It’s fair to say that living on the cutting edge can change one’s perception of reality to a certain degree. If you cover the tech world as I do, you may even get a chance to play with some of the great “toys” that are released on a regular basis. You start to look at […]

While everyone looks to the iPod as Apple’s biggest innovation ever, it’s the small things that count. When the iMac appeared in 1998, the biggest criticism focused on what it lacked, and that was the floppy drive and SCSI port. Cynics might suggest it was a cost-cutting move at the time, but Apple’s decision to […]

You have to feel bad for Apple, really. Steve Jobs and his loyal crew are abandoning Freescale Semiconductor and IBM chips and moving to Intel to get faster, more power efficient parts. At the same time, the show must go on. It can’t stop updating existing products, even if it has to use more creative […]

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 […]