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    Apple and the Lost Data Syndrome

    October 14th, 2009

    Looking at the recent problems with the T-Mobile Sidekick smartphone and Microsoft’s Danger affiliate, it’s easy to forget that not all potential data loss problems can be blamed on the Dark Side of the computing universe. You see, Apple has had problems to contend with as well. Consider a certain Mac OS X upgrade, where […]


    Newsletter #480 Preview: Are Leopard Bugs a Thing of the Past at Long Last?

    February 8th, 2009

    As regular readers know, I’m not one to take Mac troubleshooting sites as seriously as I used to. In one tragic case, one of those sources, which has had a couple of ownership changes, has managed to pretty much lose its hard-won reputation for accuracy. These days, if they’re not just taking a few random […]


    The Great Hardware Pitch: The Midrange Tower Revisited

    March 4th, 2008

    Do you remember the Mac IIci? Well, that compact and ultra-efficient box (which first premiered as the IIcx) had sufficient space for three peripheral expansion slots, a cache card slot and room for 8 RAM sticks; the latter is the same as today’s Mac Pro, by the way. Of course, you can substitute an optical […]


    The Mac Report: No Surprises From Apple

    August 7th, 2007

    As soon as Apple contacted selected members of the media and summoned them for a briefing at its corporate campus in Cupertino, speculation mounted as to what new developments have been wrought. For the most part, that speculation was, amazingly enough, almost right on the money, close enough that you begin to think that maybe […]