Moving around with the MBA

Is there any concerns about moving/travelling around with the MBA (HDD version)?
I am wondering specifically about causing any damage to the HDD while holding the MBA vertically in a travel pouch for example and moving from home to bus to school to car to work, etc?

There some rather inaccurate information below and I'll point them out:
mocanuj wrote:
The best thing to do, if you're moving about for long periods of time, is to shutdown your laptop. This effectively "parks" the needles that work on the platters of your hard-drive disks.
When in sleep mode on all laptops, the reading heads (they aren't needles) of the hard drive parks. You don't have to turn off the laptop in order for the drive heads to park in a safe position.
In sleep mode, you're not only losing battery life (at a slow but noticeable trickle) but you're not fully "parked" and, thus, there is the possibility that you'll experience a hard-drive fault (a physical fault which is BAD) and have to pay for another hard-drive.
It is true that when in sleep mode, a little bit of battery life is being used but not much. The issue about the hard drive is a moot point because the reading heads of the hard drive is parked when the laptop is asleep.
Rules of thumb:
* If you're moving about the house or office: you might want to "sleep" the laptop during transit.
* If you're not planning on using the laptop for an hour or so: sleep it.
* If you're taking your laptop from the office to the car and then driving home: shutdown.
I don't think these are necessarily good rules of thumb. Sleeping the laptop anytime during any kind of transit is fine. Indeed, if you plan to go on a long journey say over 10 hours, then shutting down the laptop is fine but you can also put it on sleep mode and nothing bad will happen.

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[code]
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