I was on business travel last week, and with me I took two laptops. My work Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC and my small Apple iBook G4 for podcasting & personal stuff.

Eric Mack noted on his blog that Michael Sampson recently took a trip with just his Tablet PC leaving his PowerBook at home.

I can understand that to some degree.  The extra weight is problematic.  But having my two distinct lives separated has been a  joy, and I like being able to experience two great innovative interfaces.  My biggest issue right now is "keyboard layout" for CTRL and ALT on Windows; and translating that to the iBook.

Since Audacity works on Mac/Windows/Linux it wasn’t a big deal really to switch over on the Podcast production side.  Just some minor issues here and there, but all either fixable or with efficient work arounds.   

The time to build a  podcast in my scenario is now about 30 seconds faster on the iBook then on my PC, which isn’t significant, but before the iBook  my podcast PC was a desktop unit making doing podcasts on the road a real challenge.

In related news, Todd @ GeekNewsCentral is thinking of switching back completely to a PC.  He has some points, but I’m enjoying myself.