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I am sorry, but I disagree. Being an Digital Electronics Engineer, I love apple hardware. And if you could (wich Im not sure) I would buy it just to have Windows XP and Linux dual booting on the gorgeous apple hardware. Anyway. I have tried OS X and I just dont like it. I feel it's to dumbed down to appeal to newbies and other non-technical people. Being able to use Linux and Windows, has now given me a powerful reason to think about buying a MacBook.
I graduated from the ITESM (Monterrey Campus, in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico). The amount of money spent in technology here is mind boggling. For starters, the ITESM, has been part of Internet2 for years (about two or three). Has had high speed wired networks everywhere but the restrooms for ages. They have been requiring laptops for every undergraduate since 97 (if you couldn't afford one, the school financed it). And has had wireless networks since 2000. Right now, you can have acces to 802.11a, b or c anywhere in school (yes, including restrooms, dont ask me how I know:))
Most exchange students from the US or Europe are always surprised of this (Even Kevin Mitnick, to whom I had the opportunity to meet him at a conference here at school, and actually had a chat with him about this same topic).
Most classes are now what they call "redesigned" to be accessible trough the web or before that, using Lotus Notes. They even built a new 15 million dollar hall, which is called CIAP (International Center for Learning for its initials in spanish.) and almost every class is dictated in english with videocameras recording every class so everyone can check them out later on the web (Still in experimental stages).
I think that in many aspects, catching up is almost always better, since you can learn from other's mistakes and benefit from newer a better technologies, like the ones we've been enjoying here at the ITESM, in a little undeveloped country called Mexico.
I hadn't hear that one, but there are a lot of those stories about the Mexican-US Border. Anyways, the good thing about being in Mexico is that you can actually (legally, of course) bring a brand new laptop every time you are in the US. Custom Laws allows you to bring portable computer equipment for up to 3,000 US Dollars. I work in a Mexican consulting firm that has several US clients and I travel every other week to the US. I have brought like 10 laptops for friends and relatives this past year, still in their boxes. Oh, and you can also bring 300 dlls worth of any other merchandise. So I have brought several PS2s and XBoxes:)
"Poor Mexico, so far away from God and so close to the U.S." - Porfirio Diaz
I think you are wrong. The Lord of the rings was written in parts. Six, actually. But later bound into books of two parts each. Ther WERE NOT published at the same time, but not because of a shortage of paper, but because Tolkien had not finished the last books.
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I am sorry, but I disagree. Being an Digital Electronics Engineer, I love apple hardware. And if you could (wich Im not sure) I would buy it just to have Windows XP and Linux dual booting on the gorgeous apple hardware.
Anyway. I have tried OS X and I just dont like it. I feel it's to dumbed down to appeal to newbies and other non-technical people.
Being able to use Linux and Windows, has now given me a powerful reason to think about buying a MacBook.
I graduated from the ITESM (Monterrey Campus, in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico). The amount of money spent in technology here is mind boggling. :))
For starters, the ITESM, has been part of Internet2 for years (about two or three). Has had high speed wired networks everywhere but the restrooms for ages. They have been requiring laptops for every undergraduate since 97 (if you couldn't afford one, the school financed it). And has had wireless networks since 2000. Right now, you can have acces to 802.11a, b or c anywhere in school (yes, including restrooms, dont ask me how I know
Most exchange students from the US or Europe are always surprised of this (Even Kevin Mitnick, to whom I had the opportunity to meet him at a conference here at school, and actually had a chat with him about this same topic).
Most classes are now what they call "redesigned" to be accessible trough the web or before that, using Lotus Notes. They even built a new 15 million dollar hall, which is called CIAP (International Center for Learning for its initials in spanish.) and almost every class is dictated in english with videocameras recording every class so everyone can check them out later on the web (Still in experimental stages).
I think that in many aspects, catching up is almost always better, since you can learn from other's mistakes and benefit from newer a better technologies, like the ones we've been enjoying here at the ITESM, in a little undeveloped country called Mexico.
I hadn't hear that one, but there are a lot of those stories about the Mexican-US Border. :)
Anyways, the good thing about being in Mexico is that you can actually (legally, of course) bring a brand new laptop every time you are in the US. Custom Laws allows you to bring portable computer equipment for up to 3,000 US Dollars. I work in a Mexican consulting firm that has several US clients and I travel every other week to the US. I have brought like 10 laptops for friends and relatives this past year, still in their boxes. Oh, and you can also bring 300 dlls worth of any other merchandise. So I have brought several PS2s and XBoxes
"Poor Mexico, so far away from God and so close to the U.S." - Porfirio Diaz
Probably because of the same reason all americans tend to use football stadiums or "the size ot Texas" to denote area . :)
I think you are wrong. The Lord of the rings was written in parts. Six, actually. But later bound into books of two parts each. Ther WERE NOT published at the same time, but not because of a shortage of paper, but because Tolkien had not finished the last books.
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