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October 7 in Low End Mac History
1998
- Love that PowerBook G3, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. PowerBook G3 with standard modem and ethernet simplifies support and system installs.
1999
- Troubleshooting 101, Steve Wood, View from the Classroom. "A good utilities program can make you look like a real Mac guru!"
- Love at first sight, Willy Wang, My First Mac. "I walked into the classroom and saw the little pizza box shaped computers sitting on the desk. Then when I turned it on, heard the chime, and saw the little computer smiling at me, that's when I knew that I was in love again."
2002
- Hot rodding an old Power Mac for OS X, Maxwell M. Cabral, My Turn. How one low-cost upgrade after another helps an older Power Mac keep up with much newer ones.
- Beefing up OS X's Windows networking, Alan Zisman, Mac2Windows. Software to help OS X Macs better integrate with Windows networks.
- Benchmarks: PowerBook G4/400, Dan Knight. A newer, faster hard drive, a new benchmark program, and our first OS X hardware benchmarks.
2003
- Sniglets for the Mac, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side. Floppistation, blue screen of debt, frammistand, and other words and phrases that should be in the Mac lexicon.
2005
- Choose FireWire 800 over USB 2.0 and FireWire 400 for best throughput, Dan Knight, Mac Daniel. Today's 7200 rpm hard drives are bottlenecked by the most common data busses - FireWire 400 and USB 2.0.
- Faster Mac minis shipping, the Mac icons, USB as computing's only real standard, new drives, and more, Mac News Review. Which Mac mini to buy, roaming with a Mac mini and iPod, new bus-powered 3.5" drives, lower cost Neptune drives, mobile drive with FireWire 800, and FirmTek's new 4-bay hot-swap drive.
- Speedy 100 GB 7200 rpm notebook drives, first HD DVD drive for notebooks, iBook reviews, and more, The 'Book Review. Also LG to ship fuel cells for notebooks within 12 months, laptop initiative in Massachusetts, hard drives hardly extinct, bargain 'Books from $400 to $1,949, and more.
2008
- How to clone Mac OS X to a new hard drive, Simon Royal, Mac Spectrum. Whether you want to put a bigger, faster drive in your Mac or clone OS X for use in another Mac, here's the simple process.
- New Apple notebooks at zero minus one week, Charles Moore, 'Book Value. It's widely anticipated that Apple will overhaul the MacBook Pro and MacBook lines next Tuesday. What should we expect?
2009
- Re-imagining the Mac Cube for the Intel Era, Dan Bashur, Apple, Tech, and Gaming. The Power Mac G4 Cube was one of Apple's most beautiful computers. Here's how Apple could resurrect the concept - and succeed this time.
- Eudora 8 beta, Bible study software, one reason to choose an Apple display, and more, Charles Moore, Moore's Mailbag. Also questions about the Plantronics Voyager Pro and finding contentment with a cheap USB 2.0 PC Card.
- Sauce for the goose, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. EU regulators are forcing Microsoft to offer Windows users a choice of browsers. Apple ought to offer Mac users the same thing.
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