We ordered our first iPad for Bites HQ on Friday, dropping into the Apple online store to plunk down a $499 pre-order for a WiFi model with 16GB of memory. It was the minimal investment to get a business tool in our hands — and see what it might be worth.
It’s a beloved bromide that [...]

Apple announced this morning that it’s long-awaited, thoroughly-dissected, hotly-contested iPad will be available for pre-orders in one week, with deliveries to begin April 3. The company will start with its WiFi models first, then add the 3G-capable units by the end of April.
Devices can be ordered online starting next week, or pre-ordered from Apple’s retail [...]

A trade show is an odd thing, an entity that exists only in a brief span of time like a polliwog, a text message or an NBC talk show host’s gig. Afterward, it’s remembered best by those who were actually attending the conference, like last week’s Macworld Expo. But the Web is full of ace [...]

It was a surprising gaffe to see an Apple demo with a hole on Wednesday, when Steve Jobs did a demo of the new iPad. But there on the screen were holes in “the best way to browse the Web.”
Those holes on the browser’s screen were Flash videos, built in to sites like The New [...]

There’s apparently a lot to complain about since Apple launched the iPad era yesterday. A gauntlet of Engadget writers gave a series of ho-hum, “who-needs-it” reviews today. Some wanted to chide Apple for not reinventing the personal computer, especially after the rumor mills and hypesters had lifted this tablet to breakthrough status.
It still looks to [...]

It’s easy to forget how many strides Apple made since the Year 2000 to become a force in computing. This article from TechRadar.com sums up the magic, from the iPod to embracing Unix as the new Mac OS X to those stores jammed with customers for advice, repair and business counseling.
Here in Austin on Dec. [...]

Apple announced its new iMac and Mac mini systems today, but the smaller of these two Macs is bringing the biggest improvement in capability for small businesses. The iMacs with their 20- and 24-inch screens got modest bumps in speed, and each model got faster graphics, the latest implementation of Apple’s shift to NVIDIA. (Apple [...]

Inside the crowded halls of the Moscone Center the buzz runs steady today, as hundreds of products for Apple users make their debut from the third party community. Apple has limited its product announcements to a new suite of iWork and iLife apps, many which have significant upgrades. People are raving about the person and [...]

MacBook Pro owners face an eventual failure from their SuperDrive CD/DVD reader-writers. The 2006 batch of MB Pros all shipped with a fouled run of optical drive hardware. User after user complained and found failures in the only device that would load their new applications like Adobe’s Creative Suite or Microsoft’s Office Applications. Read the [...]

I managed to schedule a One-to-One training session at the local Apple Store today. The first available date was, sure, the Monday of the week following Christmas, December 29. What a coincidence, a date that follows the ultimate purchase and return week.
Anyway, for my meeting I’ll try to make some sense of what Apple has [...]