Dell and Apple recently announced recalls of 5 million Sony laptop batteries. The recall was prompted by safety issues caused by batteries melting, and in some cases, even catching on fire. While the incidents aren’t widespread, the very real danger posed by laptop batteries unpredictably catching on fire has consumers worried. Here’s a look at […]
The biggest names in electronics have just sat their first global exam on their green credentials. Ranked on their use of toxic chemicals and electronic waste (e-waste) policies only Dell and Nokia scraped a barely respectable score while Apple, Motorola and Lenovo flunked the test to finish bottom of the class. Our scorecard highlights which […]
Apple has leapt a generation ahead of other PC makers in adopting Intel’s modern EFI in its new new Intel Macs. An earlier article, Imaging MacBooks: Understanding MBR, APM, & GPT, introduced the idea of what’s different between the BIOS in today’s PCs and the new EFI in tomorrow’s. Here’s a more in depth look at what these differences mean, particularly for users of interested in using Apple hardware to run both Mac OS X and Windows.
An article based on information published by Consumer Reports and the Gartner Group was brutally attacked by a wide swath of bloggers who didn’t like the facts it presented. It turned out that despite all their dramatic blog rage, they weren’t even exactly sure what it was about the story that got them so upset.
How much does it cost to maintain Windows and Mac OS X? Since Apple has released five times as many major updates and over fifteen times as many minor updates to Mac OS X since 2000, you might not have guessed that Windows actually costs users five times as much to keep up to date!