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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The greatest value in the Apple store is no more, at least not until 2009. One-to-One personal training, crazy cheap at $99 for up to 52 weekly sessions of 50 minutes, has been suspended until after the holidays. Apple sent a message advising everybody their one-year subscription to the service has been extended by one [...]