The other day I read an article in Macworld observing the 25th anniversary of the Mac, which will actually occur in January of 2009. Several writers suggested that the SE/30, introduced in 1989, was their favorite model — ever. In production less than two years, the SE/30 was basically an amalgam of the original Mac […]

One of the earliest superstitions bandied about when it came to a Mac was that it wasn’t a serious business computer. In those days, real computers used command line interfaces, and Apple’s graphical flourishes were meant as entertainment. You couldn’t, they said, get any real work done on one of those little boxes. But since […]

All right, I have your attention. But I’m perfectly serious. You see, I like to get a new note-book every two years or so, which is sufficient time for the older model to seem laggard compared to the latest and greatest hardware. So it would seem that 2008 is the right year for me to […]

Understand that the new, higher-speed Wi-Fi protocol, known as 80211.n, hasn’t been approved yet. Instead, what you have now are “draft” standards, which simply means it’s a work in progress, something akin to beta software. That hasn’t stopped companies from selling computers and routers that support the new technology. Yet maybe it would be akin […]