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Thinking about buying an iMac

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Stefan Siebel

I like to believe that I’m 95% decided to buy an iMac. The remaining final question is: which one?

Out of the relatively big choice one currently has (new version released a couple of weeks ago, old version still available) I narrowed it down to these:

Old version of iMac 27″: i3 3.06GHz, 4GB RAM, 1TB hard disk, ATI 4670 256MB: 1439.00 EUR
Old version of iMac 21.5″: i3 3.06GHz, 4GB RAM, 1TB hard disk, ATI 4670 256MB: 1295.00 EUR
New version of iMac 21.5″: i3 3.2GHz, 4GB RAM, 1TB hard dis, ATI 5670 512MB: 1429.00 EUR

After all the difference between the old and recently released new version of the iMac is not really significant. At least if you’re not going for one of the high end versions with i5 / i7 quad core processors and high end ATI graphics. Since I’m not playing on the Mac, I’m not doing any video editing, etc, I probably can narrow the choice further down by eliminating #3 in the list: new version of 21.5″ iMac.

So old version with 27″ or 21.5″. Is the ATI 4670 powerful enough for the huge screen with its enormous resolution? I guess tomorrow I’ll decide : – )

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Meet me @ WebExpo 2009 in Prague

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Stefan Siebel

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The next three days I’ll be visiting the WebExpo conference here in Prague.

I’m not yet quite sure which talks I’m going to attend, but this is a possible schedule for Friday:

14:30-15:15	JavaFX (web & mobile)
15:30-16:15	Silverlight 3
17:30-18:15	How to turn a small successful company into a big successful company
18:30 – 19:15	Silverlight vs. Flex+Air vs. JavaFX vs. HTML5+JS (Moderated by Jakub Nešetřil)

I’m even less decided for Saturday:

10:00 – 10:45	Modern Web Design I.
11:15 – 12:00	RESTfull web applications (not only) in Java
11:15 – 12:00	(Getting Things Done)
13:30 – 14:15	Symfony + Doctrine
13:30 – 14:15	Developing Web Applications with the NetBeans IDE
14:30 – 15:15	Semantic Web
14:30 – 15:15	Automated testing of web applications
15:30 – 16:15	(Web) design is communication
16:25 – 17:00	Community Meeting Java

Unfortunately no Rails, GWT or AppEngine related talks which I find a little bit disappointing.

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Somes Photos from Lemnos online

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Stefan Siebel

Yesterday night we arrived again in Prague. It was a great vacation. 12 days which felt like three weeks … and I mean that only positive.

The hotel was very good and it is simply awesome to go during off-season. Sometimes we were literally the only people on the beach or in the water. Everything was very relaxed in calm. We’re already thinking about going there again next year. Eventually just two weeks earlier. The weather was ok, but it could have been a bit warmer from time to time.

I uploaded some photos, so check them out!