Low End Mac Archive for February 19

February 19 in Low End Mac History

Buying an iMac, Evan Kleiman, Mac Happens. The pros and cons of buying locally vs. mail order.

The social Internet, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. "Rather than fearing the Internet, the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society should look at how people interact socially because of the Internet."

Not the end of the Mac as we know it, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. "I must respectfully disagree with Adam Robert Guha.... The Mac as we know it has a long life ahead of it."
WordPerfect feedback and addenda, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Mail about Word Perfect, Seagate drives, quiet fans, cat haters, control freaks, and toilet paper.
Mac network appliance: Making your own MP3 server, Jonathan Ploudre, Back & Forth. How to set up an older Mac to serve MP3 files over your computer network.

OS X and the future of Linux, Steve Watkins, The Practical Mac. Some claim that OS X dooms Linux; I believe it renews Linux.
I shall call it Mini Mac!, Eric Schwarz, The Power of Mac. The Palm as a Mac-like personal digital assistant.
Low-end Macs work better, longer, and cheaper, Sheldon Jaffe, My First Mac. "The most I've paid for any machine was $700, and I don't regret any of the purchases."
The many Macs of Evan Kleiman, Evan Kleiman, Tools of the Trade. Three years' worth of "new to me" Macs.

Claris Home Page 3.0: Still irreplaceable?, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Claris Home Page is five years old and doesn't support modern Web standards - can it sell be the best tool for the job?
Macs in schools: A personal horror story, Stephen Van Esch, Mac Scope. Is the IT department really this clueless, or are they deliberately sabotaging the second graders' Macs?
ATI Radeon trade up program, yet more on Intel and other CPUs, and step-by-step overclocking of a beige G3, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Get $50 back when you buy a new ATI card, a lengthy discussion of the Pentium 4 and other CPUs, and how to change the CPU speed in a beige G3.

3 MacMice mice compared: 2 winners, 1 loser, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. MacMice products are well-designed and hold up well over time, but their Bluetooth mouse is poorly balanced and suffers from latency problems.
30 days of old school computing: Getting real work done, Ted Hodges, Vintage Mac Living. Personal computers were invented so we could get more work done and be more productive. Doesn't all the eye candy and multimedia just get in the way?
After Dark reborn? Bringing back the darkness, Tommy Thomas, Welcome to Macintosh. As After Dark approaches its 20th anniversary, perhaps it's time to resurrect the greatest screen saver of all time.

Bringing a zebra stripe SE/30 back to life, Paul Brierley, The 'Book Beat. The Japanese call it Simasimac, the horizontal striped pattern that indicates your Mac is terminal.
'Mystic' Power Mac G4/500 Dual, Low End Mac Benchmarks. Our dual processor G4/450 has been upgraded, and we've done our first Leopard benchmarks on it.

iPad the third revolution, why is Opera Mini 6x faster than Safari?, CTV Olympics app, and more, iNews Review. Also limits of iPad multitasking, Microsoft Office for iPad?, Stethoscope app for iPhone, climate change app released, and more.