You have to consider how far the iMac has come. Back in 1998, it was an offbeat looking entry-level all-in-one computer. In fact, I was a member of Apple’s Customer Quality Feedback group at the time, which consisted of regular people who evaluated Apple’s hardware and software products. During the last few months in which […]

After loads of speculation about what Apple might or might not be up to, it was a busy week, and I’m not just referring to the annual shareholder’s meeting, or those tabloid stories about the state of Steve Jobs’ health as he prepared to celebrate his 56th birthday. There were also troubling rumors that the […]

When the first iMac arrived in 1998, loads of Mac users — and the usual skeptics — complained about what you lost. Where was the SCSI port? Where do you connect a mouse and a printer? And no floppy drive? How dare they? As you may recall, the original Bondi Blue iMac had Ethernet and […]

When Steve Jobs introduced the latest incarnation of the MacBook Air last fall, he made it perfectly clear that you were seeing the Mac portable computer of the future. In the past, the Air had been the poor stepchild for the rest of the lineup, reportedly with middling sales, but sufficient to keep Apple’s faith […]