{"id":34035,"date":"2012-07-03T15:23:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T15:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=34035"},"modified":"2012-07-05T17:03:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T17:03:35","slug":"techlicious-do-you-need-your-laptop-good-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/techlicious-do-you-need-your-laptop-good-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Techlicious: Do You Need Your Laptop for a Good Vacation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Suzanne Kantra for Techlicious<\/p>\n

Do You Need Your Laptop for a Good Vacation?<\/h3>\n

The ubiquity of mobile devices has changed society in so many ways, for better and worse. Some of our biggest pet peeves are now people who have cell phone conversations in confined public spaces or people who text while walking or driving. Yet many of us have gladly done away with land lines and now enjoy turn-by-turn navigation on our phones or tablets to get us where we need to be\u2014a vast improvement over the days of using a paper map.<\/p>\n

Indeed, mobile devices can markedly improve travel. You can sit at an outdoor caf\u00e9 in Athens overlooking the Parthenon and find your hotel for the night with a few taps in your Trip Advisor app on your smartphone. Or you can use Google Maps on your tablet to see exactly where you are in midtown Manhattan relative to the closest subway station.<\/p>\n

But is our reliance on our mobile devices for travel getting out of hand?<\/p>\n

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