The new iMac, built with the unibody technique, comes in two sizes, with 21.5- and 27-inch screens. It's got the same edge-to-edge glass of the MacBook Pro and will have Core 2 Duo and new Core i5/i7 quad-core options.

The case is no longer plastic on the back it's the same metal frame as used on the front, meaning it's unibody.....

The other thing is, on top of Core 2 Duo configs with 3.06GHz processors (and 3.33GHz for special orders) in November Apple will ship quad-core Core i5/i7 chips at 2.66 and 2.80GHz respectively....

We'll just come out and say it: we're totally underwhelmed by the new plastic MacBook. Hell, we were underwhelmed by the old plastic MacBook back in June, when we reviewed the refreshed unibody MacBook Pros - we said we were "honestly left wondering" why the $999 plastic model continued to exist when the $1,199 13-inch Pro was obviously superior. So when we heard the first whispers that Apple was working on a total overhaul of its low-end MacBook, we naturally assumed that it would either gain in features or drop in price - but neither one of those things happened. The new plastic MacBook remains priced at $999 in its only configuration, and while it's been updated with the same unibody construction as the Pros, it's also lost some features along the way. So... what's going on here? Did Apple just blow a huge opportunity to totally re-think its low-end formula, or is there more to the MacBook than the spec sheets and price tags say? Read on to find out.

Apple's revamped new MacBook takes everything the company learned from last year's aluminum unibody MacBook Pro redesign and applies it to make a solid, curvy, entry level notebook that carries the same $999 price tag.

A couple of years ago I wrote an article titled, FileZilla is one scary monster. Even after all this time, it still gets comments most recently from Ernie, who declared himself fed up with the attitude of Mac users:

"The stuck up, holier than thou attitude so many of you Mac users have leaves a nasty feeling in the pit of my stomach."....

So I've been wondering if Mac users truly are superficial and judge apps not by what they actually do, but how they look. It's tough to find hard evidence for this one way or the other, but I decided to take a stab at it.

Apple defied Wall Street analysts again and delivered yet another stellar quarter, despite a terrible economic backdrop and component shortages..... Apple sold more Macs and iPhones than in any other quarter. So, one wonders, is there any more upside to Apple's momentous run? Yes.

I'm not sure where I read about this little killer tip, but it s been very helpful. Safari has a Window called Activity. Click Window , then click Activity.

That opens a resizeable window which you can move around on the screen. Inside the window is a list of all the files that are opened for each web page window open in Safari. Double-click on a .gif or .jpg image to see what happens.

The double-click should open a new window with the image inside.

Now, hold down the Mac's option key and double-click. The same file (image or whatever) is downloaded to your Mac's desktop. Ahhhhh. Now some possibilities open up.

It's not often that the two most popular operating systems get major updates so close to each other, so we couldn't resist throwing them into a cage match together. Already we can hear some of you screaming that Snow Leopard isn't a major update - we know this one's personal! But is Windows 7 nothing more than "Vista done right"?

Microsoft's severe stumble with Vista aside, Windows 7 clearly positions the operating system for the future, with a new look that integrates heavily with the new features. Snow Leopard, too, is geared toward the future, saving you space on your hard drive and including some useful new tricks that Microsoft still lacks.

The judges for this Prizefight hardly shy away from telling you what they think about software, webware, and the operating systems you need to get to all those goodies. Now, everybody's got their opinion on the great Apple versus Microsoft debate, but for a few minutes, suspend your disbelief as they explain which operating system is better and why.

It had to happen. When Apple decided to add quad-core processors to some versions of the new iMac, and increase the number of RAM slots, they cannibalized a lot of potential Mac Pro sales. Indeed, the vast majority of people who buy the remaining Macintosh tower computer can probably do quite nicely, thank you, with the iMac.

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