When Apple launched the iMac Pro at June’s WWDC, I have to admit I was surprised. I expected a regular old iMac with some higher-end configurations. There are versions of Intel’s Core chips with extra cores, and I thought Apple would choose them. What I didn’t anticipate was a new model with, essentially, the guts […]

You can bet that, when reviewing smartphones, Consumer Reports magazine appears to have a blind spot towards Samsung; maybe a few blind spots. How so? Well, I’ll get to that shortly. Now on the surface, CR ought to be the perfect review source. Unlike most other publications, online or print, it actually buys tested products […]

The entertainment industry has given us one thing, and sort of taken away something else, and it all begins with the fifth generation Apple TV, which adds 4K and HDR as its main new features. So as the new set-top box shipped, Apple announced an important change to the iTunes movie rental policy in the […]

As you might expect, the Apple critic population will have its way with the announcements from the September 12th iPhone media event. How could it be otherwise? But there was plenty of positive news to consider, even if most of product introductions and specs were pretty well known ahead of the event. So there really […]