I'm debating whether I should travel with my laptop this summer, when I am going to Canada and later France this summer. I already have the different travel plugs, and bringing it will definitely make life easier in communicating and making sure the travel plans I make are good. But then it is always inconvienet carrying a laptop. You have to take it out at the checkpoint at the airports, and it's also delicate and people might steal it.
Before you go, use something like truecrypt so those TSA fucks do not get ahold of your data. They have been demanding passwords and copying data of off laptops.
Also, hid any icons and remove the menus from the start bar and hide the folders from regular view of where the truecrypt software is. You also can create "fake" encryption drives to throw the dumb bastards off.
Get an EEE PC. No problem carrying that around.
You'll enjoy yourself more if you don't take it.
Probably not worth it to bring it. It's just another thing to lug around. Get a USB drive and install some apps from http://www.portableapps.org
The internet cafe is your friend. Just don't do any banking.
I always bring my laptop while travelling, it's a great convenience. Open wlans are available virtually everywhere and even public ones are fairly popular.
Even at $3000 I'm not afraid of people stealing it, as anyone can't just walk away with it, and should the worst happen it should still be covered by my traveller's insurance.
Ipod touch, your hotel or a cafe may have wifi.
Laptop confiscations are rare, only people which are suspected, or have past history of either smuggling sensitive data, or carrying child pornography of anything similar have they laptops confiscated.
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Dear Anonymous Enthusiast,
The "boring most places in Europe" are glad to invite you to go fuck yourself.
I used to travel with a heavyass laptop and all the junk that goes with it. Now all I lug around is a USB drive and some spare change for the internet cafe (it depends where you're headed - some places are devoid of em). Just watch out for all those nasty viruses that sit in cafes and infect removable media!