Update! Way back in the early days, Apple offered a Mac test drive in an effort to bring new users to the fold. The program was more trouble than its worth, and was eventually discontinued. But the germ of an idea remained, perhaps something to be tried again in a different time and place. In […]

I really believed it wouldn’t happen, but it did. The 10.3.9 update wasn’t the last for Panther. A strange Java-related bug that apparently slipped through Apple’s quality control process intervened and thus begat the Java Update for Mac OS 10.3.9. Says Apple: “After updating to Mac OS X 10.3.9, some systems may have issues with […]

For years, I have been complaining that Apple shortchanges Mac users on RAM. Starting with System 7.0 in the early 1990s, I regularly attacked Apple for selling computers memory starved computers. Now it seems I may have to backtrack on some of those statements. But don’t get me wrong: I would like to see all […]