In recent weeks, rumors have presented themselves about possible refreshes for Mac notebooks. Timed for the WWDC next week, they’ll reportedly include the MacBook, which hasn’t been updated since the spring of 2016, and the MacBook Pro, which received a major upgrade last October. Both are supposed to be fitted with Intel’s Kaby Lake processors. The […]

As I write this column, we’re only days away from the WWDC keynote, which is scheduled for Monday June 5th. Tech pundits have been looking at Apple’s media invitation for the event, desperately seeking clues, but guesses about what’ll happen are only narrowly focused. Obviously, Apple may surprise us in some ways, but these events tend […]

To understand what Apple is doing with the iMac, you’ll want to recall where it all began. I’ve mentioned this before, but I was there when it started, as a member of Apple’s Customer Quality Feedback program, which allowed Mac users access to software and, on occasion, hardware. Well, in the spring of 1998, Apple […]

I cannot tell you how many times a tech pundit, or a wannabe, claimed that Apple should be looking to Microsoft for inspiration to make the Mac better. No, not cribbing a few ideas from Windows, which Apple has done from time to time, but from Microsoft’s PC hardware line that’s sold under the Surface […]