Is there any single development that cemented Apple’s decision to dump IBM and cast its lot with Intel? Well, one factor may have been the iMac G5, which is probably Apple’s best-selling desktop. You’ve probably heard the statistics and the numbers don’t vary very much. Although Apple has a stellar rating for product reliability, at […]

A few days before Tiger was released, I got a call from a local physician asking if his early generation iMac could run 10.4. “Does it have built-in FireWire,” I asked, and he had to check. “No,” he said sadly, understanding the implications, that it was time to retire that faithful computer. Sure, that doctor […]

As I write this article, tens of thousands of you have upgraded to Tiger. Most of you are happy with its performance, stability and huge lineup of new features. But things aren’t quite that rosy for some users. Indeed, the flip side of Tiger can get a little nasty, and it’s beginning to look as […]

Well, I suppose you could ask, but Apple simply dumped them into the overall eMac and iMac sales, so all you can do is make a guess. Whether it’s a good guess or not is something we will probably never know. Why should this be? Well, in releasing its quarterly financials Wednesday afternoon, which you […]