Presenting the MacBook Air kids, Generation X is so 1964 – 1983

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 14 August, 2009 to the comment subset

An alternative – or would that be a more accurate – generational periodization scheme, which splits – depending on whichever scheme you’ve adhered to previously (and they seem to vary in terms of exactly which “generation” belongs to which time period) – Generation X into the PC and Net generations.
People born after 1953 but before [...]

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Converting from a PC to a Mac in a few painless steps

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 28 July, 2008 to the comment subset

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 [...]

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The iMac turns 10

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 8 May, 2008 to the technology subset

The iMac turns 10
The computer that changed computers. It was the colours, the choice of colours, that excited everyone (PC users especially) more than anything else, when the iMac was first unveiled ten years ago.
People realised that they were bored of the clunky beige coloured boxes currently sitting on their desks. In response PC manufacturers [...]

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Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?

Posted by John Lampard on Saturday, 16 February, 2008 to the comment subset

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 [...]

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