Many more years ago than I care to admit, I took a C programming class in college. The computers in the university labs were all Macintosh Pluses, and nearly all of them had a single floppy drive. (Photo for illustration: Tomas Martinez – Macintosh Plus with an external Hard Drive – URL) Stepping into […]
The iPhone X is a testament to device longevity, and durability. I gave mine to a family member when upgrading to an Xs Max in Late 2018, who held onto it all these years through a few different protective cases. Today I got it back where it’ll remain in my collection, after they upgraded to […]
Back in early 2018 I wrote one of my first articles as a writer for Low End Mac, covering how to get 64 GB of RAM working in your Mac Pro 1,1 (2006) or Mac Pro 2,1 (2007). At the time, the project felt like a massive risk considering the cost of the RAM, and […]
Back from the Low End Mac mailbag is a heavily customized Dual 800 Quicksilver G4, which looks like a custom B&W G3 on the outside. This community member also swapped out or modified some of the plastic pieces up front, added a gauge cluster, made the colors match, and threw in some upgrades. They write: […]
You heard that right, an entire GPU crammed into a compact PCMCIA card. What looks like an unassuming adapter for PowerBooks and PCs to hook up an external monitor, turns out to have an entire Trident Cyberblade XP2 chip crammed in there. Featuring many supported resolutions including up to 2048 x 1280 @60Hz […]
Earlier this year Low End Mac covered a brand-new browser for PowerPC Macs called PowerFox, testing it out on a few machines as well as a VM. On July 14th 2026 Jazzzny released a new update for PowerFox, which feels noticeably improved from the last time this browser was covered. PowerFox also gains […]
Thought your older Intel Macs running on Lion all the way up through Mojave could no longer have a modern, functional web browser? Named after the “red leaves of autumn” in Japanese and based off of FireFox 140 ESR from June 2025, it’s quite an upgrade. It is a fork/successor to the FireFox-dynasty […]
The first developer beta of macOS Golden Gate dropped on the first day of WWDC26, June 8th 2026. Siri AI is slowly rolling out to those who joined the waitlist, quietly replacing the older Siri in the background. See: MacOS Golden Gate 27 Beta 2 Release Notes – Apple . Download: MacOS Golden […]
Researchers at Paradigm shift discover a new SecureROM exploit which affects A12 and A13 chips, an engineer at Microsoft crafts a fix to keep Network Time Capsule working in macOS 27, watchOS 27 drops support for a number of watches including the Apple Watch Ultra Gen 1, and the new Siri AI is slowly rolling […]
Depending on the Mac you own, you’ll have a different range of ports available to you. As device standards change so do the cables and accessories that are to be used with them. At one point or another, we started to consider getting USB-C accessories as needs arise, although I held out for a while […]
iOS 27 Developer Beta 1 has been out since WWDC 2026, with the second beta slated to be released soon. There are a number of changes and performance improvements to be appreciated in this very first developer beta, along with oddities to be expected with prerelease software. Just like last year, I decided to take […]
On June 8th 2026 at WWDC 2026, Apple announced the iOS 27 Developer Beta, which is set for consumer release in September 2026. iOS 27 was announced alongside macOS Golden Gate, iPadOS 27, visionOS 27, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27. Aimed to be a like a “Snow Leopard” sort of release, this new version brings […]
After upgrading your Mac to the new Golden Gate beta, your desktop will look mostly the same as Tahoe at a quick glance, with some slight differences. macOS 27 makes tweaks to the UI, listening to some user feedback. See: MacOS Golden Gate 27 Beta 1 Release Notes – Apple . Download: MacOS […]
On June 8th 2026, Apple announced the first version of macOS intended solely for Apple Silicon – macOS Golden Gate. This version of the operating system brings some refinements to the Liquid Glass UI, making some changes through user feedback. It’s also the final version of macOS to natively run Rosetta 2. This […]
It seems like I may have stumbled into a solution for getting Photoshop on the M2 Air sooner rather than later. Initially the idea was to get Photoshop CS4 working in a Leopard VM on UTM, downsizing it somehow, and fitting it onto my Mac’s tiny 256 GB SSD. After trying out the “reclaim space” […]
There’s the brand-new MacBook Neo, there’s the M1 MacBook Pro, the M1 MacBook Air.. and then there are the M2 MacBook Airs. While they may stand apart in shape, size and even age, what they mostly have in common in Mid-2026 is their value to performance. Today we’re taking a look at a Mid-2023 15-Inch […]
The long-awaited M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros have finally arrived, taking Apple Silicon ‘Books to a whole new level. Each takes the already successful aluminum unibody from prior generations, ups the speed a bit, increases core count, as well as doing a bit of a name change for the types of CPU cores. […]