Every few months, another Mac gets an update. Except for the extra promotion about moving to unibody enclosures, and the last MacBook Air upgrade, the product refresh is announced with little more than a press release, and perhaps a few brief interview opportunities with senior Apple executives, but not Steve Jobs. More interesting is that […]

In recent years, there have been rumors that Apple has been experimenting with resolution independence in Mac OS X. This would mean that images and text would scale to whatever screen size and/or resolution your Mac is using without degrading image quality. Of course doing such a thing in the print medium is old news. […]

One of the more telling statistics from Apple’s quarterly financials this week is the fact that Mac sales are still growing ahead of the overall PC industry quarter after quarter. This time, Apple recorded a 28% sales boost over the same quarter last year, while the PC industry remained flat. Now maybe such arcane issues […]

I realize that the iPad 2 remains a huge sellout around the globe. Of course there have been concerns that the earthquake in Japan is disrupting the manufacturing process, because of the impending parts shortages. With most consumer electronics gear these days, parts and assembly equipment are sourced from a number of countries. Japan is […]