With its second generation iMac G5, Apple has upgraded its cool all-in-one desktop to better serve the business user. While the increase in processor speed to 1.8GHz and 2.0GHz is welcome, and certainly it’s nice to have an ATI Radeon 9600 graphics chip with 128MB, the real improvement is the addition of Gigabit Ethernet. That’s […]

Do you remember when you could depend on a updated PowerBook, Power Mac and so on every six months? Like clockwork, you knew pretty much when the existing models would reach end of life status, with newer versions in the wings. Well, it took nine months for today’s PowerBooks to receive a minor update. Power […]

For years, I have been complaining that Apple shortchanges Mac users on RAM. Starting with System 7.0 in the early 1990s, I regularly attacked Apple for selling computers memory starved computers. Now it seems I may have to backtrack on some of those statements. But don’t get me wrong: I would like to see all […]