There was plenty of talk about the MacBook Pro with Retina display when it arrived. Apple changed the game again, keeping Macs way ahead of Windows boxes. These days, the PC makers are still trying to find a way to earn profits from those super slim Ultrabooks, even though they are doing as much as […]

There’s renewed speculation this week that Apple is getting ready to release a new iMac in the near future. Some suggest this month, in time for the release of Mountain Lion, while others expect it to happen this fall, or perhaps in August. Regardless of when the next iMac appears, the larger question is whether […]

In a recent column for The Mac Observer, author Ted Landau suggests that OS X may some day be splintered into a consumer and professional level OS, perhaps as early as 10.9. This bifurcation would leave Mac users with a standard OS that very much mirrors the iOS, with its tight controls on the file […]

So after hearing that “conventional wisdom” about the Mac dying or just being ignored spouted again and again by some supposedly knowledgeable tech pundits, it does appear from the WWDC this week that this is just not so. Rather than cut back on OS X development, for example, Apple has accelerated it to an annual […]