Category: Mac computers
More About the New MacBooks
Jason Snell, editorial director of MacWorld Magazine, provides perhaps the best detailed look at the new Apple MacBook laptops. If there seems to be a weakness in the new model of MacBook, it is the curious lack of a Firewire port to enable high speed transfer of data to an external drive, a major drawback, [...]
Steve Jobs Is Not Dead
Bloomberg, the financial newswire service, accidentally published its 17-page obituary for Apple Co-Founder and CEO Steve Jobs. The news service said it was updating the document when it was inadvertently published online. “An incomplete story referencing Apple Inc. was inadvertently published by Bloomberg News at 4:27 p.m. New York time today,” Bloomberg said. “The item [...]
Apple Wins on Campus
At a time when Dell continues to define an old style of technology by announcing it would get into the online music business … trailing nearly everyone from Apple to Wal-mart … it seems as if Apple increases its rule on many college campuses. Today’s New York Times has a terrific story about how Freed-Hardeman [...]
An Apple Store is Robbed!
It must be an unfortunate sign of our times. My neighborhood Apple store in the Clarendon shopping area of Arlington, Virginia, was robbed yesterday morning about 4 a.m. by persons who appeared to be organized and bold. They wore masks, apparently knowing that the store has multiple security cameras (which caught everything, I am told). [...]
Good Headlines, Bad Headlines
A acquaintance writes on Facebook today, “Dear Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer: Vista sucks! Vista is slow on my fast Lenovo x61 with 4GB RAM! [expletive deleted] Driving me to Mac!?” The opinion he expresses is but the latest in a chorus of complaints and news headlines about the significant shortcomings of Windows Vista, the [...]
CCC for Mac Leopard
As anyone who follows my ramblings on this blog will know, I am an enthusiastic fan of Apple computers. I tolerated Windows for years and years, and even built Windows-powered PCs for my family. There is nothing worse than trying to focus on writing a book or document only to have the plagues endemic to [...]
