I have a 19" Viewsonic CRT that I purchased about 9 years ago. The damn thing is so heavy that I threw out my back trying to move it, but it still functions with no image loss. My brother, on the other hand, has had 7 monitors in the same amount of time, including one that spontaneously caught fire (that was awesome).
Dell must hate Canadians. I got my Dell laptop brand new with no OS (run Debian) for $450. Good luck finding an Apple for $800 US. The only PC company that Apple should compare its prices to is Sony. Sure Sony makes great laptops, but who's got $2,000 to blow on something that'll be obsolete in 18 months.
BTW I have a cheapo ATI Graphics Card that still has no problem supporting any of the OpenGL crap video games that I've loaded on this thing and an AMD 64bit CPU with 1 Gig of RAM. I bet your Mac's got better specs, but I could buy 4 laptops and still have money left over for an ipod for the price of your Mac.
Even further further - every 'public' surveillance camera should get its own cable channel and maybe the US will get its fill of voyeurism, I mean reality TV.
Gringo: 1. (literally) A foreigner. 2. (slang) A person who cannot trace their origins to Latin-America (e.g. not Latino/Latina). 3. (slang) Less commonly, any person who cannot trace their origins to Amerindian peoples, regardless of national origin (this includes White, Black, and Asian Latinos).
This would include Europeans (including the Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italians). While generally in Latin America the word "gringo" is used to refer to someone who is not Latin American (eg: Americans, Europeans, etc), it's also commonly used to refer to other Latin Americans who don't share the same national origin (ie: A Chilean is a 'gringo' in Argentina).
NOTE: This word is extremely offensive, or as an American colloquialism states: "Them's be fight'n words"
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I have a 19" Viewsonic CRT that I purchased about 9 years ago. The damn thing is so heavy that I threw out my back trying to move it, but it still functions with no image loss. My brother, on the other hand, has had 7 monitors in the same amount of time, including one that spontaneously caught fire (that was awesome).
Dell must hate Canadians. I got my Dell laptop brand new with no OS (run Debian) for $450. Good luck finding an Apple for $800 US. The only PC company that Apple should compare its prices to is Sony. Sure Sony makes great laptops, but who's got $2,000 to blow on something that'll be obsolete in 18 months.
BTW I have a cheapo ATI Graphics Card that still has no problem supporting any of the OpenGL crap video games that I've loaded on this thing and an AMD 64bit CPU with 1 Gig of RAM. I bet your Mac's got better specs, but I could buy 4 laptops and still have money left over for an ipod for the price of your Mac.
Even further further - every 'public' surveillance camera should get its own cable channel and maybe the US will get its fill of voyeurism, I mean reality TV.
Please allow a Latin-American to define this term
Gringo: 1. (literally) A foreigner. 2. (slang) A person who cannot trace their origins to Latin-America (e.g. not Latino/Latina). 3. (slang) Less commonly, any person who cannot trace their origins to Amerindian peoples, regardless of national origin (this includes White, Black, and Asian Latinos).
This would include Europeans (including the Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italians). While generally in Latin America the word "gringo" is used to refer to someone who is not Latin American (eg: Americans, Europeans, etc), it's also commonly used to refer to other Latin Americans who don't share the same national origin (ie: A Chilean is a 'gringo' in Argentina).
NOTE: This word is extremely offensive, or as an American colloquialism states: "Them's be fight'n words"