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April 14 in Mac and LEM History

April 13 - April 15

1986

• Mac 512Ke introduced to replace Mac 512K, complement Mac Plus. No SCSI port, no memory expansion options - like 512K. 800K floppy drive and 128 KB ROMs like Plus.

1999

• Statistical lies, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. "Remember the 3% and 4% market share figures we saw when Apple seemed on its deathbed? Well, they were only partly true - they only measured part of the computer market."

2000

• Surfing large, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Internet Explorer 5, big screen fonts, and another reason Macs are better.
• Mac games in development, Brian Rumsey, Low End Mac Gaming. A look at eight games currently being developed for the Mac.

2003

• PowerBook 1400, CD-ROM drivers, ADB vs. USB, free email, and a WallStreet question, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Readers weigh in or ask questions about PB 1400, CD-ROM drivers, ADB vs. USB performance, connecting to free POP3 email, burning CDs from a WallStreet, and iBook goes to war.

2004

• Small and stylish PCs are hot, so bring back the Cube, Stephen Van Esch, Mac Scope. Yet again it looks like the good folks at Apple were just slightly ahead of their time.
• The 1.25 GHz eMac value equation: Wow!, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Apple's value leader offers even more power for the price - especially the SuperDrive model.

2005

• Macintosh unit sales grow 43% vs. 2004, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Apple has had a stunning quarter - Mac unit sales up, iPod unit sales up, total revenue up, and profits way up over a year ago.
• The CEO and the Tiger, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side. The semi-barbaric CEO allows his subjects to choose one of two doors. Behind one is a Tiger of great cunning, behind the other....

2008

• Social networking on the Mac: net4mac shows promise, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. In contrast to huge social networks such as MySpace and Facebook, net4mac is limited to Mac users with OS X 10.4 and later.

2009

• Unibody MacBook 'an excellent successor' to 12" PowerBooks and iBooks, Charles Moore, 'Book Value. The MacBook is a bit wider and lacks FireWire and a built-in modem, but overall it's a worthy successor to the Apple's 12" 'Books.
• How Apple can kill off $1.29 iTunes tracks, Tim Nash, Taking Back the Market. Raising the price of popular tracks from 99¢ to $1.29 has already reduced their popularity.
• Judging HP by Microsoft's 'laptop hunter' standards, Frank Fox, Stop the Noiz. If Microsoft is going to pick on Apple for overpriced notebooks, its only fair that HP, Dell, and others be judged the same way.

April 13 - April 15

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