Up till now, most of the hours I’ve spent in the Windows environment have been under the baggage of an emulator. Compared to the real thing, I’ve always regarded that as second-rate, not because of the quality of the operating system, but as a result of the performance drag when you’re not using a real […]

All through the years I’ve used Macs, I’ve been forced to endure taunts from people telling me that Windows was actually the way to go. You know the excuses, that the Mac was just a play thing and that the PC was the computer meant for “serious work.” Worse, there really wasn’t much Mac software. […]

As I write this, Mac OS X users don’t really have to worry about virus infections — at least for now. The ones that have been discovered have been test cases, proofs of concept, to show a potential vulnerability but not much more. Sure, one virus did sort of leap into the wild a while […]

To be quite fair to Apple, they never promised miracles with Rosetta, the PowerPC emulation environment for MacIntels. You’d be able to run many of your legacy applications with decent performance, but you really wanted your favorite applications to be produced in Universal form. When the tech sites began to test the first round of […]