Published in Monday Note · 6 min read · Dec 5, 2016 -- By Jean-Louis Gassée Courtesy technologydatagroup.com Last week’s Monday Note on the Macintosh Endgame generated more comments and email than usu

Photo by Stephen Lam/Getty Images Apple did something extraordinarily unusual today and talked extensively about a product that it’s not ready to ship . In response to long-simmering discontent with t

New Delhi, India – When Sita* comes home in the morning, her husband is usually still asleep. She has worked through the night, selling sex on the highways tracing Delhi’s periphery, but she will bath

The morning after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Barack Obama summoned staff members to the Oval Office. Some were fairly junior and had never been in the room before. They w

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Senator John McCain (right) with fellow senators Lindsey Graham, Joe Lieberman, and Scott Brown, introducing legislation to refine the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, Was

W ho will become the next chair of the Democratic National Committee? This leadership contest has significant implications for the future of American politics. The choice will help determine how the D

Opinion The End of Identity Liberalism Credit... Dan Gluibizzi It is a truism that America has become a more diverse country. It is also a beautiful thing to watch. Visitors from other countries, part

Apple's new coffee table book "Designed by Apple in California" features many products the company has produced over the last 20 years. Most of what it is in the book is a part of my collection. Here

The new design of the MacBook Pros is nice, and Apple’s decision to put in nothing but Thunderbolt 3 ports has prompted a fresh wave of dongle talk, but the signature feature of the new MacBook Pros w

10 min read · Nov 13, 2016 -- I’ve been reading and listening to a lot of analysis about what happened on election day. Some of it is valid, much of it is absurd. I’m gonna try to make some sense of i

The new MacBook Pro is a powerful computer in a relatively thin and light shell that brings an entirely new connection format to the Mac mainstream, but it won’t be remembered for any of that. The leg

Today TPM turns 16. These are not at all the circumstances in which I expected to mark this day. A week ago I expected a profoundly different result. But here we are. And here we’ve been. I wrote the

I’m from the rural Midwest. I now live in Washington, D.C. All of this talk about coastal elites needing to understand more of America has it backward. My home county in Ohio is 97 percent white. It,

Posted on November 10, 2016 Posted by John Scalzi Yesterday I wrote here: If Trump’s administration indulges in the racism, sexism and religious and other bigotries that Trump and his people have alre

Bloomberg via Getty Images On the 27th October Apple unveiled their new line of MacBook Pros. Since then half of what I read online seems to be "Professionals" (those guys), telling me it's not Pro at

I got up on Election Day and burst into tears — not a genteel twin trickle but a great heaving burst, zero to firehose. Tears spattered the inside of my glasses, dripped from my lips, and left mascara

In the wake of a forthcoming Donald Trump presidency, all-Republican Congress, and the likely nomination of a strongly-conservative judge in the vein of Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court, it’s worth

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. The 13-inch MacBook Pro (top) and a 12-inch MacBook on a table in Ireland. When Apple provided me with a 13-inch MacBook Pro the day before I

There’s a lot of unease out there among Mac users. First, there was the lack of 2016 updates to any Mac model that wasn’t the littlest MacBook. The Mac Pro and Mac mini have languished for several yea

You can't fault longtime die-hard Mac users for being a little frustrated with Apple. In the space of just a decade, they've watched their favorite platform go from being the center of the company's a

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Last week, Apple launched its latest MacBook Pro laptop

Here’s a basic reality: criticizing and second-guessing Apple is a hobby for many of us, and a profession for more than is probably healthy for the Apple ecosystem. That is a basic reality that isn’t going to change any time soon. I long ago got used the the idea that no matter what Apple said or…

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Since nobody’s getting the new Touch Bar-equipped MacBook Pros until mid November, and I was fortunate enough to spend some hands-on time with

Much ink has been spilt over the last year on the subject of the MacBook Pro. In short, Apple hasn’t given its professional laptop lineup a real overhaul in some time. Only the smaller 13” model ever

Talking 2016 Macbook Pros with Apple SVP Craig Federighi! Video Gear I use: http://kit.com/MKBHD/video-gear#recommendation17959 Intro Track: Ongoing Thing by 20syl, Oddisee ~ http://twitter.com/MKBHD

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Hello from the South Bay, where I just attended perhaps the last Apple media event in the Town Hall conference center at Infinite Loop. Here a

4 min read · Oct 24, 2016 -- As soon as the 7 Plus was announced with its dual lenses and depth effect (Portrait Mode), I knew I was going to have to upgrade from my normal-sized iPhone to the big guy

Posted on October 12, 2016 Posted by John Scalzi Original photo by Neverbutterfly, used under Creative Commons license. Click on picture to be taken to the original. Today is the beginning of early vo

Posted on October 11, 2016 Posted by John Scalzi Original photo by Gage Skidmore, used under Creative Commons license ( CC BY-SA 2.0 ). Click on photo to see original. At this point there is no doubt

Ikea is a behemoth. The home furnishing company uses 1 percent of the planet’s lumber, it says , and the 530 million cubic feet of wood used to make Ikea furniture each year pulls with its own kind of

Diary of an AssCan: A Mark Watney Short Story Please note: This story includes language that some might find offensive. November 13th Holy crap. I mean seriously. Holy crap. Holy. Crap. I can’t… I can

By Chiara V. Cabiglio and Narrissa Spies As PhD student Narrissa Spies glanced down at her phone to check her email, a wave of relief washed over her. In her inbox was an award notification from the H

As we wait with bated breath for the announcement of new Macs next Thursday, it’s worth thinking about the future of Apple’s PC line. I don’t mean its future in the grand scale of things—I’ve already

The 2016 Race How One 19-Year-Old Illinois Man Is Distorting National Polling Averages There is a 19-year-old black man in Illinois who has no idea of the role he is playing in this election. He is su