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    Newsletter Issue #944: A Reality Check About the Most Expensive Mac

    January 1st, 2018

    When the original Bondi blue iMac appeared in the summer of 1998, I would not have predicted where the product would go in the next 19 years. Not even close. At first, the iMac was marketed as a relatively low cost ($1,299) personal computer using repurposed PowerBook parts powering a 15-inch CRT display. At the […]


    Dock Your Smartphone?

    March 31st, 2017

    As I wrote in Wednesday’s column, the brand spanking new Samsung Galaxy S8 will be able to connect to a regular PC display and input devices. So you have an interesting slant on a 2-in-1 device — perhaps. This will be done courtesy of something called Dex, a dock, costing $150, to which you can connect the […]


    Some Early macOS Sierra Chatter

    September 23rd, 2016

    So as regular readers know, I updated my work iMac to macOS Sierra (the first Golden Master) last week, ahead of recording an interview for The Tech Night Owl LIVE. As I wrote at the time, I was foolhardy enough to do something that I might have avoided were I not in the tech business. […]


    Asking Apple to Slow Down

    July 13th, 2016

    The iOS refresh has been an annual event since the beginning. You can depend on learning about the next version a WWDC keynote and now, with an active public beta program, access to the new iOS within a month or so thereafter. While Apple had settled on longer cycles for the operating system formerly known as […]