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    Some Mac Upgrade Reassurance

    June 1st, 2012

    Just this week, I read a report quoting Mac commentator Jim Dalrymple, Editor-in-Chief of The Loop, as saying that there’s no chance that Apple will discontinue the Mac Pro. Of course, when you ask Jim to expand on such pithy comments, you won’t receive any additional details But it’s also true that Jim almost always […]


    Desperate Measures to Get Businesses to Upgrade from Windows XP

    May 29th, 2012

    It may seem strange to read the stats, but over 45% of Windows users around the world are still using XP. We’re talking here of an operating system first released in 2001, the same year that the original release version of Mac OS X debuted. While XP’s share has slowly eroded over time, it actually […]


    Newsletter Issue #652: Getting Caught Up with Real or Imaginary Upgrades

    May 28th, 2012

    From almost the day that the iPhone 4s was released, Mac rumor sites, joined by the mainstream media, were busy informing you about a forthcoming “real” iPhone upgrade, the alleged iPhone 5. Just because Apple beefed up the parts, and added the Siri personal assistant, wasn’t sufficient. It looked the same as the previous model, […]


    Does Microsoft Have Any More Luster to Lose?

    May 24th, 2012

    More and more people no longer take Microsoft seriously nowadays, even though Windows maintains a substantial majority of the traditional personal computer operating system market. Indeed, recent surveys show that Windows users are continuing to dump the Internet Explorer browser, even though it has gotten far better in recent years. This anecdotal tidbit comes to […]