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    The 802.11n Reality Check

    February 21st, 2007

    Understand that the new, higher-speed Wi-Fi protocol, known as 80211.n, hasn’t been approved yet. Instead, what you have now are “draft” standards, which simply means it’s a work in progress, something akin to beta software. That hasn’t stopped companies from selling computers and routers that support the new technology. Yet maybe it would be akin […]


    Apple and Memory: Tossing Conventional Wisdom on its Ear

    January 22nd, 2005

    For years, I have been complaining that Apple shortchanges Mac users on RAM. Starting with System 7.0 in the early 1990s, I regularly attacked Apple for selling computers memory starved computers. Now it seems I may have to backtrack on some of those statements. But don’t get me wrong: I would like to see all […]