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Friday, January 12, 2007

Considering upgrading to MacBook C2D?

Macworld review says - Macworld: Review: MacBook Core 2 Duo/1.83GHz and 2.0GHz: "Improvements of that magnitude probably won’t turn you green with envy if you’ve just invested in a Core Duo MacBook. But if you have an older Mac laptop, consider this: the Core 2 Duo MacBooks are 55 to 65 percent faster than the fastest iBook—and 27 to 35 percent faster than the last PowerBook G4—on Macworld’s Speedmark benchmark suite. (According to Apple, the new MacBooks are actually six times faster than the last iBooks on some benchmarks.)"

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Mongoose - My next ride

Bungie is slowing spilling details about Halo 3 - Mongoose is going to be my next ride. Hop on!

Ruby Netbeans editor

Tor Norbye has been posting about Ruby on Netbeans. I have come to appreciate the value of Ruby as a language over Java and other more verbose languages. Sun is also going forward with adopting Ruby so it can run over the VM with JRuby.

Vista apps showing up

Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista is one of the early adopters of WPF. Expect to see more applications adopting WPF.

Macworld 2007 goodies

iPhone = iPod + Phone + Internet Communicator.

apple tv. But its not a tv!

Airport Extreme - 802.11n, printer/external hard disk sharing.