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[Authors Note: Owen and I are still behind in this series, but we are committed to getting caught up by Macworld Boston. Look for a blast of This Week in Apple History installments during the next two weeks. – Bryan] Do the Floppy Shuffle! Ah, remember the good ol’ days of constantly switching out floppy…

By many accounts, Apple’s Switch campaign has been a success. Apple claims that as much as 50% of Mac sales in its retail stores can be attributed to people new to the Mac platform and ex-Windows users. Apple still has a section of its Web site dedicated to convincing those considering making the move to…

[Update: We have updated this story with information on Apple’s education eMac models – Editor] Apple Computer announced today a speed bump for its eMac desktop models, starting at US$799 for the low-end, 1.25 GHz model. The two models include a new and faster ATI Radeon graphics chip and a jump from USB 1.1 to…

Apple’s Power Mac G5 product line continues to pull in positive reviews from nearly every corner of the computing landscape, from mainstream press reviews to reports from special interest users such as scientists and mathematicians. Even government users have had good things to say about Apple’s pro-computers, and today we have another example of that…

This was a big week in Apple history. In fact, this is our largest installment of this series to date. We have some tit-for-tat shenanigans from Steve Jobs (1985), the millionth Mac (all six of them) (1987), and a lawsuit from Apple over Windows (1988), and the officially "wicked fast" Mac IIfx (1990). That’s right,…

Every Mac user knows the story, or ought to: The Two Steves, Wozniak and Jobs, created and sold computers from their parents’ garage, and worked that humble beginning into an industry defining business. In the process, of course, they become rich and famous. It’s the computer nerd’s version of the American Dream. Stuff like only…

Talk to any Mac fan about Mac market share — including, it seems, Steve Jobs– and you’ll likely hear a comparison between Macs and BMWs, or Macs and Mercedes, or Macs and Porches. What about Macs and Tatras? Tatras? Yep, Americans who’ve spent some time in Europe may recognize the name. Tatra is a car…

Ever since Virginia Tech announced that it would be replacing all of the dual processor 2.0GHz G5 computers in its cluster with new G5 Xserves, some have been wondering what would become of the chunks of the famous cluster. Well, wonder no more. The folks at MacMall will be selling off the refurbished machines for…

Alex Salkever of BusinessWeek says it’s time for the iMac to become the Cube. Actually, he never mentions the word "Cube," but Mr. Salkever says that Apple needs to separate the iMac and its monitor — making it into a small, headless Mac — in order to rejuvenate lagging iMac sales. This is, of course,…

Despite numerous delays and the demands for profitability on what is soon to be a publicly-held company, Opera Software ASA is still strongly behind supporting and making its Opera Web browser for Mac OS X, the company has told The Mac Observer. A spokesman said the company is hard at work on version 7 of…

We have just about had our fill of 20 year historical looks at the Mac, but we found yet another one we felt we should pass on to you. The Sydney Morning Herald has published its own retrospective of the Mac, and with its Aussie-attitude, we found it interesting and insightful. The article stems from…

Anyone who has had at least a passing interest in Apple and in supercomputing will know that the two came together at Virginia Tech late last year in a big way. The 2200 G5 processor ‘Big Mac’ was put together in record time for a meager sum of US$5 million. After the dust settled, Virginia…

The freakish aspect about attending San Francisco Macworld Expo is this business of being awake at 7:30 AM. In fact, it’s 7:38 right now. I’ve been tossing and turning in my King Bed/Nonsmoking/Not Too Close To The Elevators, Please hotel room for more than half an hour. Yes, I realize that my body clock thinks…

Freeverse Software has annouced the upcoming debut of a new browser aimed at children, to be unveiled at next weeks MacWorld conference. Titled: BumperCar, the Web browser utilizes WebCore and Safari influences and is designed with content filtering and child advocated Internet securty. According to Freeverse Software: Freeverse Software announced today that it will show…

Guitar Center (GC), the largest professional audio recording equipment and musical instruments retailer in the US, has started stocking its 120-plus stores with the entire line of Apple products and will soon start training a number of specialists in each store to be ‘Apple experts’. Audio engineers, producers, recording artists, and musicians now have an…

With the addition of the Power Mac G5 to Apple’s product line in June, many Mac users immediately began lusting after and speculating on a G5 Power Book. The reality, however, is that the G5 is too hot for a portable computer, and it draws too much power. Our take on the idea of a…