I’ve been reading all the rumors Of Apple’s new machine. Seems everyone knows just what it is Although it’s never been seen. Some say it’ll be a netbook; That’s what Chinese papers proclaim. Their track record has been spotty at best But we believe them all the same. Ot...

The Safari 4 beta was released a mere two weeks ago, and I sometimes feel as if the battle over title-bar tabs may already be over. The heavy hitters have weighed in, and it’s not looking good. There’s MacDailyNews: When the very first thing we did after the first day with Safari 4 Public Be...

In marked contrast to the disappointing Mac mini update today, the iMac’s upgrades make great strides in keeping the value proposition for this excellent desktop system. All the Basics First, we get all the stuff we expected: Newer Core 2 Duo processors w/ 6MB L2 cache Front-side bus speed of ...

So Apple updated the Mac mini today. It seems it’s pretty much everything the rumor sites were saying, and I can’t help being disappointed. In my look at the various rumors, one thing I stated was that the price was out of line. I based this on the value of the machine, not the usual ram...

Paul Thurrott has weighed in with his opinion of the new Safari 4 update, and he’s not impressed. While no surprise, it’s the manner in which he blasts the product (and, of course, Apple’s users) that was especially interesting. I was wondering how Thurrott was going to counter the...

Charles Moore wrote a great article about the unibody 13″ MacBook compared to the much-loved 12″ PowerBook. A friend of Charles argued that until the dimensions were nearly identical it could never be considered a replacement. Charles feels there’s a little more to it than that. I ...

In promoting his upcoming film, Objectified, a documentary maker published a photo (above) of Jony Ive from “inside Apple’s design facilities.” Naturally, tech bloggers the world over will examine the photo in detail in the hope that Apple slipped up and left something in the photo...

For quite a while (heck, pretty much forever), the knock on Apple has been that it’s overpriced, that the same thing can be had for much less elsewhere. A much more recent complaint is that somehow Apple never gets any critical reviews, it’s all just shoddy reporting. A couple of big hit...

With today’s news about the great update Apple made to the entry white MacBook, there are a couple things to wonder about. One, of course, is why was the model updated as opposed to being phased out like many thought would occur? I won’t dwell too much on this, but it doesn’t surpr...

Click image enlarge This past Friday, Apple advertised iPhone apps in the New York Times and also mentioned that there have been 300 million app downloads. While most people realize this is pretty amazing, there are some comments quickly rushing to pour water on the app store’s fire… How man...