I suppose I could get a cheap laugh and say that the next maintenance update to Tiger, after Tuesday’s 10.4.9 update, would be 10.5.0, but that isn’t true. It would probably be 10.4.10, assuming another update is forthcoming. However, unless 10.4.9 has the ultimate show-stopper when it comes to defects, I don’t see it happening, […]

Well, maybe it’s not a new feature, but most of you haven’t seen it before. But I’m getting ahead of myself. In the meantime, I do not believe it’s the last Tiger update, as there’s plenty of time between now and the expected release of Leopard to allow for another fixer-upper or two. If you […]

To some, the new MacBook is five months late. The rumor sites predicted its arrival at Macworld Expo in January, but we got the MacBook Pro instead. However, spending two grand on a note-book computer isn’t so easy for many of you, and the aging iBook line wasn’t the best possible alternative. This time, Apple […]

Among the various and sundry peripherals you might connect to your new Mac, a modem seems relatively benign. I mean, it’s not as if it represents a new technology, and the only reason you need to buy one these days is because Apple has decreed that we all should have broadband access. And that’s in […]