When Steve Jobs introduced the latest incarnation of the MacBook Air last fall, he made it perfectly clear that you were seeing the Mac portable computer of the future. In the past, the Air had been the poor stepchild for the rest of the lineup, reportedly with middling sales, but sufficient to keep Apple’s faith […]

Just moments before I started writing this article, I listened to an ad on a local talk station that aptly summarizes the Mac versus PC argument in less than a minute. The announcer asked whether the listener would finally follow their New Year’s Resolution to fix serious problems on their PC? What problems? Well, slow […]

The original prediction had it that Apple’s brand spanking new Mac App Store would arrive at Noon Eastern Thursday, but it went live hours earlier, in sync with the arrival of the Mac OS 10.6.6 update. I assume, for the moment, that most of you who are using Snow Leopard did see signs of that […]

In one of this cute and funny Mac versus PC ads, which are sadly no longer being produced, the Mac personification, as portrayed by actor Justin Long, reminded the PC (as portrayed by John Hodgman), that there are over 100,000 Windows viruses, but not on the Mac. Now this particular phrase became controversial, because you […]