April 26 in Low End Mac History

April 25 - April 27

2000

• Improving the user experience?, Steve Wood, View From the Classroom. Apple claims automatic updates (when they work) somehow improve the user experience. Yeah, right.
• The iMac and hot-swappable expansion bay modules, Stephen Van Esch, Mac Scope. Why Apple should adapt this PowerBook technology to the iMac.
• Is the Mac a gaming machine?, Brian Rumsey, Low End Mac Gaming. Brian provides a very thoughtful answer to this question.
• Gnomes shoot past Mac Observers, SETIonMac. In an unexpected development, Team Lockergnome gained over 10,000 units on Monday to zoom past Team Mac Observer.

2001

• From Luddite to Low End Mac, Beverly Woods, Acoustic Mac. How a solar Luddite and acoustic musician became a Mac user.
• The best really low budget Macs, Heather Anne Hurd, My Turn. Power Macs are nice, but these eminently usable Macs are even cheaper.
• PowerBook 145b, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report. An example of just how useful an older PowerBook can be when your newer 'Book's been stolen.
• Virtual cutting room, Matthew Urban, Matt's Mac. Editing and exporting movies on an older Mac.

2002

• Macs, New Zealand, and Darwinism, Dirk Pilat, Down But Not Out, 04.26. Yes, there are Macs in New Zealand, but do they really promote godless Darwinism?
• Hands on: Palm Desktop 4.0, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. "Even if you don't have a Palm, you can use Palm Desktop, and I highly recommend it."
• 800 MHz PowerBook expected, Zip module for Lombard and Pismo, refurb iPods, and more, Charles Moore. G4/800 rumors, Zip and CD-RW modules, case for 14" iBook, refurb iPods, SCSI and ethernet PC Cards, and bargain 'Books.
• Website automation with PHP and MySQL, part 4, Dan Knight, Online Tech Journal. Using PHP to display the information in your MySQL database.

2004

• Marketing the Mac: Yes, Macs are different, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Apple stressed the wrong thing with the 'Think Different' campaign. It should have been about how a different computer does the same things as a Windows PC.
• Maximum eMac RAM, PB 1400 offspring and boot solutions, a nice IE feature, and password protection in OS X, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Lot of praise for the PowerBook 1400, how to boot the 1400 from a CD, booting from Compact Flash, working around password problems in OS X, and more.

2005

• G4 upgrades for G3 'Books, lap desks, OS X on early iMacs, emergency boot CD problem, and more, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Also microphone input with Macs, Digitrex camera driver, cookie overload stops Yahoo Mail, and more on the best Mac keyboard.

2006

• Hands-on with an iBook leads to on-the-spot conversion, Paul Brierley, The 'Book Beat. After years with Windows, the Mac OS provided a mixture of awe at the graphics, surprise that Office runs, amazement that it works so easily with digicams and third-party monitors, and disbelief about the lack of malware.
• Modern computing: First impressions of a $10 PowerBook G3, Ted Hodges, Vintage Mac Living. The price was right, assuming it worked, but how beat up and underpowered would this $10 PowerBook be?

2007

• Apple's digital hub report card: Current grade, B+, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Apple promised to make the Mac the hub of the digital lifestyle in 2001. It has excelled in most areas but barely passes when it comes to mobile phone support.
• The 12" MacBook Pro: I don't think so, Trevor Wale, One More Thing6. As much as we may love the 12" PowerBook form factor, if Apple were going to release a 12" MacBook, they would have done so by now.

April 25 - April 27

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