Top Links, Week of March 27, 2000- Opinion: The iPaq: What is
Compaq thinking?, Paulo Rodrigues, iPaq Channel, 4/1.
Ever the contrarian, Rodrigues finds some shortfalls in
the iPaq's design.
- Opinion: Some thoughts on
going PC, Charles W. Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings,
4/1. "It is with mixed emotions that I join Low End Mac's
transition to Low End Win."
- Advice: High-end
build-to-order G4 vs. high-end build-to-order Dell
Dimension, Charlie Ruggiero, 4/1. It's much cheaper
to run Windows apps on the Dell than on the Mac.
- Advice: '286 gaming
prowess, Brian Rumsey, Low End PC Gaming, 4/1.
Computer gaming now goes beyond the monitor!
- Web: Mac Junkie calls it quits, launches The
Win Junkie in pursuit of the business
audience.
- Web: MacBC throws in the towel, becomes WinBC,
4/1. "...we received an email and phone call from Apple
Legal telling us to cease and desist."
- Web: The
PC Life replace Apple's Orchard, 4/1. Formerly a
good source of interesting Mac links, Apple's Orchard has
joined the Wintel defection. Hooray!
- News: Apple
Computer buys Microsoft!, Macs Only!, 4/1.
Shoot, now they'll get on everyone's case about Window
sites. Maybe we should just give up on computer
sites....
- Web: About
This Particular Rumor, ATPM, 4/1. A much-needed new
Mac rumor site.
- Rumor: AOL to
buy Apple, Mac Observer, 4/1. Apple buys Microsoft,
Microsoft buys Apple, and now AOL is buying Apple? Very
confusing!
- Rumor: Apple
to be bought by Microsoft?, Windows Militia, 4/1.
Just when it looked like Apple had completed a leveraged
buyout of Microsoft, this rumor surfaces.
- Rumor: Apple
announces Apple Palm, Palm takeover, Palm Lounge,
4/1. At least this one makes sense - thanks to a hostile
takeover, Apple will be making a Palm OS machine.
- Web: PB Zone
abandons PowerBook, goes Peanut Butter, 4/1. I guess
they wanted to get away from all the computer industry
lawyers.
- News: Jason
O'Grady retires, PowerPage, 4/1. "'I'm just so over
this "Internet" thing,' said Jason from his new,
technology-free shack in the Poconos."
- News: Apple
icon garden landscaping defaced with Microsoft look and
feel, Carson Baker, Holy Mac, 4/1. "Microsoft and the
others involved . . . justified their actions on the
foundation of their 'Freedom to Innovate' network."
- Opinion: End of
the Mac Web as We Know It, Anne Onymus, Rumor Mill,
3/31.
- Opinion: Going
Wintel, Steve Wood, View Through the Window, 3/29.
Once a year he gets to ditch his Macs and go Windows
- Opinion: Aqua-skeptics
are luddites, Charles W. Moore, Miscellaneous
Ramblings, 3/29. "I have no interest in change for the
sake of change, or in putting form before function, and I
really have no time for change that makes things
worse."
- Opinion: Complete Mac nut
goes Wintel, Fred Forney, My First Wintel, 3/29. "I
played around with a Pentium III for a couple days, and I
was hooked."
- Opinion: SETI@home:
Join a team, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 3/29.
- Web: Jag's
House launches DOS 6 email list
- Opinion: Why
does my refrigerator need an ISP?, Daniel J. Lyons,
MacBC, 3/28. "It would be silly to have Internet
connections for every device in your house."
- Opinion: Why
rumor sites hurt you and Microsoft, Michel Munger,
Mac Observer, 3/28. "A good dose of common sense."
- News: Apple
goes postal on Mac Cards, Macworld UK, 3/28. Part of
the reason we've gone Wintel.
- Opnion: Isn't
it time Apple got some perspective?, MacUser UK,
3/28. More on the Mac Cards debacle.
- Opinion: Are
any Mac sites safe?, Macinstein, 3/28. Better to
switch than fight.
- Opinion: Apple:
Big Brother 2000?, NoBeige.com, 3/28. "Apple is
acting like the Big Brother that it mocked in 1984."
- Opinion: Game
sequels, Brian Rumsey, Low End Win Gaming, 3/27. New
games are great, and earlier versions will often run well
on less powerful PCs.
- Advice: Designing a
computer room, part 3: The desk, Dan Knight, Wintel
Musings, 3/27. "The key is designing the computer desk
and office layout that meets your personal needs and fits
the available space."
- Advice: Replacement
screen for a VAIO, Julie Fugett, Win Daniel, 3/27.
Options for replacing a bad screen on the PowerBook
5300.
- News: Apple
shuts down Mac Cards for trademark violation, MacNN,
3/27. In what is becoming increasingly common Apple
practice, they sent in the lawyers before contacting the
webmaster. Why ask for cooperation when you can coerce
it?
- News: Jobs
intervenes as Mac Cards gets pulled, MacUser UK,
3/27. "...the action was triggered when Jobs sent a card
from the site to another senior Apple employee
questioning its use of Apple branding materials and
images."
- Opinion: Does
Darwin open the door to Intel?, Tony Smith, MacWeek,
3/27. But why run the new OS from such a heavy handed
company on Intel hardware?
- Opinion: IE
5 brings good and bad to Mac users and web authors,
W3Nation. Mac users will always be second-class citizens.
They had to wait a whole extra year for IE 5 - and now
IE 5.5 for Windows is on the way!
- Analysis: IE
5 changes how Mac users see the Web, MacWeek, 3/27.
"...a default installation of IE 5 for the Mac will
display Web pages pretty much the same way that Windows
users see them." Isn't that the way God intended it?
- Opinion: The
state of Mac gaming, Holy Mac, 3/27. C'mon, everyone
knows PC owners get the best games first!
- Web: Why
Windows Is So Great, a new Win-centric multilingual
site.
- Advice: Dealing with
dead pixels in TFT displays, Charles W. Moore,
Miscellaneous Ramblings, 3/23. Detecting and dealing with
dead pixels on laptops.
The truth about Low End Win
You can't win on the low end in the PC world.
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