You’ve probably read a few of these articles by now, offering what is supposed to be an actual cost comparison between buying Mac OS X and buying Windows over a period of several yeras. But regardless of the conclusions, and some are more accurate than others, most of the tech writers and bloggers actually ignore […]

When a friend asked me to help him install Boot Camp and Windows XP on his MacBook Pro, I wanted to make sure he understood that it wasn’t going to be cheap. I explained that, unless I spent a little time shopping around for him, he’d be spending around $200 for the Home edition and […]

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 […]

Aren’t you glad this isn’t another article about Apple’s transition to Intel chips? Besides, isn’t it time to take a further look at the possibilities of the version of the Mac OS that’s no doubt destined to compete against Longhorn, or whatever Microsoft calls its next version of Windows? To be sure, there will be […]