Of late, Apple has been dinged for not being devoted to delivering frequent updates to Mac hardware. That’s now. But once upon a time, the critics claimed that Apple rushed to make older gear obsolete so you’d buy something new more often. It sure seemed that way because almost every OS release seemed slower than the previous release, […]

In the tech world, three years is an eternity, so it may come as a surprise to realize that Apple’s own office productivity suite, iWork ’09, was first released in January of that year. Since then, there have been a few maintenance updates, and the latest versions of the three apps that make up the […]

I like to think that, aside from my unusual day job, I’m a fairly typical Mac user. Most of the time, the computers I’ve purchased have been supremely reliable. I actually had only two that had to be returned to Apple for repairs. One was the dreaded PowerBook 5300ce, a member of a product family […]