• Explore the magic and the mystery!


  • » Currently browsing posts tagged with: Intel

    Can You Survive Without a Desktop Mac?

    December 1st, 2009

    I first started using desktop Macs in the 1980s, not long after Apple first released the Macintosh, but it took several years before I could afford to bring one into my home. Well, actually it was a matter of necessity, to earn a living, but low-cost equipment leases were readily available to finance the $15,000 […]


    The Great AT&T/Verizon Wireless Smackdown

    November 25th, 2009

    It’s sometimes hard to believe that AT&T was once this huge telecommunications conglomerate that encompassed the entire length and breadth of the U.S. before an antitrust action separated Big Bell into Baby Bells. Well, mergers and acquisitions have fattened what was left of AT&T and Verizon, and left smaller players on the fringes. Qwest, another […]


    Newsletter Issue #519: Are Speed Bumps Hitting the Wall?

    November 8th, 2009

    In introducing the original Power Mac G5 at the WWDC in 2003, Steve Jobs said the brilliant engineers at IBM would have a 3GHz version within a year’s time. As you know, that never happened, and, a mere two years later, Apple signed with Intel and dumped the PowerPC for good. Yet it’s now six […]


    About that Silly 10.6.2 Speculation

    November 5th, 2009

    All right, you don’t have to possess an inside track at Apple or be a registered developer to pretty much know that more Snow Leopard maintenance updates are on the horizon. So I will readily accept the possibility that there is surely a 10.6.2 in our future, and it may even arrive by the time […]