Low End Mac Archive for March 25

March 25 in Low End Mac History

The wow factor, Evan Kleiman, Mac Happens. Dazzle your friends with the abilities of the Mac.

Shot in the foot again: Firmware update disables RAM, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. "...we should not be at risk of losing some or all of the memory in our Macs because of a firmware update."

OS X on a beige G3, Kevin Webb, The Mac Webb. The old beige G3/300 handles Mac OS X more comfortably than expected.
The Great Industrial-Design Shift, Rodney O. Lain, Things Macintosh. Beige boxes are doomed to extinction as Apple, Sony, and others find innovative new designs for their computers.
iClip: The app I want for Christmas, Guy McLimore, My Turn. This could be a killer app for anyone who works with graphics on the Mac.

5 things Apple is doing right, and 5 they could do better, Steve Watkins, The Practical Mac. Thoughts on Al Gore, Xserve clusters, Keynote, Virtual PC, death of the CRT iMac, education, and how Apple could own the PDA market.
Kanga a best buy, Kanga RAM, wireless for older 'Books, Western Digital problems, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also Lombard memory issues, yet another Apple going Intel rumor, Pismo and Lombard battery prices, and more problems with the Rev. 1 blue and white G3.

Rise of the Microsoft monopoly, shafted by Gizmos2go, the end of PowerPC software, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also comparing a 2003 PowerBook with a 2005 iBook, Mac ethernet problems, ownership of WordPerfect, and the power of ClarisWorks.

PowerPC viability, Migration Assistant rocks, importing Mail to Eudora, and more, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Also boosting MacBook memory, limiting CPU usage with SETI@home, and running Windows on pre-Intel Macs.

PSP-3000: A cheap Skype phone and portable Web browser, John Hatchett, Recycled Computing. After trading in two PSP-1000s and a bunch of games, the store owed me money.

File sharing between your Mac and your iPad, John Hatchett, Recycled Computing. You can use iTunes to sync your Mac and iPad, but what if you want to transfer just one or two files?
iPad 2 as laptop replacement, iPad 2 is 'stupid fast', Apple pulls 'gay cure' app, new cases, and more, iNews Review. Also in-depth iPad 2 reviews, 2x telephoto lens for iPhone 4, protective skins for iPad 2, and more.
Many Early 2011 MacBook Pro problems addressed in OS X 10.6.7, MacBook Pro GPUs benchmarked, and more, The 'Book Review. Also 6 Gbps SATA SSD problems require cable replacement, replacing a PowerBook's hard drive, Motorola Atrix 4G and the future of mobile computing, and more.
OS X 10.6.7 released, Security Update for OS X 10.5.8, Thunderbolt iMac weeks away?, and more, Mac News Review. Also Jonathan Ive, the design genius behind Apple; Mac software boss stepping down; and LibreOffice and NeoOffice updates.