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    Newsletter #505 Preview: The End of PowerPC Support is Close at Hand

    August 2nd, 2009

    I have to think that the PowerPC never really attained its true potential, but that’s not Apple’s fault. First Motorola and then IBM failed to deliver the speedier chips Apple needed to keep up with the rapidly-advancing X86 platform. Both AMD and Intel kept moving ahead, whereas Apple’s chip partners languished and failed to deliver […]


    The Mac Hardware Report: No More Price Cuts for Now

    July 2nd, 2009

    In case you haven’t heard, Apple’s sales are on the rise, and the analysts are scrambling to figure out just what’s going on. Of course, the first theory is that it’s all resulting from the price reductions for most Mac portable computers at the WWDC, but that simply doesn’t wash. You see, the sales bump […]