Some people who bought new MacBook Pros have been complaining about poor battery life. While Apple claims up to 10 hours, there are reports of users getting as little as half that. Some of these reports indicate that the display of estimated battery usage descends rapidly under normal use. The Tuesday launch of the macOS 10.12.2 […]

Meeting customer demands for new products is an impossible task. But some companies try, with loads of products in their lineups that differ only slightly. So normally a TV maker will have several groups of products at different price ranges with various features and specs to separate the cheap, cheapest. mid-priced and the high-end, with […]

Shortly before I began to write this column, I saw a TV ad for the new MacBook Pro. The only memorable part was the flashy deomonstration of the joys of the Touch Bar, and it is the tentpole feature of the new notebooks. The rest isn’t quite so important. It doesn’t matter that it’s thinner […]

You can say the launch of an all-new Apple gadget may at times be troublesome. While some of you may feel that Apple’s quality control has taken a nosedive in recent years — and you want to blame Tim Cook for it — that’s not quite true. Every so often a new Apple device arrives that […]