A couple of months back, a friend called and asked me whether it was a good time to buy a new iMac. I thought about it for a moment, and I was ambivalent about an answer. You see it’s not quite as easy as it used to be to guess Apple’s moves. As you probably […]

In writing about the problems Microsoft is facing in finishing up Windows Vista, some of you have mistaken this for a Mac zealots versus PC zealots issue. But that’s not true. Vista’s troubled development process is well known, and when people recognized as Windows experts find serious issues with stability, performance and the user interface, […]

They say if you repeat a logical rumor long enough, it’ll come true. So many of you awoke to learn that the iBook is history, replaced by a 13.3 widescreen MacBook. Starting at $1,099, $100 more than its predecessor, it sports a 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo Processor, 60GB drive, gigabit Ethernet, iSight camera, Front Row […]

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 […]