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Apple’s Notebook Update Mostly Ignores 17-inch MacBook Pro

October 14th, 2008

Most of you know that I am addicted to the 17-inch form factor for my notebooks. I first bought a 17-inch PowerBook G4, the one with the 1.33GHz processor, shortly after it was released in late 2003. After a couple of years of regular use, it passed on to my son, Grayson, who later sold [...]


Apple’s Financials: Finding a Way to Turn Good News to Bad

July 22nd, 2008

All right, so Apple can’t even sit back and celebrate its record 3rd fiscal quarter profits without seeing its stock price plummet again. As usual, the reasons are complicated, and probably only related in part to the company’s actual performance or their immediate expectations for the current financial quarter.
Although one press report erroneously stated that [...]


Just Another Mac Hardware Reliability Rant

May 19th, 2008

When I recently read the results of the reliability survey from readers of Consumer Reports, I had to wonder why Apple was dead last on the list among notebooks, with a rating of 23. While this was not statistically significant compared to the 20 rating granted Lenovo, it seems to portend a potential trouble spot for [...]