iWalk

For the first time in eighteen years, Steve Jobs rescheduled his Keynote Address one day earlier at MacWorld San Francisco 2002.  While the last-minute change of date inconvenienced hundreds of attendees, Jobs promised that his announcement would make it worth the trouble.  Many people speculated that Apple would be announcing a new PDA, rumored to be named iWalk.  In reality, the big news turned out merely to be a funny looking iMac.

Cross Platform

Typical situation: A large corporation has 10,000 PCs for accounting, and only ten Macs in the graphics department.  Does this company hire an IT staff who can support both PC and Mac? Of course not! They'd rather have a PC tech break the Macs during a session of ignorant troubleshooting. 

That's when you should call Macboy.

Problems Cubed

When Apple released the new G4 Cube, many people complained that the clear lucite enclosure had cracks along the edges.  To make matters worse, customers reported that their beloved Cubes were randomly going into sleep mode .  Apple quickly resolved the problem by discontinuing the Cube.

Short Circuit

On February 8, 2002, Apple severed their relationship with Circuit City, notifying them with a corporate memo stating they would be pulling all merchandise and display equipment.  Perhaps this is Apple's way of punishing Circuit City for confusing the DVD standard with a proprietary DVD format called Divx, which died in 1999. 

First Sears, now Circuit City ... is the writing on the wall for reseller CompUSA?  Discuss below!

Vis-a-vi

With Apple's new Mac OS X, which is based on the Unix flavor FreeBSD, it's easy to run terminal applications like vi.  But only a true Mac hacker could get Mac OS X to run on Apple's short-lived legacy Macintosh IIvi!   alt.hacintosh (now called alt.hackintosh) used to be a forum for creative Mac hackers, but now just caters to serial number swappers.