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January 18 in Low End Mac History

Jan. 17 - Jan. 19

1999

• iMac iMproved, Evan Kleiman, Mac Happens. Faster, more colorful, more drive space, and a lower price.

2000

• Mac shopping at CompUSA, Eric DeStefano, Mac Metamorphosis. "All I have to do is go into the Macintosh section of a CompUSA and all the loser salesmen will leave me alone."
• PC to Mac and back and back, My First Mac. "I still love and use my original Mac Plus - I would never get rid of it for anything."
• Compubrick 160, CustoMacs. Would you believe a PowerBook 160 converted to desktop use with plastic blocks?
• SAM, the Sixteenth Anniversary Macintosh, Anne Onymus, The Rumor Mill. Cross a Color Classic with a G3 and what do you get?

2001

• Buying a PowerBook G4, Dan Knight, The 'Book Page. Here's why I'm ordering one, and how I'm configuring it.
• Wacom Graphire 4x5 USB Tablet, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report. Hands on Wacom's inexpensive graphics tablet and mouse.

2002

• Should Apple port OS X to Intel?, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. Why porting Mac OS X to Wintel hardware is not a good idea.
• Why Apple shouldn't port OS X to PCs, Korin Hasegawa-John, My Turn. How selling OS X to PC users would destroy Apple and give Microsoft a monopoly.
• Poor first quarter, but prospects look better, Tim Nash, Taking Back the Market. Apple had a small profit last quarter, but future prospects are very good.
• Make your own screen protector, USB video output, ADC converter for non-ADC Macs, and more, Charles Moore. Make your own screen protector, USB video output for original iBook, hot deal on FireWire card, ADC converter, bargain 'Books, and more.

2006

• One bad apple spoils things for everyone, Ted Hodges, Vintage Mac Living. Setting up a couple old Macs in the break room at work seemed like a good idea - until someone decided to mess one up.
• Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual - Tiger Edition, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. "...Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual is a must-have for anyone making the Windows to Mac transition."
• OmniGraffle a great tool for big presentation graphics, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report. If you need to make a big poster presentation, OmniGraffle may be exactly the tool you're looking for.

2007

• iPhone and Apple TV just miss the mark, Andrew J Fishkin, Best Tools for the Job. Apple TV and the iPhone are impressive, but they have a few shortcomings that will hurt them in the market.
• Setting up a NetBoot server for your Macs, Ted Hodges, Vintage Mac Living. If you have an ethernet network and several NewWorld Macs, NetBoot will let you run several Macs with the same disk image and setup.

2008

• How the G3 iMac crumbles, Tommy Thomas, Welcome to Macintosh. The green light of death, failing powerboards, and crumbling plastics are some of the problems old CRT iMacs face as they age.
• MacBook Air a Road Apple?, beautiful Macquarium, a Compact Flash to SCSI adapter, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also problems with a D-Link USB WiFi adapter, hi-def iTunes movie resolution, MacBook Air whiners, and another Pismo lover.
• MacBook Air unveiled, examined, and debated, The 'Book Review. Initial impressions of the lightweight MacBook Air, its built-in battery, troubleshooting. and more. Also bargain 'Books from $150 to $2,899.
• New Mac Pro benchmarked, OS X killing Linux?, a hardened Mac mini, and more, Mac News Review. New Mac Pro architecture reduces memory bottleneck for better performance, Mac Pro Developer Note posted, and NewerTech's USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter.

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