You can live in a vacuum and maintain that recent claims that the Mac is highly susceptible to malware are false. You could take a more cautious approach and buy the full package of protection software. Today that would include anti-virus, firewall and anti-spam capabilities and there’s even an anti-spyware application out there, although I’m […]

Sometimes I wonder if a few tech commentators just want to make waves, rather than say anything useful, let alone factual. Consider the case of USA Today’s Andrew Kantor, who recently came out with the outlandish suggestion that people, once properly exposed to Windows XP courtesy of Apple’s Boot Camp, would ditch the Mac OS […]

Apple has raised expectations about its next operating system big time by the release of Boot Camp. It was sufficient to change the dialog and certainly divert attention from Windows Vista, except that one now assumes it will run on Intel-based Macs whenever it is finally released. Aside from a way to run Windows with […]

Despite all the undeniable advantages of Apple’s Boot Camp, it has one serious shortcoming: You have to reboot to switch between the Mac OS and Windows. Now this may not be so serious a matter if you can exist in one environment or the other for an extended period of time, or you need performance […]