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August 29, 2016

Acer Aspire 3000 Notebook Battery

While Android apps wonâ€™t be on this Chromebook at launch, Google has plans to rollout support for the Play Store to most recent Chromebooks by the end of the year. HP says that the Chromebook 11 G5 will be available starting in July and hit retailers in October.I travel a lot for work and pleasure, and if Iâ€™m going to be spending at least one night away from home, I make sure to pack my laptop bag and a luggage-based gadget bag appropriately.As you might expect, Iâ€™ve honed this approach over 20 years of business travel and feel like Iâ€™m getting pretty good at it. There are two components of this set up: My laptop bag, which most airlines would refer to as a carry-on, and my luggage, which I always carry on the plane as well. For the latter, I pack a small, sealable gadget bag whose content varies according to the trip.

Iâ€™ve gone back and forth on the laptop bag a bitâ€”OK, I kind of obsess over thisâ€”and while I ran into a rough patch with a recent version of the bag Iâ€™ve been using for a whileâ€”the Rick Steves Velocé Shoulder Bagâ€”the company since changed suppliers and swapped mine out for a better-constructed version for free, which was appreciated.The contents of the laptop bag donâ€™t change much, whether Iâ€™m going to New York for the day or a three-week home swap:Laptop. Whatever the current Windows laptop Iâ€™m using or reviewing. On my current set of trips, Iâ€™ve been bringing Microsoftâ€™s Surface Book, which is a great combination of sizeâ€”I prefer bigger screensâ€”performance and capability.iPad mini. Earlier this year, I purchased a refurbished previous-generation iPad mini with a lot of storage. I use this for reading, primarilyâ€”The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Google Play Newsstand apps for news, plus the Kindle app, of courseâ€”and for watching videos. Non-humorously, I guess I left this iPad on my last flight (Toronto to Philadelphia) after several hours of delays, so in my defense I was delirious. (Since I have three more weeks of travel ahead of me, Iâ€™ll pack my old iPad mini for now and figure out whatâ€™s next later.) Not a proud moment.

Phones. This one is peculiar to my job, but I always carry three phones with me. This year the iPhone 6S Plus has been my primary handset, but I bring the Google Nexus 6P and Microsoft Lumia 950 as well.Noise-canceling headset. This is a must for anyone who spends times on planes, trains or other public transportation. For at least the past two years Iâ€™ve been using the Bose QuietComfort 20 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones, which I strongly recommend over bigger over-the-air noise-Mouse. When I can spread outâ€”at my destination or if I get table space on a trainâ€”Iâ€™ll always use the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Mouse instead of whatever trackpad comes with the laptop Iâ€™m using: Itâ€™s precise, works great, and its baseball-like shape offers the ergonomic protection I need. Highly recommended. (I keep it in the water bottle pocket in that Velocé Shoulder Bag.)

Cables and chargers. I always carry the power supply for the laptop in the main compartment of the laptop bag. I carry three miniature (3-inch) USB cablesâ€”one Universal cable for Apple devices, one USB-C, and and one-micro-USBâ€”so I can always connect any device to the laptop and/or charge when needed. And I bring a Jackery Bar Premium 6000 mAh external battery charger along for on-the-go charging because you never know. Itâ€™s the best $14 youâ€™ll ever spend.Thatâ€™s about it for gadgets. But I always carry a blue JetBlue blanket(just $6), which I can fold and use as a comfortable arm rest on those skinny plan dividers, extra contacts, pensâ€”always carry pens, especially when you fly internationally and need to fill out formsâ€”sunglasses in a case, and whatnot, of course.

My current luggage is the Rick Steves Ravenna Rolling Case ($190). Itâ€™s light and expandable, can be carried on virtually any plane in the U.S. or Europe, and has worked out well over the course of 2016, with no manufacturing defects at all. (A relief after the issues I had with the Velocé Shoulder Bag.) It can easily hold 4 days of clothing, plus my toiletry bag and gadget bag, and itâ€™s what I have been, and will be, using across all of this summerâ€™s travel.The way I organize things is I have a bin in my office closet that contains everything I might put in the gadget bag, and then I fill that bag according to the needs of the trip. But there are some items that are always in the gadget bag.

Mini travel charger strip with surge protection. The Belkin 3-Outlet SurgePlus Mini Travel Swivel Charger Surge Protector with Dual USB Ports is inexpensive and amazing: It has three power ports, two USB ports, and a unique design that swivels so it can work anywhere. Sometimes I get luck and find myself in a business-class hotel with enough power ports. But most of the timeâ€”hotels, basically anywhere in Europeâ€”there isnâ€™t enough power. And this solves that problem. (And in Europe, I just need one adapter, for the charger strip.)Full-length cables and power supplies. I carry a couple of extra cablesâ€”USB-C, Universalâ€”plus some wall warts just in case. Plus a charger for the Microsoft Band, FitBit or whatever wearable Iâ€™m using at the moment.

Extra in-ear headphones. Years ago, I received a nice pair of (non-noise-canceling) Monster in-ear headphones, which I bring along just in case. Theyâ€™re small and come in their own little bag.Ethernet/USB adapter. Mary Jo recommended this Diamond Multimedia USB303HE USB 3.0 Ethernet LAN Adapter ($34) to me a few years back and Iâ€™ve been using it ever since. It adds Ethernet, obviously, but also three additional USB 3.0 ports, which can be crucial for those using a Surface device. I also bring a coiled Ethernet cable, just in case.Non-gadgets. I bring several non-gadget items I wouldnâ€™t travel without. Eye mask and ear plugs, becaue all it takes is one loud night or overly-bright hotel room to ruin a trip, and I donâ€™t let that happen. A small package of Starbucks Via Instant coffee, because hotel coffee is terrible or sometimes non-existent. And some extra batteries for the mouse. Again, just in case.

What I add to the bag beyond this varies. For example, on the recently-concluded week-long trip to Toronto (WPC) and Pennsylvania (family wedding), I added some podcasting hardware, including a recently purchased Jabra UC VOICE 550 Duo Corded Headset (about $50) and the Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920. We ended up not needing either, but I donâ€™t want to be the reason things go south.For the next tripâ€”two weeks in France, an abbreviated home swap because weâ€™re bringing my son to college right after thatâ€”Iâ€™ll leave the podcasting stuff at home, since Iâ€™ll be taking that time off from the shows. But Iâ€™ll add international power adapters, which I keep in little bags. Some will go in carry-on, some in the gadget bag. Iâ€™ll also bring a first-generation Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter (Miracast) and an HDMI cable because we like to catch up on shows at night while away.

Next up, weâ€™re heading to France. Iâ€™m going to write a bit about travel tech while weâ€™re away, and about my experiences getting online as well.Thousands of laptops across the UK could pose a fire risk to users due to unsafe batteries, a leading watchdog has warned.Which? has revealed that some HP and Compaq laptops pose a danger to consumers due to overheating batteries which could potentially cause a fire.The watchdog says that the ProBook, Envy, Presario, and Pavilion Notebook brands are among those affected, and is advising users to stop using their laptops immediately. Laptops bought between March 2013 and August 2015 are at risk, with HP already confirming that some devices sold during this time have 'the potential to overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard to customers'.