As many of you recall, the original all-in-one Mac, released in 1984, was meant to be a true computing appliance, with absolutely no provision to upgrade. So if 128K of RAM wasn’t enough for your needs, that was just too bad. External serial ports were your sole enhancement options, and they were limited to peripheral […]

The other day, a blogger for a certain popular online publication listed five tablets that allegedly presented compelling alternatives to the iPad 3. After reading the article — and it doesn’t deserve a link — along with  similar rants about how the tech industry can really hold off the iPad onslaught, I’ve come to the […]

How could it be otherwise? The latest and greatest iPad became available for preorder on March 7th. Through Friday, you could even be assured of delivery by March 16th. But the news came down Saturday that demand was, as expected, “off the charts,” and the initial allocation for online delivery was gone. You could take your […]

So nearly all of the expectations about the third generation iPad essentially came to pass. The most significant new feature is the Retina Display, followed, perhaps, by LTE support, as if that’ll make much of a difference since most iPad users aren’t apt to want to download huge files; you’d be streaming (rather than downloading) […]