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Linked List: January 18, 2006

Wednesday, 18 January 2006

Study shows that within 50 milliseconds of viewing, readers form their first impression of a web site. Jason Fried has a hunch that this is “a big win for the big text camp”. I disagree — no matter how big your type, no one can read it in one-twentieth of a second (although it might give them an instant sense that the site is friendly). I think this is a win for whitespace, simplicity, and good color selection.

Newton Lives 

Paul Guyot’s Einstein emulator has the Newton OS running on Linux PDA hardware. How can you not root for the Newton die-hards?

Macworld Benchmarks Intel-Based iMac 

Jason Snell:

Macworld Lab’s tests do show that the new Intel-based iMac is faster than the iMac G5 when running native applications. However, we found that those improvements are generally much less than what Apple claims is a 2× improvement in speed.

These scores are pretty much in line with what I had expected: faster, but not remarkably faster. The G5 is a good processor, so I would have been surprised if the Intel-based iMac had blown the iMac G5 away. The Intel iMac does, however, boot twice as fast. Real-world benchmarks between the MacBook Pro and PowerBook G4 will likely prove much more dramatic.

(Also worth noting: In an aside, Snell suggests that iMovie 6 is buggy.)