I travel with a laptop, printer, and keyboard - sm

• Travelling and working...sm - AJS
  • I travel with a laptop, printer, and keyboard - sm - mt
    • I do have a question about the - Angela
      • Sorry Angela. I had missed this question..this is what I do. - TravelerMT
        • I'm with you. I guess I can see why - Angela
          • You'd just download them as you normally would as if you were home. That is why the internet conn - TravelerMT
            • Ha, that's too cool-Think - Angela
    • Where did you travel to? sm - AJS
      • Just be sure... - Mae
        • Do you mean the power plug in adapter? nm - AJS
          • Yes... - Mae
            • Thanks so much, I really appreciate your help! nm - AJS
  • As long as they have decent internet service there, you should be fine and if you use your laptop no - TravelerMT
    • Thanks for the info! So you put yours in your suitcase? sm - AJS
      • Yeah..call me crazy but I pack it in bubble wrap and pillows..You'd be going a little further so - TravelerMT
        • I'm on my way to Vegas Friday! Thanks for your help and..sm - AJS
          • Thanks.. we love Vegas..get our rooms free and now you can pay like $10 for 24-hour internet service - TravelerMT
            • Free rooms? Not when I visited at the Bellagio! - Anita
              • Put it this way..we obviously go TOO much LOL. We actually hold a player's card for Harrah's p - TravelerMT
                • Okay, yall need to cool it with - Angela
                  • Angela, dont feel so bad..We have kids spread out from 25 down to 8 and they all LOVE Vegas. In fact - TravelerMT
                    • Oh, I've always said our kids would - Angela
                      • We actually takes turns going downstairs to "play" usually. My husband doesnt like gambling as - TravelerMT
                        • LOL, I totally agree. We haven't - Angela
                • I get mine for free too at Venetian and - me too
                  • We love the Wynn. We got free offers when they first opened but just the other day we got an offer f - TravelerMT
                    • Yes theWynn is pretty but it is all the way to - Anita
                • Oh, one of those high rollers? - Anita
                  • They wish LOL.. I love to pay pennies to cheap to play anything else. I just figure they want us to - TravelerMT
                    • My hubs and I married there and he - Anita
                      • Oh my.. we have a lot in common.. We got married there 5 years ago. We LOVE to eat at the Bellagio a - TravelerMT
                        • We married in December and get this - Anita

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i thought i remembered seeing on these boards that to hook up a peripheral keyboard to a laptop, you have to disable the laptop one? i cannot find info when i try to search...if so, how do you do it?  

many thanks.

driver in order to work.  You have to configure your USB port for this.

 I can't even afford to drive out of the state...gotta fix my motorcycle.

I am not taking all this too seriously but I think your post is a little inflammatory.

Nobody expects tourists to speak whatever the native language is.  I think it is reasonable for local medical professionals living and working here to be able to speak easily recognizable English since the accuracy and quality of the medical  record depends on it, not to mention turnaround time.  My time is valuable too. Forcing me to relisten over and over just to decipher simple phrases is not fair.  And that applies to the native speakers too (who tend to rattle everything off too stinking fast and IMO just as bad or worse than ESL).

We are planning a trip to Florida for the Daytona 500 in February - we are having problems lining up a hotel in the Orlando area that includes suites with kitchenettes and also has shuttle service to the major parks in the area. We want something in the mid range, maybe 3 star or 4 star, and will only have 2 tweenagers traveling with us - the rest will be adults. Can anyone recommend a place to stay with some atmosphere, pool area, restaurant, etc.?

We've been there before when our kids were young and stayed in very basic motels which was fine. We hardly spent any time at the motel anyway. This time, with some going to the NASCAR race, there will be down time for others, so a nice pool/outdoor area would be a plus.

You can either search on-line or go to store like Office Depot and look at keyboard trays.  They have them that will clip on.  You can clip one to a table.  Many times I've propped a pillow against a table and put the keyboard tray on the pillow.   I've worked at a picnic table with a folded towel on the edge of the table.   The height isn't the best and the towel kept the hard edge from pressing into my wrists.   I've used a bed tray and put my laptop on top of that and placed the keyboard underneath. 

I'd try a few things now before you go.   I found that if I had to work I found a way to get the job done.   I've even typed on the laptop keyboard with the laptop on my lap as we are going down the road. 

That key printing never wear down because the letters are part of the key itself.  They just don't make them that way anymore because it is too expensive to make.  Some of the mechanical keyboards like Cherry have what they double shot key imprinting and the letters are part of the key itself and don't wear off. That IBM keyboard is very noisy from the type of keyswitch it has so you may not like that.  Logitech and Belkin make some membrane switch keyboards that are supposed to have longer lasting key imprints.  I have a logitech that has the longer lasting key imprints and it is pretty good.  You have to look on the specs to find out if has the longer lasting key printing.

I have experimented so much with keyboards and have done a lot of research.  Way too much info.  

I just bought an HP Photosmart 2610v that is an all in one printer, fax, scanner, copier. I really don't want to have to go out and buy another new printer. :( I really appreciate you letting me know that a laser printer eliminated this problem. Which one do you use that eliminated this problem??? I might have to resort to this.

Also, I am trying to get them to consider going digital so I would not need to print anything for them (unless they were willing to have me just deliver transcription one day a week - I might consider that). However, I don't know how we can resolve the issue IF I do get to go digital and I won't be doing the printing and there creates another problem unless they have a printer that wouldn't do the same thing as mine. 

Thanks again! 

Laser will work better because  the laser uses a different mechanism -- do not understand all of it but it was explained to me.  Some of it is because something has already been printed on the paper when it runs through a ink jet.  But my laser printer, have a large one that cost a lot, but it works so well it has paid for itself in the past 4 - 5 years.  But there are some inexpensive ones out there also.  But what you need to do is when you try a printer out  --- take samples of what you will be printing on to the store and try it.  Might waste some paper but it is worth it.   I use the sticky  paper and had a lot of problems because of the weight of the paper and that is why I had to go with laser.  Also do 40 to 50 envelopes a day and needed that.  

Be prepared that if you go digital and they will print off -- they will probably want to drop your cpl since they are doing part of the work.   That happened to me.   So see what the trade off is.