There’s a general perception that Apple is greedy, that they will try to take you for every dime you have. Not all at once, of course, but in little increments. You buy a new Mac today, you’ll have to pay full price for an operating system upgrade every year or two. The Apple digital lifestyle […]

Only a few days ago, I confessed that I was a regular user of Microsoft’s Entourage 2004. As an email client, I felt that it did everything I wanted. But I wasn’t totally happy, and maybe that’s my obsessive/compulsive streak. You see, it could be dog slow at times, even on the fastest PowerPC Mac. […]

A couple of weeks ago, I made a promise on The Tech Night Owl LIVE to attempt to install Windows Vista RC1 with the latest version of Parallels Desktop for Intel-based Macs. I like to keep promises, but their support for Vista remains purely experimental, according to Parallels, and Microsoft’s installer crashed shortly after it […]

You’ve probably read a few of these articles by now, offering what is supposed to be an actual cost comparison between buying Mac OS X and buying Windows over a period of several yeras. But regardless of the conclusions, and some are more accurate than others, most of the tech writers and bloggers actually ignore […]