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Travel flexibility has its virtues
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In an earlier discussion about travel notebooks, I mentioned that I use an IBM Thinkpad X31, a light little laptop that's good for bouncing around airports and cities across the world. On a flight to San Francisco last week, I found another reason why I like these machines: takeapartability. On the first leg of my trip between Detroit and Houston I discovered that my machine wouldn't boot -- something about the hard drive media not being recognized by the BIOS. So using a broken pen cap and another pen I unscrewed the hard drive caddy, reseated the drive and reassembled the chassis. Problem fixed. I'd like to see you do that with your Mac Book.
I suppose one could project this metaphor to many travel-related things: Be flexible and crafty on the road and you can always keep yourself happy. Just make sure that your plans/hardware aren't so complicated that you can't fix them on your own.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Moody75 Dec 23rd 2007 2:49PM
my iPod stops working about once every 100 hours. I just snap it open, push down on all ribbon cables, snap together again and voila!
Mike Barish Dec 23rd 2007 4:31PM
Grant, what about when you broke your arm before Russia/Sweden? You weren't able to fix that!
And you call yourself flexible. Ha!
k Dec 24th 2007 12:20AM
if i remember correctly, macbooks don't use bios to boot so this problem wouldn't occur! and all i need to get to the hard drive in my macbook is a regular phillips screwdriver to remove 3 screws behind the battery.
but yes, i totally agree with keeping things simple