Depends where you are going( will your smart phone work?), what you want to do with it, and how much you are willing to carry. We use a light weight netbook loaded with programs we use quite often on extended trips, e.g., Photoshop, Garmin Maps, etc. We got rid of our solid state drive netbook. It was too slow and not much capacity. Our little Toshiba, the same one I'm posting this with, has gone about 3900 miles in my wife's rear pannier. Never had a problem with dust or moisture. Another plus for Ortlieb panniers.

I think it is the left one.



Travelling with no electronics seems ideal, but sometimes bills need to be paid on extended tours, post to your blog site, cell phones don't work where you are or are really expensive, and you want to down load and backup 9000 high quality pictures (RAW).