtube etc when in my room having fun and drinking etc.
 
Depends where I'm going and what I'm doing.

Generally though I take my GPD Pocket (2 in 1 tablet) with me if I go on holiday these days rather than bother lugging a laptop around.

Many many years ago (hence the image quality) bunch of us went on holiday - all having laptops as it turned out - had some chalets in the middle of nowhere and ended up LAN gaming (Quake and Starcraft mostly) most nights - had 2 tables setup like that doing stuff like 4v4 CTF, etc.:

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Not on holiday but pretty much everywhere else, if I go out it goes in the boot of the car, just in case
 
I leave my gaming laptop at home, just take my Asus Transformer. Powerful enough to stream to hotel tv's via a hdmi cable, look for things to do/places to go and console emulation to pass the time.

If it gets stolen I'd be a bit annoyed but it's not an expensive machine really. Also charges via micro usb which is very handy :)
 
I normally take two to mitigate the risk of losing one when going through hotel security or forgetting to put one in the hotel safe.

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G-MAN2004 said:
That's not the point though. "I have nothing to hide so I don't care about my privacy" is a crap argument.
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You're terrified of observation of things you do. You post this a lot, and that's fine to a degree. I thought you were on the Trump train though - you, a 'temporary immigrant', breaching US borders, albeit legally, through normal air travel. Did I get that wrong?
 
Depends on the holiday. I took my netbook to Ireland on holiday but it stayed in the boot of the car the whole time.
 
I take my laptop as it's very useful for looking for things to do and places to eat etc in any given area. Nested encryption with Veracrypt, so I can give out a "fake" password that will start the laptop with freshly installed windows 10 while keeping my real data safe.
 
G-MAN2004 said:
I don't know why so many seem to have a problem with that...
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I'm with you on this one - I don't have anything particularly unusual but I still like to keep my operating environment and files private - if nothing else too many judgemental people who can't and won't see the whole picture.
 
Rroff said:
I'm with you on this one - I don't have anything particularly unusual but I still like to keep my operating environment and files private - if nothing else too many judgemental people who can't and won't see the whole picture.
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That sounds overly creepy/cold war spy :p
 
I take mine with me. I like to backup and edit photos as I go. Memory cards are very easy to lose so getting photos catalogued at the end of every day helps avoid losing photos.
 
It’s interesting reading this thread and seeing that a lot of people assume going on holiday means going abroad and lots of people also seem to suggest that taking a laptop or phone on holiday means staying connected to work.

Both of which seem totally backwards to me! Going on holiday means a cottage in Scotland or the Lake District for me, and of course I’d take my phone and laptop, how else would I game when I’m on holiday relaxing?! Naturally, I wouldn’t take my work issued laptop (that would be locked in my drawer at work) and I certainly wouldn’t be logging into my work emails on my phone.

I find it so odd that so many people seem to let work creep into their personal lives. Once I’m done for the day and clocked out, I’m done!
 
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