I thought I would give fastmail a try and whilst I agree that gmail isn't as slow as the article makes it out to be (for me at least) I do like how fastmail just does mail, it's simple, there's nothing else I have to worry about turning off. It does one thing and it's the only thing I want it todo. I have only just signed up so If my opinion changes then I'll post back here but so far it looks quite nice. I'm yet to decide if I want to make the switch though!