How Tripp Mickle’s Book ‘After Steve’ Gets it Wrong — I’m no Apple expert. I mean sure, I learned to code on an Apple II back in 1981, and I kept tabs on Apple in the weekly tech press¹ after landing a job on the StarLAN team at Bell Labs in 1985. But back then Apple never rose above the…

Get ready to feel nostalgic for a time when Apple’s future was ahead of it — I’m a little behind in my podcast listening, so I only just recently played episode 353 of The Talk Show, in which John Gruber interviews Michael Steeber about his Shop Different Mac app that allows users to walk through four of Apple’s original retail stores: Tysons Corner, Stanford Shopping Center…

Casey Liss finally comes through — I’ve been a disgruntled cable TV subscriber ever since my provider started charging a monthly rental fee on their cable boxes. It was bad enough that I had unwanted hardware installed next to each of my televisions, but now I’d be paying an additional $792 a year for that privilege…

It will be more than twice as fast as the first Apple silicon Macs — My upgrade to the M1 MacBook Air has been fantastic. It’s five to ten times faster running Xcode than the 2016 13-inch MacBook Pro it replaced. And even though it’s smaller and lighter, it provides over three times the battery life, so I no longer need to carry the power…

Intel is refusing to go quietly into that good night. — Back in the summer of 2008, Intel was riding high as it celebrated the 40th anniversary of its founding by industry pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. …

Apple is going back to the future with an all-new MacBook — Seventeen years ago, at WWDC 2005, Apple leapt into the future when Steve Jobs announced the transition from the PowerPC to Intel processors. Eleven months later Apple completed its transition to Intel-based laptops with the all-new, entry-level MacBook. …

Apple’s next Mac launch will confound the MacBook Air rumors — In the month leading up to Apple’s spring event, the rumor mill was fixated on a potential update to the Mac mini. On February 12th, Macworld predicted the arrival of a “souped-up Mac mini”. On February 17th, Notebookcheck speculated that Apple would release a “Mac mini Pro”. …

The latest Apple leaks lead to only one logical conclusion — This week’s report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has Apple testing a new “entry-level MacBook Pro with an M2 chip, codenamed J493”. That statement brought to mind what Luke Skywalker said to Kylo Ren in The Last Jedi on the barren mineral planet Crait, “Amazing. …

A tale of two MacBooks — It’s just over a month since Apple launched the M1 Ultra. You know, “the world’s most powerful chip for a personal computer.” With 114 billion transistors and the groundbreaking UltraFusion architecture. That was nice, but what’s next?¹ Based on the latest rumors, it appears to be the M2 MacBook Air…