Laptop Travel Lifestyle

It's a happy day for me!

After more than ten years as a hardcore PC advocate, I finally 'converted' and bought two Macs at the end of 2006. When Apple went with Intel chips it opened up new opportunities. Running Parallels Desktop, I am able to run Windows XP at the same time as OS X Tiger. I can use all my old XP software. I love my iPod for listening to music and training seminars, and I now enjoy tracking my runs with Nike+ iPod. So you might say I've become a fan of products from Cupertino.

So what's the big news? After being rejected previously (blog too small and too little traffic... still assessing emotional damage from rejection) I was accepted today and I can now offer the Apple Store through Laptop Travel Lifestyle to all of our readers. Thanks to everyone for visiting this site and bringing my traffic figures up high enough so Apple gave me the nod. You rock!

 

Check out the New Apple Store

We're just hammering out the details, but it looks like I'll have Lenovo ThinkPads in the Laptop Deals section pretty soon... fingers crossed.

For extended trips I've been using the Swiss Army series of bags for the past two years. They have been very durable and they didn't break the bank. I have two sizes: a carry-on I stow my personal care products and enough clothes to last me for a few days in and a mobile office laptop carry-on.

There are plenty of pockets to keep personal care items, shoes and clothing separate in the one, and laptop and accessories secured and protected in the other.

I've dragged them down miles of sidewalks, through crowded airport terminals and even through gravel and the wheels still spin well. The plastic bumpers have protected the fabric faithfully through many drags up onto the curb. The bags have bounced about in the back of pick-up trucks in Yukon and Canada's arctic, and have been squashed under miscellaneous rubbish, snowmobiles, gerry cans and what not in the lugguage compartments and interiors of Twin Otters.

They still look almost brand new and I'm very pleased. For shorter excursions I take my Lululemon Cruiser pack.