THIS. So many times over. A good friend of mine is a bricklayer and do you know what he drives? A older 4 cylinder, regular cab, two wheel drive ranger with a stick shift and in the winter a old chevy Blazer with 4 wheel drive as he lives around 20 miles outside of the city. And then I see lot queen F-150…

Nailed it.

I do this to an extent, and this is motivation to figure out why. An example - tires. My truck needs new tires. Even though I've only been stuck once (in a six foot drift that I didn't see coming), and I've gotten out of countless hairy situations with the stock tires that are on the truck I've spent hours trying…

This dude is the Clarkson of computers. And that's kind of awesome, frankly.

Mine's pretty easy: a MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM (so I can actually run VM's) and a credit card with a pretty high limit to use on AWS and Linodes.

That'd be pretty fun, if I'm being honest.

Slightly insane, yes, but someone out there has done it.

Bingo! And awesome insurance at that.

Doesn't this really depend on how often you need to do restores? I mean if you're restoring > 10GB/day, it's going to cost you something, but from all the calculators I've run - if you restore a lot less you're looking at a lot less.

Yup, mine's in my bag today. I usually skip other connections and just tether to my phone, but that presents it's own problems. This will solve many for me, particularly VPN.

Vote: Linksys WRT-54GL (or G)

Third-ed. I can throw one in my backpack, and like the other commenter said, have a robust network anywhere.

Which version of Parallels has this issue? I should have checked I suppose, and they're pretty notorious(ly annoying) for this.

Disagree. I bought a OG Surface Pro on launch day because I wanted to love it. Wanted so badly what it offered, but after three weeks finally gave up. I wanted something that I could take with me, then plug into a monitor on my desk, or use as a tablet, or whatever.

Right, that's also part of it. Granted I have a couple older Android devices and OG Nexus 7's at my disposal, but it's nice having them both in my pocket.

Before I had the MacBook Air I was stuck on full size tablets. Now that I have a 15in Pro, and a 13in Air - I'm convinced that the 7-8.9 is the sweet spot as with a full size tablet I'd rather just pick up the Air. I'm ridiculous as I've had:

All things being equal, I'd go back to my old LG Shine on a prepaid straight talk plan in a heartbeat. That's got to be one of my favorite all time PHONES that just happened to take really good pictures.

Bingo.

Which one?

Smartphone tethering. It's the beans.

I still own a MiFi 4G LTE, but I never ever used it since I got the iPhone 5 and the Moto X. Either network (Verizon and Sprint) are almost guaranteed to have LTE coverage.

If I had to chose one, it would be very hard these days with how good the Moto X is. Alas it would still be the iPhone 5 - but it's really really close. It used to not be nearly so close.