I have several devices that I depend on every day: my MacBook Pro, my Garmin StreetPilot 3270 GPS, my iPod. And while I can think of ways all these devices could be improved, there is only one device that I would gladly chuck into the ocean and never touch again, if not for the one vital job it does marginally well.

That device is my cell phone.

So when Apple introduced the iPhone, I had a geek-gasm right on the spot. Finally, my prayers had been answered: a handheld device that’ll connect me to people by phone, mail, IM, and to the Internet like a computer; and to my music and videos like an iPod.

Finally, a smartphone that’s actually smart. (more…)

Go figure. Apple makes an enormous stink about downloadable movies and tweaked iPods, but just a month later lets slip what is quite possibly the most anticipated product announcement of the year with nary a press release: Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro portables.

That’s right, the oft-rumored MacBook Pro upgrades slinked out the back door like a whipped cur. Sometimes I wonder if Apple remembers that for many of their customers (the ones willing to fork over thousands for just one product), the Mac is still where it’s at. And we’ve all been waiting… and waiting… and waiting for them to get the Core 2 Duo into a portable. (more…)

Apple’s had it’s big “It’s Showtime” press event just a couple of hours ago, and I’m still struggling to figure out what the hoopla was about. Modestly upgraded iPods, adding movies and TV shows at higher resolution to iTunes, and iTV – which is basically Airport Express for video. Uh-huh. Okay. That’s nice and all. But where’s the other stuff, the more important stuff, the stuff we’ve been waiting for Apple to deliver? (more…)

Call it the September surprise. But with all the Mac geeks focused on what Apple has up its sleeve for the “It’s Showtime” event on September 12, the entirety of the Mac rumormongering underworld completely missed the posting of several new iMac models and Mac Mini speed bumps on Apple.com this morning. (more…)