In part, it’s just politics in play, but the eternal rivalry between Mac and PC users sometimes gets just a little too extreme. I mean, in a world where Bill Gates and Steve Jobs can get along, you’d expect that Microsoft and Apple will, at times, play nicely together too. Indeed, Time magazine refers to […]

Years ago, I actually believed that an Apple mouse was the bee’s knees. It was small, comfortable, or I believed it was at the time. I couldn’t understand why you needed multiple buttons, special software or how your hand could possibly cope with all those strange shapes and sizes. I remember actually ordering a semi-custom […]

The short answer is no, but I should explain myself. I have written several articles on this topic. Each time I believe someone is listening and that maybe, just maybe, I’ll see a smaller number of stories that indulge in myth-making about how expensive Macs really are. Then I open a copy of, say, Consumer […]

The first mouse-driven computer I used was a Mac, so this may make me a little prejudiced on the issue. So it’s not surprising that I’m annoyed when I see Macs downgraded because they aren’t shipped with a two-button mouse, as if being more complicated is a virtue. I suppose the same philosophy explains why […]