Low End Mac Archive for September 25

September 25 in Low End Mac History

Personalize your Mac's look and feel, Evan Kleiman, Mac Daniel. Tips on changing the visual appearance of your Mac.
Tangerine Fusion's Fun Facts: FireWire iBooks, Paulo Rodrigues, Tangerine Fusion. Interesting tidbits on the new iBooks.

Apple releases Mac OS X 10.1.
More in love each day, Jim Williams, My First Mac. "I fall in love with the OS more every day as I use it and become more and more familiar with it."
Good-bye Macs, hello OS X, Dirk Pilat, Mac UK. Farewell to older Macs, hello to OS X - and some questions.
Apple's dirty little secret, Steve Watkins, The Practical Mac. One more way in which Apple is very different from Microsoft.
Vintage Mac 400k floppy drive repeating click of death, A. Daniel King, Online Tech Journal. The cause and cure of the repeating click of death in the old 400k Mac floppy drives.

Groveling: Jaguar is not fat, slow, and deeply flawed, Dirk Pilat, Down But Not Out. A clean install of Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) solves problems caused by earlier install over 10.1.5.
Komando's bias skews iMac evaluation, Stephen Van Esch, Mac Scope. "...I often find that the criticisms towards the Mac are the result of poor testing, lack of comprehensive fact checking, and a less than thorough research."

10 things I like best about OS X, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report. Sure, OS X has some annoying features - but it has some really great ones, too.

Jag's House, where older Macs still rock, Tommy Thomas, Welcome to Macintosh. Over a decade old, Jag's House is the oldest Mac website supporting classic Macs and remains a great resource for vintage Mac users.
Ubuntu Linux not best for Macs, OS 9 on Macintel, using FireWire Target Disk Mode to install OS X, and more, Charles W Moore, Moore's Mailbag. Also looking at WallStreet hard drive ugprades, problems with fifth-generation iPods scratching, and media issues when reading CD-R and DVD-R.

Mac OS X 10.1: The first mature version, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. After several Developer Previews, a Public Beta, and five versions of OS X 10.0, Mac OS X was finally ready for prime time with the release of version 10.1.

What's so great about a Mac? Plenty!, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Alex Gallegos doesn't understand why anyone would choose a virus-free, just-works Mac instead of the far geekier Windows.
iPhone developers have no reason to complain, Frank Fox, Stop the Noiz. Apple provides developers with a software development kit, 70% of software income, and only asks that they not undermine Apple.
Perfectly personalized internet radio with Pandora and the Music Genome Project, Kev Kitchens, Kitchens Sync. Using a database that categorizes music by its genes, Pandora Radio can serve up a great selection of music based on your favorite artist or song.
Mac or Windows: Does it even matter any more?, Simon Royal, Tech Spectrum. Today computing is all about applications and the Internet. Does it really matter whether you're using the Mac OS, Windows, or Linux?

The best sub-$1,000 Mac notebooks for gamers, Dan Bashur, Apple, Tech, and Gaming. We have a tie for the best Mac gaming notebook below $1,000, and also four 'Books that almost made the cut.
5 best sub-$1,000 Mac notebooks for gamers, Dan Bashur, Apple, Tech, and Gaming. Good Mac 'Books for gaming start below $300 and cover the G3, G4, and Intel eras.
iPod era ending?, case reduces cellphone radiation, free app allows free calls, and more, iNews Review. Also Mariner Calc 2.0, Laridian PocketBible, Earn-O-Meter, Pantone, Peter Rabbit, and other apps, a microcell from AT&T, and more.
Extended coverage for MacBook Air hinge, Mac Portable Retrospective, iBook as netbook, and more, The 'Book Review. Also building a Pismo from 3 dead ones, upgrading RAM, buyers interested in Apple tablet, first USB 3.0 ExpressCard adapter, bargain 'Books from $179 to $2,294, and more.
New iMacs and MacBooks soon?, Blu-ray on Macs, looking back at Lisa and Mac Plus, and more, Mac News Review. Also 'Snow Leopard' sales data, using FreeHand and AppleWorks with Snow Leopard, affordable Pentax K-x DSLR even comes in red, and more.