Linked List: June 13, 2009

Saturday, 13 June 2009

Jon Stokes make the case in his Palm Pre review that it is a BlackBerry rival more than an iPhone rival.

(After I played with a Pre for a while Thursday night, I’m more sure of this than before. It’s not so much about what’s better or worse, but that the Pre has different priorities.)

AnandTech on the New 15-Inch MacBook Pro’s Battery Life ★

Impressive results:

Six and a half hours, out of a 5.5 lbs notebook. For comparison, the older MacBook Pro could only manage 3 hours and 17 minutes in the same test. The new notebook lasted almost twice as long. Mathematically, this doesn’t make sense. There’s only a 46% increase in battery capacity, there shouldn’t be a ~100% increase in battery life…ever.