Best "travel" machine?

[Aero Man]

OK, I've been a CPAP newbie for six weeks and just this week I'm "starting" to feel some benefit from it's use. My "numbers" aren't quite where I want them to be yet, and I'm sure I've got a ways to go. But I now have the software (thanks to my new friends) to view my smartcard and will be learning how to interpret the data - with guidance from the resources of this forum.

I travel regularly in my job and overnight at corporate hotels abroad, and am thinking about a second machine (very compact, lightweight & durable)...to use "on the road". Is the "Everest II w/humidifier" the best travel solution?

[rested gal]

The Aeiomed Everest is a handy machine to have. I have one, but I use it only on nights when thunderstorms are predicted. I like the way it automatically switches over to battery operation if there's a power outage.

However, for travel I still prefer to take a machine that I use regularly -- I like the exhalation relief of A-Flex or a bipap so much. So I take either my Auto with A-flex or my BiPAP Auto on trips. The Everest doesn't have any exhalation relief feature. If that wouldn't bother you (and I can do fine without exhalation relief..I just prefer it) the Everest would be a neat little machine for traveling. It's a fairly noisy machine, but the M series machines can be noisy, too.

My #1 pick for a travel machine if I didn't want to take one of my regular machines would be the ResMed AutoSet II now that they have EPR (exhalation relief) in auto mode as well as cpap mode. Or even the ResMed Elite II straight cpap machine with EPR. Those are small machines with good info from the LCD if a person was interested in monitoring treatment during the trip; no power brick adding weight for packing, and probably very quiet machines...the "S8 II" series machines.

[dsm]

My prefs in the past & present have included

1) PB420x (but the quality of these has become such an issue that some DMEs have dropped them )
2) S8 with EPR - they are heavier than the PB420x but that means they sit well on hotel bedside tables when the PB420x machines tend to pull off as you move.

DSM