The Mac Was Never Invincible in the First Place
January 29, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Desktops, Laptops, Ramblings of a Gadget Geek
Juan over at The AfterMac asks “Is the Mac Not Invincible Anymore?” To be brutally honest, this is the kind of question that is misleading at best, and naively smug at worst.
The focus of Juan’s article is a Mac OS X trojan that allows its maker to secretly take control of a computer. Estimates place the number of infected Macs at around 20,000, as of last January 21.
To be fair, Juan’s question may have just been a figure of speech, based on the widely-held impression that Apple computers are safer and much more reliable than the PC. As someone who …read more
BusinessWeek Writer States the Obvious, Shock at Macs’ Priciness
January 22, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Geekery, Laptops
So Stephen Wildstrom decided to do some virtual window-shopping, kitting out an XPS M1530 and a MacBook Pro with similar specs. And—que horror!—the Dell was $600 cheaper!
Yes, the MacBook is considerably better looking and it comes with a really nifty assortment of software. But for that $675 difference, you can buy yourself a copy of Microsoft Office Home & Student, a copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, and have plenty left over for a nice netbook.
Really Useful Macs
August 18, 2008 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Desktops
Want to turn Apple’s computers into real works of art? Well, take a cue from what people have done with the classic Mac:
…and do it on a later model. Anyone willing to turn their $2800 Mac Pro into an aquarium?
(stenc-o-rama.com, Wikipedia)
