For owners of older Mac products

Apple’s criteria for upgrading to Mountain Lion is whether you own a mid-2007 or newer iMac or late 2008 aluminum MacBook and so on. I mean, what? I don’t see dates like that when I open my MacBook’s About This Mac info window. Newer MacBooks are showing this type of year-of-production info, but not the old …

Jumping the gun on a MacBook?

Although UNC requires incoming freshmen to buy a laptop computer, and although some SILS classes require a laptop (I’m thinking here of the database or programming courses), by and large, I’ve found that I haven’t really needed a laptop on campus. I prefer taking notes by hand on paper, and the campus is lousy with …