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So out of the 6 classes I have this semester, there's only one in which I have no wireless Internet access...and unfortunately it's the one where I could use it the most - my Technical Writing Class. Thankfully, I'm not in that class right now so I can babble to you all :)
I was up in New Haven for the long weekend and it looks like I brought some warm weather up with me because it wasn't nearly as freezing as it had been in the days before I got up there. It wasn't bad at all.
I'm in two very interesting classes this semester: a compiler design class and an ASIC design class. Both classes look like they're going to be the most time consuming of my load this semester, and they are both on Tuesdays/Thursdays. We're only one week into the semester but both of those classes are turning out to be worth the effort. You may hear me ramble on about them as the semester goes on...just a heads up.
I posted the Intel Roadmap article you all asked for, although we focused on desktop CPUs in this one if there's enough demand I can do something similar for Opteron/Xeon. It's more difficult doing this stuff for ATI and NVIDIA because they share much less data with their partners than AMD and Intel do for example. ATI has actually kept an extremely tight lid on their R420, but I've got a few more sources to tap into before calling it a day.
With wireless Internet available in classes I'm seeing more and more students bringing in laptops, but what I find curious are the number of Apple Powerbooks being used. I'm not a big fan of Apple's hardware, although their ergonomics engineers have definitely earned their keep. The Powerbooks are far from the lightest devices around but they seem to have decent battery life and most of the users I've asked say that they are fast enough for what they do.
The seal on the deal however seems to be OS X, which brings me to my point - being a member of the group of the hardest of hardcore PC users, would you all ever consider not necessarily moving to an Apple but maybe adding one to your collection of computers? I've thought about it in the past, just as an experiment, but the hardware never excited me and the feel of the OS was just a little uncomfortable for me. Just curious as to what you all think.
Despite my issues with Apple's hardware, I am a huge iPod fan as well as a big Cinema Display advocate (although there are finally some more interesting PC displays available).
I've got another wedding location to visit this afternoon (I leave in about 6 minutes, after class gets out) and....ooh class got out early, I'll catch you all later :)