An article from LinuxInsider goes through the cost differences between Macintosh and PC computers. When compared Apples-to-Apples (pun intended, of course), the Mac is less costly than the PC.

In an amusing twist, HP is giving away an Apple PowerMac G5, a PowerBook G4, and an iMac as part of a give-away to promote their "creative" printing products. Apparently, they've decided if they're going to spend money looking for an artist to render a demo page for their DesignJet …

For those of you who have purchased 15" PowerBook G4's this year, or bought batteries for them, you should check out the battery recall information page on Apple's site. There is a possibility of overheating and fire.

Voip-info.org has a page about building, installing, and running Asterisk (the open source VOIP PBX) under OS X. Included are pointers to graphical tools for use with Asterisk.

A web site called Dear Steve has been set up to collect messages for Steve Jobs about his recent cancer surgery. Interestingly, it's not an Apple site, but a set set up by Varen Swaab, whose relationship with Steve Jobs appears on the site. Cool read. Thanks to Wired for …

We got our Airport Express boxes yesterday and I finally got a chance to turn them up this morning. So far, I've installed one (and did some network reconfiguration at the same time to increase security). The device works beautifully and has a frightening range. Right now I'm sitting in …

With the launch of McDonald's Go Active Meals in the UK, the Sun reports that it would take a walk of nearly 10 miles to walk off a Big Mac Meal (including fries and a shake), as it weighs in at over 1400 calories. Additional nutritional info can be found …

In another of what has been a steady stream of product delays by Microsoft, CNet is reporting that the 64-bit version of Windows XP will be delayed until the first half of next year, along with 64-bit versions of Windows 2003 server and the 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows …

Boston-based Tech Superpowers has created a highly-mobile digital editing station based on the merger of a Lexus IS300 and a Macintosh G5-based editing station, including an XServe RAID for 2.7TB of storage. To see how it turned out, they held a contest for best editing at the show, in …

Apple released their 3rd Quarter financial results last night and the news is quite good for them. Profits up (300%), revenues up (30%), unit sales for iPod up, unit sales for CPUs up, can't complain about that. Beyond the basic highlights, here are some other interesting tidbits from the announcement …

Initial user reports on AccellerateYourMac are good on Apple's new Airport Express with AirTunes. If you haven't heard of this, Apple's released a $129 802.11g (WiFi) gateway that allows you to play your iTunes through speakers attached to the device. Great if you don't have a wireless network already …

So, what makes one developer (NetNewsWire's Brent Simmons) so different in attitude from another (Konfabulator's Arlo Rose? Is it just basic bent? Viability of their idea? Or a lack of understanding of the creative and industrial processes. What's the deal? At Apple's World-Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) this week, Apple announced …

Infoworld's Tom Yager reviews G5 XServe and Opteron servers in comparison to the Intel Xeon offerings. Not surprisingly, the Mac receives high marks for its extraordinary I/O capabilities and the Opteron for its RAM access speeds. No matter how you slice it, it's not coming up Xeon.

Alias, formerly Alias|Wavefront, now owned by SGI (although in the process of being acquired by management) has released SketchBook Pro, a sketching program for free-hand artists. The software has been available for Windows for about a year, but Alias has decided to make it available to Macintosh users. Basically …

It's been about 14 months since I posted this article on the 'Pages about the PDF plugin from ShubertIT. In that time, the product has continued to get better and now it is down-right indispensable. The plugin works great in Safari and is free of charge for non-commercial use.

Some of you out there who heard earlier this week of a virus aimed at MacOS X, might be wondering why I didn't write about it earlier, unlike Wired did in their article. However, this new article, OS X Trojan Horse Is a Nag, is why. Although somebody has released …

Kurt and Donna got married in Lake Tahoe this week. They've gotten access for a short time and were able to put up a few pictures on their Wedding Album. Check it out.

For those unfamiliar with it, Vonage is a Voice over IP telephone service that includes hardware and allows you to use a normal telephone to make phone calls over the Internet. This isn't news, though. In conjunction with some beta tests being done by the company at Click2Call, the folks …

To call it a preview would seem to be inappropriate, as Apple used the 19th annual Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference in Los Angeles to let the Macintosh speak for itself on issues of access by the blind. The move will secure Apple's ability to work with the visually impaired …

Thanks to Rob for passing this one along. This is a Christmas movie about the Apple iPod merged with Star Wars Episode I.