An Uber-Portable Laptop for Minimalist Travelers

Posted by Mike Richard on June 21, 2007
Filed under: Gear, Sidelines

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Matt’s traveling with the FlipStart - an ultra portable “laptop” that he claims:

The thing has everything a real laptop has, does everything a real laptop does. It runs XP, Vista, has Bluetooth and wifi, touch pad, light-up keyboard, 30GB hard drive. The only thing it doesn’t have is a DVD drive — cause where would you put it?

It’s size indicates that it falls somewhere on the portability chart between a Blackberry and an ultra-portable laptop. Pretty cool for those travelers who are on the fence about whether or not to lug a computer around the world with them. The downside: it’s $2,000US. I’m not sure I could give up several months additional travel just to be able to check e-mail and send my usual stream of “How awesome are you?” Myspace trivia bulletins.

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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