We believe in the long term value of Apple hardware. You should be able to use your Apple gear as long as it helps you remain productive and meets your needs, upgrading only as necessary. We want to help maximize the life of your Apple gear.
Let me begin by saying a huge Thank You! to all of you
Low End Mac readers who came through in our time of need. After we
shared our dire financial situation, we
received an outpouring of support.
Over the past three weeks, over 145 of you have made donations via
PayPal, QuickPay, or a check in the mail. Donations from loyal site
fans ranged from $1 to $100, and we truly appreciate each and every
donation. (If you missed out on the first round, don't sweat it. You
can still make a contribution to Low End Mac as detailed on our
Support page.)
Looking ahead, we hope to have WordPress up and running in the near
future, which will allow our staff to write, submit, edit, and publish
articles a lot more quickly (you can read more about it in Low End Mac Needs a Content Management
System). This should mean more timely posting of new content and
allow us to add several more writers. And that will all mean more
contebnt for you, more traffic for us, and more site income too.
I've got a small team helping me with WordPress. We hope to have
forums to replace our current Google Groups communities, allow comments
with articles, and work on some social networking integration, like
letting Facebook and Twitter users login with those IDs. We also hope
to make it pretty spam-proof using Akismet. We'll let you know when
that's ready to go.
Again, we couldn't do this without your support. Simply reading the
site helps, of course, as does supporting our sponsors. And as I said
earlier, if you would like to contribute directly to the site, we would
love that. Details are on our Support
page.
Dan Knight has been using Macs since 1986,
sold Macs for several years, supported them for many more years, and
has been publishing Low End Mac since April 1997. If you find Dan's articles helpful, please consider making a donation to his tip jar.
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Mac of the Day: Performa 630, introduced 1994.07.01. The first desktop Mac with an IDE hard drive could accept a TV or radio tuner.
