Do You Take Your Laptop Computer to WDW

[nybound]

I bring my laptop for a variety of reasons:

* Check in online for Southwest.
* Download pictures from my camera and post them online for family and friends.
* Local maps and directions.
* Check email.

 

[Disney MDACK]

Our laptop comes in handy during the drive to orlando. My wife goes online while I drive the 200 or so miles there. She checks her email while we are down there. I need to use it for work also.

 

[westie]

Never brought my laptop to Disney, and can't say that I would even have a reason to bring it. I like to be completely just away from everything at home when I'm on vaction, so don't really have a reason to bring it with me I suppose. :shrug: I just feel like I'd be wasting time using the computer when I'm there when I could be out doing so much.

^^^^^^^^
What he said

 

[Champion]

Yes, I have to for work.

 

[LordHelmut]

Live from the Pop Century

Considering that I am actually here working this week, yup it comes with me and is plugged in.

Work - keeping up with 300+ messages a day. Not fun.

Downloading pictures from camera (daily) from the family, who are playing while I am working (some fun)

Getting the absolute latest from everyone else who is just 72 hrs ahead of me from getting into the parts. (priceless, or at least worth the $10 a day)

 

[KaliSplash]

NO NO NO NO NO

I truly feel sorry for those of you who feel you must or who really must take your laptop on your vacation for work.

The purpose of going to WDW is to NOT do those things. To ESCAPE from those things. To NOT CARE what's going on outside the Reedy Creek Improvement District.

Yet I have read the trend stories on people no longer taking week long or especially two-week vacations because either 1( they don't feel they can be unreachable or 2) they've been told they can not be unreachable..

So I know many of you have to and it's better to go to WDW with a laptop than not to get there at all.

But for me, the goal of going on vacation IS to be UNREACHABLE! That's the purpose, the object, the reason I came.

As you might conclude, I'm no longer in management and I've never been in sales

 

[Kalikala]

I forgot this on my first post, but my laptop actually came in really hadny last trip.

We had a *massive* ice storm at home while I was in FL (aww, what a shame to miss that! Not!), and all flights to my airport were canceled for several days. I was hoping I'd get stuck at wdw, of course, but I was able to use my laptop to check flight status, to find out if my flight was going to be canceled, and if I'd need to make plans to stay over longer. (Sadly, the airport opened back up the day I went home.) I'm sure I could have gotten the same info from calling the airline, but being able to check online was much easier.

 

[cmatt]

I take mine, mostly for the purpose of transfering my photos to it each day. I usually take several thousand photos per trip, so it's take the laptop, or buy a zillion memory cards. I also like knowing that if I lose my camera, I still have all of my photos up to that point. (Almost happened once!)

I do usually pay for internet one or two days (out of 8-10). It's a nice way to relax on a day when I'm needing a break from the parks.

get the camera connector for your ipod. Your ipod will suck all the photos off of your camera and back them up for you.

BEST - £15 - I - SPENT - EVER!

 

[Hrudey3032]

I will take mine as I am addicted to the sports world and always have to check out anything on my Indianapolis Colts.The last time to Florida I was on the plane as the Colts played the Ravens in the playoffs and not knowing what was happening was tearing me apart! Then to be in Florida when the Colts beat the Patriots and scaring the Englanders next door to my dads house when I was outside trying to get a cell signal to call my best friend and screaming at the top of my lungs "We're going to the SUPERBOWL!!" :ROFLOL:
I also work for a major corporation and have to be able to stay in touch with them in case there is something I need to know about and half the time my cell phone doesnt get great service at my dad's but at Disney its near 5 bars go figure.Maybe the wand was adding signal strength to my phone

 

[TTFN-Tiggger]

I have only done that once. I was in Orlando for a meeting for work so I had to bring the laptop. Stayed on 4 extra days to enjoy the parks. Once I moved over to Disney I used the laptop only once. At the end of the trip to move onto my PC a few pictures from my friends memory card. She lives in Ohio. I wanted them so I could make her a small scrapbook of our trip - which she loved! Outside of that - when I am at Disney the last think I personally want to be doing is being on line - too much of a temptation to work.

 

[Master Yoda]

I bring mine so I can empty my camera's memory card every day. I like to shoot in continuous mode so it is not uncommon for me to blast off 600-700 pictures in a day. Because my teenage daughters that I used to have to chase naked down the hallway with a towel will not allow me to be in the same building when they are changing, I get up about an hour before the rest of the family and head down to the food court download the pictures and delete the ones I don't want. It also works quite well as a portable DVD player.

 

[Nemo14]

...my teenage daughters that I used to have to chase naked down the hallway with a towel will not allow me to be in the same building when they are changing...

They do grow up......

 

[Master Yoda]

They do grow up......

Yeah...unfortunately.

 

[jonabyte]

I like using mine for google maps so I don't get lost while driving somewhere.

 

[WDWJenn]

Our laptop becomes our digital photo album at the end of every day. We litterally take HUNDREDS of pics of hidden mickeys... we bought a photopass cd last trip (had proposal pics ) so there's 150+ pics... and to top it off I think we managed 400-500 on our own of everything and anything. I think this trip completed our "trashcan photo" collection.

Anyway.. it's super nice to be able to unload the digital camera as we need to, rather than wasting an hour or more going to Walmart's photo lab to have them do it for us and burn it all to a CD. Our way is so much better. It's fast, easy, and FREE!!!

 

[tigsmom]

I forgot this on my first post, but my laptop actually came in really hadny last trip.

We had a *massive* ice storm at home while I was in FL (aww, what a shame to miss that! Not!), and all flights to my airport were canceled for several days. I was hoping I'd get stuck at wdw, of course, but I was able to use my laptop to check flight status, to find out if my flight was going to be canceled, and if I'd need to make plans to stay over longer. (Sadly, the airport opened back up the day I went home.) I'm sure I could have gotten the same info from calling the airline, but being able to check online was much easier.

Ours also came in handy for all the hours we had to spend in the airport trying to get back to NY after a huge blizzard last March. Kept the kids busy for hours.