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    Newsletter Issue #997: So Is Your Intel Mac Going to Self-Destruct?

    June 24th, 2020

    In announcing a two-year transition from Intel Inside to Apple Silicon, has Apple killed potential sales of new Macs? Is that even possible? Or are the tech pundits getting just a little bit beside themselves with logic and reason? Now the news about Apple’s third processor switch wasn’t surprising. It had been predicted for several […]


    Newsletter Issue #996: Apple’s 2020 WWDC Keynote: Wake Me Up When It’s Over

    June 22nd, 2020

    The tech media, particularly the Apple fan sites, will be poring over Apple’s new OS announcements at the 2020 WWDC keynote. In large part, most of the changes are largely predictable upgrades, though there are some notable developments. So, after 19 years, version X of the macOS will go away, to be replaced by macOS […]


    Newsletter Issue #995: Does Apple Really Want to
    Alienate Customers with ARM on a Mac?

    June 14th, 2020

    A lot of what passes for tech journalism — or mainstream journalism for that matter — fails to recognize the history behind a matter. So for several years, as Apple produced faster and faster custom ARM-based CPUs that vanquished competing silicon, there has been growing speculation that the Mac will get them next. On the […]


    Newsletter Issue #993: Revising ARM on Macs — Again!

    May 17th, 2020

    It’s fair to say that if you repeat a somewhat reasonable rumor about Apple year after year, it might eventually come to pass. So as its ARM-based CPUs have become more and more powerful, it seems a given that Apple is poised to ditch Intel one of these days and make the third processor switchover […]