I find it difficult to believe that some supposedly well-connected columnists still routinely succumb to the belief that Macs are more expensive than Windows boxes. It underscores the fact that some people prefer to repeat what they’ve heard or been led to believe rather than check the facts for themselves. Since that’s what a journalist […]

I’ve come to realize that most people just don’t care that Apple is going to start switching processors next year. It doesn’t make a difference whether the chip is made by IBM, Intel, or John’s Chip Factory and Nowhere, California. And apologies if the latter company truly exists. Don’t believe me? Well, ask some people […]

The practice of surveying people about everything imaginable has become an epidemic, and most of it means absolutely nothing. Even those carefully calculated polls by the likes of Gallup and other companies have “margins of error,” which means mistakes are possible. That explains why, when it comes to a very close election, the wrong candidate […]

For most of you, when the Department of Justice filed an antitrust action against Microsoft didn’t come as much of a surprise. But Intel? Is the world’s largest chip maker also guilty of predatory practices to lock out the competition? Well, that’s the claim behind the latest in a long series of complaints from Advanced […]