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.

27 Jul 2007

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.