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I’ve always thought that companies should give users more choice in their work computers. Have a yearly allowance the employee can choose to either save or spend their budget on an acceptable list of approved computers. In this way companies could introduce market forces into their IT departments and begin to measure happiness and productivity while [...]

This chart is interesting and shows the clear and obvious trend toward students choosing Macs instead of PCs. The charts on this page are really interesting and easy to read at a glance. Also of note, 100% of first year students now own computers. I don’t know which way the University of Virginia skews, but I [...]

This evening Apple released a firmware update for the SuperDrives in MacBooks. The description of the update was: This update addresses noise made by the optical disk drive during wake from sleep on your Mac. i’m hoping this update does more than that. My MacBook sometimes won’t restart and I have to take out the battery and [...]

If you look on iTunes at the Pixar movie Wall-E you’ll see that the standard definition version (SD) is 1.38 GB and the high definition (HD) version is 3.15 GB. Both will fit on a regular single layer DVD with room to spare. So why do we need Blu-ray? OK, so maybe for bonus content, but [...]

Have you noticed that pressing the eject button on your keyboard on a Mac rarely if ever works? I find this so strange. I notice this on two separate Macs, one of which is less than a year old. Now, what is the deal with this? I would expect that the disk would just eject. If [...]

Today Apple announced some new products that are really pretty cool like the 27 inch iMac and the Magic Mouse. If you think about these products sensibly, there’s lots of good, but not much bad. They may not be for everyone, but they’re good products. But as I’ve been looking at the news coverage and [...]