The Nokia 6682 was a great phone in its day (about 1 year ago) but now it isn’t living up to the task of email and business usage. Part of that is due to a recent outbreak of spam on my account, but it is also because the phone lacks any substantial memory.. and the screen is small.

That being said I am looking for a new phone and I have quickly found out it isn’t an easy task. I am currently looking at the lineup from Blackberry as well as the Treo and the potential of the iPhone.

The blackberry has email usage beat hands down, it can watch up to 10 email accounts and notify you when email comes in, the Treo can only do that to 1 email account at a time. The Treo offers more programs ( Flash for one it is a bit of hoop jumping to make Flash run on a Palm ) but at a sacrifice of battery life and last but not least the mysterious iPhone which isn’t available yet and no one really knows how well it is going to perform.

I guess it basically comes down to a battle of the Treo against the Blackberry, any thoughts on which avenue I should go down?

I would like to note that Cingular charges $30 for the Blackberry data connect and $40 for the Treo data plan. Funny since each do the exact same thing, but for some strange reason the BB is cheaper.

After reading more of those “hot macbook pro” postings I decided to do a little experimenting. I started off by firing up the MacBook Pro and then my Compaq notebook. After letting them run for a few minutes I noticed both the Mac and PC were running at around 100 degrees (f).

In this basic comparison I found that the Mac and PC run equally hot and thus have nothing to worry about.

Update 1
Note: the fan in the Compaq is louder at the moment, but the Macbook also isn’t silent.

Update 2
the case on the MacBook Pro makes it hotter to the touch, but I can understand it being a metal casing.

Here is the screengrabs from the Mac and the PC notebooks about 20 minutes after I started them up.

Taken from iStatPro (widget)

From “SpeedFan”

As the title states there is a new addition to the Macs I own. Please welcome the MacBook Pro, which you may have noticed if you visited my Flickr Page in the last couple of days.

I decided to go for the 2.66ghz with 2gb of ram for video editing and the ability to run Parallels on it with no slowdowns.

So far it is performing insanely well, I have my software loaded on it and the heat problems everyone speaks of have not been an issue to me. It does get warm, but then again why wouldn’t it in a metal casing? The most important application to download is iAlertU which informs you via sounds when your MacBook/Pro has decided to wonder into someone elses hands. It also snaps a photo and emails it to you when the alarm is tripped.