In recent months, I’ve suggested that Apple ought to consider a professional version of the iMac, a model offering higher-end parts to better satisfy the needs of Mac creatives. At first, there wasn’t much response, until Apple called several journalists to their Cupertino, CA campus for a roundtable. During that session, they promised that an […]

So Apple quietly made a move that isn’t endearing the company to some Mac users. In the macOS Sierra 10.12.2 update, the “time remaining” display for notebooks was unceremoniously zapped, or at least the graphical display of that information  The reasoning is evidently that it’s just not accurate, since it essentially displays momentary power usage which is […]

Meeting customer demands for new products is an impossible task. But some companies try, with loads of products in their lineups that differ only slightly. So normally a TV maker will have several groups of products at different price ranges with various features and specs to separate the cheap, cheapest. mid-priced and the high-end, with […]

You can say the launch of an all-new Apple gadget may at times be troublesome. While some of you may feel that Apple’s quality control has taken a nosedive in recent years — and you want to blame Tim Cook for it — that’s not quite true. Every so often a new Apple device arrives that […]