All right, here’s what we know: Apple has loads of gear undergoing testing at their corporate campus. We don’t know what they’re working on, but we can make educated guesses and if a product passes muster, we might even see it in production eventually. That surely includes the rumored netbook. Apple says nay, but it’s […]

The other day, in responding to less-than-serious email from me on the subject, an acquaintance reminded me how hundreds of millions of people use Windows around the planet. To his way of thinking, that’s because they preferred that operating system over the Mac OS or Linux. Well, that may be true in part. But history […]

On the heels of having to post a $250,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the person or persons responsible for the Conficker worm, it’s beginning to look as if there are more major threats to the dominance of Windows in the personal computer universe. Consider reports now that HP is seriously considering whether […]

To be sure, Macs have the reputation of offering pretty decent reliability, particularly when compared to a Windows PC. This isn’t to say they don’t fail, but it doesn’t happen very often, except, perhaps, early in the production process and usually due to some unexpected issue rather than a persistent defect. Where problems are discovered […]