macOS 15.4 is now out and available for all Macs running macOS Sequoia, for Intel and Apple Silicon Macs. Since this update covers such a long list of vulnerabilities, it’s strongly recommended you update to this right now. Apple covered the entire list in detail on their site. We also covered new features featured in […]
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Hey everyone, and thank you for taking the time out of your day to visit Low End Mac. In light of developments on retooling the website, some solutions were found on fixing the website’s navigation along with other pages! It has been noted by visitors; some of the main pages weren’t working, remarking on broken […]
Every year at Apple’s WWDC in June, the event covers a swathe of topics focusing mainly on the major changes to their operating systems. There are times they’ll announce new products alongside, but mainly this keynote (or rather, sets of keynotes) are aimed for developers. WWDC also acts as a proverbial “state of the union” […]
This week at Apple we see a set of updates across the line for the different OSes, as well as some new features in places like Apple Music Classical, as well as the newer AirPods Max and Airpods 4. In a previous article done on March 10th, Low End Mac covered the iOS 18.4 / […]
It didn’t take a lot of time making my mind up as I was open to the idea, but I wasn’t necessarily looking for a change right then and there. Every now and again I’d look up the different ‘Books especially while writing technical articles for this site’s index – keeping an eye on what’s […]
Some early adopters of the new Sky Blue M4 MacBook Air are saying the color looks a bit much like Silver, only looking like Sky Blue under certain lighting conditions. While I’ll agree the color is on the lighter side, when putting Sky Blue right up against Silver you can see a difference. The difference […]
Last an article was posted sharing the M3 Ultra benchmarks for the new Early 2025 Mac Studio, showing just how powerful Apple’s new flagship chip really is. Below are benchmarks for the $1999 M4 Max Mac Studio with 14-Core CPU, 32-Core GPU, and 36 GB of RAM, Comparisons are also made against the M3 Ultra […]
Today the M4 MacBook Air, 2025 Mac Studio, M3 iPad Air, and 11th-Gen iPad were made available to customers around the world along with their respective device accessories. Apple also released some Apple Watch accessories and the new USB-C to MagSafe 3 charging cable in Sky Blue, too. Today, a brand new 15″ M4 MacBook […]
Does anyone else remember that old classic macOS app which had a set of googly eyes just sitting in the menu bar following the direction of the mouse cursor? Well as it turns out, there’s a modern version of this app which does practically the exact same thing. This app sits in your menu bar […]
You might be thinking the Sky Blue color, right? While this new color changes the entire aura of the MacBook Air and gives it a very desirable appearance, the design change is actually a lot more nuanced and can be hard to spot unless pointed out. First pointed out by iCulture.nl, “Apple finally fixes the […]
Earlier this week on March 4th, Apple came out with public betas across a variety of their OSes, including: iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and macOS. Covered earlier this week by 9to5mac, Public Beta 3 is now available for those OSes. You may sign up for the beta software on Apple’s Beta Software Program site. By consenting […]
With the release of the new M3 Ultra Apple Silicon chip there is a new proverbial “king” of Mac performance/specs, as this chip is aimed at the professional market and features the highest specs in the Mac lineup in Early 2025. While new product performance is often touted and contrasted against old products during launch […]
The ARM transition as well as new devices are not off topic at Low End Mac. It impacts the future of Apple, as the platform moves through its fourth hardware architecture with Macs. It will make Intel Macs and old iPhones low end sooner than you might like, but sooner or later the ARM Macs […]
The official “De Jure” Mac OS X Snow Leopard was announced at WWDC 2008, released August 28th 2009, and ultimately was never intended to run on PowerPC in the end. For a long time, it was known there were PowerPC-compatible beta builds of OS X Snow Leopard, however, these builds remained seemingly elusive until 2020. […]
Spooky.. powerful is what it is. At the time of writing this article, the M4 is among the fastest of CPUs in the Mac lineup, no questions asked. Let’s.. put this into perspective: A 2019 ‘Pro with the 28-core Xeon W-3275M cost $12,999 USD brand new from Apple. Then there’s the new M4 Mini for […]
Spooky.. powerful is what it is. At the time of writing this article, the M4 Pro/Max are the fastest CPUs in the Mac lineup, no questions asked. Let’s.. put this into perspective: A 2019 ‘Pro with the 28-core Xeon W-3275M cost $12,999 USD brand new from Apple. Then there’s the new M4 Mini for $599. […]
You just might have to do a double-take if you see one of these in person. Coming in at a remarkable 5″ by 5″ by 2″ (12.7/12.7/5.0 cm), the third-generation Apple Silicon-based Mac mini resembles a footprint akin to an Apple TV 4K. This is a brand new design for the Mac mini, the first […]
Officially, Minecraft 1.5.2 was the last version playable on any PowerPC Mac, as it was the last version playable on Java 5. The release date of 1.5.2 is May 2nd 2013, around the same time retina MacBook Pros just started shipping. Minecraft 1.8.9 was released December 9th 2015, adding several features and new textures over […]
October 21, 2016 will go down as one of the biggest cyber-attacks in the history of the Internet – perhaps the biggest ever. We’re going to learn a lot from this one, and we need to be sure to take steps to avoid it happening again.
The iPhone 5 and 5c will both receive iOS 10, making them the lowest supported iPhones in the new iOS version.
Apple is expected to announce iOS 10 in the next few weeks at the WWDC – but what could it mean for existing iDevices?
While the world was busy saying hello to the new Apple Watch and iPhone 6, Apple quietly said farewell to one of its most iconic products, the iPod classic. Indeed, after nearly 13 years on the market, the device that defined and dominated the portable music player industry is no more.
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2013-01-14: General Apple and Mac desktop news is covered in Mac News Review. iPad, iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV news is covered in iNews Review. Older Macs are covered in Vintage Mac News. All prices are in US dollars unless otherwise noted.
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2012-12-30: General Apple and Mac desktop news is covered in Mac News Review. iPad, iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV news is covered in iNews Review. Older Macs are covered in Vintage Mac News. All prices are in US dollars unless otherwise noted.
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Google Maps Impact Google Maps Immediately Became the App Store’s #1 App More Than 10 Million Google Maps Downloads in First 48 Hours 5 Ways Google Maps Beats Apple Maps Apple Maps vs. Google Maps iOS 6 User Base Grows 29% as Users Update After Google Maps Arrives News, Reviews, & Opinion Walmart Rolls Back […]
Vintage Mac News is a roundup of news related to vintage Macs* and other older Apple products. For other Mac and Apple news, see Mac News Review. For iBook, PowerBook, and other portable news, see The ‘Book Review. iPad, iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV news is covered in iNews Review. Purchases made through links to […]
* Although Apple defines vintage as models discontinued over five years ago but less than seven years ago (at which point Apple calls them obsolete), we prefer a
definition that has more to do with a lack of functionality and the end of active support by Apple than with how long Apple makes service parts available.
Dictionary definitions of the word vintage start out with wine, but it is also applied to a group of items that share
certain characteristics, originated in a specific time period, and/or
is characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal – a
classic.
As we use the term here, vintage refers to Macs and related software, operating systems, and peripherals that
Apple has left behind over the years, whether that’s an original
Macintosh or a Power Mac G5 running OS X 10.5 Leopard. At present, we
consider all pre-Intel Macs and all versions of OS X that run on them
vintage (and at some point we’ll extend that definition to include
Intel Macs that can’t run OS X 10.7 Lion, and so on).
General Apple and Mac desktops is covered in The Mac News Review. iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV news is covered in The iNews Review. All prices are in US dollars unless otherwise noted.
Models G5/1.6-2.0 GHz (2003) . G5/1.8-2.5 GHz (2004) . G5/1.8 Single . G5/2.0-2.7 GHz (2005) . G5/2.0-2.3 GHz Dual . G5/2.5 GHz Quad . Apple made a big shift when it moved from the G4 to the G5 processor. Based on IBM’s POWER architecture, the newer G5 CPU cried out for a fast, wide system […]
PowerBook, iBook, iPod, and other portable computing is covered in The ‘Book Review. General Apple and Mac desktop news is covered in The Mac News Review. News about Apple’s transition to Intel CPUs and other Intel developments is covered in The Macintel Report.
PowerBook, iBook, iPod, and other portable computing is covered in The ‘Book Review. General Apple and Mac desktop news is covered in The Mac News Review. News about Apple’s transition to Intel CPUs and other Intel developments is covered in The Macintel Report.
PowerBook, iBook, iPod, and other portable computing is covered in The ‘Book Review. General Apple and Mac desktop news is covered in The Mac News Review. News about Apple’s transition to Intel CPUs and other Intel developments is covered in The Macintel Report.