Low End Mac Archive for April 3

April 3 in Apple and Low End Mac History

1995: LC 580 moves all-in-one line to IDE hard drive, replaces costly Sony Trinitron display for standard CRT.

LC 580 replaces LC 575. Changes include use of IDE hard drive (rather than SCSI) and less costly non-Sony monitor.

Is Apple bruised?, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Response to Fred Langa's latest anti-Mac tirade.

Going Wintel, week 2, Steve Wood, View From the Classroom. "It only helps a little that the computers I'm using are Macintoshes with Orange Micro PC cards in them."
Amazing IE 5.0, Evan, Mac Happens. "My faith in Microsoft has been restored."

Ready, AIM, fire, Jake Sargent, iThings Considered. Does AOL have the right to refuse service to Fire users?
This date in LEM history launched

Why BeOS lost, Chris Lozaga, My Turn. BeOS was a great operating system, but you can't blame Microsoft, Apple, or NeXT for its failure.
Waiting for the knockoffs, Stephen Van Esch, Mac Scope. It's inevitable that someone will try to copy the flat panel iMac, but there will be a lot of technical hurdles to getting it right.
PayPal jeopardy, Evan Kleiman, Mac Daniel. PayPal - a great idea, but do the risks outweigh the benefits?

Apple not on the leading edge of everything; analysts worry, Stephen Van Esch, Mac Scope. Has Apple missed the boat on Tablet PCs, or is this another case where Apple can do no right?
iRock!, a gadget we can't live without, Steve Watkins, The Practical Mac. Clever, low cost device lets you listen to your iPod (or other portable music player) on any FM radio.
Update on Antioch school district's Mac vs. Windows platform debate, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report. "I never wanted to be in the middle of this debate in my own district. I really don't have the time to do the job properly."
We're back, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Why Low End Mac wasn't updated for nearly two days.

CGI Story: The Development of 3D Computer Graphics, 1974-94, Tom Hormby, Orchard. Chronicling the development of CGI from the 1970s through the release of Toy Story.

Mother of the MacBook Air, Ruffin Bailey, My Turn. The original clamshell iBook was a runaway success despite a single USB port, no SCSI or FireWire, no PC Cards, no video out, and no DVD support.
Apple takes the blame, Frank Fox, Stop the Noiz. In the Windows world, everyone plays the blame game, but when things go wrong with the Mac, there's only one company to take the blame.
Outliners for word processing, Mac compatible WiFi cards, iWork disappoints, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also running Leopard on a maxed out Digital Audio Power Mac, Clamshell iBook hacks, Lombard external display resolutions, and collective nouns.

Leaving Linux for a MacBook Pro, Brian Gray, Fruitful Editing. Running the $550 HP notebook with Linux just didn't satisfy, and a good deal on a first generation MacBook Pro made coming back easy.
$50,000 for a Dell?, Frank Fox, Stop the Noiz. They say Macs are overpriced, but you could spend $50,000 bringing the Dell Precision T7500 to its maximum potential.
Low cost doesn't equal value, OS X market share over 10%, 2009 Mac Pro 'insanely fast', and more, Mac News Review. Also Safari and Firefox gain market share, WWDC dates announced, 2 TB My Book Mac Edition hard drive, free Car Art calendar, and more.
CPU for MacBook Air reaches 2.13 GHz, 17" MacBook Pro overpriced?, Laptop Flip Stand, and more, The 'Book Review. Also troubleshooting your MacBook, iBook updates can be a challenge, better lithium-ion batteries coming, bargain 'Books from $170 to $2,999, and more.
iPod for a queen, iPod shuffle surges, Skype comes to iPhone, Next Gen iPhone speculation, and more, iNews Review. Also PhotoUpLink software updated, field guides for the great outdoors, Recovery Act tracking apps, an iPhone development guide, new hard cases, and more.

Griping About the New iPad, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. There are about a dozen common complaints about the new iPad. How many of them hold water?
32-bit Kernel Core 2 Duo Macs Can Run 64-bit OS X, Simon Royal, Tech Spectrum. Confusingly, some Macs that can't run a 64-bit kernel in OS X 10.6 can do so in OS X 10.7, raising hope for 10.8.