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Technology can be a traveler's best friend, keeping you in touch with friends, family and colleagues. It can also be your worst enemy weighing you down and producing a rat's nest of cables and chargers.
Thankfully, today's traveler -- whether it's for business or pleasure -- can lighten their digital load and still keep in touch, work and enjoy all the technology of home while on the road.
There's no need to lug around a ten pound laptop anymore, a new breed of laptops offer the lighter load of a netbook, but retain the features of their larger brethren.
This new bread of laptop also boast some new features that make life ont he road a bit more like life at home thanks to lighter frames, longer battery life and traveling niceties like wireless HDMI for streaming HD movies to any television.
=== Lighten your laptop load ===
Today's laptops are thinner and lighter than ever before. Laptops weighing in at less than five pounds have become common and, unlike netbooks, these are full-fledged laptops with DVD players, full size keyboards and generous 13-inch displays.
But the real benefit for travelers is battery life. Today's laptops can get over 5 hours out of a single battery charge, letting you leave the extra battery at home.
=== Leave camera at home ===
Who needs a camera these days? Chances are your smartphone has a pretty impressive camera already built-in and you're not leaving the phone at home so your camera needs are covered. The days of lugging around a single device for every task are long gone -- ditch the point and shoot.
Getting rid of the camera also means getting rid of the camera charger and why stop there? Get rid of your phone charger too. Just bring along the USB cable you use to sync your phone to your laptop -- most smartphones will charge over USB too.
=== Learn to love e-books ===
Tired of lugging War and Peace around the airports of the world? Go digital with e-books. There's no need for a separate e-book reader, just download the files to your laptop or smartphone and use one of the many digital reading apps available.
It might not be quite as nice as paper, but your back will thank you.
=== Conclusion ===
Today's traveler has it easy. Thanks to lightweight, but powerful, laptops, multi-tasking phones and ubiquitous wifi you can leave the bulky PC laptop at home without sacrificing the tools you need.
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