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The Garmin Nuvi 855 Becoming a Business Travel Essential

Sep 19th

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When you’re traveling for business, you don’t want to waste time driving around looking for an address. And when you’re driving around an unfamiliar neighborhood, you don’t want to waste time or take chances fumbling through menu buttons on your GPS. The Garmin Nuvi 855 can solve both of these problems for you. Not only does it provide the standard GPS functions of telling you where you are and how to get where you’re going, it can do so using voice recognition commands.

This GPS model is one of the most highly recommended units on the market today and it has built a strong following in the business community. Very few GPS units on the market today have this precise feature set that business travelers find so attractive.

There are several commands that can be operated using the voice recognition feature. Not only can you communicate your desired address your destination using voice, you can also control the built-in MP3 player as well as control basic functions of the unit itself. Instead of taking your hands off the wheel in your eyes off the road to deal with GPS, you can keep driving safely and talk to your GPS. There may be a small learning curve for you to learn the appropriate commands as for the GPS to recognize your voice.

The Garmin Nuvi 855 brings other features the table as well. It can provide updated warnings about speed traps or functioning speed cameras. It can interface with both MapQuest and Google maps. It provides photo navigation and can store up to 10 routes in memory. You can also access live traffic updates and have the GPS reroute you around schedule killing traffic jams.

If you still manage to get lost somehow, simply ask the unit to tell you where you are. You’ll respond with your location and display main landmarks for your location. If your business travel puts you behind the wheel of a car, then you don’t even want to start the engine unless you have a Garmin Nuvi 855.

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Choosing a Business Travel Laptop

Jun 18th

Posted by admin in Business Tech

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Regardless of how connected our world continues to become, traveling is still one of the main activities of many business people. In some industries, fifty to eighty percent travel is not uncommon. An essential piece of equipment for most of these travelers is a laptop.

In purchasing a laptop, you must first identify the primary purpose for which your laptop will be used. This means evaluating the equipment in light of what programs you need to run and what tasks must be accomplished on the road.

The basic business laptop can accomplish most everyday tasks. Of course this includes basic word processing and spreadsheet functions, as well as creating and presenting PowerPoint slide presentations. These laptops can probably handle basic video, but that is not their strong suit. These machines essentially defined middle of the road — they are not too powerful but not too weak, they are not too heavy but not especially light.

Anyone who is travel for business has probably experienced the disappointment of an exhausted battery. Critical battery alerts always seem to calm at the worst possible time. For this reason, many business travelers prefer to maximize battery life in their laptop. In fact, it makes a lot of sense today to replace the rarely used DVD drive with a second battery.

Although many notebooks have become very popular, they are really fairly useless for business. Although they may have the computing power to run the appropriate programs, the tiny screen and tinier keyboard aren’t very helpful when working with clients. The hundred dollars or so that you might save compared to a standard laptop is simply not worth what you will have to give up.

As the business world increasingly adopts video presentations, you may have to consider looking for more power in the graphics department as well as extra storage in the hard drive. Regardless of what you buy, your decision should always be driven by your business goals, and not the latest fad or bling factor.

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