It’s hard to make a profit from PCs these days. Cutthroat pricing and the rush to the bottom have resulted in cheap computers and cheap profits for the manufacturers. HP, for example, is the number one PC maker on the planet, although portable sales are second to Apple if you include the iPad in the […]

In recent months, I’ve come to believe that most people finally understand that Macs and PCs are comparably priced when comparably equipped. That is, until I read some more of that silly fiction that attempts to convey precisely the reverse, that Apple is the BMW, and the PC is the Ford, and that the former […]

I feel like a broken record (you do remember records, right?) when I keep preaching the backup religion, yet when Apple said that roughly 26% of my fellow Mac users backup anything at all, I had to feel extremely disappointed. The news that only a fraction of that number routinely used backup software was even […]