We had a video presentation the other day at work and it showed some interesting trends of the oil reserves and their relationship to exponential growth. It was fascinating! After the video showed, someone said that not many companies would continue expanding at those sorts of rates for extended periods.

My obvious Apple biases leapt to the fore and I made some extravagant claims about Apple. Well I was challenged (predictably) to show the facts. I trotted out the usual Apple share trends and was told that this was not Apple – its just the share market game. What is happening in the real Apple? A fair comment, so I looked further. This is a statement of what I found.

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Hi everyone.  I stumbled across this site last night while doing some Mac NTFS research and I was captivated by it so I thought I would become a regular member.  After a lot of research and frustration I have decided to go from being a hard core Windows user to a Macintosh user.

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In my last entry I spoke about NIFE and DFTSOD. Of the two NIFE is the only excusable form of design because they had the best of intentions. Of course they say "The road to hell is paved with best intentions" so I guess Microsoft's headstone would read "He meant well but he's in Satan's arms now".

One aspect of PC design that irks me as an engineer has to do with weight. My Mac Mini with its half inch steel perimeter and it's power supply laying on top weighs less than many laptops out there. WHY? The Mini is a desktop machine (yes okay it uses lap

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I've been on this planet for a while now and during my tenure here I've seen many examples of the most insidious forms of idea development ever. NIFE (Nice Idea, Failed Execution) and DFTSOD (Design For The Sake Of Design). The latter is pronounced "daft sod" on account of that's who came up with the idea in the first place, some daft sod.

I'm a fan of neither as they make life a pain to live. For example, and this is going to get a bit gross, one example of DFTSOD was when I helped my mate move. After the shift I had to christen the dunny and  

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One of the things I love about Macs is their longevity. It's not at all rare to see a 10 year old Mac (or older) still being used. With Apple's continued move towards industry standards, I suspect this trend will continue, as hardware and peripheral options remain available.

Starting with the PCI based Macs (the likes of the 7200, 8500 & 9600 PowerMacs) Apple opened the door to such popular options as USB and FireWire upgrades. Neither of these were found on Macs of the day

I've been thinking about what to write for this summary of the NZMac.com 2004 year for some time. I had convinced myself that I'd be writing an article about what a quiet year it was. But then I looked back.

Thanks to the great Apple History site, flicking through issues of NZ Macguide and the pages of this site and forum, I realised that 2004 wasn't as quiet a year for Apple (or for me for that matter) that I had been telling myself. It was just a long, long year...with a noticeable breather in the middle when Apple admitted delays in a new iMac (that finally came out as the new iMac G5) but there were certainly as many interesting events as we had seen in previous years.

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I had no intention of writing a piece about the Apple Roadshow, other than the report that you see on elsewhere. But having taken a days leave from work to travel down to Wellington and having had the opportunity to meet a lot of great people that knew about the site, the two questions I seem to have been asked the most have been "What did you think?" and "Was the trip worth it?". So here goes...

A show of hands near the beginning of the Wellington presentation revealed that there were very

How did I get into Macs? Well let me tell you a little story...

Way back, my brother and I (mostly me) finally got Ma and Pa to agree to sell the old Amiga (500+ with two disk drives) and get a new computer. Now at this time my brother and I were going all out for them to get a brand spanking new Wintel machine but as fate would have it Ma was working on Apple Computers at the University of Waikato, so we went Apple shopping.... Now you must understand that at this point in

Back in 1987, my typewriter broke. A friend who worked in one of the new desktop publishing companies told me to not even think about getting another one. They had been rendered redundant and ridiculous. I hardly felt in a financial position to agree, but he cunningly brought home a Macintosh from his work, which was closed down for the Christmas break, and said "Use this for two weeks before you make up your mind".

I was absolutely hooked. Line and sinker. When the chance came to

As the owner of a site dedicated to Mac users, you'd think that I spend all my time convincing friends to buy Mac. Well, I'd love to say that that's true, but more often than not, I end up helping them choose the right PC for their needs.

"Traitor!" I hear you scream? Well, it's never a pleasant experience, but for friends that are first-time purchasers, trying to explain the difference between what we all see as the "Mac experience" and using a PC just doesn't work. Believe it or not, people