We now both have 15″ Apple MacBook Pros, and we love them. The 15″ MacBook Pro offers a great balance of power and portability, and it is probably the best balanced all-around laptop ever made. The newest models have an integrated battery that can get up to 9 hrs of real battery life – wonderful for us often disconnected nomads.

We have most recently added two Apple iPads to our mobile arsenal, and are finding them to be perfect technomad tools. We have a 32 GB 3G model with unlimited data (plan no longer available) and a 16 GB with wifi only.

We use them most often while physically in motion, as they make for a perfect in vehicle device for navigating, keeping up with e-mail, blog comments, checking stocks, Twitter correspondence, finding campgrounds, reading the news, playing music & podcasts, streaming entertainment, creating documents and so much more. They’ve also become the device we most often reach for in the morning to check in on the world, ending the evening by reading an eBook and the device we take with us into meetings – both business and personal. The iPad has successfully founds it’s place as the perfect device inbetween our laptops and iPhones.

Every RV should have an on board server. Ours is the incredibly power and space efficient Apple Mac mini, coupled with a 500GB external media hard drive full of music and movies, and an additional 1TB external back up drive. The Mac mini acts as our DVD player, TV tuner, music player, and backup repository for the data on our laptops.

We power the Mac mini directly off of our trailer’s 12v power supply using a CarNetix DC to DC power adapter. This way the Mac Mini can be serving us without us needing to power on our large inverter. The mini only burns 14 watts while idle, making this an incredibly power efficient setup.

Though we hardly ever watch television, we like having the option – in particular just in case of a weather emergency or crisis where tuning in to local news may be critical. We have an Elgato EyeTV Hybrid connected to our Mac Mini that we use for tuning HD TV and FM radio. This not only allows us to have access to local TV without needing to lug around a satellite dish or pay subscription fees, it also enables TiVo-style DVR recording.

Though the EyeTV can work with the cable TV that some RV parks offer, we usually use the RCA 1550 Amplified HDTV Antenna to capture signals to watch. This small flat antenna is easy to hide deep inside the inner wall of our Oliver, and it offered the best reception of the several other antennas we compared it against.

Acting as a display for our Mac Mini server, we have a 24″ Dell UltraSharp 2408WFP LCD monitor mounted on an adjustable swing arm in the rear corner of our Oliver. The swing arm allows us to position the monitor optimally for watching movies in bed, as a second monitor for one of our laptops,or we can swing the monitor to be aimed out our rear window – perfect for hosting outdoor movies or displaying our photography at events.

The 2408WFP has great image quality and off-axis viewing, includes an integrated USB hub and media card reader, and it has two DVI inputs (as well as DisplayPort, HDMI, and even S-Video) – allowing us to connect our laptops without needing to unplug the Mac Mini. The only negative of the Dell 2408WFP is that it is a power hog – burning 150 watts while on.

We have both been smartphone users as long as the term “smartphone” has been around. And at the moment, our phone of choice is the iPhone 4.

We have had all versions of the iPhone released so far, and currently both sporting the 32 GB iPhone 4. Though we are often frustrated by the AT&T network, the overall user interface elegance and wealth of applications on the iPhone has yet to be equaled. We’ve even started developing our own line of iPhone travel apps.

Both of our laptops, our iPhones, and the Mac Mini all have WiFi built in, and we try take advantage of WiFi connections whenever we can find them. A surprising number of campgrounds actually offer WiFi now, and even some cities have been blanketed with free city-wide coverage.

But when away from the joys of WiFi, our primary access to the Internet on our laptops is via a Novatel Merlin EX720 Express Aircardthat works on the Sprint network and receives up to EVDO revA (3G broadband) speeds. We initially chose Sprint because they offered truly unlimited mobile data plans, and though they now cap new contracts at just 5GB a month, ours is grandfathered in with the original terms.

Our Cradlepoint CTR-350 Router is paired with an Express-to-USB adapter that works with our Sprint AirCard, creating a WiFi hotspot wherever we go. This allows us to both utilize a single cellular internet connection at the same time. (There is a newer model out: CTR-500)

The CTR-350 is ultra small, portable and can be setup anywhere to be our WiFi hotspot. Often when visiting friends it is easier for us to set up the CTR-350 than it is for them to remember the password to their own WiFi network! CradlePoint also offers a battery powered version for even more portability – the PHS-300

We had a Wilson Dual-Band SOHO Cellular Amplifier and antenna from Powerful Signal integrated right into our Oliver while it was under construction. This setups gives a nice boost to all our cellular gadgets at once, and it can take a barely-there signal and turn it into barely-usable. In fringe areas, this boost has repeatedly proven to be essential.

We also have an unpowered booster antenna from 3GStore.com with a cable to use it with our AirCard when we’re away from the Oliver. It adds two bars of signal, which really helps to keep a consistent signal while in motion as well as when camped in more remote locations.

We’re currently using a Garmin StreetPilot 2720 that Cherie’s father gifted us until we can figure out exactly the GPS we want.

Though the StreetPilot works great for most things, right now the entire idea of a stand-alone GPS has begun to lose its appeal, and we are considering trying the iPhone navigation apps from Magellan or Tom-Tom.

We keep track of the indoor and outdoor temperatures, recording highs and lows, with our La Crosse Technology WS-9080U-IT Wireless Temperature Station. It’s small enough to fit nicely on our bedside table.

We particularly like how the La Crosse records the daily highs and lows. With just a glance in the morning, we can tell how cold it got the night before. *brrrr*

Our Canon PIXMA iP100 Mobile Photo Printer is an ideal portable color ink jet printer that fits perfectly in our ’server closet’ in the Oliver. It’s portable, compact and gets the job done when we need to print something out (which we try to avoid whenever possible). It even does a reasonable job printing photos – even borderless 8×10’s!

Cherie’s camera of choice is the Canon PowerShot SD780is – it’s ultra compact, fits in her waist pouch and takes awesome 12 megapixel photos and HD video. The majority of our video work is done with this awesome little camera.

More of our thoughts on the awesome little Canon SD780is are posted here.

Our back-up camera is the Canon Powershot SX110is. The SX110is takes remarkable photos, has full manual controls, and the 10x zoom is awesome!

Best of all, though it is not nearly as small as the SD780is, it is still small enough to carry in a large pocket. We’ll use this one when we want a camera we won’t be as disappointed if something happened to it.

(Note: The SX110is has been replaced with the Canon PowerShot SX120IS)