New Macs.

All the desktops. Danny Choo has the short version.

Mini vMac for iPhone.

Emulates a 4 MB Macintosh Plus and even runs olden Mac software. Blast from the past!

25th anniversary of the Macintosh.

Andy Hertzfeld looks back.

Worst sleeve ever.

Just what I need with my 5 and a half-pound, 15.4-inch notebook Mac: less portability and more weight. This ought to just slide right in the ol' laptop bag. For insufferable Macintosh elitists.

Well, of course.

Because we're Mac users, we'd be overjoyed to buy a $25 mouse pad. Uh-huh.

I had no idea.

Leopard lets you put an eject "button" in the menu bar to eject optical disks.

Help menu.

One of the most amusing I've ever seen, from iSquint, a free iPod video converter for Mac OS X. Great software, too. Click to enlarge.

"Too ugly to be gay."

Charles Jade's lame rationalization of a ho-hum purchase gives all of us non-cult Mac users a bad name. When I miss Justin Long in Apple's commercials, it's depressing. Smug, stand-offish, and petit bourgeois, to say the least.

What's wrong with this sentence: "Walking around San Francisco, inquiries concerning the origin of the Mac bag are a constant source of personal amusement, especially since only 50 Mac bags were made"?

Back to Starbucks with you until you master English and American sentence construction as evidence of your high taste. And untuck that sweatshirt, man. I _can_ make a bag like that.

Rob Griffiths on the iDIY.

A Macworld editor rolls his own Mac. I guess if you just have to do it....

Reminds me of why I pay extra for AppleCare on a production machine.

Another useless accessory for the Macintosh.

Everyone thinks that because you own a Mac you have a ton of disposable income (hence, the market in $19.95+ shareware that performs tasks you can do in the Terminal). But I would suspect there are a lot of folks like me in different lines of work who make a commitment to save for quite a while to buy a new Mac in order to own one outright. Apple knows this well -- we helped haul them through the dark, decade-old days back in the 90's.

And now there's this. Oh, the MagStay PRO. Where you can hide tiny things, smaller footprint, keeps it safer in the laptop bag, etc.

I own a late-2007 MacBook Pro, and let me tell you nothing short of the Richter Scale is going to dislodge the stock MagSafe adapter, unless someone kicks it out with some physics behind them. As intended. The real advance in power adapter technology was made by Apple on the MacBook Air, where it connects flush in relation to the horizontal axis of the hardware, as opposed to sticking out the side. Savvy engineering.

Besides, I put my machine inside a Marware sleeve inside a Samsonite hard case (I live in Alaska, and you can fall on the ice), so I'm a little outside the loop on latte protection for the Mac.

If you're worried about trip protection on your portables, Apple's stock MagSafe on the Pros and Macbooks should make the grade. If you're really worried, we'll be seeing new machines of both kinds by summer, with serious redesigns. Just get one now if you need one: both portables are great.

And if you're worried past this, move the notebook to a safer place.

Email of the day.

"I remember migrating from Symphony to MacWrite one afternoon in 1985: it took 40 minutes. Later I migrated to Lotus Jazz for a symphonic experience on Mac. Then System 3.1? came and ate the printer drivers. Jazz was really good. About as good as Claris Works when that appeared.

But in those days we expected a development team of 1 to produce the best work. Then it would take 10,000 salespeople to move it."

A response by George Wade.

The iWipe.

Even my MacBook Pro can't do this.