Travelling With Tiny Laptops - 5 of the Best

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If you need to take a notebook on holiday with you it's best to leave that cumbersome 17 inch desktop replacement at home. Small ultraportables are easier and much lighter to carry. Todd Gold chooses five he believes would make excellent travel companions abroad.

It's thetime of year when people converge on airports like herds ofstampeding water buffalo, seeking that holiday abroad to rechargethe batteries and spend quality time with friends or family. Itcould be argued that bringing a laptop on vacation defeats thepurpose of a recovery period, so unless you have an urgentproject to complete it's best to leave it at home. However if youreally must have a portable pal along with you forget bringing adesktop replacement. Carrying 7-10 lbs of hardware along withclothing, toiletries and the inevitable souvenirs is tiring -instead go tiny. Here are 5 mini laptops that will fit snugly ina case or backback and won't put your shoulder out ofjoint.


Sony TX VaioThe SonyVAIO VGN-TXN27N is less than 1 inch thick and weighs 2.84 lbswhich is under 1.3KG. This tiny Vaio is recommended by adventurer Timothy Ferris, who can squeeze 15 hours of battery life out of this puppy with an extended battery pack. Until laptop fuel cells are released on the market that's about as good as it gets. It's powered by anintel core solo processor, has an 11.1 inch screen with ananti-reflective coating to make viewing easier in brightsunlight.
Fujitsu Q2010 LifebookWith it'spiano lacquer finish this Q2010 Lifebook is arguably the mostattractive of the 5 wee ones on our mini laptop list. It weighsjust 1 kg, is 18 mm thick and has a form factor the size of asheet of A4 paper. A 12.1 inch wide-screen display is easy on theeyes and an integrated fingerprint reader adds an extra layer ofsecurity.
Image of a GoBookIf anyonekicks sand in your face while you are relaxing on Bondi beach, atleast you don't have to worry about damage to this laptop. It hasbeen awarded an IP-54 rating for dust and humidity, making itsuitable for use in enviroments far harsher than thoseencountered on the Italian Riviera. Tipping the scales at lessthan 1KG, with a miniscule footprint of 4.3 by 6 inches, theGobook's display is the smallest of this bunch, just 5.6 incheswide.
Image of Acer Ferrari 1000This is thebig boy of our 5 tiny notebooks weighing in at a relatively beefy1.7KG. You get a hard drive of up to 160 GB, a powerful dual-core64-bit processor and a 12.1" screen. This Ferrari 1000 notebook iscompatible with Acer's ezDock, which is an interface thatsupports 24 ports to connect external keyboard, monitor, printeretc
Small Flybook laptopThis smallnotebook is only 9.25 x 6.1 x 1.22 inches in size, and tips thescales at 1.2KG. The screen is 8.9 inches and a swivel hingeopening clasp allows a user to operate the laptop like a a tabletpc. The heartbeat of the ultraportable Flybook is a Transmeta Crusoe 1GHzprocessor, you also get a 40GB hard drive.

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