For Mac users, the good old days weren’t always so good. You’d go into a store to find some software, and be told there were very few titles for Mac users, or you’d find a few dusty boxes in the rear, in some out-of-the shelf. Even if you managed to locate something that appealed to […]

In keeping with predictions from the Mac rumor sites, Apple finally delivered its first Mac upgrade for 2007, a minor speed bump and feature enhancement for the best-selling MacBook line. To be sure, the improvements, through modest, were nonetheless welcome. For example, processor speed is now boosted to 2GHz and 2.16GHz, hard drives are beefier […]

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 […]

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 […]