That 1984 commercial for the Apple Macintosh, directed by Ridley Scott and influenced by George Orwell’s “1984,” has become the stuff of legend. To some, it was the greatest TV spot ever. It may also be that Apple never, ever, scaled those heights again when it came to advertising, and that includes the original “Think […]

The story continues. Macs are expensive and PCs are cheap. If you just want a basic computer to get online, run Word, and handle email, you can do perfectly fine with an entry-level Dell, and I see them for as little as $329.99 at the company’s online store. Compare that, they tell you, to the […]

Any day now, Apple’s long-awaited Mac Pro refresh will go on sale. Before you consider the spectacular looks that convey the impression of a fashion statement as much as a powerful technological tool, you want to consider the fact that it was long believed that Apple didn’t care about power users. It was all about […]

The news has come down that Windows 8.1 may be getting somewhat more popular. Well at least it’s on more computers than OS X Mavericks, based on a survey from Net Applications, which records Web traffic. While this may be considered significant to some, it’s really not so significant, particularly when you compare Microsoft’s latest […]