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    Another Look at the 10.6 Value Equation

    July 2nd, 2008

    Since I wrote my first article suggesting whether Apple should just give away Snow Leopard or make it a low-cost upgrade, many of you have written some cogent comments on the subject. You see value in what Apple is doing to improve Mac OS X, even if there aren’t a lot of surface changes or […]


    Is It Time to Dump Your PowerPC Mac?

    June 16th, 2008

    I remember when the first PowerPC-based Mac came out in 1994. Despite the promise of greatly-increased performance, my initial encounter was a huge let-down, mostly because there wasn’t a lot of software supporting the new processor. So just about everything, including large portions of the Mac OS, ran in 68K emulation, where performance was reduced […]


    Waiting for Leopard Book V: Should You Just Wait?

    October 24th, 2007

    With worldwide Leopard coming out parties, and lots and lots of copies arriving the very first day Mac OS 10.5 is out — and maybe sooner if you can believe some reports — you’d almost expect massive upgrades being performed over a period of several days. This is a vision that seems real enough, although […]


    Newsletter 412 Preview: Waiting for Leopard Book III: Just a Point-One Upgrade?

    October 21st, 2007

    As Leopard approaches, you have to wonder whether even 300-plus new features and enhancements will be sufficient to sway the skeptics about its potential. You see, as far as software numbering schemes go, incrementing a single tenth of a point usually signifies a pretty insignificant update. I mean, you can name most any application’s transition […]