Great Holiday Gifts for Mobile Professionals

On the road, at the beach, at the cabin, and in the air, mobile professionals need tools of their trade to create excellence. Without these tools, mobile professionals get frustrated and cannot produce what they make money producing! Holidays are a great time to give the gift of confidence in their professional abilities. Here I talk about the absolute best gifts for the mobile professional in your life.

1. Laptop Computer with Great Screen (Monitor) – Currently, I have a HP Pavilion, with all kinds of bells and whistles, some I haven’t even figured out their function yet. The basics are good size screen with great color. I recommend an LCD Widescreen for long lasting functionality and ease of use, not to mention reduced eyestrain. I prefer the 17” LCD monitor to the new Dell 19” widescreen. Seems to me that a screen that wide is meant to be on a desk, and not on your lap. I researched three different models: 

Toshiba Satellite A105-S4344 - Promoted as a laptop for the tech savvy, budget minded professional on the go! It has the new processor, the Intel Core™2 Duo, T5500, 1.66GHz, Windows® XP Media Center 2005, Windows Vista™ Premium Ready, and 2048MB. I liked this model, and at $1400 or so, it was not the most expensive comparable model.

The Dell M1210 – This Dell has most of the things that the Toshiba Satellite has, but I really liked the add-on package Dell offers for just $99, with Integrated Mobile Webcam and Mobile Broadband Antenna. Place a computer call to your husband and kids, and chat with them about their day, while you are relaxing with a nice cold margarita on the beach at Acapulco (after your busy day full of business meetings, of course!) Not a bad price, with the whole shebang, at around $1700.