The 15-inch MacBook rumors are hard to ignore — Since my M2 Pro Mac mini arrived at the end of January I’ve been largely ignoring the rumors about which Macs will come next. Instead, I’ve been content to take advantage of the amazing Mac mini, recently knocking out the latest update to my golf-themed Wordle app, Word Golf Ace…

The truth will set you free. Or not. It’s entirely up to you — I broke my rule again. I knew before I wrote it that a story about how expensive Macs are compared to PCs was going to generate negative responses. I didn’t write it for that reason. If anything, that fact almost kept me from writing the story (I actively try to…

Everyone. Everywhere. All at once. — In the fall of 2016, I bought a 13-inch MacBook Pro with an Intel Skylake processor. Little did I know it would be my last Mac laptop with an Intel CPU, an outcome largely dictated by Intel’s failure to maintain its tick-tock (die shrink/microarchitecture) production model. Intel’s production woes had…

A tale of two computer purchases — I’ve already written two Medium stories about my purchase of the M2 Pro Mac mini. One describes how powerful the computer is and another discusses how it improved the development process for my golf-themed Wordle app, Word Golf Ace. Now I’ve been prompted to write a third story after my…

Taking app development to the next level with Apple’s latest M-series silicon — When my M2 Pro Mac mini arrived on January 25 the first thing I did was run some benchmark tests against the computer it was replacing, an M1 MacBook Air. Geekbench tests run on the two Macs scored the Mac mini having almost twice the multi-core processing power of the…

One of Apple’s most powerful Macs is also its biggest value — I’ve been looking forward to Apple’s launch of the M2 Pro Mac mini since October when I spent a significant amount of time waiting for Xcode builds to complete as I updated my apps for the latest Apple devices (you can read about it here). Once I saw the announcement…

Will Apple Once Again Redefine A Product Category? — Technology products live and die with killer apps¹. It has ever been thus. Personal computers were overlooked for a decade before Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston released VisiCalc in 1979, causing Apple II sales to skyrocket, and in turn awakening a sleeping giant: The fact that Apple II’s and VisiCalc…

The soon-to-be best value in desktop computing is almost here — I’ve been waiting for Apple to release the M2 Pro Mac mini ever since it took Xcode 417 seconds to archive one of my iPhone apps while running on my M1 MacBook Air. At the time, rumors were split between 5nm M2 Pro-based Macs shipping in 2022 and 3nm M2…

Introducing Word Golf Ace, bringing Wordle-as-golf to life — Do a search for “popular five-letter word games” and the results are all about Wordle. And with good reason. After years of gestation, the game became a sensation once its creator, Josh Wardle, developed an easy-to-play, web-based version with the ability for players to share their daily results as emoji…