Top Links: Week of Oct. 16, 2000

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A closer look at Apple's financials, Dan Knight, 10/21. Don't panic. Look at the breakdown of unit sales and be impressed.
Upgrading the Beige G3, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive, 10/20. Just three years old, but sluggish with OS 9 and X. What should the beige G3 owner do?
What is the Cube?, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 10/20. It's gorgeous - and universally seen as overpriced. What is the Cube, and how can Apple market it effectively?
Profiles of Macintosh II Video Card, Macintosh II Monochrome Video Card, Macintosh II High Resolution Video Card, and Radius PrecisionColor Pro 24AC added.
Upgraded Power Mac 7200, StarMax 3000, or iMac: Which is the best value?, Charles W. Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 10/19. Value and expansion comparison of current iMacs with build-to-order alternatives.
Getting an older Mac on the Net, Evan Kleiman, Mac Daniel, 10/19. Yes, you can get just about any Mac ever made on the Internet.
Profiles of Radius LeMans GT, PrecisionColor 24XP, PrecisionColor Pro 24XK, PrecisionColor Pro 24XP, Thunder GT, and Thunder IV GX NuBus video cards.
Owning AAPL, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 10/18. Today I put my money where my mouth is - I invested in Apple stock.
Macs are home computers, Dan Knight, iMac Channel, 10/18. Not that it isn't a good business machine, but recent evidence points to the Mac as a great home computer.
NuBus Video Cards, Chris Lawson, 10/18. We've added profiles for the Apple 4-8, 8-24, 8-24GC, 24AC, and Radius Precision Color Pro 24X.
What is a bus? What kind does my Mac have?, Chris Lawson, Mac Daniel,10/17. The difference between NuBus and PCI.
Updated: Guide to G3 Daughter Cards, Guide to G4 ZIF Upgrades, 10/16. Updated to reflect new XLR8 pricing.
Sold on Mac for ten years, Melvin Ah Ching, My First Mac, 10/16. "The difference between the PC and Mac class was about as different as night is to day. The Macs were friendly and extremely easy to learn and use."
Miscellaneous Musings, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 10/16. Follow-up on the new G3, Express.com vs. Something Awful, and AT&T's income enhancement plan.
The OS X on Alpha Project, Anne Onymus, Rumor Mill, 10/16. Whether you believe Motorola can actually ship a 1 GHz processor in the near future, Apple isn't betting on it.
There is an incompatibility between the Kensington Startup ADB extension and the Trackpad control on the iBook with Mac OS 9.0.4. Symptom: trackpad responds during boot, but not later. Solution: disable Kensington Startup ADB extension. This may also apply to other USB portables and versions of the Mac OS.

Links Around the Web

USB: Griffin releases iMic, go2Mac.com, 10/20. Connect a standard 1/8" microphone to USB-only iBook.
Review: iBook SE, MacUser UK. "Where the original iBook felt sluggish with all but the simplest of tasks, the new SE is sharp and responsive."
Politics: Compare your views with presidential candidates, SpeakOut.com [Slashdot]. Interesting use of computer technology!
Benchmarks: 466 MHz FireWire iBook vs. 400 MHz Pismo PowerBook, Bare Feats, 10/23. Real world tests with iMovie, Cinema 4D, and Bryce.
AAPL: Morningstar.com: Eight bucks for an Apple, Yahoo, 10/20 [MacNN]. "That's not a lot of money for a business that - while declining at the moment - is highly profitable and has one of the most well-known brand names in technology."
Benchmarks: Battle of thin, portable FireWire drives, Bare Feats, 10/20.
News: PowerLogix Bluechip G3 upgrades for G3 Series PowerBooks shipping, Charles W. Moore, 10/20. Innovative design copies ROM from original CPU card.
Tech: A big blue shadow over Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64, Paul DeMone, Real World Technologies, 10/16. New Power4 (cousin to PowerPC) sounds very impressive.
Advocacy: The dominance myth, Pete Ottman, osOpinion, 10/19. "...no one has ever offered up one bit of evidence to support the assertion that using any modern operating system but Windows will be a hindrance."
Low End: 660av/840av Video Input Specifics, James Wang. "On a 660av or a stock 840av, one 512KB bank is insufficient to store 640 by 480 pixels worth of 16-bit video."
Opinion: I am not alone, because I have my Mac laptop, Nancy Gravley, Mac Observer, 10/18. "...he replied that the Mac was the only computer he had ever tried that didn't break down all the time."
OS 09. AutoPurge, Stimpsoft. Freeware that fixes that pesky "Temporary Items" problem in Mac OS 9.0-9.0.4.
AAPL: Apple profit: $170 million, MacWeek, 10/18. At 47¢ per diluted share, this was far better than anyone expected.
AAPL: Apple reports profit of $170 million, MacCentral, 10/18. Margin was down, Cube and education sales were weak, but the future remains bright.
AAPL: Whisper number for Apple's 4th quarter is higher than estimates, Wes George, Mac Obsverer, 10/18. Best guesstimate is 36¢ per share, better than 31-33¢ many predict.
Opinion: Web design: Keep it simple (stupid), Eolake Stobblehouse, Fuzzy Logic, Mac Observer, 10/18. "The long and the short of it is that when that company finally got a Web site up and running at all, I had already been living off my own Web sites for two years!"
Low End: Remodel your Mac for under $1,000, Chris Oakes, Computer User, 11/15/94. Good article - and prices have dropped quite a bit over the past six years.
Connectivity: Apple Modem Updater 2.0 improves stability, performance, MacCentral, 10/17. Update applies to iMac, PowerBook G3, blue Power Mac G3, and Power Mac G4. MacFixIt reports this updates the iBook and Cube as well.
History: NeXT: When cool wasn't enough, Colin Barker, vnunet.com. "NeXT was a high-profile disaster, a computer system that the world admired but wouldn't buy."
Low End: Obsolete Macintosh is still a classic for some, David E. Graham, Union Tribune, 10/17. Color Classic "shows that some old models are destined to live on outside a museum."
Design: PowerBook G4, Go2Mac.com, 10/17. Cube-inspired laptop design. I could go for one of these!
Whine: Web workers cite poor treatment as start-ups begin cutting jobs, MSNBC, 10/17 [in]. Gosh, dot-coms go out of business and can't provide severance pay or outplacement counseling. Can we say "at-will employment"?
Design: Sony VAIO PictureBook, Sony [Go2Mac.com]. Apple should take a long hard look at this 9.8" x 6.0" x 1.1.4", 2.2 lb., up to 20 hour battery life portable. Now that's a notebook computer!
Dark Side: Are Canadian tax dollars promoting Microsoft?, Gary Lawrence Murphy, osOpinion, 10/17. Canada Post announces free Internet access for "all Canadians" - with Windows.
Opinion: Rebates, hinges, and asinine centralized PowerBook service, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 10/16. "...the job is subject to Apple's Tier 1 repair flat fee of $310.00 plus the technician's time, and you lose the use of your PowerBook for ten days or so."
Hardware: BridgeIt! FireWire-to-SCSI converter/hub/repeater, FWDepot.com. Connect up to 7 SCSI drives to FireWire iMacs, iBooks, PowerBooks, PowerMacs, and the Cube.
Tech: The fundamentals of cache, Paul Mazzucco, SystemLogic [Slashdot]. More than you ever wanted to know about L1, L2, and L3 cache - and pretty accessible.
MacInSchool: Charter school issues laptops to its students, LA Times, 10/16. "The 140 ninth-graders from Lennox will get leased Apple iBooks for a year."
Opinion: Why we will benefit from Apple's financial troubles, Dave Schultz, Can We Talk?, Applelust, 10/16. "The industrial design team at Apple cannot be beat. Period. And if they are put in corner . . . look out."
Hands off: Back to Claris Home Page from Adobe GoLive 5, Robert A. M. Stephens, Behold the Rage. Flaws in HTML encoding send GoLive to the trash, Home Page back into action.

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