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    The Leopard Report: Ready to Retire the G3?

    June 19th, 2007

    You don’t hear much about the status of the G3 these days. The last model to incorporate that chip, an iBook, was kept in production until 2003, when a G4 version replaced it. Up till now, the G3 could support the latest and greatest operating systems from Apple, except for earlier models that didn’t sport […]


    Welcome to Microsoft’s Newest Sales Tactic

    May 17th, 2007

    Over the years, Microsoft has without doubt used every sales trick in the book with which to hawk its products. Back in the 1990s, for example, facing threats from advanced operating systems from NeXT and other companies, Bill Gates touted a formidable new technology called Cairo that would virtually destroy the competition. Over the years, […]


    The Tiger for Intel Report: The Case for Rosetta

    November 16th, 2006

    To be quite fair to Apple, they never promised miracles with Rosetta, the PowerPC emulation environment for MacIntels. You’d be able to run many of your legacy applications with decent performance, but you really wanted your favorite applications to be produced in Universal form. When the tech sites began to test the first round of […]


    The One Paragraph MacBook Introduction Report

    May 16th, 2006

    They say if you repeat a logical rumor long enough, it’ll come true. So many of you awoke to learn that the iBook is history, replaced by a 13.3 widescreen MacBook. Starting at $1,099, $100 more than its predecessor, it sports a 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo Processor, 60GB drive, gigabit Ethernet, iSight camera, Front Row […]