Apple announced this week their 3rd quarter earnings, and they looked great! Check them out if you have a chance, but the important numbers are about half a billion in profit, 1.3M Macs sold (second largest quarterly sales of Macs in history, and best since 1Q2000) and good iPod …

An article from Wired looks at a number of recent fear articles about Apple and tries to boil things down. The summary is that in the absence of exciting new announcements, every bit of bad press about Apple is making near- mainstream status. Further, Apple has had a number of …

I realize that now even CNet has gotten into the act with publicizing the defection of one long-time Macintosh user (Mark Pilgrim) and another who is making noise about possibly switching (Tim Bray of Sun). So, it's time to make some more noise about what's really happening. Unfortunately, I didn't …

The new Apple store in New York City (just off of Central Park) is being opened to the public today, and it's the last chance for the store to rest until it is shut down, if Apple keeps with their intention to run it 24x7x365. Pictures of the large glass …

Ridiculous Fish has another article working over a bad benchmark of OS X vs Linux and XP. It appears that the article has been rewritten or at least amended to deal with the fact that it was missing significant facts in the first place and so it may be replaced …

At least that's one man's opinion (actually, his wife's opinion) from the UK. In an article about switching to the Macintosh by Rob Manuel, he notes that among the many reasons he loves his Mac. Responses on his blog are typical mac vs. pc fodder, so probably not worth reading …

Because you just can't get enough articles about the Mac and security, here's a piece from Network World about how OS X isn't perfect, but seems to be in a better position than people discussing Apple's "arrogance" are willing to give it credit for.

An article from the Washington Post's Security Fix blog (by Brian Krebs) today indicates that Apple's mean time to fix a security flaw considered severe is about 90 days from the time of the report to the delivery of patches to customers via Software Update. [Note: a similar article about …

John Gruber, of Daring Fireball fame, has written a rebuttal of sorts to the AP article written by Dan Goodin earlier this week. The article is one of many to claim that the Mac virus threat is on the rise using anecdotal evidence and citations to what amount to the …

Apple's posted their new ads to their web site. The new series of six ads has the familiar simple music and plain background that we've come to associate with Mac advertising. Most of them are pretty funny, although we think that the "Better" ad seems to sell the Mac short …

The online Apple Store is indicating 24 hour shipment for the 2.16GHz Core Duo 17" MacBook Pro. Feature-wise, it adds Firewire 800 and a DL DVD burner. Other than that, the specs are basically as you would expect: 17" display instead of 15" and a bunch of the optional …

I understand if everybody takes this with a grain of salt given my particular predilection for Macintosh computers and OS X in particular, but there's been a lot of talk lately about the "increasing number" of found "security holes" on the OS X operating system. Unfortunately, the folks who find …

Andre Cantor, writing for USA Today, posits this article, where he honestly suggests that Boot Camp will encourage Mac users to switch to Windows. Where to begin? First, this guy is the technology writer and self-avowed "know-it-all" who covers technology for the Roanoke Times, a former editor for PC Magazine …

Just because there haven't been enough stories about running XP on your Macintosh, here's a new one: Parallels of Herndon, VA (that's right down the street) has announced availability of a beta version of Parallels Workstation for the Macintosh, available today. Unlike the solutions to date, this is a commercially …

So, there's been much discussion today about Boot Camp, Apple's new product for booting an Intel Macintosh into Windows XP. Reactions are basically falling into three tags: Yee- haw! ; Who cares? ; and It's the End of the World! I'd like to hear what the readers here think, so come on …

It was only a matter of time, and the time has now come. Expect to see benchmarks within the hour or so of running games under XP using this technology, but for the time being, Apple has announced Boot Camp, technology that will be in 10.5 (Leopard) that allows …

I've been using a MacMini running OSX Server to do VPN at my house for about a year now. It worked very well until I got my new MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, there have been problems since then. I now have a call into Apple and a nice work-around. I'm not …

It was announced yesterday on OnMac.net that Blanka and Narf (obviously not their real names) have won the prize of $13,854 for figuring out how to dual-boot a MacBook Pro (or Intel Mini, or Intel iMac) into Windows or OS X. The solution (downloadable here) is a bit …

Ars Technica has posted a review of the MacBook Pro, which is notable in that: 1) it's the first one that I've head complain about MagSafe; 2) speaks to battery life (3:17 to 4:57 depending); and 3) It compares the machine to a Dell laptop running a hacked …

Last evening, Apple released the first security update for 2006 (Security Update 2006-001 for Intel and PPC). Detailed information is online in About Security Update 2006-001. More details follow here, but the summary is that they have addressed a wide variety of problems, including just about every facet of the …