You know, it’s a sure thing that today’s personal computers are supremely powerful contraptions, with capabilities and processing power that would have filled a large room not too many years ago. The Mac OS surely looks better, and it is now a proven, industrial-strength operating system. However, I wonder whether Apple is truly taking sufficient […]

I applaud Apple’s decision to build Time Machine as part of Mac OS X Leopard; I really do. Far too few Mac users have any form of backup regimen, and even when things go badly, some of you still don’t learn from your mistakes, so it could happen all over again. But Time Machine, at […]

I have to tell you that, when Steve Jobs released some pathetic figures about the number of Mac users who backup their files, I wasn’t terribly surprised at the unfortunate news. You see, I’ve been preaching the backup religion for years, yet most of the people I know still never do it. Yes, I urge […]

While considering what I was going to write once Apple’s quarterly financials were released, I thought of what I had said previously, that sales and profits would exceed Wall Street expectations, and that the financial community would react in its usual unpredictable fashion. Over the past few months, it has been variously claimed that sales […]