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.

R.I.P. Netbook: Mobile Computing Evolves, But MacBook Air Success Proves There’s Life In The Clamshell Notebook Yet

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PCWorld’s Tony Bradley observes that the netbook helped catalyze the move to mobile computing, and the exodus from the traditional office desk to a new “compute anywhere” model. Actually that transition was already well underway in the Mac universe long before netbooks came on the scene, but netbooks facilitated catchup on the Windows side. However, Bradley suggests that the netbook has more or less run […]