Despite claims that Leopard may have been a disaster in the making, perhaps as tragic as Windows Vista, the early chatter about persistent bugs and massive dissatisfaction appears to be mostly wrong. According to Steve Jobs, during last week’s Macworld Expo keynote, some five million copies have been sold since Leopard’s release in late October, […]

I’m sure many of you were blindsided when Apple quietly upgraded the Mac Pro and the Xserve to use the new Intel “Harpertown” Xeon chips, code-named Penryn. Now it’s perfectly clear that this is a worthwhile upgrade. The new chips are not only faster, but cooler running, consuming less power. So those of you with […]

What’s the definition of a show-stopping bug? Well, how about something that can result in lost data? Certainly that ranks number one on my book, ahead of a problem that just makes your Mac crash. Well, I suppose the latter can also result in lost or corrupted files, but if you save regularly, and perform […]

Yesterday’s commentary, about bringing back Classic Mac OS features, scored more comments than any article I’ve written in recent days. No, it’s not the result of my peerless prose, although I do hope that helped a bit. Instead, I made some argumentst that struck a nerve or two on the part of many long-time and […]