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Blackberry Bold 9000

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Had a long discussion with Mac about Blackberry Bold vs. the iPhone 3G and it is indeed land of riches. Personally, I’m probably more in favor of the iPhone because although it doesn’t have a keyboard, it has a big screen and I find on my iPhone (which I’ve lost! boohoo!) that I can [...]

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Intel Nehalem 20-50% faster due in 2009

June 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Early Version of Intel’s Nehalem Benchmarked, Much Faster than Penryn – Mac Rumors
Anandtech had access to a 2.66GHz Nehalem processor which they pitted against a 2.66GHz Penryn processor. Performance improvements ranged from 20-50% faster for the Nehalem chip. h.264 video encoding was tested and saw a 44% speed boost on Nehalem vs Penryn on the [...]

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Mac Office 2008 somewhat faster

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Mac Office

This corresponds to what I’ve seen, you’d expect that Office 2008 being a native Intel application would be much faster than Office 2004 which is PowerPC and runs in emulation on Intel. Well, the results are a little confusing. It is faster, but not much in many things:

Excel Open Word Scroll Entourage [...]

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Kerio vs. Exchange for Entourage, Mac OS X, iPhone and Blackberry

April 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Entourage, Exchange

Well we’ve narrowed down choices to two choices, two hosters against one of three desktop and two mobile clients. Here are the parameters:
Support for either of, in order:

Mac OS X application. That is Mail, iCal and Address Book that are native to OS X and which is fast.
Entourage 2004 or 2008 from Microsoft and typically [...]

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