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So AT'ers What's in your Notebook Bag?

Woofmeister

Woofmeister

Golden Member
Lets compare notes. What does everybody think is essential in their notebook bags besides the notebook itself? I'm on the road at least two days a week and spend a lot of time dashing through airports. I focus on size and weight and trying to cram as much in as possible so I spend some amount of time considering my bag's contents.

Here's what I always carry:

IBM T41 (Soon to be replaced with X300)

1 Legal Pad

2 Pens (1 cheap disposable ballpoint and one expensive Marc Cross ballpoint)

1 IBM AC/DC Adapter and power cable

1 Long Cat5 Cable

1 Short Cat5 Cable ("liberated" from some hotel)

1 USB to mini usb cable for using my Verizon Blackberry as a modem

1USB 2 GB Flash Drive

Bose QuietComfort 2 Headphones (The QuietComfort3s just weren't comfortable on long flights)

iPod Nano

Sennheiser MX 65 headphones

iPod Nano sports case w/armband

iPod AC charger

Blackberry AC charger

Earplugs

Eyeshades

Business cards

Logitech V320 Cordless Optical Mouse

2 Packets of Advil

1 Packet Rollaids

4 Ammonium AD tablets :roll:

Several fresh AAA batteries

Edit I keep remembering more things and adding to the list.
 
Interesting. For overseas travel, I generally carry in computer briefcase:

1. The laptop (Lenovo T60)
2. A duplicate HDD in Lenovo/IBM caddy
3. Travel A/C Adapter w/plug adapters
4. Retractable Cat5 cable
5. USB SD Reader/writer
6. USB CF Reader/Writer
7. Cellphone
8. Notebook
9. 2 pens
10. QC2 Headphones
11. EVDO (Rev. A) Connection card
12. Logitech Nano VX wireless mouse

In camera case:

1. DSLR w/3 lenses
2. Spare DSLR battery & charger

In neck pouch:

1. Passport
2. Boarding pass and tickets
3. Glasses
4. Ziplock bag with eye drops and meds

In checked luggage:

1. Small toolset
2. 5 pack of DVD+R blanks
3. Camera monopod

This is primarily the load plan for overseas air travel. For domestic travel, usually by auto, it is a different ball game - no holds barred. 🙂
 
T60
charger
pens
5' cat 5 straight through
5' cat 5 crossover,
knoppix live cd,
leatherman surge (i take it out to fly)
mini maglite LED,
booklight,
some batteries,
jvc marshmallow headphones,
creative zen v plus,
canon a400 digicam,
data cable,
logitech wireless notebook mouse,
mini notepad
4gb flash drive
tylenol extra strength
cat 5 coupler
rj 11 coupler

sometimes i take a small toolkit with a ratcheting screwdriver and a bunch of bits, some thermal paste and tweezers, if i know im going to be working on something oddball that will need it.
might also take my sunglasses pouch if im flying to keep them safe for the trip, ill take my cell charger if ill be gone more than a day,
and a cigarette lighter power inverter

i pretty much have all of that all the time. sometimes i leave my digicam at home if im not going anywhere special,
sometimes i take an FM transmitter for the mp3 player
 
MacBook
^Power Adapter^
Small paper notebook
4 pack of Energizer Lithium AAs
Kodak c875 digital camera
^data cable^
Precision screwdriver kit
Another screw driver with torx bits
6 blanks CDs
6 blank DVDs
iPod
^data cable^
2GB jump drive
6 ft firewire 6pin-6pin cable
3 ft USB - Mini B cable
6 ft retractable Cat5 cable
2 ft USB -> IDE/notebook IDE/SATA data cable
^Power Adapter for this ^
40GB notebook external hard drive
^USB cable for this^
Logitech VX Revolution (sometimes, I usually prefer the trackpad on my laptop)
2 staedtler pens
blank printer paper
pack of paperclips


And I think that is it for me. That is how i pack when going to repair a customer's computer. When traveling, I don't need most of the cables so I try to clear them out. Same goes for the external drives and the mouse.
 
All in a Targus backpack that I got from Best Buy:

Dell Inspiron 9300 / E1705
-- a/c adapter
legal pad
a few pens
Sony DSC-F828 camera
-- a/c adapter
-- 2 CF memory cards
-- 1 MS memory card
-- 1 multi-card-reader
---- data cable
Apple iPod
-- a/c adapter
-- data cable
Logitech VX Revolution Mouse
IDE/SATA to USB controller
-- a/c adapter
4 GB USB flash memory device
6 ft cat5e patch cable
spare USB A-B cable
business cards
bluetooth earpiece
-- a/c adapter
Cell phone's a/c adapter
usb to mini-usb for cellular data

I think that it's time for me to overhaul some stuff -- going to traveling more often in the near future. I'll probably find a smaller and more lightweight backpack or briefcase, and make the following content changes:

Swap my Inspiron E1705 for a Latitude D830... weight savings and better durability
Swap my Sony DSC-F828 camera for some much lighter camera (for short trips and events where I don't need a great cam)
Add spare hard drive (SSD?) for laptop
Remove IDE/SATA to USB controller
 
All in my Nike bag that I use for school:

Just electronics are listed below, not books, notebooks, or anything else similar.

Thinkpad T61 14.1"
AC Adaptor
Logitech MX518
2GB SD Card
2GB OCZ Rally2 Flash Drive
Nikon D70 with 50mm f/1.8 (if I'm going to be taking pictures)
1 GB Compactflash card
External Enclosure with 640GB WD6400AAKS inside
USB male to female extension cable
USB male to male cable (for external drive)
Shure E2C earphones
iPhone
Ethernet Cable
 
Depends which bag I have:

Work:
17" Compaq nx9420
Business cards
Leather folio
Handful of pens
Mini USB cable to use phone as a modem, charge various devices, etc
7' cat-5 cable

Normal school
14.1" Gateway T-6836
7' cat-5 cable
Various pens
Spiral notebook
Red Bull
Whatever pair of headphones I'm using at the time

"I don't feel like working" or "school sucks" or "hanging out at a friends"
Acer Aspire One
^Power cord
Canon a710IS
mini-USB cable
Red Bull
 
- Spare power brick
- wireless mouse
- USB drive
- Aspirin

I don't travel much...does it show? The only thing I really use my padded laptop bag for is carting my laptop to and from work without it jostling around in the car on the highway.
 
I'm so jealous of all of the posters who take their cameras with them. It would be great to snap some pictures of every place to which I travel. Wish I had the time.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that I have three different laptop bags. A nice leather Tumi that's now been discontinued (which is how I got it cheap) that I think is the leather version of this. An old Brenthaven that I've owned forever and that I will probably be able to hand down to my grandchildren. And a big rolling Netpack Pilot Case for when I'm carrying big files and binders.
 
I don't have a laptop specific bag. When I do bring my notebook along, it goes in a Targus sleeve and then in my Jansport backpack (no special compartment). I usually throw in my adapter and sometimes a mouse. Always carry around some pens and stuff, but that's more because during the school year, I have notebooks/textbooks with me.

I do have a camera/laptop bag for when I travel, but I don't plan on using it this weekend when I go to Philly as I'll just put my laptop in my carry-on clothes duffel bag and carry my normal camera bag.
 
Dell Vostro 1500
AC Adaptor
MS Mouse
4GB SDHC Card
1GB Kingston Flash Drive
Cell Phone
USB cable to charge phone
6' Ethernet Cable
VGA Cables
 
HP tx2110us
6' cat5 cable
2 GB SD card
3' USB/MiniUSB cable (used for PAM and charging)
A/C adapter
microfiber cloth
 
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