Some refer to the summer as the silly season, particularly if there’s not a lot of important national or world news to cover, and offbeat human interest stories are given undue emphasis. However, the tech industry is no less immune to such ills, and it can happen any time of the year, particularly when there’s […]

The other day, I got a letter from a long-time reader that, in part, disputed my contention that Macs were now priced similar to comparably-equipped Windows PCs. Why? Not because of any factual information, but because Consumer Reports magazine said so. This reaction is understandable, since Consumer Reports is supposed to be incorruptible. After all, […]

The word for today is “slash.” And that’s just what Apple did to the prices of the iPod mini and the iPod Photo. But it’s not just a price cut. Yes, the 4GB iPod mini, for example, is now priced at $199, which is the level some suggested it should have been in the first […]

At the heart of the claim that Macs are slower than Windows PCs is the perception that browsers run slower. A lot of that, of course, is based on the fact that Internet Explorer generally works a lot faster under Windows, simply because it’s optimized for that platform. Yet when I’ve done benchmarks of this […]