Rodney O. Lain passed from this life in mid-June 2002. He will be missed. I've shared my thoughts in Good-bye, Rodney. Two of his other editors have also published articles about him: Rodney O. Lain passes away during weekend by Bryan Chaffin of The Mac Observer and Rodney O. Lain by Tim Robertson of MyMac.

Low End Mac has done its best to compile articles by Rodney that are no longer available on their original websites. You can read more in The Rodney O. Lain Archive, including most of his MA thesis. This page also contains links to his content still available on other websites.

More Links

• In memory of Rodney O. Lain, Bryan Chaffin, The Mac Observer
• For Rodney, Beth Lock, MyMac
• Remembering Rodney, John Martellaro, MyMac
• Good night, Rodney, Del Miller, Applelinks
• Magnum mysterium, John H. Farr, Grack, Applelinks
• Remembering Rodney, Charles W Moore, Applelinks
• Rodney O. Lain, John C. Welch, WorkingMac.com
• Popular Mac columnist mourned, Leander Kahney, Wired
• For Rodney, Anonymous, MyMac.com
• A friend worth remembering, Joey Cooper, MacMilitia

Low End Mac was pleased to have Rodney O. Lain as a regular columnist. Rodney lived in Minnesota. He was a regular columnist for The Mac Observer and an IT supervisor in Minnesota. His personal site is iBrotha.com.

Dan Knight, publisher

Columns

• What do you mean calling the Cube low-end?, 2002.04.08. The Cube gets no respect, but it's not fair to call it 'low-end.'
• The Great Industrial-Design Shift, 2002.03.25. Beige boxes are doomed to extinction as Apple, Sony, and others find innovative new designs for their computers.
• Wireless Internet access should be free, just like radio, 2002.03.11. How local businesses can help make wireless networking anywhere a reality.
• Race is merely a metaphor; so is a GUI, 2001.08.09. Blacks and Macs - beyond segregationist and integrationist rhetoric.
• I'm not paying $20 for my OS X upgrade, 2001.07.25. Mac OS X, $129. 10.1 upgrade, $20. Ouch.
• The offensiveness of style and passion, 2001.06.29. "For some people, there is something they find unmistakably offensive about those who possess passion or style."
• Try to take over the world, 2001.06.13. How Apple could increase market share and maybe take over the world.
• I'm a drop the funk bomb on ya: Milking the Macintosh for all it's worth, 2001.03.20. Warning: Apple is dead serious about this "Think Different" stuff.
• The Ten Commandments of the Church of Macintosh, #2, 2001.03.08. "Mac OS is the Jesus, Allah, Nirvana, and Buddha of Operating Systems"
• The Ten Commandments of the Church of Macintosh, #1, 2001.02.12. "I am the Mac, thy Computer. Thou shalt have no other Computers before me...."
• Does Motorola even give a damn?, 2001.01.30. How can Apple put pressure on Motorola to solve their G4 production problems? By growing demand.
• Politically correct Mac OS, 6/21/00. What if Apple went beyond OS X to offer a politically correct OS?
• Mac web assimilation?, 6/12/00. "If power corrupts, what does Mac web consolidation do?"
• Where are all the Mac books?, 5/1/2000. Computer books galore, but where's the Mac section?
• Rodney 'outs' Outlook for the Mac (not Outlook Express), 4/18/2000. "I scoff the veracity of his claims, but he swears that there is a Mac version of the Outlook client."
• AirPort works!, 3/8/2000. "I'd like to take back every nasty thing that I'd ever said about Apple during the last few weeks."
• Don Crabb, I truly never knew you, 3/2/2000
• The Main Difference Between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, 1/17/2000
• 'The Mac Is a Toy', 12/30/1999
• The $600 iMac, 12/24/1999
• Megahertz Really Does Matter (Outside the Mac Community), 12/8/1999
• Thanks, Many Thanks, 11/26/1999
• Apple Will Rule the Computer World, 11/17/1999
• The 1.7 GHz G4, 10/21/1999
• A Mac Is Like Prozac, 10/13/1999
• Apple Is a Company, 10/4/1999
• PowerBooks for all, Mac Musings, 9/15/1999

Interviews

• Geeks gods & godesses, Pioneer Planet, 4/10/2000
• Rodney O. Lain, Real Life Macs, MacAddict, 3/29/2000
• Interview with Rodney O. Lain, MacDaily, 10/27/1999