Let me get right to the point: I really don’t see any further point in making further predictions about Apple’s new notebooks, with the event close at hand, and probably here for many of you when you read this column.
In passing, though, I might suggest that Apple has staged a major effort to fuel the [...]

I remember when the first PowerPC-based Mac came out in 1994. Despite the promise of greatly-increased performance, my initial encounter was a huge let-down, mostly because there wasn’t a lot of software supporting the new processor. So just about everything, including large portions of the Mac OS, ran in 68K emulation, where performance was reduced [...]

With worldwide Leopard coming out parties, and lots and lots of copies arriving the very first day Mac OS 10.5 is out — and maybe sooner if you can believe some reports — you’d almost expect massive upgrades being performed over a period of several days.
This is a vision that seems real enough, although [...]