September 5 in Low End Mac History
Sept. 4 - Sept.
6
1999
- Why the G4 uproar?, Dan
Knight, Low End Mac. Apple never promised a G4 upgrade for the Blue
G3, so why is everyone complaining?
2000
2001
- Stop the upgrade insanity,
Chris Edwards, My Turn. People are fed up seeing their computers
"obsolete" after just a few months.
2002
- Sharing your Internet
connection, Evan Kleiman, Mac Daniel. An introduction to
sharing your broadband cable or DSL connection among two or more
Macs.
- The evolving low end, Dan
Knight, Mac Musings. Unless it breaks, your hardware will always do
exactly what it did when you bought it - and it may do more thanks
to upgrades.
- Graphical Analysis 3 in the
classroom, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report. "When it comes down to
it, GA3 is simply the best tool for the job in a science or math
setting."
2003
- No Virtual PC for the G5? Try
WinTel, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. Just because Microsoft
may not update Virtual PC for a year doesn't mean G5 owners have
been left out in the cold.
- Apple #5 in laptops, CD-RW for
clamshell iBook, BatteryStatsX, 1 GB RAM, security, and more,
The 'Book Review. Also sprucing up a WallStreet, a
smaller AC adapter, ProClip for the iPod, 17" price drop, bargain
'Books from $600 to $2,799, and more.
2006
- Installing Linux on a PCI Power
Mac, Part 1, Larry Stotler, Linux on the Low End. Preparing
your PCI Power Mac (or clone) for Linux and getting openSUSE Linux
installed.
- PDQ PowerBook G3 at 8: Still
useful or too long in tooth?, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous
Ramblings. The WallStreet and PDQ PowerBooks were Apple's most
expandable 'Books ever, but is even that enough to keep them
practical in the era of OS X?
- The good old days of
computing, Tommy Thomas, Welcome to Macintosh. There was a time
when you didn't need GHz CPUs, multi-GB hard drives, or hundreds of
megs of RAM to computer - and it was more fun.
2007
- Comparing Apples and Dells: Only
you can make a fair comparison, Andrew J Fishkin, Best Tools for
the Job. Sure, you can configure a $400 Dell so it costs more than a
Mac mini, but would you really buy it that way?
- 12" PowerBook G4 reliability, iMac
slowdown blues, PowerTools Mac clones, cooling a MacBook, and more,
Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also Pismo as the king of PowerBooks,
burning a CD for Macs with System 7, and thinking about a small Mac
Beowulf cluster.
2008
- Anticipation: New
iPods now, new Macs later, Kev Kitchens, Kitchens Sync. The season
of new iPods is at hand, but new Macs may wait until 2009.
- Listen to just the
music with the V-Moda Vibe earbuds, Tommy Thomas, Welcome to
Macintosh. Well built, the noise reducing earbuds will let you hear
all the nuances of your music without letting through background
noise.
- Macs gain ground in August,
consumers most likely to buy Macs, LaCie USB speakers, and more,
Mac News Review. Also migrating Time Machine to a new drive and two
new keyboards from Logitech.
- Buy a MacBook now or wait?,
MacBook touch patents, Samsung X360 takes on MBA, and more, The
'Book Review. Also 20 years of portable Macs, data backup and
preservation, universal U-Charge battery charger for Mac 'Books,
bargain 'Books from $150 to $2,699, and more.
- Source of iPhone 3G problems,
Army uses iPods as field translators, gains with business, and
more, iNews Review. Also UK bans iPhone ad as 'misleading', iPhone
password easy to bypass, GM to offer radios with USB in 2009 models,
weather tracking software, and more.
2012
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