We know that the tech media can’t stop talking about netbooks, particularly the one missing from the market, and that’s a model with an Apple label on it. It’s also not certain yet, despite what the pundits say, if the netbook will actually survive beyond its short-term success. What isn’t being understood here is that […]

They sometimes say that the best salesperson believes their own pitch, so maybe it is true that when Steve Jobs first touted the Mac as a computing appliance, he believed it too. Alas, the first time a Mac crashed, the famed “reality distortion field” was breeched. Everything went downhill from there. For me, the most […]

I have been preaching the frequent backup religion for years, and sometimes people listen to me. Maybe I’m a little more obsessive-compulsive than you, but I actually have two external backup drives. In addition, I will use a DVD or CD for archiving. No, I don’t use bank vaults all that much, but it’s either […]

For years, the conventional wisdom had it that Apple’s products were priced way too high, and, sure enough, when the first iPod hit the streets nearly four years ago, that was complaint number one. Who’d pay $399 for a tiny digital music player with a 5GB hard drive? Is this just another Apple Newton, a […]