A couple months ago I posted about my 2013 Mac Pro serving dual purpose as a museum item and my cloud backup machine. It’s done that job extremely well but it’s already being replaced by another Mac mini, one with an M4 chip, in fact. It's like an Apple TV... but wider... and taller... and …
M4 MacBook Pro Max Benchmarks
A note about the image above: this image was generated using WordPress's AI features. It "read" my post and generated an image to go with it. I have to say I'm impressed. At a glance, it looks very much like my MacBook Pro. The shape of the hardware, the layout of the interface on the …
My MacBook Pro M4 Max
I bought my MacBook Pro with a M2 Pro chip less than 2 years ago and I'm replacing it with a new one. Why? I'm trying out a new service called Upgraded, which is essentially the iPhone Upgrade program, but for Mac hardware. Upgraded isn't run by Apple, but it might as well be. It …
My 2013 Mac Pro
There are times when items in my Mac Museum cross over and provide function in my real life. One example is the Mac mini I bought as a backup server – I didn't have the 2010 design in my collection yet and I actually use it for regular tasks. It runs the Backblaze client on macOS …
BlueSCSI
I've had success installing both CF-to-IDE adapters and 2.5" SSD-to-IDE drives in my older computers, but those only cover about â…” of my collection. The rest of my machines, Macs from the late '80s and early '90s, don't use IDE at all; they use SCSI – an older and more expensive interface. Replacing SCSI drives …
The Mac Museum Has Moved
... To my basement! After allowing five Macs to pile up in the office and trip people, I finally decided to move them to what would eventually be their final home. Â I lugged them down last night, cleaned up my darkroom, and set them up. I was able to get all but one of them …
This is How I Feel About the iPhone 4s
I was going to write a big article about the hoopla around the iPhone 4s, but John Gruber beat me to it. I agree with him completely and I am one of those 3GS users to whom the 4s is a huge upgrade. I'm also a photographer and I appreciate all the work that Apple …
My iPhone 5
This was originally supposed to be a post about what new iPhone models I thought Apple would announce on Tuesday. Â I thought that they'd announce two models - a low-end model that looks like the iPhone 4 and a high-end model that had a new case design. Â Then I read John Gruber's thoughts in his …
Mac Museum
I got into Macs when I was in middle school typing class.  We mostly had green-screened console-driven Apple IIs but there were also five  graphical mouse-able Macs that we rotated through. The Macs were old even for that time, consisting mostly of Mac Classic, LC, and II models.  Some were color, some were black and …
iPod: What's Next? – How Did I Do?
In late June I posted my thoughts about what Apple would release for iPods at its annual September music event. Â The post was prompted mostly by the release of the iPhone 4 and got me thinking about how its technology would trickle down to the consumer-oriented and unsubsidized iPod Touch. Â My predictions were based partially …
Relatively Ambitious 