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    If a Rumor Fails, Try, Try Again

    May 11th, 2006

    Back in December, folks who like to talk about possible new Apple products speculated that the first round of MacIntels would be confined to the consumer computer lines. I’m not sure where these ideas came from, and I’ll be charitable and suggest that “informed sources” were involved in at least a few of these cases. […]


    The Secret of Improving Rosetta’s Performance

    January 28th, 2006

    Way back when, when the first Power Macs hit the streets, I found performance with older Mac apps to be perfectly awful. It seemed as if I had gone back two generations in chip design, from the PowerPC to the 68030, and that was being generous. So when another emulation scheme was announced, Rosetta, which […]


    The Apple/Intel Report: Should You Buy a Power Mac Now?

    October 29th, 2005

    Give me a break. Some of the statements I’ve read in recent days about whether the latest refresh of the Power Mac line is worth your attention seem downright silly. They usually go like this, and I’m not singling out any specific person for criticism here, but: Apple is moving to Intel beginning next year. […]


    The One Paragraph iMac/eMac Update Report

    May 7th, 2005

    With its second generation iMac G5, Apple has upgraded its cool all-in-one desktop to better serve the business user. While the increase in processor speed to 1.8GHz and 2.0GHz is welcome, and certainly it’s nice to have an ATI Radeon 9600 graphics chip with 128MB, the real improvement is the addition of Gigabit Ethernet. That’s […]