apple-computers
Windows vs Mac
Olivier Prud’homme decided to respond, at length, to my post on five ways Windows Vista is better than Mac OS X. The operating system wars will never subside, but if we could just stop talking in circles for one moment – maybe we could learn a thing or two about the OSes we choose not [...]
MacBook Air Review: Stupid Decision?
Calacanis loves his, but I’m not so sure the MacBook Air is everything it’s cracked up to be. Roshan Patel submitted a “Top Five Reasons I Wouldn’t Buy a MacBook Air” this morning, after watching my recent one-second review on YouTube: No Optical (CD/DVD) Drive. I know that during the unveil at MacWorld, it was [...]
Is Apple Proprietary?
Ross Snowden and I have been interacting online for a while. He emailed me again last night: I watched a video (or perhaps it was the live feed on your site) a couple of evenings ago. You were reading a letter you received from someone who mentioned they might consider switching to the Mac operating [...]
Penryn Mac Pro
34skyline is a curious community member: Chris just wondering what are your thoughts on the Penryn Mac Pro, and why hasn’t Apple jump on the Blu-ray band wagon yet? I’m planning on getting the new MacPro 8 Core 3.2ghz 45nm processors, 2 300gb 15,000rpm SAS, 512MBGeforce 8800 GT, 2 SuperDrives, Airport Extreme, i’ve saving up [...]
OS X Finder Tips
From my Mac genius friend, ‘Darwin9′… File Paths? In the Finder, if you select the View menu | Show Path Bar, you get an interactive path bar along the bottom of the Finder window. By interactive, I mean you can drag files to each folder in the path bar allowing you to easily move content [...]
Mac Myths
I’m going to keep this person’s name anonymous for the time being, because I’m sure he’d get flamed out of existence for admitting to believing in these stereotypical myths about Macs. Allow me to provide a list of reasons why I don’t like macs. If you really want to prove their equality to a Windows [...]
Mac Questions and Answers
Andre Andraos asks: I’m buying a new laptop (Macbook Pro), and was contemplating whether I should get glossy or matte finish screen. What are advantaged and disadvantaged to each? I am using this laptop both indoors and out, and planning to use it for: playing high-end games, schoolwork, web and graphic designing, computer programs, etc. [...]
Mac OS X Leopard UI Inconsistencies
When I was asked by Jim Allchin to go through Vista betas with a fine-toothed comb, I did – and I knew my feedback would be sent to the proper teams. If I knew that the right person at Apple was listening, I’d likely compile a similar (lengthy) list of Leopard UI oversights, inconsistencies, and [...]
Mac OS X Leopard Community Commentary
I’ve never done this before, but I was reading the responses in Steve’s Top Five Reasons that Leopard will be Apple’s tipping point and felt compelled to address some of them in a space where my readers might benefit. I hope Steve doesn’t mind. I’m keeping all grammatical / spelling errors intact: Geoff ~ “Boot [...]
Leopard: The Wow Really Starts Now
This page outlines 300+ new features in Mac OS X (Leopard), but I wanted to call your attention to just a few of the changes that made me leap out of my seat and scream “WOW!” Address Book: View a detailed map of any address in Address Book. Just hold down the Control key while [...]
