February 26 in Apple and Low End Mac History
Feb. 25 - Feb.
27
2001
2002
2003
- Switching from Mac to Windows, really
clearing a hard drive, OS X and viruses, RAM disks, and more, Dan
Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. More on replacing Claris Home Page,
printing from a classic Mac, getting a CD-RW drive to work with a
Performa, SpamBouncer, and why some G4s won't work in G3s.
2005
2007
- Opera the best browser for the
Mac, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. "In my opinion, Opera
is still the best all-round general surfing browser for Mac OS X, and
Safari has a long way to go to even come close to matching it."
2008
- 17" MacBook
Pro (Feb. 2008). A better, slightly faster Core 2 CPU, a bigger hard
drive, and a Multitouch trackpad.
- 15" MacBook
Pro (Feb. 2008). A better, slightly faster Core 2 CPU, bigger hard
drives, and a Multitouch trackpad.
- 'Santa Rosa'
MacBook (Feb. 2008). Speed bump to 2.1 GHz and 2.4 GHz, bigger hard
drives, and more RAM in the faster models.
- 14 years
of useful service from a Macintosh LC III, Mark Shipp, My Turn.
Purchased in 1993, this LC III has been used as a multimedia center,
word processing machine, mail server, Internet router, and print
server.
- $18 USB WiFi adapter, AirPort flaw
in last gen iBook, SuperDrive failure in MacBook, and more, Dan
Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also DVD-RAM for MacBooks, the quietest
MacBook, aluminum PowerBooks and Mac OS 9, and expansion slots in
affordable Macs.
2009
- Safari 4 Beta is
lightning fast, Simon Royal, Tech Spectrum. The beta of Safari 4
zips through HTML and JavaScript, and Flash performance is also
better.
- Test driving Safari 4
Beta, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Safari 4 has some
clever and useful new features, but it's not the fastest Mac browser
for those using dialup.
2010
- App Store clears out smut, edit
Excel and Word docs on your iPhone, Apple ups download cap, and
more, iNews Review. Also BMW Mini Countryman meshes with iPhone,
Photoshop 1.0 ported to iPhone OS, new apps for Facebook users, Driving
Sports TV, and more.
- Apple tops in reliability and
customer service, OWC's speedy SSD, SanDisk SSD shipping, and more,
Mac News Review. Also 27" iMac shipping normally, washing your
keyboard, Matias keyboard has stand for iPhone, Belkin USB 3.0
products, and more.
- Next gen MacBook Pro to have
Intel 'i' CPUs and Nvidia Optimus graphics?, iPad not a laptop, and
more, Mac News Review. Also George Fox students will have iPad
option, would you buy an iPhone OS laptop?, first 64 GB SDXC memory
card, and more.
Feb. 25 - Feb. 27