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April 6 in Low End Mac History

April 5 - April 7

2000

• Picking an older Power Mac, Adam Robert Guha, Mac Daniel. First generation Power Macs can be quite a value.
• Team Mac Observer expands, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. No sign of ET yet, but new members have closed the gap between Team Mac Observer and Team Lockergnome.

2001

• OS X: The end of tight hardware integration?, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. Tight integration of hardware and OS has been an Apple trademark - until OS X.
• OS X, Apple tattoos, sexy TiBooks, Dirk Pilat, Mac U. Mac OS X in London, an Apple tatoo, and the sexy Titanium PowerBook on the cover of MacUser.
• Customize Mac OS X, Jake Sargent, iThings Considered. How to change icons, the toolbar, and the dock - and make OS X a bit faster.
• 4 years of Low End Mac, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Forgive us for getting a bit self-congratulatory, but LEM turns 4 on Saturday. This is our story.
• 'Mobile newsroom' deal, PowerBook battery FAQ, FireBox hard drive case, and more, Charles Moore, The 'Book Page. Mobile Newsroom deal, PB Zone giveaway, FireWire enclosure, Haliburton case, PowerBook deals, and refurbished TiBooks.

2006

• Michael Spindler: The Peter Principle at Apple, Tom Hormby, Orchard. If any Apple CEO demonstrates the danger of moving a qualified employee beyond his abilities, it's Spindler.
• Boot Camp: Apple officially supports Windows XP booting on Macintel hardware, The Macintel Report. No more need to do any hacks to get WinXP booting on Apple's Intel-based Macs. Apple's new Boot Camp software fully supports it.
• 'Unplug, hear the world', iPhone this year?, earBuddy earbud protection, and more, iPod News Review. Also iPods in the workplace, Crutchfield adds iPod "drive-thru" section, setting volume limit on new iPods, HiFi-Link connects iPod to home stereo, and more.

2007

• 10 years using low end Macs, Ted Hodges, Vintage Mac Living. April 1997: Apple's 20th birthday, Mac OS 7.6.1 released, Low End Mac begins, and the author gets his first Mac.
• Getting from A to B and having fun along the way, Eric "Zoltan" DeStefano, Mac Metamorphosis. When it comes to productivity and enjoying the computing experience, Macs and Apple software stand apart from the pack.
• Connecting with the broader Macintosh community, Stephen Van Esch, Mac Scope. "But beyond the very minor celebrity status that came with being published on Low End Mac, it gave me a real opportunity to participate in the Mac community."
• 10 years of Low End Mac: Looking back and looking forward, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. As Low End Mac celebrates 10 years on the Web, we look back at some milestones.

April 5 - April 7

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