I just got back from 2 months of Flash Packing in S.America (It was supposed to be longer, but family stuff came up) Anyhow I took my gadgets, and loved them, they came in very handy. For the most part I was staying in hostels, but had my own room, although I did stay in a dorm room in Brazil, and just kept the gear locked up, and had no problems. I am heading to Europe at the end of the month, and will be bringing the same gadgets with me.
Laptop - HP NC2400, nice and light, and sturdy, got the 3 year NBD Travel Warranty, so if it gets damaged or broken along the way, it can get repaired. I also use this to upload photos to my website via FTP. Most hostels I stayed in had WiFi.
PDA - HP hw6955 - Quad Band Cell Phone, with WiFi, and GPS, loaded up with TOMTOM maps (more for Europe). Virtual Earth Mobile, worked great wondering around Buenos Aires, and other large S. American Cities.
Camera - Panasonic FX50. Nice and small, and great pictures with 4.4 Optical Zoom
80GB IPOD Video - I need my tunes.
Kensington Travel Adapter - This has power adapters for my PDA, and IPOD, unfortunately not my laptop yet, but certainly saves on the # of power adapters you need to take.
Swiss Army Universal Power Adapter - Very handy to have, I suggest getting some extra fuses for it though, I blew a couple, and it was rather difficult finding replacements in Argentina, when there is a language barrier.
Actually just this friday I was at an ASUS/AMD
conference in Vancouver. And this was talked about.
Early 1st Quarter 2001 there will be the AMD Mustang, which will support Dual CPU's on a 266mhz FSB motherboard. The neat thing is there will be two channels, so each processor will run at it's full potential, they did a test for a CAD client and compared the machine too a Dual Xeon 750 system (cost of system $20,000), and a Single Athalon Mustang 900 chip, (cost of system $2500), and it was faster than the XEON system.
Also watch for the 1.5ghz Tbird chip to be available before XMAS.
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I just got back from 2 months of Flash Packing in S.America (It was supposed to be longer, but family stuff came up)
Anyhow I took my gadgets, and loved them, they came in very handy. For the most part I was staying in hostels, but had my own room, although I did stay in a dorm room in Brazil, and just kept the gear locked up, and had no problems. I am heading to Europe at the end of the month, and will be bringing the same gadgets with me.
Laptop - HP NC2400, nice and light, and sturdy, got the 3 year NBD Travel Warranty, so if it gets damaged or broken along the way, it can get repaired. I also use this to upload photos to my website via FTP. Most hostels I stayed in had WiFi.
PDA - HP hw6955 - Quad Band Cell Phone, with WiFi, and GPS, loaded up with TOMTOM maps (more for Europe). Virtual Earth Mobile, worked great wondering around Buenos Aires, and other large S. American Cities.
Camera - Panasonic FX50. Nice and small, and great pictures with 4.4 Optical Zoom
80GB IPOD Video - I need my tunes.
Kensington Travel Adapter - This has power adapters for my PDA, and IPOD, unfortunately not my laptop yet, but certainly saves on the # of power adapters you need to take.
Swiss Army Universal Power Adapter - Very handy to have, I suggest getting some extra fuses for it though, I blew a couple, and it was rather difficult finding replacements in Argentina, when there is a language barrier.
Enjoy the travels
Actually just this friday I was at an ASUS/AMD conference in Vancouver. And this was talked about. Early 1st Quarter 2001 there will be the AMD Mustang, which will support Dual CPU's on a 266mhz FSB motherboard. The neat thing is there will be two channels, so each processor will run at it's full potential, they did a test for a CAD client and compared the machine too a Dual Xeon 750 system (cost of system $20,000), and a Single Athalon Mustang 900 chip, (cost of system $2500), and it was faster than the XEON system. Also watch for the 1.5ghz Tbird chip to be available before XMAS.