I’m writing this post on my brand-new 11″ Macbook Air. While it’s not exactly the laptop I’ve been hoping Apple would make for years now (basically since they dropped the 12″ iBook), it’s damn close. I find it positively mind-boggling that a functioning computer can weigh so little and be so small. Of course, that [...]
“What do you use for doing [task] on your Mac?” It’s a question that comes up, if not often, then with some degree of regularity. It’s also a question I ask fellow Mac users, in the hopes of either a) confirming I’m using the best tool for the job, or b) learning about something new [...]
Continuing a long, long history of such rumors, AppleInsider.com posted yet another “The tablet is coming! The tablet is coming!” article last Friday. Adding fuel to the fire, which has been burning for some time now, on Monday the Financial Times published a piece suggesting said tablet could be arriving (or at least announced) as [...]
I’m pleased to report that I’m writing this post (and wrote the previous one, for that matter) on a shiny new 24″ iMac. Yep, Apple finally got me one that worked. And they even apologized for it. Not long after publishing my earlier post on the dead iMac saga, I received a lovely automated email [...]
(Note: If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you may have already caught wind of this…) Last Monday I ordered a new iMac for myself. Rather than go with one of their stock configurations, I customized mine a bit, upgrading the 2.93ghz machine with the ATI Radeon 4850 video card. I’m not a gamer, [...]
So it’s about time I started writing in this blog. Bear with me; I’ve written very little the last several years so the ride is likely to be a bit bumpy at first. My prose will improve over time. I hope. Anyway, of the many topics I plan on covering in this space, I’d like [...]