The worst thing a personal computer operating system can do, aside from crashing a lot, is to destroy your data. Indeed, a bug of this sort ought to be a show-stopper, but if you believe all those lurid headlines, such a defect was allowed to remain in Leopard when it was released. If it sounds […]

When a friend asked me to help him install Boot Camp and Windows XP on his MacBook Pro, I wanted to make sure he understood that it wasn’t going to be cheap. I explained that, unless I spent a little time shopping around for him, he’d be spending around $200 for the Home edition and […]