It’s quite certain that the designers of recent iMacs didn’t consider what might be required if you wanted to change anything more than RAM. And on the 21.5-inch version, you can’t even do that. So this forces you to load up such Macs on Apple’s build-to-order page when you place your order, so you don’t have […]

All it took was an Apple developer’s complaint about the supposed declining state of Apple’s software to fuel a number of articles saying that things are going from bad to worse. One story had it that, in light of bugs that are never actually mentioned in the article, iOS and OS X software quality may […]

Although Consumer Reports magazine is supposed to be incorruptible — mostly because the publication doesn’t accept ads and tested products are purchased rather than manufacturer review samples — there are clear problems with the way they are evaluated. As I’ve stated though the years, Apple gear isn’t always treated fairly, largely because of curious test standards […]

One thing was part and parcel of the original Mac OS, and that was the promise of being able to discover many of the most important features by pointing and clicking. Features were mostly consistent among applications, so if you learned one, you knew most of the others. But of course things are never so […]