July 1 in Apple and Low End Mac History
June 30 - July
2
Canada Day
Highlights
- 1994: Performa 630
introduced. First desktop Mac with IDE hard drives also had slots for
video input and a TV tuner.
1994
- Performa 630 series
introduced. First desktop Macs with IDE hard drives also had slots for
video input and a TV tuner.
1996
- SuperMac J700 arrives, a slightly less expandable version of the SuperMac S900.
2002
- The underrated PowerBook
190, Heather Anne Hurd, My Turn. How a seven-year-old PowerBook
became a personal favorite.
- XPress strikes back, Alan
Zisman. Quark XPress 5.0 - heir apparent or too little, too late in
comparison to InDesign 2.0?
- Macs, politics, religion, and
rights, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Why we will continue to share
our opinions on issues that are important to us, Mac-related and
otherwise.
2003
- Secrets of the PowerPC 970: Why
the G5 runs so fast, Chris Lozaga, My Turn. With two floating
point units and more efficient instructions, the PowerPC 970 is
designed to be faster than any Pentium.
- Switcher's guide to OS X,
troubleshooting an upgrade nightmare, iChat AV, and more, Dan
Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Thoughts on slow OS X adoption, Claris
Home Page, and upgrading a Power Mac G4 to accept two optical
drives.
- Benchmarks to convince pundits
that Macs are faster, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side. If they don't
want to believe Apple's demonstrations or the independent lab
reports, here are some tests that just might convince the PC
experts how fast the G5 really is.
2005
- Kiss your data good-bye if your
drive fails without a backup, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive.
Lesson learned the hard way - if you want to keep your digital
photos, address book, and other data, you'd better have a backup
plan.
- Flash RAM to replace hard
drives?, reducing fan noise in 'Books, a fuel cell future, and
more, The 'Book Review. Free 6MP digicam with
PowerBook purchase, truth about laptop case protection, mobile
backup solutions, bargain 'Books from $399 to $2,299, and
more.
- Fujitsu pushes drive capacity,
Keyspan's networked USB print server, monster 37" LCD monitor, and
more, Mac News Review. Also new compact external
drives, front-mounted ports for older Power Macs, Stealth Serial
Port for G5, iControl for GarageBand, and more.
2008
- Low End
Mac's Compleat Guide to the Dual USB iBook G3, Charles W Moore, 'Book
Value. From a 500 MHz model introduced in May 2001 through 12" and 14"
900 MHz G3 iBooks rolled out in April 2003, these iBooks offered
unprecedented value.
- The Mac Future:
Snow Leopard, MobileMe, and the iPhone/iPod touch, John Hatchett,
Recycled Computing. Apple will leave the PowerPC behind with OS X 10.6
while expanding the Mac's presence on the Internet and in your
hand.
- Master of Orion on
the Mac, Tamara Keel, Digital Fossils. The DOS version of this
vintage game broke with Pentium or Windows 95, but the Mac version
still runs very nicely in the Classic Mac OS.
- SanDisk Sansa Clip a low
cost alternative to iPods for Mac users, Alan Zisman, Zis Mac.
There's no video or photo support, but the Sansa Clip works with MP3
files and includes an FM radio and a microphone.
2009
- Amazon.com v.
interstate sales tax: Everyone loses, Dan Knight, Mac Musings.
Amazon.com is standing up to states that are trying to have it collect
sales tax on interstate commerce, which most see as a violation of
federal law.
- Introduction to
autofs in Mac OS X, Keith Winston, Linux to Mac. "Autofs is often
used in enterprise environments to set up network-based home
directories and other network mounts for users at login."
- Refurb MacBook Pro deal, fastest
Mac browser, 256 MB modules for WallStreet, and more, Charles
Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Also more Safari 4 feedback, praise for
Camino, MacBook cracks, looking for Craigslist software for Macs, and
more.
2011
- OS X 10.6.8 adds TRIM,
benchmarks faster; $600 Hackintosh Mini; security update for Leopard;
and more, Mac News Review. Also workaround for 10.6.8 audio
problem, Java updates for OS X 10.5 and 10.6, Roccat fast browser, and
more.
- New MacBook Air this month?,
White MacBook going away?, some SSDs can hose your data, and more,
The 'Book Review. Also inside Apple's Thunderbolt cable, Sony Vaio Z
targets MacBook Air and botches Thunderbolt, new Porsche designed LaCie
mobile drive, and more.
June 30 - July 2
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