OS X

With the ruling on the weekend, and Apple lawyers putting the final stake in rogue company Psystar’s heart, it is clear to see that you just don’t mess with the legal system put in place by the computer industry, which may be the thing that people hate most.
The article I posted concerning the dubious usage [...]

While perusing the ComputerWorld site, I found that ex-PCWorld editor-in-chief Harry McCracken has penned a series of six articles to ease the Windows user into the use of a modern Mac.
In the articles covered are making the jump, getting around at first on OS X, getting your files moved to the new machine, running Windows [...]

During the time I have been involved with computers, there have been several would-be competitors to Apple, but none has held on as long as Florida company Psystar.
In the early days, the cloning revolved around building a similar motherboard, and then actually physically copying the ROMs  of the Apple machine. Though I never was interested [...]

It was pretty amazing when startup company Psystar decided to make its own Hackintosh, as Apple had fought and won against other upstart companies trying to horn in on their business. When the court battle was announced, the smart money was on the quick removal of this little thorn from Apple’s side, and never hearing [...]

While I was seeing a lot of small time carping about Apple’s latest project, Snow Leopard, or OS 10.6, I had thought that, with the exception of the lack of ZFS, it was all the ravings of the Microsoft glitterati, ready to gripe about anything not bearing the Windows flag.
On slashdot however, there is something [...]

Those of use who follow this knew it could not be long. Opera 10 betas kept removing any little problems left in the initial shakedown of the product. Now, for those who can’t wait, or are having perhaps a last little bit of trouble with one of the betas, the Release Candidate is available, to [...]

I just finished reading an article on NetworkWorld,  written by someone who states that he uses both OS X and Windows, and that Apple suddenly no longer can kick Windows around based of five reasons he cites in the article.
I don’t use OS X on a daily basis, but I do use Windows daily, and [...]

over at PC Magazine. It must be that, because the top of the page has tips for switching to Mac on one side, and a story from John Dvorak about the time coming to download Ubuntu.
Now I have seen Dvorak, in print, long enough to know he has never been in on the hit-you-in-the-face Microsoft [...]

From ZDNet this morning, an article that speaks of the changes that must be made to Windows 7, in order to make it palatable to the masses, lists 5 things at the top of the heap.
Jason Hiner makes the case for big changes starting with speeding up the execution of code, noting that, shutting off [...]