After a fairly confusing and in some cases blatantly incorrect post by Trent who originally wrote this post and who I will ensure doesn’t write any hardware related posts again(!) - this post has been updated & rewritten by the comments of one of our readers Alex.

There are two kinds of memory- long term memory which goes on your hard drive; which is where documents are stored. This isn’t usually referred to as ‘memory’ but rather ‘hard disk’, ‘drive’ or simply ’space’. Hard drive space limits how much stuff like music you can hold and store.

Then there is the short term memory; which is usually what is meant by the word ‘memory’. This is ‘volitile’ that is, it’s all lost when you turn off your computer. It is used to hold temporary data, like the programs you are working on, pictures you’re looking at etcetera or the music iTunes will be playing in the next 10 minutes.

The size of ‘memory’ is what defines how much multi-tasking you can do: and the ‘memory’ in both versions is the same- 2GB, which is probably more than enough for most of the things you’re likely to want to do on a laptop.

The ‘hard-drive’ is what differs between models.

• The cheaper version is *larger*- 80GB; and is made of moving parts, similar to a CD drive locked in a case. This option uses the same hard drive as a large iPod (the ones you can hear clicking and whirring).

• The more expensive version is highly unusual- it uses ’solid state’ memory; with no moving parts. The upside is it’s more reliable, uses less power, and is smaller and lighter. It’s also faster to read and write from- this means that ”memory” and CPU intensive things like image manipulating wont be much different, but reading, moving, deleting, downloading large documents will be faster.

• The downside is it’s a lot more expensive, and the more expensive model is actually smaller (64GB). This is the same memory as in use in the iPod nanos.

Apple speculate you will use the time machine function to store most of your data on an external drive (or home desktop) ; and you’ll only store current documents on your laptop (or you’ll use online facilities like Google Docs).

Thank you for much better, clearer & in fact - correct explanation Alex. Trent, you’re fired.

Update
For a thorough technical comparison of the two, have a read of this from Ars Technica

I know you’re probably thinking, is this news? And considering this is my first post for the company, it’s not going to look good… But there we go, it’s something small yet neat to get me started.

Also, google have kindly implemented another feature allowing us to see both the published time/date of a post and the time/date is was received.

My name’s Zee and I’m a task management freak… I’ve tried rememberthemilk, todoist, sandy, basecamp to do’s and a host of others - but although all are superb apps, I always felt there was a more suitable out there.

Recently, i’ve been trying a brand new way of managing my tasks alongside our team tasks - and strangely it is working better than anything I have tried before. Let me explain, if you’re a project management geek like me, I think you’ll find this interesting:

1. One year ago we established our 5 year business goals & I also established my personal 5 year goals. That process naturally takes a little time, but is critical in forming direction for the company and yourself. We try and make each of these 5 year goals as simple and easily provable as possible (ie. I will weigh 75kg and have a 36″ waist is good. NOT, I will be in good shape.).
   We do this for every aspect of the business, and I personally did it for the four different areas of my life (aside from work) Personal, Relationships, Health & Money.
2. After these 5 Year goals have been set for each aspect of life and/or business, I then set a 1 year goal for each of the 5 year goals.
3. Finally, a list of quarterly goals are made for each 1 year goal. Again, these too have to be as specific as possible. These quarterly goals form the names for each one of your calendars on google calendar.
4. Now, moving onto the actual google calendar stage of this process. Start creating a calendar for each goal you expect to achieve within 3 months - i have 15 goals which I want/expect to achieve within 3 months fyi. Once done…
5. It’s time to literally think about each 3 month goal and exactly what needs to be done & when. So if you want to learn to become a dancer within 3 months, then add an event for “find a dance class”, “buy dancing shoes” etc… Just make sure you have put that task (event) in the right calendar so you always know which 3 month goal the task relates to. One tip is to also add different colours for each calendar - should make things easier.
6. Right, so by the end of it you should have a calendar full of your tasks, appointments and all of them focused on achieving goals which you set yourself. The important thing to remember is always think when you’re about to add a task “which 3 month goal is this helping me achieve?” if the answer is none, dump it…if it’s vitally important, then add it to a separate calendar entitled MISC and place it in there. But try you’re very best to not keep tasks which don’t directly correspond to your 3 month goals.

TIPS:

• To share tasks with your team, either simply share the calendar or just share the individual tasks.
• Use Quicksilver Add Google Calendar event plugin or Yahoo widget’s Google Calendar widget or Elias’ Quick Add Firefox Extension
• If you use firefox, add google calendar to open in your sidebar
• Use your default calendar (the top one which you can’t remove) as your ‘inbox’ calendar. So if you’re in a rush, just quickly add a task (event) to that calendar and put it into the correct calendar later.
• To ensure i can always come back to things i haven’t done: Every todo(event) i add I always put -todo after whatever it is i should do, eg. “run a mile -todo”. Then everytime i’ve done something i change it from “-todo” to “-done”. Then say a couple of weeks later you want to see what’s left to be done that you haven’t done - just search for ‘-todo’ and voila, you’ve got everything there.

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Now, this is something which I have found useful recently and I thought i’d share with you just in case you weren’t aware of it.

Firstly, you should know you can search any site with quicksilver simply by visiting the site (with Safari), typing “***” (without the “) into the search space on the site and then bookmarking the results page with whatever name you want to type in quicksilver to search the site.

For example, to search amazon.com:

1. Visit Amazon.com with Safari and search for ***

2. The results page should be this

3. Then bookmark this page and call it Amazon Search.

4. Now bring up Quicksilver and ensure you rescan your catalog. Give it 20-30 secs or so and then type “Amazon Search”, press tab, then tab again and type “.” (without the “) to allow you to type what you’re wanting to search for and search for “AnyItemOnAmazon”.

5. Voila.

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NOW TO SEARCH GMAIL…it’s a little more tricky as you’ll find that gmail doesn’t change it’s url when you search for anything inside it.

So, you’ll need to do the following (if you’re using gmail.com):

1. Type : http://mail.google.com/mail/?search=query&view=tl&start=0&init=1&fs=1&q=*** into Safari

2. Bookmark the results page and call it something like “Gmail Search”

3. Bring up Quicksilver using your launch shortcut - rescan your catalogue

4. Type “Gmail Search” (without the “), press tab, tab again and then “.” to enable the text space and type whatever it is you’re wanting to search for.

5. Done Diddy

ps. If you’re using google apps for your domain, this is the url you need to bookmark:

mail.google.com/a/XYZ.COM/?search=query&view=tl&start=0&init=1&fs=1&q=***

Forbes.com recently published a list of the greatest current trendsetters. Their way of determining who is and who isn’t a trendsetter isn’t particularly scientific - they apparently have “it” and “don’t try to be cool, they just are”.The feature is also particular interesting/amusing as it also features Kevin Rose from Digg in the list - with a paragraph of text about him too…and I quote:

“The second you start looking to be ‘cool,’ you’re dead,” says trendsetter Kevin Rose, the tech whiz behind a host of “cool” products, including social-bookmarking Web site Digg and online video network Revision3.

Rather than seek out that “cool,” Rose says he looks to fill a need and do it differently from everyone else. His creations are often born out of his own frustrations with existing products and services. But instead of complaining about what isn’t on offer, he simply goes out and builds it.

Anyway, so here’s the list (in no particular order):

1. Judd Apatow: Writer and director of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up.

2. Mark Burnett: Visionary behind Survivor & Apprentice

3. Sir Richard Branson: Living Legend & leader of the Virgin Group.

4. Shaun Carter (Jay to the Z): Rapper & Serial Entrepreneur.

5. Simon Fuller: Entrepreneur - man behind Spice Girls, e 1990s pre-fab girl group the Spice Girls, American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance.

6. Frank Gehry: Pritzker Prize winning architect

7. Tony Hawk: Legendary ex-Skate Boarder & now Skate evangelist

8. Jonathan Ive: Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design, responsible for the iPod, the iMac and the recently released iPhone.

9. Kevin Rose: Founder of Digg, Revision 3, Pownce

10. Kate Moss: Iconic Model

11. Ian Schrager: is a hotelier and real-estate developer, founder of the late studio 54, and now creator of Manhattan’s 50 Gramercy Park North; a luxury apartment building with the staffing of a five-star hotel.

12. Martha Stewart: Martha Stewart an American business magnate, author, editor and homemaking advocate.

13. Serena Williams: Already legendary status in tennis & business

14. Oprah Winfrey: American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated talk show in television history. She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award-nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time, and the world’s only black billionaire for three straight years.

15. Anna Wintour: editor in chief of Vogue and the woman “devil wears prada” is based upon.

Read the full Forbes story here and slideshow here.

Scobleizer who more often than not, I do agree with has given the Kindle a slamming. The recently heated commentator has launched a scathing attack on Amazon, Jeff Bezos and more specifically “the designers”.

This needs to be watched, you can view it at his blog or what it embedded here below: (ps. God, i don’t like the look of this Kyte player one bit…)