Tips for traveling with a laptop or notebook/netbook

Both business and leisure travelers alike are increasingly traveling with laptops or their smaller cousins, notebooks or netbooks. However, traveling with a computer can be both a blessing and a pain. Hence, Chris Mitchell, the blogger behind the Travel Happy blog, has posted several tips that travelers with laptops or notebooks should be aware of. These tips include:

1) Don’t take your laptop travelling if you can’t face losing it

2) Get a decent laptop backpack

3) Store all your data on a USB Thumb Drive

4) Backup

5) Universal Adapters and Power Surge Protectors

6) Keep A Clean Machine

7) Move all your Email To Gmail

In addition, Chris has recently posted a review of the Samsung N110 Netbook which he says is the ultimate laptop to take while travelling. According to him, it is lightweight, cheap, cost effective and has a ling lasting battery. In other words, all of the qualities that you want in a travel notebook or netbook.