All right, so we know that Apple doesn’t really like trade shows, and I’m sure some of you feel that maybe this year’s announcements were toned down and Steve Jobs pulled from their final keynote to send a message to you and, of course, to the folks who run the Macworld Expo. While I don’t […]

At one time, Apple had to endure the accusation that they were overcharging for their products. You had to pay the alleged “Apple Tax” if you went Mac, whereas the PC was clearly a whole lot cheaper. Well, these days that’s not quite true. When you compare a Mac with name-brand PCs with similar hardware […]

Hardly a day passes where someone, somewhere, doesn’t report some new, different or supposedly fascinating news about Apple Inc. It seems as if the media just can’t stop talking about the company, even if there isn’t a whole lot to talk about. Well, in the case of the sliding economy, I suppose there are plenty […]

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 […]