Starred Reviews

Epinions has been one of the oldest sites that rewards its member for the reviews they write on its site. Remember amazon also has the same things but the review writers do not get paid there. The reviews are rated by peers and other members so there is a check and balance.

Epinions is doing away with the check processing that it had followed so far. Instead, the payment is being made via paypal. Members must have paypal account to get paid. Here is what the email sent to members say.

The January 10, 2013 will be the last day of redemption process by check. All future payouts will be automatically distributed to you by PayPal starting January 15, 2013.

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In the previous post, we had compared the specification details and some comparison of the Core i3-350M with the Pentium P6200. Let us now compare the benchmark scores of these two processors.

Core i3-350M Vs Intel Pentium P6200 Benchmarking Comparison

Benchmarks	Core i3-350M	Intel Pentium P6200
PassMark CPU Mark Score	2057	1668
Super Pi 2M	46 seconds	46 seconds
3D Mark 06 CPU	2370	1950
Windows 7 Experience Score	6.4	5.8

Here are the same results in terms of the horizontal bars.

PassMark CPU Mark Score Benchmark

Core i3-350M

2057

Intel Pentium P6200

1668

Super Pi 2M Benchmark

Core i3-350M

46 seconds

Intel Pentium P6200

46 seconds

3D Mark 06 CPU Benchmark

Core i3-350M

2370

Intel Pentium P6200

1950

Windows 7 Experience Score Benchmark

Core i3-350M

6.4

Intel Pentium P6200

5.8

Clearly, these results indicate that the core i3 is better than the Pentium. There are mainly two factors that work in favor of the Core i3 – the Hyperthreading and (marginally) higher clock frequency.

Newer Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors have further improved the performances and have significantly improved the integrated graphics performance.

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In the previous post, we had seen how the Pentium P6200 compared with i3-330M. We will no compare the processors based upon their benchmark results.
PassMark CPU Mark Score Benchmark

Intel Pentium P6200

1668

Core i3-330M

1964

Super Pi 2M Benchmark

Intel Pentium P6200

46 seconds

Core i3-330M

49 seconds

3D Mark 06 CPU Benchmark

Intel Pentium P6200

1950

Core i3-330M

2210

Windows 7 Experience Score Benchmark

Intel Pentium P6200

5.8

Core i3-330M

6.2

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On June 6, 2011 starredreviews had predicted failure of Solvate – a company which had raised $6.3 million venture funding from DFJ Gotham Venture and RRE Ventures. Less than 9 months into prediction – Solvate packed it bags bringing huge losses to its investors. Had Gotham Ventures and RRE Ventures listened to starredreviews, they could have saved or diverted the investment amount elsewhere.

The problem with Solvate was that – it was venturing to connect two asymmetrical demand groups. While the workers are available in abundance in the down economy, the employers looking for workers in is minority. There is very rare demand of workers and if they choose a freelancer, it is because of the cost advantage – in which case sites like freelancer.com or elance.com are working better.

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10 reasons to like Amazon Kindle Fire

1. Price, Price, Price – Kindle Fire costs 40% of the Apple’s iPad 2 while accomplishing most of the tasks that iPad does and it also improves on some of the tasks that iPad 2 does. Keep reading.

2. The smaller 7 inch size has found overwhelming good response from reviews. It fits into pocket, is less liable to be fallen off your grabs and provides ample reading space. Just compare carrying a more portable small size  over over a big size text book.

3. Buying any e-book, music or movie is just a click away. When the Kindle fire arrives, it already has your login information – so you do not have to waste time.Purchasing from Amazon App store is straightforward.

4. Amazon’s Silk Browser is fast and intuitive. Most websites load faster using the wifi. Few reported problems has been traced down to the wifi source being used.

5. The touchpad is amazingly responsive – better than many other tablets and touchpads available in the market. It is based upon capacitive touchscreen technology – so you dont have to press hard at it.

6. One of the great aspect of the Kindle Fire is its amazing sound quality, which Amazon has been been able to integrate even while keeping the size slim.

7. On the top of all the advantages, if you do not like it – you can just “unlock” the Kindle fire and use the latest Android software – the operation is that simple.

8. While the storage in the Kindle Fire is only 8 Giga Bytes, you have the access to the storage using Amazon Cloud, which is better as you never fear of loosing data.

9. It does come with a USB connector, that you can use to transfer files, music and data to and from computer. iPad 2, for example does not come with a USB connector.

10. Again the Price. The $300 extra that you pay is not worth – these $300 adds only a camera ( that you are never likely to use) makes the Kindle bulkier and does not add any value. Use the $300 to buy something more useful.

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