100% Unlocked Apple iPhones selling for $2,000 in Hong Kong

Apparently the first 100% unlocked Apple iPhones are offered in electronics stores in Hong Kong. The price-tag is still off the map with $2000. Links to Origininal Chinese story with Photos and Video[...] Thanks to CLIFFosakaJAPAN for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 27Diggs).

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Head to Head: Windows virtual machine performance on the Mac

With all these different options for running Windows applications on Intel Macs, we wanted to see how they compare against each other in terms of performance; so CNET Labs applied its systems testing methodology to an eight-core, 2.66GHz Mac Pro running the Mac OS X 10.4.10.[...] Thanks to chanpory for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 24Diggs).

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wonderchemist: Where did they find a 8 core Mac running at 2.66 GHz? Apple store only shows 8@3.0 Ghz?

streak: Too bad the new Microsoft Virtual PC 7.0.3 wasn’t benchmarked on a PowerMac G5 for contrast. Of course it would really suck, but it would still be interesting to see just how badly it sucks.

Inside CNET Labs: Windows virtual machine performance on the Mac

CNET tests a bunch of virtualization apps on a Mac[...] Thanks to chandraraman for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 18Diggs).

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fbogner: Wow… VMware is so much faster! Great job!

aanhorn: Fusion owns Parallels big time.

Two more iPhone ads: All These Years and All the Parts

Two new iPhone ads have been posted to Apple’s website, which once again focus on the many uses of the iPhone. Who knew you’d ever need all those parts of the Internet?[...] Thanks to motang for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 16Diggs).

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Apple Patents Hideable Ports on Notebooks

Apple’s latest patent for laptops shows a collapsible port scheme that lets you hide and show connectivity ports when necessary.[...] Thanks to orelses for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 17Diggs).

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iPhone users find SMS’ing is 2x slower than on QWERTY Phones

It took QWERTY users almost twice as long to create the same message on the iPhone as it did on their QWERTY phone. While there was improvement over time, the difference persisted even after using the iPhone for 30 minutes.[...] Thanks to geekchic for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 42Diggs).

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Reclinatron: LOL! 30 minutes. To be fair you’d have to give it at least a few days. That study was a waste of time.

fanboydcs: well you need a group of iPhone power users and a group of Treo / Other querty smartphone users and see who can type faster.

If you get newbies that don’t know how to trust the iPhone keyboard then its not going to work well..

transversed: They call this a study? With a low population group, biased statistics, and an ignorant experimental design these guys proved very little.

Schelske: My experience moving from a Treo to iPhone disagrees with this. By actually trusting the auto-correct, I’m typing much faster on my iPhone than on the physical keyboard I used before. Buried as inaccurate.

streak: Apple recommends giving the keyboard a week, which is well within the evaluation period. Consequently this study is flawed from the perspective of being useful to consumers–except that it should make people not worry so much about purchasing an iPhone, just because the keyboard doesn’t feel comfortable while test-driving iPhones in the store. In my personal experience, I’ve not had a need to type very much at all on the iPhone but my skills nevertheless “magically” improved to where I’ve been very comfortable using it for weeks now. It seems part of the adaptation to the iPhone is actually the iPhone adapting to its user. In fact, I believe Apple has a video somewhere on its web site that basically says this.

Buried inaccurate.

ncaauwe: That survey outright contradicts what I’ve heard from every individual iPhone user I’ve listened to speak of the keyboard. EVERY phone takes getting used to. I’ve switched phones four or five times in the past 12 months; they all are different, especially given just a few minutes with it. Holy crap…buried for being retarded.

Ireland: Apparently the iPhone keyboard takes a week to master, kind of like this new Apple keyboard I’m typing on now I think, but I’m typing way faster on this thing now than any other keyboard I owned before, so I’m going to give Apple the benefit of the doubt on this one. And if in doubt there’s always YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSymuhuBZwM&watch_response

badwithcomputer: I think only 30 minutse is a little unfair considering people involved in the test had been using QWERTY phones for a long time. I never had a smart phone and found I could type quicker on my iPhone than on any full QWERTY phone I picked up before or since.

What’s the best way to run Windows on Mac OS X?: CNET runs some benchmarks

CNET Labs ran some benchmarks comparing different ways to run Windows on an Intel Mac, including Boot Camp, VMware Fusion, and Parallels Desktop 3.0 , using multimedia, Photoshop, Cinebench R10, and Quake 4. Tests were run on a Mac Pro with 2 x 2.66 GHz Xeon chips (8 cores) with 2 GB of RAM. Lots of pretty graphs and commentary.[...] Thanks to petekazanjy for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 48Diggs).

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petekazanjy: @Keith: If you want to make use of your Mac hardware, it seems really important that your virtualization software would utilize more than one core in a VM. Otherwise, what’s the point of snazzy hardware?

And a quick correction: VMware Fusion can utilize up to two cores in a VM, not eight. So in this case, VMware Fusion got two cores, while Parallels got one.

However, if you look at some of the tests, VMware Fusion produced 4x the performance, on double the cores.

keithmcbride: this test seemed good, but as it went on it became obvious that it was worthless. if parallels is using one core, and vmware gets 8, why is parallels expected to keep up?

even a test on a multicore macbook would have been more fair, as those only have 2 cores.

streak: Apple doesn’t sell a Mac Pro with 8 cores at 2.66 GHz. The 8-core system is 3.0 GHz. All others are 4-core.

petekazanjy: Interesting to see how multiple CPU cores really helps with certain workloads.

First Apple Ad (1976) – The Apple-1 for Only $666

A newspaper ad from 1976 for the original Apple-1 computer, oddly priced at $ 666.66.[...] Thanks to sepultura for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 1042Diggs).

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pixelpeer: Well, my friends, you’re all wrong. First of all, it just so happens that the sign of the beast was miscalculated, it is not 666, but something else close. Somehow someone screwed up the actual reference (when has that happened before?) , and the number is very close, but not 666. I’m sorry I cannot recite the source on this, but someone more knowledgeable than I might be able to. Secondly, $666.66 is FIVE sixes, not three, so that kind of screws up that particular hexagram anyhow. So Apple is not evil (just very self-interested).

bloodclot: “*includes 4k bites of RAM” – WOW SO FAST!

siouxmoux: Apple HQ of 1976 us now 770 Welch Road – Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital

shhteffen: Since when do you see dates next to adds? This is probably a photoshop fake.

kineticarl: According to the U.S. dept. of Labor inflation calculator, $666.66 then is worth about $2440 now.

doommachine: SCARIES!
http://i12.tinypic.com/4vo6xsg.jpg

spacedyevest: Is it bad that I’m the 666 digger of this story.

Boy I hope I’m not going to hell cause I use a PC

ruce: 32 KB of onboard RAM!!!! No way!!!

lesueurrat: BOOM!!

freakguy54321: imagine in 15 years our comp will look like that. damn.

fitix82: $666 in today’s dollars would be $2500
(using http://www.halfhill.com/inflation.html)

omjeremy: DUPLICATE… How many times do we have to see this friggen ad? Digg is starting to suck ass.

miguelsan22: Lets get 666 Diggs on this.

darlyn: Woah, after seeing this, I’m considering ditching OS X …

ClintLugert: It’s true. The current logo strikes of the knowledge of good and evil. The devil I say. But a good devil.

iPhone benchmarks suggest JavaScript performance deficits

Iconfactory’s Craig Hockenberry has benchmarked the performance of JavaScript on the iPhone against JavaScriot on an iMac, and then again against the native UIKit. The results definitely show the need for native iPhone apps.[...] Thanks to MercedRocks for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 53Diggs).

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vpeter: I know that I’ll be dugg down for this, but my 200 MHz T-mobile MDA performed better than the iPhone.

streak: We’ll be lost without a native SETI@iPhone!

/sarcasm

jjmspartan: AMAZING!!! Desktop PC beats mobile phone in benchmark test!!! I’m shocked. Stunned….

New Skype For OS X Beta Is Buggy But Has Potential

Skype has rolled out a new public beta for Mac users. Among the new features is tighter integration with Apple’s Address Book and new features for organize contacts into groups. The beta ships with some predefined groups like Online, Waiting Authorization, Recently Contacted, but iyou can also create your own contact organization scheme.[...] Thanks to jshayne for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 23Diggs).

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