Lots of pundits are content with putting the words “Apple Inc.” and “proprietary” in the same sentence. A lot of that is, of course, due to the tight vertical integration of all of their products, from the iPod to Macs and Mac OS X. However, there is an awful lot about the Mac these days […]

I’m sure many of you were blindsided when Apple quietly upgraded the Mac Pro and the Xserve to use the new Intel “Harpertown” Xeon chips, code-named Penryn. Now it’s perfectly clear that this is a worthwhile upgrade. The new chips are not only faster, but cooler running, consuming less power. So those of you with […]

You know, I don’t want to say that I’m particularly unique in any way. At the same time, I have to wonder why Mac troubleshooting sites are filled with reports of problems with various and sundry Apple products, both software and hardware, yet I don’t have any of these problems. Not one! It’s not that […]

You can imagine that buying new Apple hardware these days might seem more than a bit risky. While the first Intel-based iMac and Mac mini seem to have transitioned to the new processor architecture in pretty decent fashion, not so for the note-books. Early versions of the MacBook Pro were notorious for running too hot, […]