Say it ain't so, Apple
Apple's efforts in recent years to get its hardware into corporate-land haven't exactly taken off. I always blamed short-sighted IT staffers who figured the best way to keep their jobs was to install Windows machines wherever...
MacBook Pro, no con -- yet
There seems to be a great gnashing of teeth in MacLand these days, as Apple laptop fans anxiously await the arrival of their new MacBook Pros. Here's a thought if you happen to live anywhere near an Apple retail store: Call the store...
Don't do this (to your mini) at home
What is it about Mac hardware that makes some new owners (and I'm guilty of this, too) immediately pry open their latest and greatest toy to see what's inside? I'm not sure, and since I don't have one of the new Intel-based minis, I...
What's so special about Feb. 28?
Until a little while ago, I'd have answered that question by saying it's a friend's birthday or that it's the day before March arrives. Then I got the little Lotus Notes mail chime and saw that I (and presumably hundreds, if not...
Is that a worm in your Apple?
Okay Mac fans, you can stop being smug about security now. Those headlines you may have noticed all over the Web this morning (see World's first OS X virus hits Apple) are an early warning sign of sorts that security is about to...
One billion served? Almost...
Okay, get those credit cards ready if you're an iTunes afficianado. Apple Computer reported this week that it has already sold more than 950 million songs and plans to mark the 1 billionth song sold in a big way. Put simply, if you...
What's in a MacName?
Okay, so now I get it. Count me among those a bit put off by Apple's decision last month to rename its professional line of laptops with the coming switch to Intel chips. Out went PowerBook, in came MacBook Pro. I figured all along...
There's a new iMac on my desk
Ever eager to show off new hardware, Apple Computer recently offered up one of its new Intel-based iMacs for review purposes. I thought it over -- for about a nanosecond -- and agreed to give the new intelMac the once over. It...
Mac users 'unbearably smug' about security?
BBC technology writer Bill Thompson yesterday wrote a column in which he fretted that Mac users may have gotten a bit complacent about computer security. As our Windows-using brothers and sisters daily fend off all manner of attacks,...
Mac fans: You want this program!
This has to be one of the coolest programs I've ever played with, uhm, used. Google Earth has been out for the Windows world for a few months now. As of yesterday, Apple fans can play with it -- I mean use it -- too (see Google Earth...
Macs moving to Intel in time!
Am I the only one who wasn't shocked that Apple Computer is rolling out Intel-based Macs well ahead of schedule? Sure, sure, I know CEO Steve Jobs said last June only that Apple would move to Intel processors by mid-2006. But it...
Behind the scenes at a Steve Jobs keynote
As he has now, seemingly, forever, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will turn up on stage at next week's Macworld San Francisco ready to talk up all things Macs and -- if we're all lucky -- unveil some hitherto unknown product. I don't know...
How reliable is that ole PowerBook?
Let's say you're looking to pick up a used PowerBook or iBook and you're trying to figure out which model is least likely to need expensive repairs. Sure, you could poke around on the Web and see what owners are saying, or check in...
Make it an iPod Christmas
iPods and laptops are hot, desktop PCs and printers are getting cheaper as Christmas grows nie and PDAs are so 2004. That's how electronic gift buying is shaping up so far this year, according to Bear Stearns research analyst Andrew...
Apple hits the highway
As the owner of an Audi allroad wagon, not to mention a PowerBook and a Power Mac G5, how could I resist checking this out from LeftLane News? Elie, a French Macintosh user, has wired a PowerBook into the DVD navigation system of a...
Note to Apple: Keep the start-up Boooooing!
With MacWorld San Francisco less than a month away -- you did see that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will, as usual, be delivering the keynote, right? -- it's rumor time. And who doesn't enjoy a good Mac rumor now and then? But this little...
Santa comes early in Cupertino?
Maybe it was the reported surge in iPod sales over the long Thanksgiving Day holiday weekend. Or maybe it was the optimistic comments today from analysts who had seen those same reports. Whatever the reason, Apple Computer's stock...
iPod, therefore I did
You may recall that when Apple unveiled its latest iPod ("New and improved!!! Now with video!!!"), I wondered just who would want to watch TV shows and music videos on a 2.5-inch screen. Turns out, uhm, that would be me.
It started...
Think optimistic
It would seem that Apple Computer plans on making -- and selling -- a lot of iPods over the next four years or so. You may have missed it in the rush to Thanksgiving this week, but Apple on Monday announced that it had signed...
Buy a Mac, get Windows too?
Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs said earlier this year when he announced the company's transition to Intel chips that his company would work to prevent its fabled Mac OS from being installed on non-Apple-built machines. But he was less...
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