This was an incredibly busy week despite lesser articles being written, as much of the time was spent restoring the Tech Spec index to its prior form. We announced this issue at the beginning of the week, and went into detail in a later article.

This article reflects the updates to the site within the past week, which wouldn’t otherwise be known about unless clicked-on or discovered.

• 1: Restoration milestone 1 – Accomplished ✅. All PRIOR existing hardware spec articles are restored. Since the first milestone is achieved, the focus will turn to restoring missing editorials (Milestone 2), building the new software index addition, and new articles again.
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• You may continue using tech specs as before, but please report any missing articles or broken links should there be any expected results. Thank you! (Submit a website bug)
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• 2: The new Software Index is right where everything software related is on the website, and can be accessed by clicking “Software” on the navigation bar up top. This consolidates previous software links along with organizing our articles about software/OSses into one place. From there you can access:
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  • macOS Operating System Index
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  • iDevice OSes (iPad, iPhone, iPod, HomePod, etc;) – Incomplete, to be filled out.
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  • Low End Mac Hacks Index (Hardware upgrades, software tricks but not apps)
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  • Mac App Highlights
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  • Low End Mac software Index
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  • Wallpapers and Icons Collection
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  • Macintosh Garden Link
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  • Mac Software Links (2013 Dan K article)
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  • Submit a Website Bug link
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  • Available in Icon and List view, subject to changes but unlikely to remove what’s been added already.

• At the bottom of both the Software and Hardware Index pages are navigation buttons to the respective pages. So in case you are in the Software section and need to quickly jump to the Hardware section, the button is there on the main pages and vice versa.

3: “Low End Mac Hacks” has been moved from “Other and Clones” to “Software Index”

4: Mac App Highlights page now has its own dedicated section. As of right now it’s just a list of article names, but will later be more organized to look more like the rest of the tech specs. May be categorized by CPU architecture.

5: 680×0 Mac Index gain list view on May 10th – you may now view this index page in a text-only style in addition to the already-available Icon style.

6: New navigation buttons added to macOS article pages This may be a standard format moving forward for all other software index pages – with the two bottom-most keys being the main software index page and a key to jump to the hardware tech spec page.

7: Old and non functioning site plugins removed. The site issue which led to the accidental deletion of many articles was a bulk deletion plugin. It was meant to delete 559K bot accounts but somehow wiped out roughly 1500 articles.

We were down to ~2900, we are back up to 3680/~4100. After sifting through what was backed up, it has been noted there were some duplicate articles (such as a 11″ 2012 Air + 13″ 2012 Air + 11/13″ (combined) 2012 Air articles floating around in addition that provide no additional info and confuse readers., etc).

Rest assured absolutely everything is saved, I hinted at my backup methodology in an article a few days ago – everything is saved as an offline .webarchive. Even if WordPress and this very server suddenly stopped existing tomorrow, Low End Mac will spring back up with everything that’s ever been on the website.

In Conclusion

When last week happened, it was quite scary for a few moments and until I found a faster way to restore the pages. I am an avid technology enthusiast who enjoys sharing my knowledge, and am so thankful I had the time and ability to get this second backup method going.. it saved the day and will if anything ever happens again.. (shouldn’t).

With these additions and a commitment to defining this website against unforeseen circumstances, we aim to perpetuate this vision.. I hope Low End Mac continues to be a resource for all throughout the years, especially as it continues to grow and evolve through 2025 and beyond.