Apple snuck one of its perplexing "stealth" hardware update out the door yesterday, bumping the entry-level white polycarbonate MacBook's Core 2 Duo clock speed from 2.0 GHz to 2.13 GHz, adding 40 GB of standard hard disk capacity, and also upgrading its RAM specification to 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM as opposed to 667MHz RAM in the preceding version (the standard RAM capacity remains at 2 GB)

iFixIt has some big Mac mini news, plus initial illustrated teardown reports on both the new mini and the new 20" iMac

One of the hot button topics this week in the Mac Web blogosphere has been the "toxic Mac Pro" story. Any cancer risk is likely extremely remote, but that's not the whole of the computer chemical emissions issue

Is there a happy medium to be struck between "what, me worry?" and obsessive compulsive fastidiousness?

The new iPod revisions Jobs unveiled on Tuesday are quite substantive updates, notwithstanding a lot of ho-hum reaction from the media tech commentariat, which had made up its collective mind before the fact that Apple's Special Event was going to be "underwhelming," and that has certainly been the dominant spin. I think the new iPods are just fine, and I would be delighted to own any of them

Seems I've been already using it for the past ten years. After some investigation, I haven't found anything that comes close to matching the sweet spot combination of versatility, deep feature set, nimbleness, stability, flexibility, speed, and elegant Apple Scriptability in Tex Edit Plus

Checking out the state of the art in 20 Mac OS POP 3 Email clients (from B to T) in a year that has seen some disappearances and one very significant new arrival (in beta)

Adobe's recently-released Reader 9 offers dramatically improved startup speed and, a new, clean and attractive interface, and other improvements, so is there still reason to use Reader now that OS X Preview has become such a capable PDF viewing tool?

Columnist finds himself underwhelmed by the 3G iPhone's new business model, still unimpressed by MobileMe, but at least OS 10.6 sounds like something to get up in the night and write home about and he likes the "Snow Leopard" name

Dropping PPC/Carbon support in OS 10.6 would help streamline the system and free up developer resources to make the Mac OS run better and better on contemporary Intel-based hardware, which pretty well anyone who cares is running anyway

FileMaker "Lite" For The Rest Of Us With iLife Integration But Does It Fill The Void Vacated By The AppleWorks Database Module?.....

What you need to know before making an iMac purchase decision