Renny Willins

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All the exciting – new – stuff from Apple

It has been a few weeks now and I am possibly the last person on earth to cover the World Wide Developers Conference 2021. Or WWDC21 to the cool kids. Now before you click off this article thinking to yourself, “Renny, I am no developer, I don’t know about this coding malarkey …” fear not, …

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I won’t be buying an HP printer anytime soon

I am well known, in very small circles admittedly, that I have a love for Brother printers. It’s not that they are cheaper or have a larger range or even that they are better made than other major brands. My love for Brother stems from their software and how feature rich and Mac compatible it …

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Despite what I just said…

It was only February this year when I was banging on about Windows emulation software and that Parallels should  be avoided. If you missed that rant or have forgotten, check it out here. However, having just finished telling you that Parallels should be avoided it might be, in the face of Apple’s M1 chip revolution, …

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The Planned Obsolesce Myth

“Don’t you hate Apple’s planned obsolescence?!” This  is something I hear a lot, often after I have just delivered the bad news about someone’s Mac… something like they need an upgrade or this hardware is too old to install the latest and greatest OS. It is an understandable feeling when faced with the cost of …

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The New iMac… buy it – but with caution

Like anything I guess… if you work in an industry long enough you see a trend, seemingly long forgotten and considered a bit daggy, come around again. In 1996 the Mac was reborn as the “iMac” and it came in different colours and had transparent cases. The keyboard was colour coded, the mouse was colour …

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