Low End Mac Archive for October 24

October 24 in Apple and Low End Mac History

2003: Mac OS X 10.3 'Panther' released.
. Updated 17" MacBook Pro has 2.33 GHz Core 2 CPU, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB hard drive, same price.
2006: 15" MacBook Pro and 17" MacBook Pro move to Core 2 Duo CPUs.

That extra 10%, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Is it worth the premium price when the top-end model is only about 10% faster?

Bring back the desktop Mac, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. To increase market share, Apple needs to rediscover the desktop computer.

iPod: Yawn or wow?, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Will the iPod be the next iMac or the next Cube?
Projecting with a PowerBook, Korin Hasegawa-John, Mac Daniel. How to connect your PowerBook to a digital video projector for big presentations.

StarQuiz review, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report. "There are only a few features missing from StarQuiz to make it a truly outstanding package...."
Best of the Mac Web #4 results. Roughly 3,000 voters participated, the results are in, and the best rated site is....
Best of the Mac Web #4 addendum. The raw statistics from our recent survey.

Mac OS X 10.3 'Panther' released.
Is the Panther upgrade worth it?, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. Does Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) really offer enough improvements to justify the $129 price?
G4 iBooks, notebook sales growth, Pismo G4 upgrade, iPod accessories, and more, Charles Moore, The 'Book Review. A new 'Book hard drive upgrade service, Disk Jockey, fixing a "flying saucer" power supply, bargain 'Books from $139 to $2,249, and more.

How Big a Hard Drive Can I Put in My iMac, eMac, Power Mac, PowerBook, or iBook?, Dan Knight, Mac Daniel. A lot of older Macs don't know how to deal with drives over 128 GB in size. We look at three options.
Mac Finder copy not flawed, just different from Windows, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. The Finder's copy behavior has remained unchanged over the years. It's different from the way Windows works, and that it causing problems for switchers.

17" MacBook Pro (Core 2). Updated 17" MacBook Pro has 2.33 GHz Core 2 CPU, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB hard drive, same price.
15" MacBook Pro (Core 2). Updated 15" MacBook Pro has 2.16 and 2.33 GHz Core 2 CPUs, twice as much RAM, 120 GB hard drive, same prices.
iPod birthday articles foster DRM confusion, Nathan Thompson, Embracing Obsolescence. While complaining about the iPod's FairPlay restrictions, writers seem content to ignore the digital restrictions imposed by Microsoft and others.

The future of eMacs in the Age of Leopard, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Early eMacs aren't officially supported under Mac OS X 10.5, but Leopard could run well with the right upgrades.
Leopard DVD Player requires 1.6 GHz CPU, dual processor questions, and dual boot Macs, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. DVD Player currently runs on any G3 that supports Tiger, but the new version needs 1.6 GHz of power and other bloat in Leopard.