Several weeks after setting up a client with a new (make that refurbished) Mac mini, he phoned and said he needed a monitor. His aging CRT display had begun to show pictures with a green texture. The symptoms would sometimes vanish after a period of time, but that period had grown longer in recent weeks. [...]

You have to feel bad for Apple, really. Steve Jobs and his loyal crew are abandoning Freescale Semiconductor and IBM chips and moving to Intel to get faster, more power efficient parts. At the same time, the show must go on. It can’t stop updating existing products, even if it has to use more creative [...]