Macs in Your Neighborhood: Des Moines, IA

Posted under interview, macs in your neighborhood, retail, Repair, Interviews, history, Apple on October 21st, 2008 by admin0 comments

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Richard Haddock, President of the Haddock Corporation, an Apple reseller that has been in the Mac business seriously since there have been Macs.
I first found Haddock a couple of years ago when, in a panic over accidentally wiping out my hard drive in some kind of strange Linux […]

MacHEADS — A Fanboy Documentary

Posted under macheads, history, Cult of Mac, Commentary, Apple on October 21st, 2008 by admin0 comments

Everyone remembers when they get their first Mac — the instant feeling of belonging in an elitist group of technologists. You go to class, a coffee shop, or down the street and see cars driving past with an Apple sticker on their back windshield as you ask yourself where you’re going to put your […]

Is PowerPC Doomed? Nahhhh

Posted under architecture, history, PowerPC, leopard, Hardware, Commentary, Intel, Apple on September 30th, 2007 by admin0 comments

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Noted blogger and podcaster Daniel Eran Dilger writes today at Roughly Drafted on Leopard and the History and Future of Mac OS X on PowerPC.
For those of you, like our own Stephanie Guertin, who are running on older PPC systems, Dilger lays out why support for the PowerPC isn’t going away […]