It’s about time Apple. The company finally announces updates to their desktop product lineup by introducing new models and features to all three major desktop products - the Mac Pro, Mac mini, and iMac all-in-one. Don’t expect anything dramatic here. Most of the changes are small – with the mo...

So the Macworld keynote address came and went.. and the world is still in one piece. As a regular bystander, the keynote was a bit ho-hum.. Yes.. Apple announced new software releases (iLife’09 and iWork ‘09); yes there’s a new 17 inch MacBook Pro notebook… and yes.. there are changes to iTu...

Apple updated the iMac product lineup yesterday with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors as well as the fastest graphics ever available for this platform. The new Core 2 Duo processors feature a 1066 MHz front side bus and 6MB of L2 cache. The high end 24 inch iMac now comes with the NVIDIA GeFor...

About a month ago, I posted a little commentary about a project I wanted to embark on at home. The goal was to turn my Apple Mac mini into a full fledged Windows Vista system for the sole purpose of running Windows Media Center. Why embark on this project? Reason 1: It was about time I upgraded my o...

It’s spring time in the household and hence, I’ve been thinking about cleaning things up and starting on new projects. One project I’ve been contemplating for some time has been the upgrade or update of my home theater PC (HTPC). After many months of thinking how I might go about t...

Apple announced new updates to both their MacBook and MacBook Pro lineup of notebook systems. The new upgrades include the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, larger hard drives, and standard 2GB of memory for most models. The new MacBook Pros now include the latest NVIDIA GPUs with up to 512MB of v...