The Apple Mac's time has well and truly come if the articles offering advice on making the cross platform migration that are springing up everywhere, are anything to go by. The first things that struck me on entering my local Next Byte store were the white, shiny surfaces that gleamed everywhere, like a scene from A Clockwork Orange before the ultra-violence begins. Funky music played while a group of ... Read full entry

Get Your Non-Apple PC With Mac OS X Pre-installed Matthew Magain discusses the potential, and pitfalls (which include overcoming the legalities of installing certain Apple software on non Apple hardware), of the OSx86 Project, whereby Apple's OS X can be bought pre-installed on a Windows PC. What on earth for? Cross platform website testing of course. I've long held the view that an Apple Mac is the best machine to ... Read full entry

The Appeal of the MacBook Air John Gruber reinforces the view that the MacBook Air, despite (some) technical and performance limitations, will still be a box office hit (mainly) on account of its sexy design. The key to understanding the appeal of the Air is that you've got to stop thinking about technical specs as the primary factors. Here's an analogy: the MacBook Air is like a sporty ... Read full entry

Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC? Let's look at the upcoming US Presidential elections from a design perspective, and turn it into a Mac verse PC debate to make it more interesting, since rhetoric and politicking can become a little dull after a time. Reporters covering the candidates have already resorted to traditional analysis of style - fashion choices, manner of speaking, even the way they laugh. Yet, according ... Read full entry

MacWorld 2008 Predictions. The only thing more exciting than actually using a new Apple product for the first time is hearing about it for the first time from Steve Jobs. And only slightly less exciting than either of those things is reading everyone's pre-show predictions about what will be announced. Say what you will about Mac computers and products, but don't you just love the anticipation the annual MacWorld tech fest ... Read full entry

Mac OS X Web browser rundown 2007: we all know Internet Explorer isn't the only browser for the Windows platform (nor is it by any means the best), but I was quite surprised by the number of browsers Mac (Apple) users have at their disposal, aside from the usual suspects, Firefox, Opera, and Safari. This is what happens when you no longer run a PC and Mac side ... Read full entry