All right, so we know that Apple doesn’t really like trade shows, and I’m sure some of you feel that maybe this year’s announcements were toned down and Steve Jobs pulled from their final keynote to send a message to you and, of course, to the folks who run the Macworld Expo. While I don’t […]

Just so you know where I’m coming from, I am not a world-class industrial designer. I’m just a lowly scribe, and I don’t pretend to have degrees in art or architecture, or even engineering. So when I point out what I consider to be something screwy about an Apple design decision, take it as nothing […]

Last year, when the Mac mini first appeared, putty knives became both jokes and essential ingredients for new owners of the tiny desktop computer. Revisiting the problems one encountered adding memory to the first generation iMac and older Macs, Apple designed the mini to make RAM updates a chore. Unlike other Macs of recent vintage, […]