Over the next few weeks, you’ll be seeing lots and lots of benchmarks for Apple’s eight-core, 3GHz Mac Pro. Perhaps the fundamental question to be answered is whether it’s really worth paying a $1,498 surcharge over a pair of dual-core 2GHz Intel Xeons to get one. Call this a preliminary and largely cursory analysis, based […]

Did he say two? Yes he did, for in addition to celebrating its 30th anniversary on Saturday, April 1st, Apple this week observes the fifth anniversary of Mac OS X. Yes, it’s hard to imagine that Apple’s “world’s greatest operating system” first made its debut in March, 2001. Now if you want to be highly […]

After a few years of promising and then failing to deliver its industrial-strength operating system, Apple changed its tack. First, there was a Public Beta version in September of 2000 to prove Mac OS X was for real, and then it clamped down. New versions are now demonstrated and then seeded to developers strictly to […]