B&H offers Apple’s latest 12-inch MacBook 256GB in select colors for $799 shipped. As a comparison, today’s deal is $500 off and $200 less than our mention earlier this month. It is also the best price that we’ve tracked to date. To sweeten the deal even further, B&H does not charge tax at the time of purchase for shoppers in select states. Apple’s 12-inch MacBook sports a 1.2GHz Intel Core m3 processor, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. A Retina display and one USB-C port round out the list of notable specs. This sale is for today only, and frankly a very compelling price on Apple’s most-portable MacBook. Don’t miss this one before it’s gone… More here.

I bought a 2015 MacBook to replace my ageing iMac and it has been brilliant. I swapped sheer power for convenience and use it for everything I used the iMac for. Even the keyboard hasn’t broken on mine (yes really) and for $799 the 2017 version is brilliant value.

And then the Best Buy salesman tossed in a suggestion I hadn’t expected: “You could always get her a MacBook.”

“What?”

“Some things will look a little different. Some of the programs she works with would be different. But there’s a simple reason to buy a MacBook.”

“There is? What?”

“They last twice as long.” More here.

I guess most people look at the operating system before anything else and don’t want to try something new. I was like this years ago, but that was when there were many tasks that were very hard to do on macOS. I would never go back now.

On the Mac side, Apple has of course offered Time Machine since Mac OS X 10.5, and though it has had its bumps, it’s generally been improved to the point where it’s a solid backup option. And as someone old enough to remember when you needed expensive third-party solutions to back up your entire drive—much less provide advanced features like versioning—Time Machine will always be a bit of a marvel. Simple backups that happen with minimal need for user intervention? It’s hard to overstate how much of an improvement that was over the status quo: Time Machine is a wonderful technology, and while backups are far from an exciting topic when it comes to technology, they are one of those features that simply everybody needs to use… More at Macworld.

Seems so obvious when you think about it.

I used a touchscreen MacBook Air to write this column.

No, you didn’t misread the previous sentence. Nor did you overlook a new product announcement from Apple, which despite all the company has done to popularize multi-touch on the iPhone and iPad, has long resisted the urge to put touch screens on its Macintosh computers… More at USA Today.

Not sure if this is a good idea or not. Guess it will all be down to how well it works.

There were only 500 of these made to commemorate the 1992 JLPGA golf tournament in Japan. The guts are a run-of-the-mill PowerBook 170, but the case is truly special. The blue body is completed with a white lid and base. The battery doors are red, as are the screen adjustment sliders. The hinges are bright yellow; rounding things out are the green feet… More at 512 Pixels.

Love the colours and the design is a perfect example of the time.

I’m not here to discuss tomorrow; I’m here to discuss today. Today, I feel handcuffed every time I use an iPad. Even for the things I can accomplish, I have to jump through flaming hoops in order to do so. It’s not for me.

What I really want (what I really really want) is an iPad-sized device, with all the portability it provides, but with none of the drawbacks of, well, actually being an iPad.

Enter the MacBook, affectionately referred to by some as the “MacBook Adorable” or others as the “MacBook One”… More at Liss is More.

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