Don't need to carry a lap top on my bike, just read through these three pages wondering if some rabid 1%'er was going to cut lose on you guys for being posers.....Much to my surprise, nobody did. Things are looking up!!

 

Night aint over yet

 

My macbook air is only 7 months old but it's done about 2500 miles in my saddlebags and been banged around on travels to Oaxaca, Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Canada and been dropped a number of times...no glitches, scratches or dents so far

 

And CANADA too hey? Wow, I hear the roads suck there. ;-)

 

I carry a netbook in a padded case, and on a long trip I put that in a dry bag.. I also use it for my TTS programming stuff. However, I did kill a regular laptop hard drive on the bike by . . . and this is the key . . . operating it while it was on the bike . . . . not so good for hard drives. The netbook doesn't have a hard drive and it does 99% of what I need to do when I'm out on the road so . . . . Most of the posts here from folks who say they have not had any problems have not tried running thier lap tops while on the bike, and I would agree, simply transporting you laptop shouldn't be an issue as long as you don't get it wet.

 

Its the best way to get **** on the road.

 

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it! Looks like the ol laptop is goin for a ride.

 

Hey, the dealer told me if I rode an HD that the split tail would line up at my hotel room door

Guess it's a good thing I carry a Netbook...

 

There are quite a few of us with the TTS Mastertune that have done Vtune runs with the laptop hooked up and running with no problems. Granted, I've only got about an hour and a half run time, but no problems. Many of the newer model laptops have some sort of harddrive protection scheme that might mitigate damage.

 

I do computer networks for a living, and I go to my clients offices each and every day. My basic laptop bag...I toss it on my luggage rack and cinch it down with bungee cords. Typing from my laptop right now...it still works. And with the great weather in the past 2 weeks..I think 8 out of the past 10 weekdays..I've been riding on the job. I do quite a bit of travel on the road going to clients..nice to ride for work.

My laptop always stays hibernate/suspend also, never shuts down.

I'm sure some ultra el cheapo laptops with lesser grade components may not last as long with the increase in bumps and vibrations...just like they don't stand up to as much regular handling abuse, versus heavier duty business grade laptops. IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad here....like the Ford F-350 or Chevy 3500 on laptops!