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Featured link: Apple will become bigger than Microsoft in 2010, Tim Nash, Taking Back the Market, 01.15. The handwriting is on the wall: Apple is growing while Microsoft is in decline.
Mac of the Day: 'WallStreet' PowerBook G3, May 1998 - WallStreet offered 3 screen sizes and CPU speeds from 233 to 292 MHz.
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Do We Really Need Another Mac Email Client?: Charles W. Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 02.08; Mac users have a host of free and low-cost email clients to choose from. Does Brent Simmons' 'Letters' project make any sense at all?
MacBook Pro a Revelation: Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 02.08; After using G4 Macs for over a decade, spending a weekend prepping a first generation MacBook Pro was a real eye opener.
February 9 in LEM history: 00: Think choices - Promoting the Macintosh - 01: Apple vs. Mac clones - 05: Apple and the $100 laptop - Yojimbo - Core Duo vs. G5 - 07: The story behind After Dark - Microsoft Office 2007
42 Reasons a Netbooks Is Better than an iPad, Hard Drive Upgrade Value, Faster Netbooks, and More: The 'Book Review, 02.05; Also why the iPad can't compete with netbooks, 802.11n WiFi card for older Intel MacBooks and Mac minis, and a DJ keyboard cover for MacBooks.
iPad Perfect for Handheld Computing: John Hatchett, Recycled Computing, 02.05; You can hold the iPad in one hand and operate it with the other, giving it real advantages over a laptop computer.
iPad Targets Netbook Users, iPad 'Flaws' Don't Matter, In-page Search for iPhone Safari, and More: iNews Review, 02.05; Also FSF considers iPad 'iBad' for freedom, Touch Mouse app turns iPhone into wireless keyboard and trackpad, privacy screen for iPhone, and more.
Touch Shifts the Apple Empire: Tim Nash, Taking Back the Market, 02.05; Apple dominates mobile computing, and it will be difficult for competitors to match the value of the iPad.
90% of Premium PCs Are Macs, OS and Browser Market Share, Chrome Browser to Dominate, and More: Mac News Review, 02.05; Also 27" iMac too popular for supply, eco-friendly 2 TB hard drive, Puppy Linux for PowerPC Macs, 6-core Mac Pro rumored, and more.
iPad Should Support a Stylus, CoolBook Quiets MacBooks, Puppy Linux for PowerPC Macs, and More: Charles W. Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 02.03; Also the iPad as a genie in a bottle, Eudora Classic 6.2, notebook battery life, and more uses for 'obsolete' technology.
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Recent Deals

Best 15" MacBook Pro Deals (02.02): Used 2 GHz, $700; 2.4, $999; refurb 2.53, $1,449; 2.8, $1,699; 3.06, $2,199; new 2.53, $1,610; 2.66, $1,839; 2.8, $2,109; 3.06, $2,550; more.
Best G3 iMac Deals (02.02): 500 MHz CD-ROM, $40; 450 MHz DVD-ROM, $60; 600 MHz CD-ROM, $230 shipped; 700 MHz CD-RW, $300 shipped.
Best eMac Deals (02.02): 1 GHz SuperDrive, $269; 1.25 Combo, $100; SD, $360; 1.42 GHz Combo, $299; SD, $439.
Best Mac mini Deals (02.01): Used 1.25 GHz G4 Combo, $369; 1.5, $399; Core Solo, $399; 1.83 GHz Core Duo SD, $439; new 2.26 GHz nVidia, $580; 2.53 GHz, $759; Server, $985.
Best iBook G4 Deals (02.01): 12" 1.07 GHz Combo, $200; 1.33 GHz, $259; 14" 1.42 GHz SuperDrive, $399.
Best Titanium PowerBook G4 Deals (02.01): 800 MHz Combo, $285; 867 MHz SuperDrive, $400; 1 GHz Combo, $549.
Best 13" MacBook & MacBook Pro Deals (01.29): Used 1.83 GHz, $570; 2.0, $599; 2.4 GHz, $800; 2.26 MB, $849; new, $925 after rebate; Pro, $1,108, 2.53, $1,399 a/r.
Best Power Mac G5 Deals (01.29): 1.8 GHz single, $399; dual, $479; 2.0, $549; 2.5, $609; 2.7, $799; 2.3 GHz dual-core, $709; 2.5 GHz Quad, $939.
Best Mac OS X 10.0-10.3 Deals (01.29): Mac OS X 10.0, $30; 10.1, $20; 10.2, $50; 10.3, $50; 10.3 Server, unlimited users, $130.
More deals in our archive.

Around the Web

Opinion: The iPad Isn't a Third Device, but a Third Revolution, Dan Moren, Macworld, 02.01. "...the chief distinction between power users and your average user: power users adapt computers to the way they work, instead of adapting the way they work to computers."
Opinion: Why Apple chose the iPad's screen format, Kirk McElhearn, Macworld, 02.01. "I think the screen format was chosen exactly for content, or at least for that type of content most likely to be viewed on the iPad."
Analysis: our Years of Apple Unit & Revenue Graphs Illustrate Growth, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 01.25. Graphs showing Apple's unit sales and revenue illustrate the company's meteoric rise from a $5 billion per year company to a $50 billion a year company.
Software: Mozilla Delivers Firefox 3.6 to Millions of Users, Applelinks, 01.22. The latest version of Firefox introduces cutting-edge features, support for a wide variety of Web standards, and access to more than 6,000 free add-ons that allow users to customize their brow
News: Apple updates Boot Camp with Windows 7 support, AppleInsider, 01.20. "Apple on Tuesday updated its Boot Camp software and issued new drivers and utilities to allow users to run Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7."
Advice: Easily Manage Multiple Browsers on Your Mac, David Appleyard, Appstorm, 01.15. Low cost app makes it easy to choose which browser you will use for each link.
Software: Firefox 3.5.7 fix could 'goose' browser upgrades, Stephen Shankland, CNET News, 01.06. Firefox 3.5.7 and 3.0.17 fix a common crash problem and improve upgrade support - and 3.6 now a release candidate.
Advice: Sleep for the insomniac Mac, David Morgenstern, ZDNet, 01.05. Is your OS X 10.6 Mac waking up from Sleep unexpectedly? The 'Wake on Demand' feature in Snow Leopard could be the culprit.
Software: The Freewares of 2009, Steve Wood, Educators' News, 12.11. "Over the last year or so, I've noticed a resurgence of freewares, open source applications, and free web sites for education."
News: Firefox 3.5 passes IE7 as most popular browser, Electronista, 12.21. "As of last week, the Mozilla browser took 21.93 percent of traffic, or just enough to edge out IE7's 21.2 percent."
Software: Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac, Slashdot, 12.16. "...the number of active developers for the project's Mac OS X releases has dropped to zero, prompting a halt in the release schedule." Mac Support may be dropped with version 1.1.0.
News: FTC pursues Intel on new front: Graphics chips, Brooke Crothers, CNET News, 12.16. Intel is accused of selling it Atom/GPU bundle for less than the cost of Atom alone if vendors choose to use nVidia graphics.
News: Apple wins permanent injunction against clone Mac maker Psystar, AppleInsider, 12.15. "...a federal judge issued a permanent injunction against the unauthorized Mac OS X hardware creator, banning it from selling hardware with Apple's operating system."
News: Healthy Mac sales growth fueled by 74% increase in desktops, ars technica, 12.15. With new iMacs and updated Mac minis, Apple desktop sales are "on fire" - "up a whopping 74 percent".
Low End: Adobe warns that the Flash train is leaving G3-land forever, Chris Foresman, ars technica, 12.10. Flash 10.1, due in 2010, will be the last version to support the CPU that powered the Beige G3, Blue & White G3, G3 PowerBooks, G3 iBooks, and G3 iMacs.
News: Apple Offers Free iTunes LP Holiday Sampler, Mac Observer, 12.11. A free iTunes LP with 20 holiday songs performed by Amy Grant, Sarah McLauchlan, Mannheim Steamroller, Tody Keith, Weezer, Stephen Colbert, and others.
Opinion: The 20 most innovative consumer electronics products of the decade, David Carnoy, CNET News, 12.10. Apple's iMac G4, iPod, and iPhone made the list, along with TiVo, TomTom, Nintendo DS, and lots more.
News: Apple grabs top U.S. retail sales spots in October, Jim Dalrymple, CNET News, 12.04. Apple had the top spot in both desktop and notebook computer categories.
News: Macs retake reliability ranking top spot, Gregg Keizer, Computerworld, 12.06. "...Apple recaptured the top ranking for the third quarter with a reliability score of 374. Behind Apple were Lenovo and Asus with 320 and 166...."
Software: An Introduction to Camino 2.0, Mark Sinkinson, AppStorm, 12.02. "Camino is a useful, lightweight browser with great security features and integration with OS X."

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