HOT 261: Remote Accessing Your Computers - Syncing Two Computers
Hands-On Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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On Hands-On Tech, Mikah answers a listener's question about the best way to keep two office computers perfectly in sync so he can leave his laptop at home while traveling.
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Host: Mikah Sargent
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Hands on Tech, what do we do if we are on the road a lot and need to be able to access a computer at both of our typical locations? |
| 0:12.6 | Well, we'll answer that soon. Coming up on Hands on Tech. |
| 0:16.1 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:27.3 | Hello and welcome to hands-on tech. |
| 0:28.6 | I am Micah Sargent. |
| 0:33.4 | And of course, this is the show where I take your tech questions and do my do my doggone best to answer them. |
| 0:35.9 | Loving the question that has come in this week, and if you |
| 0:39.0 | would love me to love your question too, well, send us an email, HOT at twit.tv is how you |
| 0:45.0 | get in touch, and we would love to hear from you. Now, this week's question comes in from |
| 0:51.0 | someone named Jim, who is a self-titled road warrior, and from the definition, |
| 0:58.9 | sounds also objectively like a road warrior. Jim says, hello, Micah, I have been a road warrior |
| 1:05.0 | for over 20 years, flying from sunny Florida to the northern climbs almost every weekend. I currently carry a Windows |
| 1:13.4 | laptop, an iPad, noise-canceling headphones, and my iPhone. As I am getting older, I'm not happy |
| 1:19.6 | about all the weight I'm looking around. I use my iPhone for Twitter and other podcasts, texts, |
| 1:25.0 | and emails. I use my iPad to read books, newspapers, |
| 1:28.2 | and to watch hockey games I've downloaded. |
| 1:30.2 | I rarely use my laptop for anything while traveling, |
| 1:32.9 | but I need it for work at both office locations. |
| 1:35.6 | I'm looking for a way to ditch the laptop |
| 1:37.9 | from my backpack while traveling. |
| 1:39.9 | My question is, what is the best way |
| 1:42.8 | to set up two laptops, whether Mac or PC, one at each |
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