Mike Metlay...
He is really hitting on Apple and especially the iMac and Macbook. It is a pretty scathing review about the increasing lack of user tweaking or repair of the hardware. He, at one place, compares the current state of the Mac to a toaster or dishwasher that, if it breaks you just return it. If it does not do what you want, you return it.
He is not happy. I get the idea that he liked yesteryear's Mac but does not care for the direction they are taking with the new machines
The article is a follow-up to a feature article in the same issue about tweaking a PC, in particular one running Windows 7 and the "Fade Out" article is couched in terms of the possibility of an article on tweaking a Mac... which, according to him is becoming or has become near impossible.
Food for thought... Id post a link but I don't have one.
They also review the new Behringer X-32 and MXL CR30 mics with the black chrome body.
J