Despite all the back and forth discussion about whether Macs are more expensive than equivalent Windows PC’s, it’s not always easy to argue against just buying something real when the budget is tight. So people run into the local discount store, and take home a $399 computer, complete with monitor, keyboard and mouse. Let’s forget […]

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 […]

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 […]