This month we extend the discussion to the portable computer. Many laptops are accompanying gastroenterologists to CME events, such as Digestive Disease Week. For the past two years, the abstracts from the AGA scientific presentations were all available on disc at the meetings and could be instantly loaded onto a laptop.
Portable computers are even more prone to damage than desktops.
They are subjected to dropping, shaking, vibration, cold, heat, spilled coffee, and worse. They actually dropped test computers from a desktop onto a concrete floor and then tried to use them. The traveling toolkit is a set of tools that you may or may not ever need, but you'll be glad to have them if you ever do. Like the desktop version, the digital toolkit can be divided into software and hardware. However unlike your office computer, there are some unique features to the laptop toolkit, and size and space do make a difference.