Low End Mac Archive for February 14

Low End Mac Archive

A perfect compact Mac, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. "There's something special about a friendly little computer that smiles when it wakes up."

Are extended computer warranties worth the cost?, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Updated AppleCare improves value.
Making your PC work with your Mac, Steve Wood, View From the Classroom. Cross-platform software and a way to mount Mac disks on Wintel machines.
Surfing the iNet, Evan Kleiman, Mac Happens. Evan lists some interesting, fun, and useful sites for Mac users.

Personalize and customize Microsoft Word, Michel Munger, iBasics. A guide to making Microsoft Word work your way.
Give me a word processor, Marten van de Kraats, My Turn. Isn't anyone going to give us a lean word processor for Mac OS X?
Byte, April 1995, Dan Knight, Blast From the Past. Pentium Pro, PowerPC 603e, Macintosh clones, best laptops (including a PowerBook), and a DOS compatible.

Quadra revives a passion for computing, Genevieve Gauthier, My First Mac. I thank my friend every day for pushing me in the fantastic world of Macintosh.
Computer elitism, cars, and online retail woes, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. The classic Mac OS, classic cars, and the Canadian online order blues.
Why monopolies are bad, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report. Whether we're talking about the board game, Boss Tweed, AT&T, or Microsoft, monopolies always end up taking advantage of consumers.
Measuring the Reality Distortion Field, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side. Preliminary analysis of the Reality Distortion Field indicates strength does not fall off by an inverse square factor.

Windows, Macs, OS X, and real world performance, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. As Mac OS X improves and hardware gets faster, complaints of sluggishness will become nothing but a memory.
Safari update, Mac OS X 10.2.4, a neat haxie, and how Mail can better fight spam, Dan Knight, 10 Forward. Safari mostly improved but adds a glitch, 10.2.4 seems just fine, a better CPU monitor, and ways Apple can leverage Mail to better fight spam.
Do it yourself Pismo screen replacement, new laptop stand, USB laptop night light, new 1.0 and 1.3 GHz G4s, and more, The 'Book Review. Also PC Magazine praises the 12" PowerBook, new bags from Booq and Willow Design, and bargain 'Books from $190 to $2,499.
The best Mac for writing, online banking with a 68K Mac, network advice, Move2X, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. The Mac as a writer's tool, secure online banking with older Macs, solving a network problem, and still more on the Radeon 7000 on a beige G3 with Mac OS X.

What's the fastest browser on the Mac? Across platforms?, Dan Knight, Mac Daniel. Comparison of browser speed for many different browsers on Mac OS X, OS 9, Linux, and Windows XP. What's fastest?
Opera 8.0 for Mac: The promise finally realized?, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Earlier version of 'the world's fastest browser' weren't so fast, crashed a lot, and weren't very Mac-like. Has Opera 8.0 fixed everything?

15" MacBook Pro begins shipping.
Retro computing: First impressions of a newly acquired Apple Lisa, Ted Hodges, Vintage Mac Living. Saved from the trash and given a new home, this old Lisa is a slow, friendly computer.
Finding and using free wireless Internet access, Joe Rivera, Mac Fallout Shelter. There are lots of free WiFi hotspots out there. Here are the tools you need to detect them and make the connection.
If Apple won't support Classic on Intel Macs, it should liberate OS 9, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report. Although a lot of Mac users depend on Classic mode in OS X, Apple has seen fit to drop it on their newest hardware. That being the case, they should declare it unsupported and give it away for free.

Adding an Intel Mac mini can be cheaper than upgrading a Power Mac G4!, Dan Knight, Mac Daniel. Looking at the cost of upgrading memory, adding a fast hard drive, and a GHz-plus CPU upgrade, buying a new Core Duo Mac mini makes a lot of sense.

Falling in love with Mac OS X, Germán Rotondo, My Turn. Helping a friend get an iMac up and running was the author's first exposure to Macs. Today he only wishes he'd discovered Mac OS X sooner.
Apple a pro at building buzz for new products, Frank Fox, Stop the Noiz. The recent introduction of the MacBook Air is just one example of how the whole world is paying attention to what Apple is doing.

Verizon iPhone teardown, iPhone sets one day Verizon sales record, Google Translate app, and more, iNews Review. Also Sandy Bridge flaw good for tablets, iPad-equipped Range Rover, iPad survives being run over by PT Cruiser, and more.