Parallels promises to let both OSes do their thing on a Mac at the same time, unlike Apple's BootCamp. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and ...

For reference, I have an HP 15er Windows laptop and a MacBook Pro.

About nine months ago, I acquired a 13-inch MacBook Air. At that point, the first Ultrabooks had been announced but were not yet shipping. Even so, I might have waited, except that the Ultrabooks I’d ...

Windows RT and Mac OS are getting a lot closer, thanks to a particularly enterprising feat of jailbreaking. Programmer Steve Troughton-Smith found a way to get an early version of Mac OS running on ...

The Unix underpinnings of Mac OS make it feel familiar and accessible to programmers used to working in Unix-like environments. Apple’s Xcode IDE and other development tools are thoughtfully crafted ...

While many features of OS X and Windows are similar, some are different enough to cause confusion for some new Mac users. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...