Nearly a decade ago, on December 10, 1998, I posted the Road Warrior column republished below, which provides an interesting sanpshot of the state of Apple laptops ten years back. Aside from the particularities of the hardware, much of my commentary still holds up I think, especially on the matter of timing one's system upgrades

• Watch Your Wallet Buying Memory from the Apple Store
• Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User
• Finding 10.5.5's Bug Fixes
• Users Cannot Purchase In eBay using Safari; eBay suggests Firefox
• Apple Threatens Lawsuit Over British Columbia Computer School's Logo
• PC Mag: Biden v. Palin: The Tech Positions
• Apple Shares Plunge After Jobs 'Heart Attack'
• Securities Officials Probe Jobs Heart Attack Rumour
• Steve Jobs rumor: What can the SEC do?
• The Apple Of Modern Cars
• Apple surrenders the Pink (to Microsoft)
• (Real World) Speed Freak On Faster Hard Drives
• Getting the Most from Your G3 Mac
• nVIDIA Announcement Date Moved - Graphics Chip For New MacBook Pro Coming?
• Advice for SheepShaver, OS 9 on Intel Macs
• The Day My iPhotos Vanished
• Apple TV 2.2 update delivers HDTV shows, Genius support
• Forget the Dock, Master The Menu Bar
• Older Mac Pros Toxic or Just Smelly?
• PC Mag: Apple Argues That It's Not a Monopoly
• PC Mag: Music-Download Royalty Rates Left Unchanged
• PC Mag: Saving Internet Radio
• PC Mag: Five Things Your Mac Won't Tell You
• The Mac Night Owl: Is Apple Finally Learning How to Listen to You?
• The Tech Night Owl: Marginalizing the Mac or Just Plain Stupidity?

• Where Classical Music And iPhone Apps Converge - Apple's classical music growth suggests an App Store growth path
• PC Mag: PCMag.com's Smartphone Superguide
• Transform your iPhone into a toolbox
• PC Mag: How to Debloat Your Smartphone
• Hanky-Panky Distorts Obama iPhone App Results
• Slowly, iPhone Is Winning Over Business People
• HP preps secret iPhone rival
• Latest iPhone Software supports full-screen Web apps
• Why Has Apple Not Fixed Well Known iPhone Security Problems?
• First Impressions of Google Android

Sunrise is the open-source web browser that based on WebKit framework for Mac. It is light and fast. The concept is to add some convenient functions that the other browsers have not equipped yet. It is using the same rendering engine as Safari

Tropical Software, Inc. ( http://www.tropic4.com ) of Neptune Beach, Florida, has released the latest version of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) compatible TopXNotes, the modern note organizer for Mac OS X loaded with handy features

Dan's 20th Century Abandonware ("D2CA") is one man's personal project to collect and preserve non-game legacy software in a standard format, retrievable for use on compatible systems

WebIS has announced Note2Self 2.00, a major update to their easy-to-use audio recorder for Apple iPhone. It allows anyone to quickly record a voice note, save it in a Saved Notes list and automatically send it to any email address, all without pushing a single button. Instant, hands free voice mail. Improvements include a WiFi web server, automatic level pause during recording, multi-note delete, audio scrubbing, three defaults using Contact Pictures, and many other improvements

PreferenceCleaner is a utility which aims to simplify the task of deleting preference files

Could your practice time be more structured? Better organized?

Pieter Omvlee announces DrawIt 3.6, the latest version of his easy-to-use and powerful, vector-drawing application for Mac OS X. The major new thing in DrawIt is a tremendous increase in speed and a significant decrease in memory usage. Also, bitmap layers can now be edited in an external bitmap-editing application so you can combine the best of two worlds

app4mac has released version 1.1 of Sequence for Mac OS X Leopard. Sequence is a simple and cool way to capture the content of your screen. A video or screenshot can be emailed, uploaded on the web, or passed around however you want. Using multithreaded code and a 64-bit enabled compression system, Sequence can handle capturing DVD, audio, or any other multimedia application

Viqua Games today announced the release of First Class Flurry for Mac OS X. First Class Flurry, a new time-management casual game, lets players experience the job of a flight attendant as they help bring a bankrupt airline back to the top of the airline industry

Pacific Timesheet announces its leading project timesheet software is the first to support the Apple iPhone

Pacific Timesheet announces its leading project timesheet software is the first to support the Apple iPhone

One of the hot button topics this week in the Mac Web blogosphere has been the "toxic Mac Pro" story. Any cancer risk is likely extremely remote, but that's not the whole of the computer chemical emissions issue

• Apple Defeats Music Rate Hike
• Apple's victory: No music royalty hike. Now what?
• Is Fujitsu Spinning Out Of The Hard Drive Business?
• Apple Settles Class-action Suit Over Faulty Notebook Adapters
• One Way to Turn a Mac Into a PC Just Got Better
• Photoshop For Free? A Few Words About GIMP
• Potential MacBook 16:9 Screens Compared To Current 16:10
• Time For A Mac Netbook? i Don't Think So
• 3 Reasons Why And How We'll See An Apple Netbook Soon
• 5 Easy Ways To Customize the Look of Your New Mac
• Apple Ups The Ante In Psystar Battle
• Why Psystar Should Be Supported
• No Blu-Ray On Macs... And No One Cares
• Murata Working on Turning Laptop Heat Into Power
• Why I'm Switching from Windows Small Business Server to Leopard Server
• Asus adds HDD to Atom-based old-style Eee
• Apple: A Product Plateau?
• The Mac Night Owl: Is Apple Running Out of Ideas?

• Track the Presidential Election Polls With Your iPhone
• Nokia To Take On Apple In Music, Touch-screen Phones
• Do-It-Yourself iPhone Stand Let's You Rock Out With Your Clock Out!
• The Mac Night Owl: Is Apple At War with iPhone Developers?

Apple suddenly finds itself in a vulnerable position, just as the latest ChangeWave consumer survey shows another big leg downward for the beleaguered U.S. consumer

H2O Audio, the water sports music company, launches their Surge and Amphibx range of waterproof headphones and waterproof armbands for iPods, MP3 Players and Phones., liberating swimmers, surfers, kayakers and runners throughout the country

You can now shop online through the sleek and time-saving Cooliris interface on Amazon, Macy's, eLuxury, Beauty.com, Nordstrom, Apple iTunes, Wal-Mart, KB Toys and more