In article <180720080822190880%this.is@absolutely.invalid>, Mark Conrad <this.is@absolutely.invalid> wrote:
> Just curious. Lotsa people buy MacBooks, however > very few of them are real dyed-in-the-wool > Road Warriors. > > ...in the sense of actually using their MacBooks in > hotels etc., and actually sharing tips with fellow Mac > users as to how to make traveling with a Mac and using > a MacBook for its intended purpose both pleasurable and > efficient. > > When I do a Google search for "Mac Road Warriors" > I get very few hits, most all of the hits from people > trying to sell foreign power plug adapters. > > > Think I know the reason. People just are using their > MacBooks as lightweight desktop machines, > <...snip...> > > Shameful, shameful... > > Mark-
WHAT? most laptops I know of travel! I bought a couple of PowerBooks BECAUSE they were portable. If I need more power than I carry - I use a cluster.
Maybe you don't hear discussions of 'Book travels is that they work AS WELL on the road as they do at home. I use my 'Book in the office, meetings or any room of the house. I used them for work in hospitals, universities, hotels, airports and libraries all over the country, and England and Africa. My son and his wife have their MacBook Pro and an iBook with them in the UAE and Baghdad, both apparently working fine.
Most problems center around networks. Not that the Mac's have trouble connecting but you never know how the local manager has things set up, what services or locations are blocked... The best advice is to make sure that you have alternate paths to send mail.
The worst problems are hardware problems in nowhere like a broken hinge in Africa or a bad MacBook Pro display in the UAE. In both cases the machines were still serviceable but you have to be REAL careful not to make things worse!
The most annoying thing I dealt with was undoing a road fix. Our lab director was gone ALL the time, and took her PowerBook EVERYWHERE. An IT guy at McMurdo Station did something strange to fix a problem. After she got back it took me 4 hours to convince that poor machine that it didn't need to use the Antarctic satellite link to to mount the stations "local" disks.
