Apple has a thing for relatively small, sexy form factors with complicated internal designs. Sometimes they are difficult to assemble, and sometimes the promise of elegance isn’t fulfilled. Perhaps the Power Mac G4 Cube was a prime example of the obsessive focus on a cool design to the exclusion of practicality. It was also overpriced […]

Just the other day, the pundits started ranting about yet another technology that Apple is evidently discarding. This comes as the result of the decision to deprecate Java — in other words stop development — as of the release of Mac OS X Lion next year. Now Java is a cross-platform development tool that’s quite […]

The other day I read a short article at Microsoft’s Mac Mojo blog that revealed that the Mac version of Office contained some 30 million lines of code. And that’s now, while they are still creating the next version of the productivity suite. You can expect that awesome number to grow by leaps and bounds […]