It seems that every time Apple is close to a new release of Mac OS X, I’m here begging and pleading for a decent upgrade path for recent purchasers of new Macs or the previous Mac OS upgrade box. Of course, Apple doesn’t pay attention and they do what they planned to do anyway. However, […]

The other day I received a letter from a reader wondering whether he’d get a discount on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard if he bought a new Mac for Christmas. He hadn’t been following the news lately, so he wasn’t aware that it won’t actually ship until the spring of next year. Here’s what I told […]

I had a pleasant conversation Monday with Owen Linzmayer, best known as author of “Apple Confidential 2.0.” He’s also written a pair of articles for InformIT.com, in which he complains about Tiger features he doesn’t like. To be sure, not all of the responses he’s received have been very pleasant, and some readers have expressed […]