There’s a general perception that Apple is greedy, that they will try to take you for every dime you have. Not all at once, of course, but in little increments. You buy a new Mac today, you’ll have to pay full price for an operating system upgrade every year or two. The Apple digital lifestyle [...]

Only a few days ago, I confessed that I was a regular user of Microsoft’s Entourage 2004. As an email client, I felt that it did everything I wanted. But I wasn’t totally happy, and maybe that’s my obsessive/compulsive streak. You see, it could be dog slow at times, even on the fastest PowerPC Mac. [...]