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- Tip Jar Low End Mac Reader Specials Download Typestyler, still the Ultimate Styling Tool for Internet, Print and Video Graphics. Works great in Classic with a Native OS X Version on the way. Free Tryout: www.typestyler.com LA Computer Company: LA Computer Company: Specials on AppleCare, Apple Displays, MacBooks, iMac's, MacBook Pros, Laptop and iPod accessories and more. Apple A/C Adapters for laptops starting at $25.00 Call 1-800-941-7654 or Click Here. OWC: NewerTech NuPower Batteries for iBook and PowerBooks Designed+Built in USA to run longer, LAST LONGER TOO! Free Battery Recycling Return Label; Quality High-Capacity from $99.95 Mac users can finally play Party Poker for Mac. Not only that, they can also learn how to play PokerStars for Mac. Laptop Hardware Provided by TechRestore - Overnight Mac & iPod Repairs. Compare products like desktop computers, laptops, and LCD TVs side by side! All the information and reviews to make the best purchasing decision for a new cell phone GPS products or MP3 players. The Ciao network makes searching products easy for you. MacPro Memory 667Mhz With Apple Spec Heat Sink 2GB $90 / 4GB $134 / 8GB $264. Click to Maximize your Macs... Missing From Macworld July 25, 2000 - Dan Knight My earlier articles looked at what was at the show; today let's look at what should have been there but wasn't. Mac OS X Beta 1 Ever since Apple announced the revised release schedule for OS X, we've been hoping the beta would be ready and available at Macworld Expo. We were disappointed to find out that it's at least a month away. AirPort-Compatible PC Cards I was very jealous of AirPort users at the show. My wife's WallStreet PowerBook doesn't take an AirPort card, but Farallon, Lucent, and possibly others make PC Cards that are compatible with AirPort. If anyone had been selling them at the show, I would have bought one. Apple T-shirts What better place to buy an Apple T-shirt than Macworld Expo, right? Wrong. The only shirts available were Macworld Expo 2000 shirts. Nice shirts, but they're already dated. I would have paid good money for some nice Apple T-shirts, polo shirts, denim shirts, etc. Instead, I brought home New York City shirts for my family. Shown But Not For Sale Compucase on Wheels from Tutto. Their Office on Wheels is great, and I have no regrets about buying it, but I would have prefered the slightly smaller Compucase on Wheels, which is better organized for storing computer accessories. The MacPad mousepad, which only retails for US$9.99. I would have bought one or two. Farallon SkyLine AirPort-compatible PC Card, as noted above. I would have balked at their US$219 price, but if they'd had special show pricing.... (Maybe I should have just ordered it for US$190 from Outpost.com, or tried to find a deal on Lucent's Orinoco IEEE Turbo PC Card.) It does help you see what a value Apple's US$99 AirPort card is. Faster Portables No change to the iBook or PowerBook lines. The iBook remains at 300 and 366 MHz, the PowerBook at 400 and 500 MHz. ADB Mice I packed an ADB mouse without a mouse ball for the trip. Nobody was showing or selling ADB mice. <this article available in a printer-friendly version> Dan Knight has been using Macs since 1986, sold Macs for several years, supported them for many more years, and has been publishing Low End Mac since April 1997. If you find Dan's articles helpful, please consider making a donation to his tip jar. Recent Mac Musings PowerPC's last chance: The Mac's history with the G5 CPU, 06.24. The introduction of the G5 Power Mac in June 2003 promised a bright 3 GHz future, and failure to achieve that paved the way to today's Intel Macs. 16:9 computer displays: Let's not go there, 06.17. "...there's no reason our computer displays should match the proportions of our television displays." Left behind by Mac OS X or up to date with Linux?, 06.04. If you wanted up-to-date software, you may need to run the latest version of Mac OS X. But what if it won't run on your hardware? More in the Mac Musings index. Recent Content on Low End Mac Mac Pro overclocking, Windependence with Darwine, Blu-ray for Macs, and more, Mac News Review, 07.04. Also more on running Leopard on non-Apple hardware, Ubuntu on a Mac mini, the first autofocus webcam with Zeiss optics for Macs, and more. Wouldn't life be great with an iSlate?, John Hatchett, Recycled Computing, 07.04. PDAs and smartphones are too small for some tasks, full-fledged Tablet PCs are overkill, and ebook readers are too limited. Apple has the tech to own this niche. Mac of the Day: Original iMac G3/233, Aug. 98 - The Bondi blue wonder that bounced Apple back to profitability and into the public eye. List of the Day: Mac Pro List is for those using a Mac Pro. July 5 in LEM history: 98: The iMac: First of a family? - iMac Perfect for schools - 00: Apple is not your friend - 01: 75 Mac Advantages - Do you trust me? - 02: The joy of X with Classic - The good, the bad, and the intrusive - 05: No Quartz Extreme for Pismo - A brief history of NeXT - 06: Education iMac - iTunes and the French interoperability law - TopXNotes - Apple's secret battery reset utility - Misleading hard drive capacity The Macintosh Portable started a notebook revolution, Carl Nygren, Classic Macs in the Intel Age, 07.03. Before Apple introduced the Mac Portable, notebook computers were text-based and ran MS-DOS. Ever since, graphical interfaces have been the norm for laptops. More links in our archive. Go to the Mac Musings index. Entire Low End Mac website copyright ©1997-2008 by Cobweb Publishing, Inc., unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. Advice presented in good faith, but what works for one may not work for all. 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