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    The Snow Leopard Report: Ready for Greatness or Boredom?

    June 30th, 2009

    I find it interesting that so few of you are complaining because Snow Leopard pretty much signals the end of the PowerPC. Maybe that’s not a bad thing, because that venerable processor family seldom realized its full potential, particularly in the latter days. Take the G4. Do you recall when Steve Jobs boasted that you’d […]


    Reading the Tea Leaves on Future Universal Applications

    February 4th, 2006

    I can see plenty of logic in Apple’s early release of the first MacIntels. First of all, the hardware was ready to roll, and getting the products out quickly will not only help move product at a time when Mac sales are slowing, but force third party developers to hurry up and get their Universal […]


    The Apple/Intel Report: Staying Out of Touch

    October 1st, 2005

    Sometimes I think it was all a dream. I was sitting in the press box during June’s WWDC keynote and heard Steve Jobs explain some of the basics of Apple’s planned switch to Intel processors. I then read the stories about his press conference last week in Paris, in which he said the company was […]