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April 22 in Low End Mac History

April 21 - April 23

1999

• Hard drive failure, Evan Kleiman, Mac Happens. "The iMac, unlike any other Mac, needs to be fixed differently."

2000

• Team Mac Observer passes Team Lockergnome, SETIonMac. Team Mac Observer has moved to #18 in club standings.

2002

• A new anti-spam weapon: POPmonitor 2, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. New anti-spam tool lets you delete unwanted email without downloading it - and even automates the process.
• Funny stuff on the Web, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side. If none of these have you snorting milk out your nose, it's only because you're not drinking milk while visiting these sites.

2003

• 12" iBook G3/900 and 14" iBook G3/900 released
• Is cable Internet or dialup the better value?, Evan Kleiman, Mac Daniel. Dialup is slow and cheap. Cable is fast and costly. Which one makes more sense?
• Slow Compact Flash, new Mac on hold, beige G3 and OS X, bad OS Xperiences, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also angry Mac users, OS allegiance, why OS X isn't slower than OS 9, and an unsupported OS X workhorse.
• The Global Gander, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side. Pigs fly, Macs suck, 'Pod people prowl, and more.

2005

• Picking a used G3 iMac: 600 MHz is sweet, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. The oldest iMacs are sluggish with OS X, but the faster slot-loading iMacs are pretty decent OS X machines.
• First 120 GB notebook drive, SuperDrive for white iBook G3, WallStreet and Pismo G4 upgrades, and more, The 'Book Review. Also brighter, glare-free laptop displays; new notebook stands, cases, and covers, iSweet webcam; bargain 'Books from $500 to $1,789; and more.
• 'The ultimate low end Mac', $199 G4 for Rev. A-D iMac, mini with 3.5" drive, new SATA hardware, and more, Mac News Review. Also several hands-on Mac mini reports, Mac mini Shack, mini skins from DecalGirl, and more.
• iPodding in your car, HP adds iPod photo, Mercedes of headphones, PodQuest driving directions, and more, iPod News Review. Also iPods of the rich and famous, BBC expands podcasts, U2 iPod bomb, rules for iPod users, a new line-out FireWire cable, and much more.

2008

• EmpowerBook, Tamara Keel, Digital Fossils. The goal: distraction-free writing on the go. But which PowerBook or iBook is best for the job?
• Using the aluminum iMac: Color me impressed, Frank Fox, Stop the Noiz. A MacBook is a wonderful thing, but an iMac with a 20" display can really spoil you.
• OS X for PCs, Mac mini with HDTV, 802.11n options, upgrading from Mac OS 9, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also reviving a dead PowerBook 5300, Lucida Grande, external FireWire SuperDrive advice, OS X and the DeskWriter, and royalties.

2009

• Acer One replaces PowerBook, unbootable WD FireWire drives, WiFi insecurity, and more, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Also keeping a MacBook cool, good enough computing, PowerBook Duo vs. Clamshell iBook, and WiFi range reduction as a security tool.

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