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  • Macworld On Wednesday at 1 pm ET, Apple is expected to cap off its Pro and Tell week of announcements with the launch of its first truly new laptop in years and a milestone for the Mac: the first-ever touchscreen MacBook Pro with a new design, a new display, and a new price tag. As […]
  • Macworld TL;DR: Run Windows apps on your Mac with a lifetime Windows 11 Pro license, now $9.97 (reg. $199). Some apps still have no Mac version, so running them means installing Windows. A Windows 11 Pro license from Microsoft usually costs close to $200, but through Nov. 1, a lifetime license is on sale for […]
  • Macworld TL;DR: Free up iPhone storage with a lifetime subscription to Cleaner Kit Premium, now $29.99 (reg. $104.97). An iPhone fills up quickly with burst shots, screenshots, and near-identical photos, and the usual fix is paying for a bigger iCloud plan. Cleaner Kit finds and deletes that clutter on the phone itself, and a lifetime […]
  • Macworld Apple has had a busy fall, with the launch of the iPhone Duo, HomeView smart hub, and the M5 Ultra Mac Studio. But there’s one more event this week, and it might be the biggest of all. And you can follow every rumor and announcement with us right here. As you can guess by […]
  • Macworld The iPhone Duo isn’t just a major iPhone release, it’s a landmark product in Apple’s lineup. We talk about our experience with the new folding phone in this episode of the Macworld Podcast.  This is episode 1006 with Michael Simon, Jason Cross, and Roman Loyola.  Episode 1006 on YouTube Episode 1006 on Apple Podcasts […]

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An Apple fan long before purchasing my first Mac, a IIsi

Over the years I have had the chance to own an assortment of Apple products. Some of the highlights include:

  • Mac IIsi
  • LaserWriter IIg
  • MacBook G3 ‘Lombard’
  • Cube
  • iPod (Click Wheel)
  • iPod Color (still works)
  • iPad (Generation 1)
  • iPhone (Generation 1 – still works)
  • iPhone 4
  • AppleTV (Generation 1)
  • Apple Watch (Generation 1)
  • iMac Pro 27″ with Xeon processors
  • M1 MacBook Pro and Studio

Currently sporting:

  • Mac Studio M1
  • MacBook Pro M1

Collector Macs

  • Mac Classic
  • iMac G3
  • iMac G4

My past as a systems admin had me deploy and managed thousands of computers running Windows NT through 10, Mac System 7 through macOS 16 (Ventura), and various Linux-based systems running CentOS, RedHat, and Ubuntu in higher education (Coast Community College District, UCLA), SAAS (Intuit), Entertainment (BBC), and retail (Harbor Frieght Tools) environments.

My work experience has unquestionably confirmed one truth, Apple’s macOS, hands down, won the OS war. Proof?—Microsoft Windows and every GUI which followed. Without macOS, Windows would not exist. And yes, while Xerox Parc had the first GUI for computers, it took the foresight of Steve Jobs to ship a computer with a graphical user interface controlled by a mouse on a computer for the consumer market.