What's The Ultimate Multi-Laptop Bag? 72
huckin_fappy writes "One great bonus of my job, I can be effective anywhere I can get a broadband point. If someone have a wireless router running, even better! The downside? Hauling the gear. The hazard of the job is that I need to be running WindowsXP and Linux. I experimented with all sorts of VMWare, Bochs, Wine, etc, and none of it cuts it for my needs. So assume you find yourself lugging around 2 IBM A31P laptops everywhere, with wireless cards, power supplies, wireless mice, etc. What's the best solution? Is there a large bag out there that is designed for such a load? Or am I better with two smaller bags? If smaller, are there bags designed to attach together in bizarre ways to mke them easier to lug?"
Dual Boot? (Score:2, Insightful)
Backpack + Sleeves (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Backpack + Sleeves (Score:4, Insightful)
RoadWired bag (Score:2, Insightful)
RoadWired Laptop Bag [roadwired.com]
The video on their site of a guy unpacking one of their bags is impressive and kind of amusing at the same time -- sort of like when all those clowns get out of the little clown car.
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thinner (Score:2, Insightful)
Very sparse on the details of why you didn't like VMWare or even if you tried Dual Booting.
Try it again.
Two laptops? Save your back (Score:3, Insightful)
Yet man kind has invented something for this. Wheels.
Get one nice laptop with a nice screen and get a powerfull one.
Get a professional carrying case with wheels. Something they use to haul tv equipment in. You are a geek, look like a geek.
Fix one the powerfull ugly laptop in a permanant way but so you can still operate it. If you get a suitcase like model, screw the display to lid. so that when you open the lid of the cause you can then let the bottom of the laptop fall and have access to the machine without losing it if you need access.
Lift the better looking laptop out of the case. Close case and put away. Hoopup good looking laptop to equipment in case and use vnc or similar to then have both oses running at the same time on their own hardware. If even VNC isn't good enough then use two ugly laptops, fix them permently inside and buy an LCD monitor mouse and keyboard and a KVM switch.
Problem solved. Sure you look like a dork but this is /. Better then carrying two laptops in a bag. I did this for a while. Damn that shit is heavy.
Carry only one small laptop. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Two laptops? Save your back (Score:2, Insightful)
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Evan