Joachim Fornallaz

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Size Comparison: new 27″ iMac vs old 24″ iMac

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

It’s intresting to see that the new 27″ iMac is nearly as tall as the old 24″ model.

MacBook Image

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

macbook_front.jpg After having seen lots of fake MacBook pictures, I thought I’d do one myself

Find the difference, II

Saturday, November 13th, 2004

About a week ago, Nokia announced a new Symbian based smartphone called the Nokia 3230. Nokia clearly didn’t spent much time inventing a new phone design since Sony Ericsson had already done a big part of the job for them.

Full Speed Ahead

Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

Finally, Bluewin (it’s really Swisscom actually) has doubled the speed for all private ADSL offerings and I can download files at 1.5 MBit/s (192 kB/s) virtually. It’s too bad the PPPoE overhead takes some of the bandwidth away, so I end up having downlink speeds of roughly 160 kB/s. It’s still amazing though.

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Friday, December 26th, 2003

As I wrote before, my semester thesis involves some work regarding .NET, so I managed to get a PC. It’s a Pentium 3 at 800 MHz only, but it seems pretty fast. I should do some speed tests to compare it to my 800 MHz iBook G4 I installed Mozilla Thunder- and Firebird as standard [...]

iBook G4

Thursday, November 20th, 2003

I sold my old 600 MHz G3 iBook and bought a new G4 powered one. The speed difference is huge. Finally, I have a Mac capable of using Quarz Extreme. Especially when using Exposé, you realize which kind of power lies in this technology. The window animations run much smoother and the overall UI responsiveness [...]

Awesome looking laptop?

Sunday, September 28th, 2003

Ben thinks, his new laptop from HP is an “awsome” looking laptop. First of all, “awsome” is really spelled “awesome”, and second, if you want to know how awesome looking laptops really look like, you better check out Apple‘s brand new PowerBook lineup and third: Please please please Ben, do post some screen optimized images [...]

iSight

Saturday, September 27th, 2003

Since yesterday at 8:05 p.m. I am the owner of a brand new iSight camera. This is such a nice product, both the technical and design aspects are outstanding. Too bad iChat AV requires a 100 kbps uplink network speed for video conferences and I only have a 384/64 kbps ADSL connection at home, so [...]