So a client calls me to set up his spanking new MacBook, an operation that I took to be utterly routine, having done that sort of thing for years with different Macs. Arriving at his home, I realized I had forgotten to take my FireWire cable — he had purchased the white MacBook entry-level model, […]

Appearing only a few months after Apple claimed it wouldn’t enter the low-cost PC segment, the Mac mini has been an unheralded hero to many of you. It is used for everything from serving up Web pages to point-of-sale and front office applications, but Apple continues to pretend it doesn’t exist. The visual appeal is […]

Although my ego is larger than normal–which is why I choose to remain in the public eye–I am not one to say “I told you so” when I am proven right, while others are proven wrong. But when someone calls folks like me “deluded” for suggesting that it made sense for Apple to build a […]