Oh mixture please, that old "insurance" chestnut. The equipment I carry I need to use almost immediately upon arrival. Sorting out insurance paperwork and then having to go out and try and replace the equipment in a foreign country is the last thing I want to be doing when I've just forked out thousands of pounds (of my own money) for a trip which becomes useless without said equipment. But the point I was really making is that it is a little flippant to assume that we all only need a lap top when traveling as alserire suggests.