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Opinion: DVD-ROM/CD-RW for all, Robert Aldridge, The iMac.com, 04.30. "Apple, please replace all DVD and CD-RW drives with one of the good DVD-ROM/CD-RW drives."
AAPL: Afternoon losses knock Apple off seven month high, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 04.30. "Apple started the day off strong, trading as high as 27.12."
News: Titanium run over by 1.7 ton car, Go2Mac.com, 04.30. Screen destroyed, but TiBook still works using an external monitor.
Opinion: This is not an Apple tech-support call from hell, Rodney O. Lain, MacSpirit, Applelinks, 04.30. "Recently, Apple was awarded for excellence in customer service. If my experience is any indication, this award is well deserved."
Macinschool: Apple education: I'm not dead (yet), Steve Wood, View From the Classroom, 04.30. "...our elementary Mac lab, which is now populated with dreary Duron equipped computers and Windows 98."
Macinschool: Mac versus PC battle reaches Carteret, Carteret News Times. Residents fight "academically flawed and economically harmful decision" to abandon Macs.
Low End: Gary's Classic Macs, Gary Singleton. Another PC guy gets hooked on Macs.
Macinschool: Group fights computer switch, Jacksonville Daily News, 04.29. "This computer decision will make their already demanding jobs unnecessarily more difficult."
News: Metabox exits Mac upgrade market, MacCentral, 04.28. Good-bye, JoeCard. :-( Expect hot deals from Other World Computing on close-out inventory.
History: Remembering 1990, the IIfx, and the power to be your best, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 04.27. "Wicked fast" meant 40 MHz, and "Apple was at the top of their game with record sales and no competition in sight."
Macinschool: AirPort technology teaches old building new tricks, Apple. AirPort eliminated need to rewire an old school.
Benchmarks: FireWire cases compared, Accelerate Your Mac, 04.27. Real world tests show the "bridge" used really makes a difference.
Consumer: Week's best iBook, PowerBook deals, PowerBook Central, 04.27.
Low End: Ancient Mac software, Applefritter. The Mac archives of the Boston Computer Society (1977-1996), mostly 400k disk images.
Opinion: Apple's got a new . . . pass it on, Steve Sobek, Daily Rant, 04.27. Rumors, rumors, rumors.
News: Tote & Tilt adds handle to Titanium PowerBook, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 04.27. Improved portability and improved airflow.
Opinion: Whither the Cube?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 04.27. "...the Cube is now the lowest-priced modular desktop Mac by a substantial margin."
Web: Aerias, better health through indoor air quality awareness.
Opinion: Against non-standard Websites and email formatting clutter, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 04.26.
Opinion: The joy of X, Pierre Igot, Applelust, 04.26. "...in the migration from the classic Mac OS to Mac OS X, Apple has managed to preserve the potentiality of its product."
News: Cobalt: There will be no Apple Cube lawsuit, ZDNet UK, 04.25. "The Cube trademark associated with computers has changed hands several times in the past decade. It was first registered by NeXT Computer...."
NeXT: Commonly asked (by Mac users) questions about NextStep/OpenStep systems, Kevin Coffee. Best single-page resource I've seen about NeXT stuff.
Low end: Junkyard Jeff's Computer Wrecking Yard. More old Macs and parts than you can shake a stick at.
Software: iCab Preview 2.5 available for download, iCab.de.
Advice: Mystery crashes solved, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac Opinion, 04.25. "Odd that power problems never occurred to me as the reason for the crashes - I just assumed the ancient PowerMac was behaving irascibly...."
Advice: The pros and cons of a clean install, David Pogue, Mac Review Zone.
Web: BeNews, all the BeOS news fit to put on the Web.
Opinion: Fool me twice, John Holmes, To the Contrary, Applelust, 04.25. "...once Apple altered my Mac with their firmware, whether I was a willing participant or not, Apple becomes responsible."
Opinion: The best I can say, Ceolaf, MacinThoughts, Applelust, 04.24. Mac OS X better than Linux, but not nearly as good as Mac OS 9.
Opinion: PowerBook: Now the logical Mac for more folks than ever, Charles W. Moore, Mac Opinion, 04.24. "I just love having my computer system in one, small, portable package...."
Opinion: Balancing profits with marketshare, Paul Shields, Business Mac, 04.24. "At some point Apple will have to decide that the focus of the business strategy should be on increasing sales/unit volume and that short-term margins may suffer."
Analysis: Evolution of the Mac OS X user interface, David Miller, osOpinion, 04.24. "...if Apple, a company whose reputation is synonymous with good design, cannot make an OS that conforms to the industry's specifications for a proper user interface, who will?"
Benchmarks: Two "Oxford 911" FireWire enclosures compared, Bare Feats, 04.24. Similar performance, different designs.
Review: EasiExpansion T35, John F. Braun, Mac Observer, 04.23. Add 2 PCI slots, 2 USB ports, and 5 drive bays to your Mac.
Opinion: I'm furious at Apple, Michael Coyle, ResExcellence, 04.23. "Apple has stopped your ability to customize the interface of Mac OS X with themes...."
Review: Netflix, Marc Zeedar, Digital-Views.com, 04.23. A DVD rental alternative to Blockbuster and Hollywood Video.
Deals: Newer Tech blowout, Other World Computing. OWC has acquired Newer's inventory and has some impressive deals.
Web: Mac Show is the apple, Peter Wilson, Mac Chat, Vancouver Sun, 04.19. The history and success of The Mac Show Live.
Web: Viewable with any browser, anybrowser.org. Best viewed with Netscape or Internet Explorer? No, best viewed with the browser of your choice.
Benchmarks: Three 2.5" FireWire drives compared, Bare Feats, 04.20. FWDepot's new Titanium drive takes on VST and Granite Digital.
Consumer: Outpost.com abandons free shipping, MacNN, 04.20.
Consumer: Week's best iBook, PowerBook deals, PowerBook Central, 04.20.
AAPL: Apple, Apple, Apple everywhere with AAPL up another 12.8%, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 04.19.
News: Apple ships 5 millionth iMac, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 04.19. "Not bad for a fad."
News: New G4 Cubes powered by PPC 7410?, The Cube-Zone, 04.19. Field reports indicate latest Cubes use cooler running processor.
AAPL: Apple's product breakdown reveals consumer weakness, Tom Gray, Mac Observer, 04.19.
OS X: Software lets you play VCDs on Mac OS X, MacCentral, 04.19. Oops, Apple left VideoCD support out of OS X.
Advice: Upgrading an iBook hard drive, Go2Mac.com, 04.19. "This is not a straightforward task. The iBook is not meant for the average consumer to get into."
Opinion: Apple lawyers attack MacOS 8.x skinning code, Tony Smith, The Register, 04.18. What the Mac OS makes possible with themes, Apple Legal wants to keep out of user's hands.
AAPL: Markets soar, Apple closes up 11.7% & blows away estimates, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 04.18.
AAPL: Apple beats the Street with financial picture, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 04.18. "[Shares] climbed more than 20 percent to $27 in after-hours trade following the results. "
AAPL: Apple handily beats the street, Upside.com, 04.18.
AAPL: Apple's back in the black, CBS Marketwatch, 04.18.
OS: Operating system firm Be looks for another chance, Dan Gillmor, SiliconValley.com, 04.17. "Be missed its best long-term opportunity when, for reasons that remain somewhat murky, the company wasn't able to sell itself to Apple Computer in late 1996."
AAPL: Apple's Q2 whisper number 3 cents higher than consensus estimates, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 04.18. Later today we'll hear the real numbers from Apple.
Low end: Build a CD burner in an old CD-ROM case, b.b. $50 bucks to turn an external CD-ROM drive into a burner?
OS: Did Apple make the right choice opting for NeXT over the Be OS?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 04.18. In early 1997, everyone assumed Be would be Apple's choice....
Opinion: Expanded direct sales by Apple will help your business, Paul Shields, Business Mac, 04.18. "Apple will use the Apple stores as a launching point for expanding their direct sales team."
Web: TidBITS celebrating 11th anniversary, Mac Observer, 04.17. Congratulations to the helpful newsletter that predates the Mac Web.
Advice: Hotrodding the PowerBook 3400, Charles W. Moore, MacOpinion, 04.17. "The first element of any 3400 hotrodding project should be to upgrade the RAM...."
Consumer: PowerLogix trims upgrade prices, Insanely Great Mac, 04.17.
Low end: SE with 25 MHz '030, video out, b.b. The deals you sometimes find for $5.99....
Web: Go2Mac.com up and running again.
Web: The Apple Online Museum.
Opinion: Macs still cost too much, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 04.16. That's gotta be why Mac evangelism too often results in Wintel sales.
Web: Shawn King interviews Dan Knight on The Daily Report, The Mac Show, 04.16. Topic: Low End Mac's "Best of the Mac Web" survey.
Humor: Care and feeding of your graphic artist/designer, Joel Davies, iMaculate Conception, Applelust, 04.16. "Tell your IT department to get over themselves, and learn to live with the presence of Fruit in your network."
Ezines: April ATPM available.
Analysis: An Apple a Day: Macintosh becoming computer of choice for many law forms, State Journal, 04.16. Twenty-three percent of law firms use Macs.
Low end deal: 9.1 GB external SCSI drive, $52, see DealMac, 04.16. More storage space than you can usually afford in a SCSI drive.
Deal: Refurbished G4 Cube, $1,099, see DealMac, 04.16.
Analysis: PowerBook G4 Titanium vs. Wintel, Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac, 04.13. Except for the missing expansion bay, the PowerBook G4 is a far better, more integrated machine.
Review: Inside the Titanium PowerBook, Andrew Gore, Macworld. Very thorough.
Opinion: Two sites I'll miss and others that prosper, Steve Wood, Math Dittos 2, 04.13.
Consumer: Week's best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 04.13.
Opinion: In defense of verbalism, David Schultz, Applelust, 04.12. A lengthy, thoughtful explanation of lengthy, thoughtful writing and publishing.
AAPL: 4th straight Nasdaq gain, Apple up 2.8%, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 04.12.
Analysis: Apple "may miss profit target," Macworld UK, 04.12.
Rumor: Apple kills 667MHz Power Mac, MacUser UK, 04.12. "'The 667MHz G4 was never a compelling option for our customers,' said one UK reseller...."
Advice: How to use iTunes, MacInstruct, 04.10.
Analysis: The myth of megahertz, part 2, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 04.10. All about parallelism, pipelines, and processors.
Low End: Colo(u)r Classic Forum, a message board for Color Classic users.
AAPL: Stocks rally, Apple up 7%, Bryan Chaffin, Apple Stock Watch, Mac Observer, 04.10.
SETIonMac: SETI@home client software for OS X released, SETI@home.
Opinion: OS X install (not) travails, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, MacOpinion, 04.10. "It still puzzles me as to why drive formatting would have any bearing on the computer being able to boot from the OS X installer CD."
Tech: The myth of megahertz, Dennis Seller, MacCentral, 04.09. "The PowerPC reasoning is to do as much in as few computer cycles as possible."
Opinion: Fallacies of Christianity - and the Mac religion, Rodney O. Lain, MacSpirit, Applelinks, 04.09. Not for the weak of faith.
Analysis: Apple users, market share underestimated?, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 04.09. "...if the industry estimate of 270 million PCs were correct, that would make the Mac installed base closer to 8 percent than 6 percent."
Opinion: OS X: Leveraging the success of Unix, Kevin Ledgister, osOpinion, 04.06. "...for Apple to truly grow in new markets such as the business, engineering and scientific areas, it must convince or inspire software developers to create or port major applications for the platform."
Web: JAG's House is back from April Fools hiatus.
Interview: Bob "Dr. Macintosh" Levitus, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 04.06. Levitus is the author of 36 Mac-related books and a genuine Macintosh guru.
Opinion: Linux creator: Mac OS X is "crap," MacCentral, 04.06. OS X is a real commercial Unix, not a non-profit Unix workalike, and could stop Linux's growth.
Opinion: The coming apocalypse: .NET & the end of the computing world as we know it, Rodney O. Lain, iBrotha, Mac Observer, 04.06. "In all of my years, nothing has terrified me . . . until I began reading and mulling over Microsoft's .Net initiative."
Review: PowerMail, Kirk Hiner, Applelinks, 04.06. Excellent email client designed to replace Claris Emailer.
Opinion: How frequently do you upgrade to a new computer system?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 04.06. Plus to Centris to SuperMac to TiBook over 11 years: 41 months is the Low End Mac average.
Consumer: Week's best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 04.06.
Web: Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future. A dismal future dominated by Microsoft, er, network television.
Web: Cybernacho.com, mostly silliness from the junior webmaster in the Low End Mac household.
Vendor return policies for RAM disabled by latest firmware update, ramseeker, 04.05. Most, but not all, will replace diabled memory.
OS X: 20 bugs in Mac OS X 10.0, Derek Currie, InsideX, Insanely Great Mac, 04.05. Compare 47 bugs to the 63,000 known bugs in Windows2000.
Low End: The Macintosh TV, Terminal34, 04.05. "Less that 10,000 are figured to have been produced - in fact, less than the "rare" Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (by about 1500 units)."
Interview: High priest of the PC, Garry Barker, The Age, 04.04. "More than almost any other man, Jobs may claim to have changed forever the way the world works, lives and plays. Now 46, he is unchallenged after nearly 30 years at the leading edge of technological innovation."
Analysis: Slanted report touts Dell's assault on Apple education sales, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 04.04.
Opinion: Apple's response to firmware upgrade fiasco arrogant and unsatisfactory, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 04.04. The title says it all.
News: DIMMcheck tests RAM against Apple specs, Macs Only!, 04.04. Stuffed file downloads as EIMSCheck.sit. Thank goodness, the RAM in my TiBook passed; it now has firware 4.1.8f5.
News: SPD Patch restores lost RAM, Accelerate Your Mac!, 04.04.
News: ComputerWare (Mac only retailer) goes bust, Applelinks, 04.03.
Finally! Apple responds to disabled RAM dilemma, MacCentral, 04.03. "...it's going to be up to users and resellers to fix memory-related problems associated with Apple's recent firmware updates." :-(
Review: AirPort alternative: Linksys BEFW11S4, iBook Zone, 04.03. Unit combines functions of AirPort base station, router, and 10/100 ethernet switch for about US$300.
Advice: What about backing up to FireWire hard disks?, Adam C. Engst, TidBITS, 04.03. "...I became convinced that hard disks can be used in a coherent backup strategy, thanks to the rise of cheap, large, FireWire hard disks."
Opinion: Why TiBook is not the supreme ultimate PowerBook, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, 04.03. "Don't get me wrong. The best is the enemy of the good, and Lombard, Pismo, and TiBook are all really good computers."
Review: Mac OS X 10.0, John Siracusa, Ars Techica, 04.03. "As far as I know, [iTools mail] is the first (relatively) spam-free free email service that provides its own authenticated SMTP server for outgoing mail, and an IMAP server for incoming mail."
Opinion: Mac OS X bridges the gap, Sean R., osOpinion, 04.03. "In short, Mac OS X is Unix for the masses."
News: Your Titanium: Made in Taiwan, Go2Mac.com, 04.03. TiBooks and iBooks both built in Taiwan.
AAPL: Cash, new OS underpin Apple, CNBC, 04.03. "...OS X and a $4 billion cash stockpile have helped put a floor under Apple Computer's battered stock...."
Review: Very fine PowerBook design, eWeek, 04.02. "Apple's titanium-clad laptop will turn heads; 500MHz machine also outruns 600MHz Pentium III."
Free: PowerBook Zone giveaway. All you need to enter is an email address.
Petition: Fix our firmware. Recent firmware updates have left countless crippled Macs - Apple must respond to the problem now.
OS X: Switch to thousands (of colors) speeds up OS X, iMac NewsPage, 04.02. OS X graphics are much faster with early ATI cards set to thousands of colors, not millions.
Opinion: Apple's 25th birthday passes with little fanfare, PowerBook Zone, 04.02
News: Apple Australia places biggest dealer In receivership, Computer Daily News, 04.02. Dealer group handles 40% of Apple's Australian sales.
Hands on: Mac OS X, Macs Only!, 04.02. Report updated to reflect a full week with OS X.
Hands on: Titanium PowerBook Report #6, Marc Zeedar, Applelinks, 04.02.
Advice: Speeding up System 7, Eric Apgar, TidBITS #104.

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