Charles Moore

Charles Moore (1951-2018) was a well known freelance writer who lived in Nova Scotia, Canada who wrote about the Mac for over 20 years — with a special emphasis on mobile computing from the vintage PowerBook to the current generation of the MacBook and iPad — and his column, “The ‘Book Mystique,” had been a weekly feature on MacPrices since 2011 until his untimely passing in 2018 due to health complications.

MacBook System Upgrade Requirements Provoke Brit Columnist’s Wrath, But How Far Back Should Legacy Support Be Reasonably Expected?

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The Guardian’s Rupert Jones is an unhappy camper because he’s discovered that his four-year-old MacBook running contemporaneous OS X 10.4 Tiger system software needs a system upgrade in order to support his new iPhone 4 and his daughter’s iPod shuffle, both of which require iTunes 10 application software which in turn demands a minimum of OS X 10.5 Leopard. TUAW’s Chris Rawson comments on Mr. […]