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Dvorak's back on the Mac
The Mac community is all abuzz today over a startling new revelation from John C Dvorak.
The PC Magazine columnist despised by some for his notoriously critical writings on Apple recently revealed that he uses a Mac... and likes it!
But is this REALLY a glorious conversion of a longtime Mac-hater into a new believer?
Not quite.
Let us flash back to 1991...the Soviet Union was undergoing its historic collapse, Nirvana was teaching the virtues of flannel shirts and prescription drugs, and a noted technology columnist released an extensive book on how to get the most out of your Macintosh system.
The title of that book: "Inside Track to the Mac." Written by, you guessed it, John Dvorak. Co-authors include Dvorak's wife Mimi and tech media heavyweight Leo Laporte. Now little more than an amusing relic, the book harkens back to a time when MacOS 7 was an exciting new technology, a 25mhz CPU was top-of-the-line, and Mr. Dvorak had yet to become scourge of Mac fanatics everywhere.
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