I’m starting to pack my bags for my two week trip to India and Australia. Now that I went through booking flights and getting my visas for both countries, I can talk about the tech that I am taking with me. Many things are going to be same as I documented here when I went to the U.K. last year. But I have made some changes:
Now this case has a whole lot of stuff in it. Here’s a list of what I am taking starting from the top right inside the case:
- Mini DisplayPort to VGA and DVI adapters from Apple
- A Expert Island mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter that I reviewed a while back.
Now outside the case from top right to bottom left:
- Apple Remote
- Lightning Cable
- A Firewire 800 to Firewire 400 cable. Admittedly, I’m not sure why I am carrying it as nothing works with Firewire anymore.
- A three in one cable that I got at a conference that has Micro USB, Apple 30 Pin and Apple Lightning connectors.
- Three USB Sticks. One is blank, one has a bootable image of OS X Yosemite, one has a bootable DiskWarrior 5.0 image.
- Two USB extenders to allow me to plug in bulky USB devices side by side to the two USB ports on my MacBook Pro.
- Bytecc 4 port USB hub
- Mini USB cable
Not making the trip this time are:
- iKlear travel wipes and a microfiber cloth as I ran out of the travel wipes and won’t get around to getting more before I leave.
- Multi-tools from Swiss Tech as I got hassled twice in airport security because of them. I have travelled with them before and never had an issue. But I don’t feel like taking a risk this time.
Not pictured is a Micro USB cable and a variety of other USB sticks with utilities for Mac and PC as well as blank USB sticks. You simply can’t have too many of those. Also of note, I will be upgrading my 250GB hard drive to 500GB as 250GB is no longer enough space to back up to. More on that in a second.
I’ll be away from home for two weeks, But I think I’m covered from a tech perspective.
Check back on Thursday where I will describe the process to building your own external hard drive. And on Friday I’ll document leaving Toronto to get to Dubai which is the first stop on my trip.