Low End Mac Archive

April 16 in Low End Mac History

April 15 - April 17

1999

• C2, the next iMac, Dan Knight, The iMac Channel. Will the next iMac have DVD, 100 MHz bus, FireWire, 64 MB RAM, a larger screen?

2001

• Steve Jobs was right, Stephen Ashton, My Turn. Flower power, CD-RW, and iTunes makes the new iMac an easy sell.
• BeOS or NeXT: Did Apple make the wrong choice?, Jonathan Ploudre, Back & Forth. Did Be really have the better operating system for the PowerPC?
• Next gen Power Macs, Dan Knight & Anne Onymus, RumorLog. Thoughts on the demise of the G4/667, faster Motorola CPUs, and future Power Macs.

2002

• The Mac is back, Steve Watkins, The Practical Mac. Mac OS X and Java could make the Mac a leading choice for programmers.

2003

• Mac myths and the Apple challenge, Stephen Van Esch, Mac Scope. Apple needs to aggressively attack the myths surrounding the Macintosh.

2004

• Low-end Macs: Why Apple needs a headless model for education and home users, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report. "We know Apple resists marketing to the low end because the profit margins are higher for the stuff they do now."
• Kissing Internet Explorer for OS X good-bye, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Microsoft's browser just kept hanging itself, so it was time to search for new solutions.
• Macs, the virus scare, and safe computing, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. "...full time antivirus software really isn't necessary on any platform, as long as you take the proper precautions."
• Warnings on iBook logic board replacement, pink iBook, wireless cantenna, Pod Shield, and more, The 'Book Review. iBatt battery monitor, FlyLight USB, Keyspan USB Server, bargain 'Books from $150 to $2,499, and more.

2007

• Logitech TrackMan Wheel intuitive, easy to use, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Trackballs are well suited for some tasks, less well suited for others. Logitech's thumb-controlled TrackMan Wheel is quickly mastered, and its software provides lots of options.
• Different branches: NeXT, Newton, and BeOS, Seb Payne, Different Branches. The main trunk of the Apple tree gave us the Mac and iPhone, but other branches of the Apple tree include NeXT, BeOS, and the Newton.
• Apple TV or iPhone a better Mac?, benefits and drawbacks of Leopard delay, a DMG tip, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also using a 'Book with WiFi instead of paying for broadband, FireWire/USB 2.0 card for 20th Anniversary May, upgrade in a Mac 128K, and more.

2008

• Open Computer: The first Macintosh clone in a decade, Alan Zisman, Zis Mac. Whether Psystar survives Apple Legal remains to be seen, but the Open Computer does point to the market for a lower cost, expandable Mac.
• The secret of Mac security revealed, Frank Fox, Stop the Noiz. Whether Macs are secure because of obscurity, scarcity, or design, growing popularity is making security more of an issue for Mac users.
• 18 bits can't display millions of colors, today's magic is different from yesterday's, and more, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Also more feedback on Mac browsers, slow dialup Internet, and a SCSI-to-USB 2.0 solution.

2009

• Introduction to hard drives, Frank Fox, Stop the Noiz. A look at the factors that influence hard drive performance: seek time, latency, throughput, and caches.
• How about an 802.11g card for the original AirPort Card slot?, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. There are a lot of old Macs with 802.11b AirPort Cards still in use and with poor security. Someone should make a plug-and-play 802.11g replacement card to provide better security, higher throughput, and improved range.

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