Low End Mac Archive for January 20

January 20 in Low End Mac History

The World Wide Web, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. It's grown to over one billion pages with no end in sight.

The Lisa legacy, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. On the Lisa's 20th anniversary, we should remember how Apple's innovation paved the way for all future computers.
New PowerBooks, Safari, Keynote, and other things to wean us from Microsoft, Dirk Pilat, Down But Not Out. Microsoft makes too much money to abandon Mac users, but that doesn't stop us from running alternative software on our Macs.
No USB 2 for iBooks, StarMax questions, System 6 on a G3, PCs faster than Macs, and more, Charles W. Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Also sources for WordPerfect for Mac, saving Web pages as plain text in OS X, changes with GMX free email, AppleWorks/MS Word compatibility, and more.

Is the Dock a hopeless kludge or just in need of a few tweaks?, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Tog things the Dock is a mess. I like it, but I think there's definitely room for improvement.
The GUI Fruits and the Dark Angel of the Dell, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side. The true tale of the Gates of Greenbacks, the Angel of the Dell, and the Fruits of GUI and of Music.

Apple's Intel transition smooth, paves way for next big thing, Leaman Crews, Plays Well with Others. "With the Intel Core Duo processors two to four times as fast as the G4s and G5s they replace, plenty of native apps, and the reported outstanding performance of Rosetta for PPC emulation, a majority of OS X users could make the switch today and be better off for it."
File sharing nightmare with OS X and the classic Mac OS, Nathan Thompson, Embracing Obsolescence. If you need to transfer more than 2 GB of files from an OS X Mac to one with the classic Mac OS, none of the usual methods are going to work. But there's always FTP.
iTunes 'mini-store' shares your music data with Apple, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. The iTunes 6.0.2 update adds a 'mini-store' that recommends music based on your listening habits - and that means it tells Apple who you are and what you're listening to.
MacBook Pro benchmarked, launched too soon?, battery life, ExpressCard slot, and more, The 'Book Review. Also win a MacBook Pro, BlackBerry to support OS X, 1.2 GHz G4 upgrade for TiBook, Seagate's new 160 GB notebook drive, bargain 'Books from $369 to $1,699, and more.
Sonnet's 1.7 GHz dual G4 upgrade, $35 USB Bluetooth adapter, folder sync software, clustering software, and more, Mac News Review. Also new iMac has ATI Radeon graphics, MacWireless expands line, Maxtor media server for Mac, and more.

The value of the overlooked $999 2.1 GHz MacBook White, Charles W Moore, 'Book Value. The Unibody MacBook has been getting most of the press, but the $999 MacBook White with its SuperDrive and proven design provides great value.
MacBook White (Nvidia). Apple quietly updated the polycarbonate MacBook with GeForce 9400M graphics and a faster system bus while retaining FireWire and Mini DVI.

Why I didn't wait for the Apple tablet, Jason Walsh, Mac Life. Jason Walsh explains why he bought Dell Mini and made a 'Hackintosh' of it rather than waiting for Apple's new mobile computer.
Sick and tired of Windows, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. It says a lot about Windows reliability that a restore partition has become a standard feature. Apple, the door is wide open.
Back to Pismo, Power Mac G4 CPU vs. video upgrades, faster YouTube with older Flash, and more, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Also still using an Apple IIGS, Delete vs. Backspace key, old iBook and PowerBook power consumption, iSlate speculation, and more.

Car vs. cell phone, beautiful cars, good Tiger browsers, 2010 MacBook Air, and more, Charles Moore, Charles Moore's Mailbag. Further reflections on running cars as long as possible, sweet cars, browsers for PowerPC Macs, and the place of the SSD-based MacBook Air.

Dell XPS 13 Takes on the MacBook Air, Frank Fox, Stop the Noiz. Although Apple's MacBook Air wasn't the first ultrabook, it set the standard. How does Dell's new XPS 13 compare?
Looking Back at Macworld Expos Past, Low End Mac Round Table, 2012.01.20. The first Macworld Expo was held a year after the Macintosh was unveiled. This year it becomes Macworld | iWorld.
Is the iPad a PC?, Business Professionals Embrace iPad, TurboTax Goes Fully Mobile, and More, iNews Review. Also Ford Focus Electric to have companion app, Office on the iPad, scanner designed specifically for iPad, and more.
Year of the MacBook Air?, Can Ultrabooks Compete with MacBook Air?, IDrive Online Backup, and More, The 'Book Review, 2012.01.20. Also how to use FireWire Target Disk Mode, AMD to take on Ultrabooks, DriveSavers adds SSD focus, and more.
Apple World's #1 PC Vendor, 40+ Secret Lion Features, Matias Mac/iPhone Keyboards, and More, Mac News Review, 2012.01.20. Also how to burn a bootable OS 9 CD, beginners guide to AppleScript, Lenovo's All-in-One PC takes on the iMac, and more.