The other day, I was interviewing MacFixIt’s Ben Wilson for one of his periodic slots on The Tech Night Owl LIVE. During the conversation, he remarked that reader surveys had shown that the recent 10.4.10 update for Tiger was the most troublesome in recent memory. This surprised me, largely because I never seem to have […]

A couple of months back, a friend called and asked me whether it was a good time to buy a new iMac. I thought about it for a moment, and I was ambivalent about an answer. You see it’s not quite as easy as it used to be to guess Apple’s moves. As you probably […]

You know, it’s very rare for Apple to announce a serious delay in a new product these days. More often than not, deadlines are met, give or take a few weeks, or the things ship early. Take the transition to Intel processors as an example of an amazingly speedy migration. However, after weeks and weeks […]

I can tell you that the number of prospects for running Windows or Windows applications on your Intel-based Mac can make you dizzy. Decisions, decisions! How do you choose the best option for you? The first consideration, of course, is whether you actually need Windows. Maybe you’ve just switched to the Mac and you feel […]