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  • by Bradley C
    Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with […]
  • by Michael Burkhardt
    On Monday, Apple unexpectedly announced that Tim Cook would be stepping down from his role as CEO after a nearly 15 year tenure. Starting September 1, hardware SVP John Ternus will take over as the new Apple CEO – with Tim Cook becoming executive chairman. According to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, John […]
  • by Marcus Mendes
    The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a response criticizing Apple’s recent request to obtain evidence from Samsung in South Korea in the ongoing antitrust case. Here are the details. more…
  • by Chance Miller
    As part of Apple’s reorganization elevating John Ternus to CEO, the company also promoted Johny Srouji to a broader new chief hardware officer role. With this move, the company combined its hardware engineering and hardware technologies divisions into a single organization, overseen by Srouji. In an email to employees on Monday, Srouji outlined how he […]
  • by Marcus Mendes
    On March 31, Paul McCartney performed a full set at Apple Park to celebrate Apple’s 50th anniversary. Now, the legendary artist has shared a behind-the-scenes look at the event and his visit to the campus. Watch it below. more…

Macworld

  • Macworld It’s only Tuesday morning but there’s already blockbuster news this week that will change the course of Apple events. And that is that the third macOS Tahoe beta is available to developers. Ha-ha! No, that’s not it. It’s that in the middle of writing this column that was going to be about the MacBook […]
  • Macworld TL;DR: A $39.99 lifetime PDF tool that lets your Mac edit, sign, organize, and manage PDFs without extra apps. PDFs have a sneaky way of looking simple—right up until you try to edit one. Edit text? Replace an image? Sign a document? Suddenly, your “simple file” turns into a whole situation. That’s why PDF Reader Pro Premium […]
  • Macworld In a surprise announcement on Monday afternoon, Apple announced that Tim Cook will step down as CEO on September 1, 2026, and John Ternus, current Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, will take over. Cook will remain at Apple in an advisory role as executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors. It has been […]
  • Macworld The 26.4 updates brought with them a number of improvements across the various operating systems and Apple’s included apps. But they didn’t bring the expected, long overdue improvements to Siri: A new foundation model, on-screen awareness, personal context, and actions across apps. Recent rumors make it seem unlikely that those things will appear before […]
  • Macworld The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are expected to launch in September 2026 featuring several cutting-edge hardware advancements, including the debut of Apple’s C2 modem, and a shift to a 2nm manufacturing process for the A20 Pro chip.  Other key rumored upgrades include a smaller Dynamic Island with under-display Face ID components and […]

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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.