It appears that Microsoft has started another run of the marketing tactic that has proven effective for it in the past, which a lot of media outlets have previously coined "rolling thunder". MS is certainly not the creator of this strategy, but across mu… more »

The advent of tablets has caused me, in recent weeks, to give some hard thought to my kits. Am I hanging on to device types that are built for outmoded use-cases? Are there some gadget genres that I just need to jettison and move forward into new paradig… more »

My next laptop might very well be another 15" MacBook Pro. If i were buying it today, it would be the mid-grade model again. Right now that is a $1999 machine running a 2.53GHz processor, 4GB of memory, and a 500GB hard drive. While I am starting to accu… more »

It appears that I am going to go through this about once every two or three weeks. That is the flitting back and forth across the line of whether I think the Google ChromeOS makes sense or not. And if it does make sense, where am I going to use it? I rec… more »

It is the summer. Time for things to return. The blockbuster movie. Ice Cream cones. Bikinis. E3 in its regular format. WWDC and Computex. It is also apparently time to revisit some of my favorite tech topics, as I’ve been getting a lot of questions abou… more »

So the topic of ROI has been high on my list of recurring thought topics for the past few weeks or months. That trend continues this week. Devices that I have been diligent in trying to wrest some value out of have included my MacBook, my PSP, and my Del… more »

This article scares me: http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/linux-stop-holding-our-kids-back.html It does not scare me because there are people out there who will not recommend the use of LINUX. I admit myself that I recognize the limitations of… more »