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Selling your older Mac, Adam Robert Guha, 1/19. Hints on selling your older Mac at a fair price.
MacPaint primer, Manuel Mejia Jr, Mac Daniel, 1/19. An introduction to the Mac's first paint program - samples included.
Buying from Canada, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 1/19. Hints from Canadians on buying across the border.
Best of LEM: The Best Macs Ever, Dan Knight, 1/3/00. A look at the best Macs in each category as of a year ago.
Buying a PowerBook G4, Dan Knight, The 'Book Page, 1/18. Here's why I'm ordering one, and how I'm configuring it.
Review: Wacom Graphire 4x5 USB Tablet, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report, 1/18. Hands on Wacom's inexpensive graphics tablet and mouse.
Team 6100 reaches 153 units, SETIonMac, 1/17. That's 153 units over 1.53 years of CPU time or about 3.5 days per unit.
Best of LEM: Wireless mouse & keyboard input, Charles W. Moore, 12/7/99. A look at cordless mice and keyboards for the Mac.
Updated: Power Macintosh G4 Guide. Updated to include the new five-slot models.
Review: Cabrio PR 1, Paulo Rodrigues, Tangerine Fusion, 1/17. Freeware Mac MP3 player uses little memory, runs smoothly in the background.
The S900 Diaries: New Year Edition, Charles W. Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 1/17. The recalcitrant S900 works and is attached to the home network.
Can a PB 5300 stomach OS 8.5 or 8.6?, Michel Munger, Mac Daniel, 1/17. It's all a question of memory.
Best of LEM: Faster browsing on older Macs, Steve Strahm, 12/98. Tips on speeding up your browser on pre-PowerPC Macs.
Inside the box, Stephen Van Esch, Mac Scope, 1/16. It's what's inside the box that counts - software, not hardware.
LinuxPPC Chronicles: Multiprocessing & kernel configuration, Eric DeStefano, Mac Metamorphosis, 1/16. Configuring and compiling your custom Linux kernel.
Create a random number picker in AppleWorks, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report, 1/16. How to create random numbers and macros in ClarisWorks & AppleWorks - and why.
Apple's Expo releases, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive, 1/16. A look at Apple's new hardware and software.
Best of LEM: Free Mac Internet access, Evan Kleiman, 10/20/99. Outdated now, this article looked at free Internet options for Mac users.
Update: Power Mac G4 (five slot) profile. The new Power Macs do not have CD-RW/DVD drives; the drive is a 4/8/32x CD-RW drive. :-(
Update: PowerBook G4 profile. A check with Apple's site shows we got the screen size wrong - but it's fixed now.

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Benchmarks: Titanium G4/500 vs. Pismo G3/500, Bare Feats, 1/19. PB G4 at least 10% faster on all but one test.
Opinion: Beyond the digital hub, Bryan Chaffin, The Back Page, Mac Observer, 1/19. "Certainly a change in the way we use computers is in the process of occurring...."
Analysis: Homebrewed solutions on vintage Macs, Michael Gemar, Macs in Business, Mac Edition, 1/19. "...the simplicity of the MacOS means lower cost-of-ownership."
AAPL: AAPL closes above 19 for first time since Nov. 2000, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 1/19.
Low End: Apple has discontinued support for the following models: Classic, Classic II, IIvx, IIvi, LC, LC II, Performa 200, and Performa 600. Outside of California, support has also been dropped for the Quadra 900 and 950, Power Mac 6100, and PowerBook 150.
Advocacy: Petition to get SuperDrives for PowerBooks, PowerBook Sours, 1/19. I'd like to see an external FireWire SuperDrive for PowerBooks and other FireWire-equipped Macs.
Consumer: Week's best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 1/19.
Virus: Mac users hit by Melissa macro virus, The Register, 1/19. "The likely suspect in this case is not Office but Outlook. Microsoft released a public Outlook for Mac beta at MacWorld Expo last week, and we wonder whether it's that that has provided long-infected documents with a path to other systems."
Virus: Melissa-X disguised as Mac doc, ZDNet, 1/18. "The virus . . . can be spread on either a PC or a Macintosh. Like other Melissa variants, though, only Windows PCs will send mass email copies of the infected file."
Virus: Melissa comes to the Mac, Macworld, 1/18. New Melissa variant can infect Macs running Office 2001 and Word 98.
See McAfee and Symantec reports on Melissa (also see The Melissa Virus).
OS: Apple revs Mac OS Server update, ZDNet/Yahoo, 1/18. OS X Server 2.0 will inherit Aqua interface, other OS X features.
Dark Side: Windows curses fast computers, MSNBC, 1/18 [Win98 Central]. "When further supercharged with 800 MHZ Pentium III microprocessors, Windows 98 and Me outran the hardware at times, powering off the computer before the hard drive's on-board drive cache could finish writing out the buffered data."
Oops: Hotmail spam filters block outgoing email, Cnet, 1/18. Microsoft service has been trashing mail to certain domains without ever telling the sender.
AAPL: AAPL rockets up more than 11%, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 1/18.
Advice: Encoding true CD quality MP3s on your Mac, Dave Barker, Mac Digital Audio. The MP3 encoder you choose really does make a difference.
OS: Jobs' compromise completes Mac OS X, John Holmes, osOpinion, 1/18. "It looks like my daddy's Mac OS, only it's much better."
Opinion: The PowerBook G4, John Siracusa, arstechnica. "...the PowerBook G4 is all that you could ask for in a portable Macintosh."
Consumer: Apple Store still has last year's G4s, Pismos, Mac Observer, 1/18.
Web: Much ado about tables, Rob Stevenson, Simply Web, Mac OS Journal, 1/01. Table's are probably the most useful and most used design feature in HTML.
News: Sonnet absorbs Newer engineering team, Mac Observer, 1/18. Probably the best thing to come out of Newer's failure.
AAPL: Apple reports first quarter results, Apple, 1/17. Net loss of $195 million on $1 billion in revenues. Apple sold 659,000 Macs during the quarter.
Consumer: Titanium G4 email list, The Macintosh Guy. New list for PowerBook G4 users - count me in!
OS: A new OS X, Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 1/16. A look at changes between the beta and the final release.
Analysis: Apple SuperDrive and iDVD, Paulo de Andrade, Digital Post Production [Applesurf]. "Combining the power of nonlinear editing, the affordable quality of DV and the high-quality, low-cost delivery format of DVD . . . should place the Mac in a very special position with video professionals."
News: Macworld San Francisco draws record crowd, Apple, 1/16. Attendance was over 93,000 at last week's Expo.
Opinion: SuperDrive: The gem inside the Power Mac G4, Robert Aldridge, The G4, 1/10. "In most computing situations, though, DVD serves little purpose, but in walks the SuperDrive from Pioneer, and now the DVD has purpose."
Opinion: Titanium PowerBook: Simply the coolest piece of hardware Apple has ever built, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 1/16.
Opinion: Apple's business strategy, Wes George, MacWeek, 1/16. "...Apple seems to have pushed the notebook envelope to the limit in all the right places...."
Lists: G4 list welcomes users of new G4s, The Macintosh Guy, 1/16.
Opinion: About time Steve cussed out those "sorry butt" Mac retailers, Rodney O. Lain, MacSpirit, Applelinks, 1/16. "Computer retailers can't afford those of us who know one whit about computers."
Consumer: Memory prices for PowerBook G4, new five-slot Power Mac, ramseeker.
Rights: France to tax computers, disks, phones, TechWeb, 1/15 [ Slashdot]. Hard drives, media to be taxed because they may be used to infringe copyright.
Analysis: Apple's secret software updates: OS 9.1 and Disk Burner, iBook Zone, 1/15.
Opinion: My problem with the titanium PowerBook, David Schultz, Applelust, 1/15. "...the Titanium 'Book takes technological monogamy a step too far for my tastes."
Opinion: The PowerBook titanium's Achilles heel, Joud Kous, Right On Mac, 1/15. "...I think one critical mistake was putting a DVD drive where a CD-RW ought to have gone."
Consumer: How to tell when and where your Mac was made, Moldy Creations [ Applelinks].
Hands on: Acard IDE to SCSI adapter, Rick Pepper [Accelerate Your Mac].
Opinion: Three good reasons not to buy a PowerBook G4, Steve Cotrell, PowerBook Source, 1/15. Why an older PowerBook is better for some users.
AAPL: Apple to announce first quarter loss this week, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 1/15. How big? We'll know on Wednesday.
Consumer: iMacs at "end of life," MacCentral, 1/15. Rebates on DV+, DV SE; new models expected in February. (Our guess: CD-RW iMacs.)
Software: iCab 2.4 released, iCab.de.
Consumer: New iMac prices, MacSlash, 1/14. Over the weekend, Apple dropped the iMac DV+ to $1,099 and the SE to $1,299.
Consumer: Week's best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central.
Humor: Zap the PRAM, Macboy.com. Stickies.

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