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January 27 in Low End Mac History
Highlights
- 2010: iPad announced, ships in April.
1999
- iMac, trendsetter, Evan Kleiman, Mac Happens. Bondi blue is showing up everywhere.
2003
- Fulfilling the promise of Aqua and the Quartz rendering engine, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. How Apple could leverage the Quartz technology to make Web browsing, mail reading, and other applications even more flexible.
- PhotoWorks: A low end digital image solution for 35mm users, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Mail order photofinishing service now offers prints, slides, and digital files from your 35mm color print film.
2005
- The Mac mini, price reductions, and the road ahead, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Price reductions on Mac mini upgrades aren't due to poor sales or gouging early adopters. They are due to the mini's success and other market factors.
2006
- The story behind Apple's '1984' ad, Tom Hormby, Orchard. Although it went on to become the best ad in the history of the SuperBowl, Apple's board of directors wanted to pull the ad and run something safer.
- Pocketable power: Windows Mobile, Palm OS, or Blackberry?, Charles Webb, PowerBook Beat. Each class of PDA has its strengths and weaknesses. Why you might choose Windows, Palm, or Blackberry to best meet your needs.
- Video iPod or PlayStation Portable? Each has its merits, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. The iPod is smaller and has a lot more storage capacity, but the PSP has a bigger screen and does things the iPod can't. And both sync well with the Mac.
- Pros and cons of Intel iMac, Mac compatible ergonomic USB keyboard, a truly tiny USB hard drive, and more, Mac News Review. Also profitable iMac Core Duo, G-Drive Q with FW400/800 + USB2 + eSATA, one mile wirless, stereo HD video system includes Macs minis, and more.
- 15" PowerBook G4 memory slot repair program, expect MacBook shortages, MacStyles gives 'Books Color, and more, The 'Book Review. Also MacBook Pro opinions, fix for PB G4 skipping audio problem, 160 GB overnight upgrade service, bargain 'Books from $399 to $1,699, and more.
2009
- Golden Apples: The 25 best Macs to date, Michelle Klein-Häss, Geek Speak. The best Macs from 1984 through 2009, including a couple that aren't technically Macs.
- Today's Macs: Many descendants from a common ancestor, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. The Macintosh legacy as it shows itself in notebooks, consumer desktops, and pro models.
- Eudora 8 beta 5 making progress, not quite ready for prime time, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. "Eudora 8 is making gradual progress, and in a pinch I think I could use it, although not happily at this point...."
2010
- iPad priced from $499, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. The 9.7" iPad has a custom 1 GHz Apple CPU, runs iPhone apps, ships in 60 days, and defines a whole new category of products.
- Search for a quieter MacBook, AC adapter for Lombard PowerBook, Apple Magic Tablet, and more, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Also Logitech Unifying Receiver and diNovo keyboard, and is everything ultimately political?
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