BackupPlan - Transcript - Hour 1, Segment 10

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David Lawrence: Well the good news is on the front of power almost every laptop these days has built in voltage regulators. So you don*t need to worry about anything other than shaping the plug appropriately. And if you Google Road Warrior they make a great kit for traveling around the world that has all the different plug-ins on them. So that's great and usually your laptops will be actually self adjusting you don*t even have to take a dime and turn a depression switch from up and down to left and right to switch from 110 to 220. So that's the good news. The bad news is that phone systems around the world still have not especially if you are staying in the older more venerable hotels they have not yet changed the phone stuff. Now let me temper the bad news with some really good news and that is that WiFi and actual Ethernet plugs in hotel rooms has pretty much become a standard thank God. So you really don*t need to worry about using dial-up if you are staying at major chains or if you are staying at places where you can call them up ahead of time and say hey do you have high speed Internet available and if they do whether via WiFi or via regular wired high-speed access. You just plug that right in and that works exactly the same no matter where you are because that's not a world or local standard it*s a world standard the Ethernet cable that you have the plug-ins. In terms of an actual laptop itself there are very few laptops unless you are going out into the wilds. I mean on Safari or to the Arctic Circle or mountain climbing or under water I mean almost every laptop is built to be a world travel laptop. And I really love Sony especially the smaller VAIO*s. There are hardier ones. The Panasonic tough books are really good. Dell has a toughened hardened laptop. You really can't go wrong. There is no laptop I don*t recommend these days other than the off brands. The ones I recommend in order are Sony, Dell, HP and Toshiba and with those you can rest assure that the technology these days is good enough that no matter what you are doing you are going to be just fine. It doesn*t sound like you are going to be stressing doing anything other than Word and E-mail and web stuff so it*s not like you need. What's that?

Paul: Yeah if you can pretty much E-mail back and forth.

David Lawrence: Yeah so any laptop you buy is going to be just fine, if you can run office then that*s good for you.

Paul: Good.

David Lawrence: Alright I appreciate the call. I thank you very much. See that's one of those really basic questions. When you don*t have a lot of demand on your computer then you can buy pretty much anything you want. If you are going to do things like high end audio or you are going to video editing or you are going to do animation rendering or you are going to be running real time investment software where you have got a wall of data that's constantly changing. Well then maybe you will stress a laptop but usually that's not the case these days hardware far outstrips the demand of software these days. Hey its Online Tonight back in a moment.

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