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February 29 in Low End Mac History

Feb. 28 - Mar. 1

2000

• Good design, bad design, Dan Knight, Mac Musings.
• Is Microsoft's business plan obsolete?, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. While Linux challenges Windows, free suites also challenge MS Office.
• Upgrading an LC 575, Julie Fugett, Mac Daniel.

2008

• Copycat Microsoft has its own Reality Distortion Field, Frank Fox, Stop the Noiz. The typical computer user could happily switch to the Mac, but the Microsoft Reality Distortion Field has them believing Macs are overpriced and don't have software.
• Mac again: Picking the right MacBook, Andrew J Fishkin, Best Tools for the Job. The 5-year-old PowerBook needed replacing, but is the MacBook Air or the regular MacBook the better choice?
• Mac remote control options built into Leopard, Adam Rosen, Adam's Apple. Apple has four tools for Macintosh remote control built right into the Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard' operating system.
• Jaguar or Panther on Pismo?, Mac 128K corrections, installing OS X from an iPod, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also an old iMac, an optical trackball for ADB Macs, internal or external hard drive for an eMac, and Leopard on a 500 MHz PowerBook G4.
• New MacBook and MacBook Pro models, MacBook Air design 'wasteful', Penryn benchmarked, and more, The 'Book Review. Also hands on with the new MacBooks, MagSafe issues, MacBook Air temperature tests, cooling stands and notebook cases, bargain 'Books from $170 to $2,349, and more.
• PC Magazine calls Leopard best consumer OS ever, looking back at the Mac Plus, and more, Mac News Review. Also OS X install tips for "somewhat broken" Macs, 1984 quote in keyboard update, MetaRAM quadruples DIMM capacity, Hello Kitty wireless mouse, and iFreeMac for OS X.
• House bill could unlock iPhone, nanotech to power iPods, Britannica Mobile, and more, iNews Review9. Also Apple posts 1.1.4 iPhone update, $6 disposable battery powers iPod for 8 hours, iPhone can replace computer mouse, free phrase books, and more.

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