Low End Mac Archive

November 23 in Low End Mac History

Nov. 22 - Nov. 24

1999

• Should I buy a USB card?, Charlie Ruggiero, Mac Daniel. Any PCI Mac can take one, but is it for you?

2000

• Butterfly navigation system, Low End Mac. Inspired by the butterfly ballot of Palm Beach County (Florida) and Amazon.com.

2001

• Can a low-end Mac be a suitable only Mac?, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. Can an older PowerBook cut it on the road - or will it just seem slow?
• Using Palm Desktop without a PDA, Beverly Woods, Acoustic Mac. Getting your calendar organized with Palm Desktop - even if you don't own a Palm.
• CyberDog saves the day, Phillip Blancher, My Turn. Caught without his installer CDs, this Mac tech finds CyberDog and saves the day.
• The 'Book Review 2001.11.23, Charles Moore. Hard drive compatibility, Quanta, SuSE Linux for PowerPC, bargain 'Books, and lots more.

2005

• How Consumer Reports could compare Macs fairly, Ed Eubanks Jr, The Efficient Mac User. Using Consumer Reports' own data and chart design, an example of how they could realistically compare Macs and Windows PCs.
• Speakers for your Mac: So many choices, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. The old AppleDesign Speakers are wearing out, but what's the best looking and best sounding way to replace them?
• Incredibly smooth: Living with the high resolution 15" PowerBook, Charles Webb, PowerBook Beat3. The death of an iBook G4 provides the incentive to move up to a brand new 15" PowerBook G4 and a lot of end-user satisfaction.
• Birth of the PowerBook: How Apple took over the portable market in 1991, Tom Hormby, Orchard. After the Mac Portable disaster, Apple came up with a new laptop design that redefined the industry and beat Toshiba and Compaq at their own game.
• iPod unseats Sony in Japan, iPod year's hottest toy, iBelieve converts shuffle, video to iPod solutions, and more, iPod News Review. Also Apple's long-term flash memory agreements, parents warned about pod-porn, HiFi-Link connects iPod to stereo, jewelled cable winder, and new iPod software.
• 'Yonah' to ship at 2.16 GHz, diskless Macintel future?, virtualization and switching, and more, The Macintel Report. Also your future Mac with Intel, Intels' new multi-GPU chipset, and Intel files to trademark 'Intel Core'.
• Daystar 1.9 GHz iMac G4 upgrade, iMac with iSight best yet, first bluetooth trackball, and more, Mac News Review. Also Contour Design celebrates 10 years, Maxtor demos at Apple Stores, iEmulator adds sound support, Maxell intros holographics recording, and more.
• Intel iBooks in January with 'big price cut'?, 1.92 GHz PowerBook upgrade, SideTrack trackpad driver, and more, The 'Book Review. MIT's $100 laptop project to ship in 2006, Daystar makes PowerBooks faster than any Apple ships, and more.

2009

• Why Spaces is my favorite Leopard (and Snow Leopard) feature, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Spaces, a feature introduced with OS X 10.5, is like having several monitors on your Mac without the cost and space of using multiple displays.

2010

• Getting Tiger on a G3 iMac, OS X 10.6.5 troubles, Firefox 4 Beta 7 for PowerPC Macs, and more, Charles Moore, Charles Moore's Mailbag. Also Quicksilver 2001 and 'big' hard drives, Power Mac G4 worth fixing?, and looking for SpellTools 1.4.
• Growing Mac popularity increases need for antivirus software, Alan Zisman, Zis Mac. Although Mac OS X remains a safe platform, it is a growing target for malware creators. Antivirus software can help secure your Mac against that eventuality.

2011

• YouTube on G4 Macs: The Battle Is Not Lost, Sebastian Patting, Edelweiss. Watching YouTube's streaming Flash videos on G4 Macs is frustrating. Three tools to address that.
• $70 Discovery Wonderwall Projector May Disappoint, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. This video projector sounds like a steal, but you may end up with a lot less than you expected.

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