Over the next few weeks, you’ll be seeing lots and lots of benchmarks for Apple’s eight-core, 3GHz Mac Pro. Perhaps the fundamental question to be answered is whether it’s really worth paying a $1,498 surcharge over a pair of dual-core 2GHz Intel Xeons to get one. Call this a preliminary and largely cursory analysis, based […]

Although it makes plenty of money from the Windows platform, Adobe’s home has always been the Mac, where graphic artists still depend on Photoshop as a primary tool for image editing. While that situation may not change any time soon, the arrival of an apparent rival, Apple’s Aperture, may move things in a totally unexpected […]

No doubt you’ve heard the news. The two major players in graphics software, Adobe Systems and Macromedia, have agreed to become one. The all-stock transaction, in which Adobe will acquire Macromedia, is valued at $3.4 billion and requires both shareholder and regulatory approval before it is finalized. The entire process will take at least six […]

The other day I read an article comparing the NeXT operating system to today’s Mac OS X. It is interesting to see the obvious resemblances, such as the Preview application, a Dock and a file viewer (they didn’t call it Finder, or risk an Apple lawsuit) that sported a column view feature. At the same […]