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    The Mac Hardware Report: When You Believe Apple Lies, Anything is Possible

    September 3rd, 2005

    It’s very easy to take a story and put a negative or positive spin on it. A baseball team loses by five runs, so you point out that the last time they played in the same stadium, they lost by six runs. Now isn’t that an improvement? Maybe it’ll be four runs next time. At […]


    The Apple/Intel Report: Don’t Believe Those Surveys!

    July 2nd, 2005

    The practice of surveying people about everything imaginable has become an epidemic, and most of it means absolutely nothing. Even those carefully calculated polls by the likes of Gallup and other companies have “margins of error,” which means mistakes are possible. That explains why, when it comes to a very close election, the wrong candidate […]


    So How Many Mac minis Did Apple Sell Last Quarter? Don’t Ask!

    April 16th, 2005

    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 […]


    A Reality Check on the Latest Predictions of the Mac’s Success

    March 26th, 2005

    You’ve got to feel great. Apple is on a roll, and Wall Street is predicting a doubling of market share in the next year and then some. It’s been a long time since Macs held more than 5% of the market, but the erosion ended for the most part last year, but the pace is […]