The Low End Mac Link Archive, April 2001
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- Opinion: DVD-ROM/CD-RW for all, Robert Aldridge, The iMac.com, 04.30.
"Apple, please replace all DVD and CD-RW drives with one of the
good DVD-ROM/CD-RW drives."
- AAPL: Afternoon
losses knock Apple off seven month high, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer, 04.30. "Apple started the day off strong, trading as high
as 27.12."
- News: Titanium run
over by 1.7 ton car, Go2Mac.com, 04.30. Screen destroyed, but
TiBook still works using an external monitor.
- Opinion: This is not
an Apple tech-support call from hell, Rodney O. Lain,
MacSpirit, Applelinks, 04.30. "Recently, Apple was awarded for
excellence in customer service. If my experience is any indication,
this award is well deserved."
- Macinschool: Apple
education: I'm not dead (yet), Steve Wood, View From the
Classroom, 04.30. "...our elementary Mac lab, which is now
populated with dreary Duron equipped computers and Windows
98."
- Macinschool: Mac versus PC battle
reaches Carteret, Carteret News Times. Residents fight
"academically flawed and economically harmful decision" to abandon
Macs.
- Low End: Gary's Classic
Macs, Gary Singleton. Another PC guy gets hooked on Macs.
- Macinschool:
Group fights computer switch, Jacksonville Daily News, 04.29.
"This computer decision will make their already demanding jobs
unnecessarily more difficult."
- News: Metabox
exits Mac upgrade market, MacCentral, 04.28. Good-bye, JoeCard.
:-( Expect hot deals from
Other World Computing on close-out inventory.
- History: Remembering
1990, the IIfx, and the power to be your best, Bryan Chaffin,
Mac Observer, 04.27. "Wicked fast" meant 40 MHz, and "Apple was at
the top of their game with record sales and no competition in
sight."
- Macinschool: AirPort
technology teaches old building new tricks, Apple. AirPort
eliminated need to rewire an old school.
- Benchmarks:
FireWire cases compared, Accelerate Your Mac, 04.27. Real world
tests show the "bridge" used really makes a difference.
- Consumer: Week's
best iBook, PowerBook deals, PowerBook Central, 04.27.
- Low End: Ancient Mac
software, Applefritter. The Mac archives of the Boston Computer
Society (1977-1996), mostly 400k disk images.
- Opinion: Apple's got a new .
. . pass it on, Steve Sobek, Daily Rant, 04.27. Rumors, rumors,
rumors.
- News: Tote &
Tilt adds handle to Titanium PowerBook, Dennis Sellers,
MacCentral, 04.27. Improved portability and improved airflow.
- Opinion: Whither
the Cube?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 04.27. "...the Cube is
now the lowest-priced modular desktop Mac by a substantial
margin."
- Web: Aerias, better health
through indoor air quality awareness.
- Opinion: Against
non-standard Websites and email formatting clutter, Charles W.
Moore, Applelinks, 04.26.
- Opinion:
The joy of X, Pierre Igot, Applelust, 04.26. "...in the
migration from the classic Mac OS to Mac OS X, Apple has
managed to preserve the potentiality of its product."
- News: Cobalt: There
will be no Apple Cube lawsuit, ZDNet UK, 04.25. "The Cube
trademark associated with computers has changed hands several times
in the past decade. It was first registered by NeXT
Computer...."
- NeXT: Commonly
asked (by Mac users) questions about NextStep/OpenStep systems,
Kevin Coffee. Best single-page resource I've seen about NeXT
stuff.
- Low end: Junkyard Jeff's Computer
Wrecking Yard. More old Macs and parts than you can shake a
stick at.
- Software: iCab
Preview 2.5 available for download, iCab.de.
- Advice: Mystery
crashes solved, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac Opinion, 04.25.
"Odd that power problems never occurred to me as the reason for the
crashes - I just assumed the ancient PowerMac was behaving
irascibly...."
- Advice: The pros and
cons of a clean install, David Pogue, Mac Review Zone.
- Web: BeNews, all the BeOS
news fit to put on the Web.
- Opinion:
Fool me twice, John Holmes, To the Contrary, Applelust, 04.25.
"...once Apple altered my Mac with their firmware, whether I was a
willing participant or not, Apple becomes responsible."
- Opinion:
The best I can say, Ceolaf, MacinThoughts, Applelust, 04.24.
Mac OS X better than Linux, but not nearly as good as Mac
OS 9.
- Opinion:
PowerBook: Now the logical Mac for more folks than ever,
Charles W. Moore, Mac Opinion, 04.24. "I just love having my
computer system in one, small, portable package...."
- Opinion: Balancing
profits with marketshare, Paul Shields, Business Mac, 04.24.
"At some point Apple will have to decide that the focus of the
business strategy should be on increasing sales/unit volume and
that short-term margins may suffer."
- Analysis: Evolution of the
Mac OS X user interface, David Miller, osOpinion, 04.24.
"...if Apple, a company whose reputation is synonymous with good
design, cannot make an OS that conforms to the industry's
specifications for a proper user interface, who will?"
- Benchmarks: Two
"Oxford 911" FireWire enclosures compared, Bare Feats, 04.24.
Similar performance, different designs.
- Review: EasiExpansion
T35, John F. Braun, Mac Observer, 04.23. Add 2 PCI slots, 2 USB
ports, and 5 drive bays to your Mac.
- Opinion: I'm
furious at Apple, Michael Coyle, ResExcellence, 04.23. "Apple
has stopped your ability to customize the interface of Mac
OS X with themes...."
- Review: Netflix, Marc
Zeedar, Digital-Views.com, 04.23. A DVD rental alternative to
Blockbuster and Hollywood Video.
- Deals:
Newer Tech blowout, Other World Computing. OWC has acquired
Newer's inventory and has some impressive deals.
- Web: Mac
Show is the apple, Peter Wilson, Mac Chat, Vancouver Sun,
04.19. The history and success of The Mac Show Live.
- Web: Viewable
with any browser, anybrowser.org. Best viewed with Netscape or
Internet Explorer? No, best viewed with the browser of your
choice.
- Benchmarks: Three 2.5" FireWire drives
compared, Bare Feats, 04.20. FWDepot's new Titanium drive takes
on VST and Granite Digital.
- Consumer: Outpost.com abandons free
shipping, MacNN, 04.20.
- Consumer: Week's
best iBook, PowerBook deals, PowerBook Central, 04.20.
- AAPL: Apple,
Apple, Apple everywhere with AAPL up another 12.8%, Bryan
Chaffin, Mac Observer, 04.19.
- News: Apple
ships 5 millionth iMac, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 04.19.
"Not bad for a fad."
- News: New G4 Cubes powered
by PPC 7410?, The Cube-Zone, 04.19. Field reports indicate
latest Cubes use cooler running processor.
- AAPL: Apple's
product breakdown reveals consumer weakness, Tom Gray, Mac
Observer, 04.19.
- OS X: Software
lets you play VCDs on Mac OS X, MacCentral, 04.19. Oops, Apple
left VideoCD support out of OS X.
- Advice: Upgrading an
iBook hard drive, Go2Mac.com, 04.19. "This is not a
straightforward task. The iBook is not meant for the average
consumer to get into."
- Opinion: Apple lawyers
attack MacOS 8.x skinning code, Tony Smith, The Register,
04.18. What the Mac OS makes possible with themes, Apple Legal
wants to keep out of user's hands.
- AAPL: Markets
soar, Apple closes up 11.7% & blows away estimates, Bryan
Chaffin, Mac Observer, 04.18.
- AAPL: Apple
beats the Street with financial picture, Dennis Sellers,
MacCentral, 04.18. "[Shares] climbed more than 20 percent to $27 in
after-hours trade following the results. "
- AAPL: Apple handily
beats the street, Upside.com, 04.18.
- AAPL:
Apple's back in the black, CBS Marketwatch, 04.18.
- OS: Operating
system firm Be looks for another chance, Dan Gillmor,
SiliconValley.com, 04.17. "Be missed its best long-term opportunity
when, for reasons that remain somewhat murky, the company wasn't
able to sell itself to Apple Computer in late 1996."
- AAPL: Apple's
Q2 whisper number 3 cents higher than consensus estimates,
Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 04.18. Later today we'll hear the real
numbers from Apple.
- Low end: Build
a CD burner in an old CD-ROM case, b.b. $50 bucks to turn an
external CD-ROM drive into a burner?
- OS: Did
Apple make the right choice opting for NeXT over the Be OS?,
Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 04.18. In early 1997, everyone
assumed Be would be Apple's choice....
- Opinion: Expanded
direct sales by Apple will help your business, Paul Shields,
Business Mac, 04.18. "Apple will use the Apple stores as a
launching point for expanding their direct sales team."
- Web: TidBITS
celebrating 11th anniversary, Mac Observer, 04.17.
Congratulations to the helpful newsletter that predates the Mac
Web.
- Advice:
Hotrodding the PowerBook 3400, Charles W. Moore, MacOpinion,
04.17. "The first element of any 3400 hotrodding project should be
to upgrade the RAM...."
- Consumer: PowerLogix trims
upgrade prices, Insanely Great Mac, 04.17.
- Low end: SE with
25 MHz '030, video out, b.b. The deals you sometimes find for
$5.99....
- Web: Go2Mac.com up and
running again.
- Web: The Apple
Online Museum.
- Opinion: Macs
still cost too much, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 04.16.
That's gotta be why Mac evangelism too often results in Wintel
sales.
- Web: Shawn King interviews
Dan Knight on The Daily Report, The Mac Show, 04.16. Topic: Low
End Mac's "Best of the Mac
Web" survey.
- Humor:
Care and feeding of your graphic artist/designer, Joel Davies,
iMaculate Conception, Applelust, 04.16. "Tell your IT department to
get over themselves, and learn to live with the presence of Fruit
in your network."
- Ezines: April ATPM
available.
- Analysis: An
Apple a Day: Macintosh becoming computer of choice for many law
forms, State Journal, 04.16. Twenty-three percent of law firms
use Macs.
- Low end deal: 9.1 GB external
SCSI drive, $52, see DealMac, 04.16. More storage space than
you can usually afford in a SCSI drive.
- Deal:
Refurbished G4 Cube, $1,099, see DealMac, 04.16.
- Analysis: PowerBook G4
Titanium vs. Wintel, Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac, 04.13.
Except for the missing expansion bay, the PowerBook G4 is a far
better, more integrated machine.
- Review: Inside
the Titanium PowerBook, Andrew Gore, Macworld. Very
thorough.
- Opinion: Two sites
I'll miss and others that prosper, Steve Wood, Math Dittos 2,
04.13.
- Consumer: Week's
best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 04.13.
- Opinion:
In defense of verbalism, David Schultz, Applelust, 04.12. A
lengthy, thoughtful explanation of lengthy, thoughtful writing and
publishing.
- AAPL: 4th
straight Nasdaq gain, Apple up 2.8%, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer, 04.12.
- Analysis: Apple
"may miss profit target," Macworld UK, 04.12.
- Rumor:
Apple kills 667MHz Power Mac, MacUser UK, 04.12. "'The 667MHz
G4 was never a compelling option for our customers,' said one UK
reseller...."
- Advice: How to use
iTunes, MacInstruct, 04.10.
- Analysis: The myth
of megahertz, part 2, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 04.10. All
about parallelism, pipelines, and processors.
- Low End: Colo(u)r Classic
Forum, a message board for Color Classic users.
- AAPL: Stocks
rally, Apple up 7%, Bryan Chaffin, Apple Stock Watch, Mac
Observer, 04.10.
- SETIonMac: SETI@home client
software for OS X released, SETI@home.
- Opinion:
OS X install (not) travails, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior,
MacOpinion, 04.10. "It still puzzles me as to why drive formatting
would have any bearing on the computer being able to boot from the
OS X installer CD."
- Tech: The
myth of megahertz, Dennis Seller, MacCentral, 04.09. "The
PowerPC reasoning is to do as much in as few computer cycles as
possible."
- Opinion: Fallacies of
Christianity - and the Mac religion, Rodney O. Lain, MacSpirit,
Applelinks, 04.09. Not for the weak of faith.
- Analysis: Apple
users, market share underestimated?, Dennis Sellers,
MacCentral, 04.09. "...if the industry estimate of 270 million PCs
were correct, that would make the Mac installed base closer to 8
percent than 6 percent."
- Opinion: OS X: Leveraging
the success of Unix, Kevin Ledgister, osOpinion, 04.06. "...for
Apple to truly grow in new markets such as the business,
engineering and scientific areas, it must convince or inspire
software developers to create or port major applications for the
platform."
- Web: JAG's House is
back from April Fools hiatus.
- Interview: Bob "Dr.
Macintosh" Levitus, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 04.06. Levitus
is the author of 36 Mac-related books and a genuine Macintosh
guru.
- Opinion: Linux
creator: Mac OS X is "crap," MacCentral, 04.06. OS X is a real
commercial Unix, not a non-profit Unix workalike, and could stop
Linux's growth.
- Opinion: The
coming apocalypse: .NET & the end of the computing world as we
know it, Rodney O. Lain, iBrotha, Mac Observer, 04.06. "In all
of my years, nothing has terrified me . . . until I began
reading and mulling over Microsoft's .Net initiative."
- Review: PowerMail,
Kirk Hiner, Applelinks, 04.06. Excellent email client designed to
replace Claris Emailer.
- Opinion: How
frequently do you upgrade to a new computer system?, Charles W.
Moore, Applelinks, 04.06. Plus to Centris to SuperMac to TiBook
over 11 years: 41 months is the Low End Mac average.
- Consumer: Week's
best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 04.06.
- Web: Max Headroom: 20
Minutes Into the Future. A dismal future dominated by
Microsoft, er, network television.
- Web: Cybernacho.com,
mostly silliness from the junior webmaster in the Low End Mac
household.
- Vendor return
policies for RAM disabled by latest firmware update, ramseeker,
04.05. Most, but not all, will replace diabled memory.
- OS X: 20 bugs in Mac
OS X 10.0, Derek Currie, InsideX, Insanely Great Mac, 04.05.
Compare 47 bugs to the 63,000 known bugs in Windows2000.
- Low End:
The Macintosh TV, Terminal34, 04.05. "Less that 10,000 are
figured to have been produced - in fact, less than the "rare"
Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (by about 1500 units)."
- Interview:
High priest of the PC, Garry Barker, The Age, 04.04. "More than
almost any other man, Jobs may claim to have changed forever the
way the world works, lives and plays. Now 46, he is unchallenged
after nearly 30 years at the leading edge of technological
innovation."
- Analysis: Slanted
report touts Dell's assault on Apple education sales, Bryan
Chaffin, Mac Observer, 04.04.
- Opinion: Apple's
response to firmware upgrade fiasco arrogant and
unsatisfactory, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 04.04. The title
says it all.
- News: DIMMcheck tests RAM
against Apple specs, Macs Only!, 04.04. Stuffed file downloads
as EIMSCheck.sit. Thank goodness, the RAM in my TiBook passed; it
now has firware 4.1.8f5.
- News: SPD
Patch restores lost RAM, Accelerate Your Mac!, 04.04.
- News: ComputerWare
(Mac only retailer) goes bust, Applelinks, 04.03.
- Finally! Apple
responds to disabled RAM dilemma, MacCentral, 04.03. "...it's
going to be up to users and resellers to fix memory-related
problems associated with Apple's recent firmware updates." :-(
- Review: AirPort alternative:
Linksys BEFW11S4, iBook Zone, 04.03. Unit combines functions of
AirPort base station, router, and 10/100 ethernet switch for about
US$300.
- Advice: What about
backing up to FireWire hard disks?, Adam C. Engst, TidBITS,
04.03. "...I became convinced that hard disks can be used in a
coherent backup strategy, thanks to the rise of cheap, large,
FireWire hard disks."
- Opinion:
Why TiBook is not the supreme ultimate PowerBook, Charles W.
Moore, Road Warrior, 04.03. "Don't get me wrong. The best is the
enemy of the good, and Lombard, Pismo, and TiBook are all really
good computers."
- Review:
Mac OS X 10.0, John Siracusa, Ars Techica, 04.03. "As far as I
know, [iTools mail] is the first (relatively) spam-free free email
service that provides its own authenticated SMTP server for
outgoing mail, and an IMAP server for incoming mail."
- Opinion: Mac OS X bridges
the gap, Sean R., osOpinion, 04.03. "In short, Mac OS X is Unix
for the masses."
- News: Your Titanium:
Made in Taiwan, Go2Mac.com, 04.03. TiBooks and iBooks both
built in Taiwan.
- AAPL: Cash, new OS
underpin Apple, CNBC, 04.03. "...OS X and a $4 billion cash
stockpile have helped put a floor under Apple Computer's battered
stock...."
- Review:
Very fine PowerBook design, eWeek, 04.02. "Apple's
titanium-clad laptop will turn heads; 500MHz machine also outruns
600MHz Pentium III."
- Free: PowerBook Zone
giveaway. All you need to enter is an email address.
- Petition: Fix
our firmware. Recent firmware updates have left countless
crippled Macs - Apple must respond to the problem now.
- OS X: Switch to
thousands (of colors) speeds up OS X, iMac NewsPage, 04.02.
OS X graphics are much faster with early ATI cards set to
thousands of colors, not millions.
- Opinion: Apple's 25th birthday
passes with little fanfare, PowerBook Zone, 04.02
News: Apple Australia
places biggest dealer In receivership, Computer Daily News,
04.02. Dealer group handles 40% of Apple's Australian sales.- Hands on: Mac OS
X, Macs Only!, 04.02. Report updated to reflect a full week
with OS X.
- Hands on: Titanium
PowerBook Report #6, Marc Zeedar, Applelinks, 04.02.
- Advice: Speeding up
System 7, Eric Apgar, TidBITS #104.
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