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December 4 in Low End Mac History

Dec. 3 - Dec. 5

2000

• Inside your Mac, Scott Atkinson, My Turn. Two books the Mac owner should know about: How the Mac Works and Upgrading and Fixing Macs and iMacs for Dummies.

2001

• Upgrade or replace my old iMac?, Evan Kleiman, Mac Daniel. Which is the better value, buying a new 600 MHz iMac or trying to update my old one?
• Undercover at the Apple Store, Steve Watkins, The Practical Mac. A trip to Dallas, discovery of a new Apple store, and going undercover as a Windows user.
• Spam, spam, spam, spam, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Why spam won't go away - and some suggestions for fighting back.
• The value of Voodoo video, Jonathan Ploudre, Back & Forth. Why an inexpensive Voodoo3 video card can be a real boon for low-end PCI Power Macs and clones.
• Macs for writing and typesetting, Laraine Anne Barker, My First Mac. How the Mac displaced dedicated word processors and phototypesetting machines.
• Forget the flat panel iMac, Anne Onymus, Rumor Mill. Why there isn't ever going to be a flat panel iMac. Never.

2002

• The truth about Macs vs. PCs in our schools, Dan Knight, MacInSchool. "Apple, this is your war. Plan it, fund it, fight it, and win it. Commit to offering the best education solution for the dollar."
• Beyond MHz: It's the whole system that counts, Evan Kleiman, Mac Daniel. Don't be fooled by fast CPU clock speeds. The performance of the whole system can be crippled by a single slow component.
• Who are you calling a masochist?, Stephen Van Esch, Mac Scope. Mac users masochists? It seems like Windows users are more deserving of the label.

2006

• Why older users love Macs, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Metafacts says that 46% of Mac users are 55 and older. Apple says it's closer to 20%. Why would older computer users gravitate toward the Mac?
• $20 i-Rocks IR-9200 USB 2.0 2.5" drive enclosure a good value, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. This inexpensive USB 2.0 drive enclosure is a great way to repurpose a 2.5" hard drive that's been removed from a notebook computer.

2007

• Why we acquire Macs, John Carlson, My Turn. Mac users are an odd breed - we tend to buy new computers without ever tossing out our old Macs.
• An indigo iBook: My first modern notebook Mac, Tommy Thomas, Welcome to Macintosh. The clamshell iBook majors in ruggedness, has a handle to increase portability, and can even run OS X (slowly) with just 128 MB of RAM.
• MacBook replaces PowerBook: The name grows on you, Trevor Wale, One More Thing. A PowerBook by any other name would be as sweet, but it took a while to get comfortable with the new MacBook name.
• Mac approaching 25th birthday, OS 8 on Performa 630, Mac Classics in use 24/7, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also more thoughts on vampire video, realigning the Road Apple label, the fate of DropStuff, and an unidentified cable in a Power Mac 8600.

2008

• How Apple Retail can profit from the recession, Tim Nash, Taking Back the Market. "Apple has a larger cash mountain than any of its competitors in retail, and with the right kind of investments will come out of the recession stronger than ever."
• Watching DVDs from different regions on your Mac, Andrew J Fishkin, Best Tools for the Job, 2008.12.04. Hardware and software solutions for watching DVDs intended for a different region.
• Targus Velos Messenger Case: Versatile, attractive, and modestly priced, Charles Moore, 'Book Value. The Velos Messenger Case is solidly built, had pockets for lots of extras, and could even handle a second 15in notebook computer.

Dec. 3 - Dec. 5

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