Low End Mac Archive for June 14

June 14 in Low End Mac History

CSU Feedback, MacInSchool. More on the impending migration to Windows by the Chancellor's Office at California State University.

10 Things I Love About X, Kel Taylor, Mac to the Future. Ten things to look forward to in Mac OS X.
SEs and Classics and PowerBooks, Oh My!, Marco Maggiora, My First Mac. How a budding Macophile grew his collection of vintage Macs.

Are Apple Users Lefties?, Dirk Pilat, Mac UK. The conservative press denies the existence of Apple, while the liberal press embraces it.
Why I Use a Mac, Eric Schwarz, The Power of Mac. Our newest columnist explains his love affair with the Mac.
Why the Cube Failed, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report. The Cube is just too hard to market to novices, while power users want slots.
How to Save Social Security, Dan Knight's Soapbox. How one small change could improve Social Security.

OS X on pre-G3 PCI Power Macs, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. The pros and cons of running Mac OS X on pre-G3 PCI Power Macs.
Overclocking iBooks, New Notebook Cases, Price Drops on FW/USB 2.0 Drives, and More, Charles Moore. Willow's TiBook case, Dr. Bott's iceBook case, overclocking the 700 MHz iBook, iPod cases, external drives, and bargain 'Books.

Apple PCI Radeons for $35, iBook G4 Questions, iBook G3 Heat, PB G3 Upgrades, and More, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Hot deal on Mac PCI Radeon cards, iBook preservation, 'Book of fire, OS 9 on newer Macs, G3 vs. G4 upgrades, OS X partitions, and distributed computing projects.

Drive Matters, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. There's more to picking the right hard drive than size, spindle speed, buffer size, and price. But how can a 5400 rpm drive ever outperform a 7200 rpm drive?
Mac Nostalgia: Why Apple Should Introduce a Modern Pismo and SE/30, Matthew Wright, My Turn. The best PowerBook ever made and the iconic all-in-one compact Mac are just crying out to be reinvented for our nostalgic "everything old is new again" retro culture.

Resurrecting a Clamshell iBook, Episode 3, Austin Leeds, Apple Everywhere. With a new battery, the old Clamshell is better than evern - and getting 9 hours of battery life.
Of Cars and Trucks, iPads and Macs, Charles W Moore, 'Book Value. Steve Jobs says iPads are like cars while PCs are like trucks, and most people today don't need trucks. Or Macs?

Port Wars: Thunderbolt vs. USB 3, PCIe Cable, and FireWire, Dan Knight, Mac Daniel. Thunderbolt is very fast, USB 3 half as fast, FireWire is on the ropes, and PCIe Cable could blow away Thunderbolt.