Switching from Treo to Blackberry

I am thinking about switching from a Palm Treo to a Blackberry world edition 8830 (Verizon).  I will need to sync with  both a mac and a pc.  I'm reasonably competent but not a techie by any means, so I need to keep things simple.  Our institutional tech support does not support PDA's so I have no tech support at work, even though I can load the blackberry software onto my computer.  I need to go through webmail to check my office email on a PDA (can't link directly).  I'm looking mainly to check email, have web access, and have an integrated phone/address book.  Does the 8830 seem like a good choice?  Also, is it easy to sync the calendar on the 8830 with Google calendar?  Will it be easy to move my data from Palm to Blackberry (I don't use Outlook)?

The blackberry device is your best option.
Link to sync the data between the palm and the blackberry device with step by step instructions.
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/files/demos/switch/index.html
And this link is how sync with Google Calendar.
http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/mobile/blackberry/sync.html
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