I can hear the complaints. Mac OS 10.5 Leopard, so far at least, offers nothing really new, just warmer and fuzzier versions of products long available from third parties, Windows or on Linux. So what’s so innovative about that and why all this nonsense about withholding other features so Microsoft won’t copy them too? But […]

Some years back I ran an occasional series by the name of “war stories,” in which I suggested that Apple’s quality control had taken a big turn for the worse. At the time, I ran into situations where Macs had suffered hardware failures, and something had to be done to address these problems. Looking a […]

I don’t know how often I’ve wondered why Apple isn’t pushing Macs these days, but now it seems those ads are all over the place. Apple has made some heavy-duty media buys, and you see the “Get a Mac” commercials on many of your favorite shows. That is, if you haven’t sped past them on […]

Sometimes I wonder if a few tech commentators just want to make waves, rather than say anything useful, let alone factual. Consider the case of USA Today’s Andrew Kantor, who recently came out with the outlandish suggestion that people, once properly exposed to Windows XP courtesy of Apple’s Boot Camp, would ditch the Mac OS […]