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March 2, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
MacBook Screen Rot
I still love my MacBook, even though it’s developed a case of screen rot. I don’t regret switching to Mac as my primary computing platform, but let’s face it, Macs aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. Macs hardware is elegant, but in recent years Macs have been plagued by significant manufacturing flaws. Probably more [...]Archive
February 5, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
iWant iPad
In his New York Times op-ed piece yesterday, former Microsoft vice president Dick Brass commented on Redmond’s inability to make the kind of hardware that people want to buy: Not everything that has gone wrong at Microsoft is due to internecine warfare. Part of the problem is a historic preference to develop (highly profitable) software [...]Archive
February 4, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
Microsoft’s Black Screen of Death
I read today’s op-ed piece in the New York Times by former Microsoft vice president Dick Brass today with great interest. Entitled “Microsoft’s Creative Destruction,” the piece argues that Microsoft has created a “dysfunctional corporate culture” marked by “internecine warfare” among entrenched interests that has thwarted innovation. “At Microsoft,” Brass writes, ” the big established [...]Archive
July 3, 2009 by Cyrus Patell
Back in Mac
Although I’ve been blogging regularly over at Patell and Waterman’s History of New York over the past few months, I’ve been on hiatus here. But now that the year has officially begun its second half and my summer graduate class on the American novel after 1940 has come to its end, it’s time to start [...]Archive
March 17, 2009 by Cyrus Patell
