One of the things that amazes me most about operating system upgrades is the contrasting pricing structures. Apple has kind of got a reputation for making the more expensive computers but on the flip side they typically sell their operating system much cheaper than Microsoft does. While I am admittedly critical of Microsoft for being [...] Read more »

Some MacBook users are finding out that sometimes the cure really is worse than the disease. There were widespread reports of reduced speeds from SATA drives with a previous update that Apple then hastily decided to fix. Unfortunately their “fix” has the side affect of no longer recognizing many third-party hard drives.
Thankfully the hard drives [...] Read more »

Do you remember the infected copy of iWork ‘09 that leaked to the Internet via Torrent sites earlier this year?  Well it looks like now those that downloaded and installed it are part of a Botnet.  According to a paper posted in the Virus Bulletin by Symantec researchers Mario Ballano Barcena and Alfredo Pesoli there [...] Read more »

If you happen to be one of the lucky individuals running OS X on your MSI Wind, today just got even better for you.  Thanks to the VoodooProjects team there is now a fully functioning audio driver available.  Not everyone has had the greatest success in getting it to work correctly but so far the [...] Read more »

Apple is notorious for protecting their OS and hardware but things are starting to really heat up in their fight against Psystar.  There is an abundance of information out there on how to install OS X on a PC but Psystar has taken it a step further and is actually selling computers with it pre-installed.
For [...] Read more »