Most of you know that I am addicted to the 17-inch form factor for my note-books. I first bought a 17-inch PowerBook G4, the one with the 1.33GHz processor, shortly after it was released in late 2003. After a couple of years of regular use, it passed on to my son, Grayson, who later sold […]

So I asked my son, Grayson, to guess how many iPhones Apple sold this past weekend. He started out at 100,000, not recalling that Apple sold over 300,000 units of the original version during its first gala weekend last year. It took him four guesses to arrive at the correct one million figure. I suppose […]

On Monday, just days after returning that review iPhone to Apple, I got my own. On Tuesday, Apple upgrades the iPhone and iPod touch with a 16GB version of the former and a 32GB version of the latter. Prices for the expanded editions are $100 higher. So should I feel disappointed that Apple caught me […]

The other day, after my son returned from his semester of college studies in Spain, I watched as he set up his well-worn 17-inch PowerBook G4 on his desk. That particular form factor actually debuted in 2003, and Grayson’s note-book, the 1.33GHz model, appeared in the spring of 2004. My 17-inch MacBook Pro was acquired […]