Low End Mac is pleased to publish Kel Taylor's Mac to the
Future column. Kel brings a broad perspective as someone who cut
his teeth on Macs in the b&w compact Mac era and is ready to
leap into the world of OS X later this year.
Dan Knight, publisher, Low End Mac
The Mac has always been my computer. Ever since my sister brought
home her Performa 200
for college, I've been a full blown Mac user. Now, I'm in college
myself and haven't varied a bit. Although this is Low End Mac, I write
articles on current and future topics, because, as we all know, today's
high end is tomorrow's low end. A few years from now, the G3 will take
its place with the 680x0's and PowerPC 60x's. It's important to keep an
eye on the future so know how the Mac is changing - and these days it's
changing a lot.
I grew up with the Mac, and I intend to grow old with the Mac. I'm
currently 18 years old and attending college at Texas A&M
University. My Mac arsenal currently includes my sisters Performa 200
(which she gave up long ago), a non-working Performa 400 (my first computer), a
beige desktop Power Mac
G3, a PowerBook 540c I got
from a Yahoo auction, an iBook SE, and an
iMac DV+. Also, I
recently received a 512K
Macintosh, or Fat Mac, from a friend's dad (a Mac using preacher)
who bought it brand new in 1984. We turned it on, heard the Macintosh
chime - and then nothing else happened. Oh well. I plan to "upgrade" it
to a Macquarium as soon as I get some time.
My email address is very descriptive, keltaylor (at) lowendmac (dot)
com, so send me an email if you have any questions or comments.
Kel
Columns
- I've seen the future, and it is Aqua,
9/29/00. Hands on with Mac OS X beta - love at first byte!
- New iMacs: Something for everyone,
8/17/00. "...the iMac has grown into a family, and a large one at
that."
- AirSurf rumors, with
Anne Onymus, The Rumor Mill, 6/15. "Apple has registered AirSurf as
a trademark. That's all most people know so far...."
- X things I love about X, 6/14. Ten
things to look forward to in Mac OS X.
- Microsoft-opoly: Not a Game,
5/5/00.
- Fiction: Mac to the Future: The Microsoft
War, 5/3/00. "Microsoft, the world's largest and most powerful
company, had just issued a statement to the World Congressional
Assembly demanding they hand over all government
operations...."
- Old Mac, new Mac, 4/24/00. A new
computer is no reason to retire your old one.
- The Best 3D Gaming, 3/14/00
- Mac OS X: the Big Change, 3/7/00
