Thinking About a CDMX Tech Makeover (Premium)

We’re heading to Mexico City (CDMX) tomorrow (Sunday). This will be my fifth trip there in 2022---and the sixth trip for my wife, who visited separately with our daughter---end-capping a whirlwind year in which we uprooted everything and made a sudden and unexpected new bet on our future: as I’m sure you know, we bought an apartment in Mexico City’s Roma Norte neighborhood in May after first seeing it during a January trip.

Anyone interested in what we’re doing there should check out the Eternal Spring YouTube channel or the related blog that my wife and I created: neither is really updated all that often, but we wanted to address the low quality of the content we found while researching Mexico City. Here on Thurrott.com, I’ll be focusing solely on the tech-related aspects of this new apartment. And as we prepare for our final visit of 2022, I have some thoughts about where we might take things in 2023.

First, however, let me recap what we have done. In many cases, there will be changes down the road.

Internet. One of the first things I wanted to accomplish was getting Internet access into the apartment, and I was delighted when the building’s architect offered to get this set up for us right away. And less delighted when I discovered it only offered 100/10 Mbps speeds. We can---and will---upgrade this to a faster connection, but it’s worked out well so far. One oddity of our account is that we have to get some form of TV and a landline in addition to the Internet, but we’ll never use either. And the Wi-Fi network is just Wi-Fi, so I’d like to upgrade that to something more modern too.

More Mobile setup. When we closed on the apartment in May, I left behind a complete computing setup, in keeping with my shift to More Mobile configurations. This consists of an older HP ZBook Firefly Ultrabook, a Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard and Mouse, an HP Thunderbolt Dock G4, and the Nexstand Portable Laptop Stand I’d had for years. Obviously, I’ll always travel to Mexico City with at least one laptop, but having this setup there means I can get work done normally, as I do at home, and there’s always a backup computer. I could see replacing the HP dock with a USB-C dock like the one I travel with, however.

Podcasting setup. And it’s not just the computer: I also left behind an Audio-Technica ATR2500x-USB Cardioid Condenser Microphone for podcasting. I need a decent arm mount for it, but it’s good enough as-is. I will likely bring a Full HD webcam there on this trip and leave that behind just in case, but the built-in webcams in most of the laptops I review these days will offer even better quality.

Mobile accounts. We do have a Mexican phone number via an AT&T Mexico account, but it’s one of the weird bills we have where we haven’t figured out a way to pay it unless we’re in the country. So we pay the bill when we arrive and it works for a month, and then it goes away when we miss the next payment. We�...

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