Low End Mac Archive for September 7

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September 7 in Low End Mac History

Sept. 6 - Sept. 8

1998

Banner exchanges: Beware the hype of a 1:1 ratio, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. "...some banner exchanges are much better than others...."

2000

Tips from the Mac manager, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Disaster can strike at any time. How we recovered when our server crashed and crashed and crashed.
Getting a Mac job, Julie Fugett, Mac Daniel. Julie works full-time supporting Macs. Here's her good advice for those who'd love to work with computers for a living.

2001

Apple and the gray market, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. What is the gray market? Is it a bad thing?
Repositioning the 'Books, Kevin Webb, My Turn. How Apple could overhaul the PowerBook and iBook lines to increase their market.
Antique radio design and the Mac, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. The best designs go beyond 'form follows function' to exhibit style.

2004

Is the tray loading iMac a good choice for OS X?, Dan Knight, Mac Daniel. With prices starting under US$200, is a tray-loading iMac a good value for running OS X?
Dueling Pismo CPU upgrades, 'Book vs. Windows laptop prices, blue and white G3 upgrade tips, and more, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Also using Spymac's free email, installing OS 9, third-party DVD-ROM blues, Roamabout card problem, and a low-cost wireless iTunes transmitter.

2006

The new Mac mini value equation: Core Duo entry level changes everything, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. For the first round, the top-end Intel Mac mini offered far more power for your dollar, but that's not the case with the newly introduced models.
30 days of old school computing: Setting up a Mac Classic II, Ted Hodges, Vintage Mac Living. Fond memories of using a Classic II in elementary school lead to it being the first Mac set up for a month of vintage, very low-end computing.
Putting Apple's Intel transition in perspective, Trevor Wale, One More Thing. Going toe-to-toe with other computers based on the same CPU is nothing new to Apple. Just look at what Amiga and Atari had in 1985.

2007

Region free DVD viewing on Macs and Windows PCs, Andrew J Fishkin, Best Tools for the Job. There are three ways to get around region restrictions on your computer's DVD player: software, hardware, and extraction.
My Newton: Why I won't buy an iPhone or iPod touch, Joe Rivera, Mac Fallout Shelter. The iPod touch and iPhone sound wonderful, but I love the handwriting recognition, fax support, and email abilities of my Newton MessagePad.
Maintaining Your Mac: Solving Mac disk and hardware problems, Adam Rosen, Adam's Apple. Dealing with damaged directories, messed up file permissions, PRAM problems, and stuck discs.
Mac mini overpriced, iMac outpaces PCs, switching to Mac a waste of time, and more, Mac News Review. Also adding an eSATA drive to a Mac mini, cost of replacing an iMac's glass face, drives with 1 GB cache coming, reviews, and right-click software for 1-button mice.
2 apps every MacBook should have, right-click with Apple's 1-button trackpad, micro flash drives, and more, The 'Book Review. Next year's notebooks worth waiting for, MacBook and MacBook Pro reviews, SanDisk's multicard ExpressCard adapter, and bargain 'Books from $130 to $2,688.

Sept. 6 - Sept. 8

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