Originally Posted by Doug64

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.

Originally Posted by Derailed

I went cross country on the Northern Tier with an iPad and loved it...If interested, here's the blog (keep in mind that it was written entirely on an iPad in a tent!):