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May 21 in Low End Mac History

May 20 - May 22

1999

• Not censorship, something else, Scott Link, Mac Musings. "This is quick-fix legislation at its worst."

2001

• USB and FireWire drives, Dan Knight, Mac Daniel. What's the best way to add an external drive to a modern Mac?
• Software subscriptions and value, Jonathan Ploudre, Back & Forth. A look at Microsoft, software licensing, Macs, and value.

2002

• Windows user hooked by PowerBook, Christopher Alan Gohm, My First Mac. How the Mac OS replaced Windows in the mind and heart of one user.
• Printer sharing for Mac OS X, Steve Watkins, The Practical Mac. Linksys WPS11 shares a printer on ethernet and AirPort - but with a catch.
• Tempting new iBooks?, Eric Schwarz, The Power of Mac. Mostly improved, but with one step backwards. But is it worth stepping up from an older iceBook?

2003

• Power Macintosh G4 (Yikes!), Road Apples. Yikes! isn't a bad computer, just one with several unnecessary compromises.

2004

• Less frequent major OS X uprades: Good or bad for Mac users?, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. Less frequent upgrades should mean a more stable OS and reduced long-term expense for Mac users.
• iBook G4 hot in Japan, 12" iBook or PowerBook, fuel cells, Soyuz laptop bag, and more, The 'Book Review. ADC adapter for 12" PowerBook, iTunes Anywhere, upgradable laptop video possibilities, bargain 'Books from $150 to $2,599, and more.

2007

• Why I won't be getting an iPhone this year, Ed Eubanks Jr, The Efficient Mac User. The iPhone is likely to have early problems, prices are bound to come down, and the current service contract won't allow the switch until January 2008.
• Apple sued: Can 262,144 colors be considered 'millions'?, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. A new class action lawsuit claims Apple is deceiving buyers when it claims to display "millions of colors" on its notebook computers. What's really going on here?
• Most durable 'Book, prepping a blue & white G3 for OS X, 7200 rpm drive too hot for Pismo?, and more, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Also how the need to run "Tiger" is a problem, an iBook G4 with serious shutdown issues, and burning CDs at a lower speed may make them easier to read in older Macs.
• Can you put 3 GB in a Mac mini?, where are the Mirror Drive Door CPU upgrades?, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also a challenge to 'Mac-ify' the Interweb, more on CRT voltage dangers, and fixing Low End Mac's navigation bar in Firefox for Linux.

2008

• Upgraded Quadra a great server for vintage Mac networking, Carl Nygren, My Turn. The compact Quadra 610 runs quietly, and with a PowerPC upgrade, it rockets past regular 68040 Macs.
• 1 display with 2 Macs, flash memory for file transfer, Quicksilver or TigerLaunch?, and more, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Also running a PowerBook 1400 from Compact Flash, format=flowed for email, and OS 9 nice for browsing without Flash.
• Slow Leopard video, G3 iMac to the max, Flash Player 10 Beta improves YouTube, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also how to eject a disc that won't mount, notebooks no longer need optical drives, a new key on Apple's USB keyboard, WEP problems with Orinoco Gold, and Microsoft Office on Macs.

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