Tips on taking laptop & camera please.

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Another day another question

As I am going next month (yes I know) I am starting to think about the more practical aspects - packing etc.

I have 2 choices camera wise, phone or bridge camera. What do others do in the parks? We plan to go to US on our first full day to take lots of photos so I will take the big camera but what about the other days? Is it impractical to take a large camera all the time if we want to do rides?

My phone does take pretty good photos but there maybe a capacity issue. I think the capacity is good and I have a dx card or whatever it is installed too.

Planning to take the laptop to upload photos daily which should help with storage.

So my next question is can I still take a laptop what with all the security issues and what do I have to do with it going through security?

Was going to take camera & laptop in hand luggage case.

We will be doing Disney & US/IOA but no water parks.

Sorry about the long post and tia