February 20 in Low End Mac History

Feb. 19 - Feb. 21

1999

• The appleimac.com dispute, Dan Knight, iMac Musings. "Did you hear the one about the two 16-year-old boys in Canada who registered appleimac.com - and have now been threatened by Apple's lawyers?"

2001

• My iPinion, Jake Sargent, iThings Considered. When are "iNames" okay to use, and when are they unprofessional and untasteful?
• Mac in the middle ages, James Brock Clark, My First Mac. "Under the heading of 'use it or lose it,' we have a near perfect exercise machine for the human mind."
• Introduction to Unix: The buzz words, Eric DeStefano, Mac Metamorphosis. Threads, multiprocessing, memory management, and preemptive multitasking - parts of Mac OS X.
• Review: Flex-HDD 3.5" FireWire/USB enclosure, Dan Knight, MacUSB & FireWire. Turn an IDE drive into an external FireWire and USB drive - at a price.

2002

• Easier. Why not faster?, Korin Hasegawa-John, My Turn. Sure, Macs are easy to use, but why hasn't Apple adopter PC technologies like a 266 MHz system bus, Ultra ATA 133, and surround sound?
• The Mozilla letters, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Mozilla vs. iCab, spell check, and installer problems on NuBus Macs.

2003

• Prioritized email: Up with the good, out with the bad, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report. How smarter email software could flag what's important to you while also helping you deal with spam.
• Intel CPU sockets, LEM saves money, overclocking iMacs and beige G3s, viruses, OS security, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also thoughts on dropping a G4 into a beige G3, fighting spam, the best PCI Radeon, faster ethernet, browser/OS integration, and drawbacks of Mac OS X.

2004

• Migration issues in moving from a Beige G3 to a Blue and White, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. Using an older printer and a SCSI scanner, ejecting a CD, and dealing with a system freeze.
• New G5 supports notebooks, 'Books in color, TiBook antenna triples range, a low-cost wireless card, and more, The 'Book Review. Online reviews of G4 iBooks and new 15" AlBook, 17" G4 hard drive upgrade tutorial, iPodResQ, bargain 'Books from $799 to $2,199, and more.

2006

• VNC, Basilisk II, and SheepShaver: 3 ways to run Classic on an Intel Mac, Alan Zisman, Mac2Windows. The new Intel-based Macs don't support Classic mode, but there are hardware and software solutions that will let you access some or all of your old Classic apps.
• Back to the future: Downgrading my Pismo to OS X 10.3.9, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. With Spotlight and Tiger's Find refusing to work on the Pismo, it was time to backtrack to OS X 10.3.9 - which actually seems faster and more stable on this PowerBook.

2007

• Power Computing: Fighting back for the Mac or stealing Apple's customers?, Tom Hormby, Orchard. Power Computing, the first company to sell licensed Macintosh clones, seemed more interested in stealing Apple's high-end customers than expanding Mac the market.
• The Mac dilemma: Low cost and limited expansion or high cost with great upgrade potential?, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. Apple gives us two choices: A very expandable, upgradable Mac Pro or a far less expandable, less costly consumer Mac.

2008

• Power your recycled laptop with a rebuilt battery, John Hatchett, Recycled Computing. Old notebook computers usually mean old batteries that may be dead or on their last legs. You can buy a replacement battery, or you can have your old battery rebuilt.
• Idiot proof: It isn't good enough to make things intuitive, Frank Fox, Stop the Noiz. "Good design isn't about making things intuitive; it's about making them idiot proof."

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