Occasionally, security regulations have been proposed to outlaw carrying your laptop on certain international flights.
It is not hard to create a generally workable solution for both business and personal use.
Buy a $99 laptop or cheap tablet. These have slow processors, small storage, weak batteries and not much RAM. But for the essentials of business or personal travel, they can suffice--and can be treated as 'disposable' in case it vanishes from your checked luggage or is damaged.
Before you go, load your essential software. Perhaps Office, Skype and a few others, as well as anti-virus sorfware. Then upload all your essential documents and contacts to Google Drive, Dropbox or your favorite cloud service. Access your email from webmail, OWA or other portals and sites instead of Outlook or other computer-based software. You can also set up forwarding from your main account to a Gmail or similar account created for the trip.
Access online accounts, social media as needed, but do not save those passwords to the computer.
Do not store documents, emails, or other sensitive information on the computer, but access them via the cloud as needed and re-save them to there. Do not save any passwords to the computer--if it is stolen, the thieves would get all your data.
For security, sign up for a virtual private network (VPN) so you can safely use WiFi on the road. Use a paid service with good ratings; free VPNs may be limited in usability or less secure or reliable.
Medium and large companies will usually have travel computers, VPN services and security policies for your use.
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