- Featured link: The Leopard experience at 867 MHz, Simon Royal, Mac Spectrum, 12.02. Mac OS X 10.5 requires an 867 MHz G4 with 512 MB of memory, but is performance really acceptable on a minimum spec system?
- Mac of the Day: 'Mirror Drive Door' Power Mac G4, Aug. 2002 - Dual CPUs from 867 MHz to 1.25 GHz on the most powerful Mac to boot OS 9.
- Group of the Day: Panther List is for anyone using Mac OS X 10.3.
Recent Content on Low End Mac
- Watching DVDs from Different Regions on Your Mac, Andrew J Fishkin, Best Tools for the Job, 12.04. Hardware and software solutions for watching DVDs intended for a different region.
- Targus Velos Messenger Case: Versatile, Attractive, and Modestly Priced, Charles W. Moore, 'Book Value, 12.04. The Velos Messenger Case is solidly built, had pockets for lots of extras, and could even handle a second 15" notebook computer.
- How Apple Retail Can Profit from the Recession, Tim Nash, Taking Back the Market, 12.04. "Apple has a larger cash mountain than any of its competitors in retail, and with the right kind of investments will come out of the recession stronger than ever."
- OS X More Efficient than Linux, Snow Leopard and PowerPC Macs, and Eudora Woes, Charles W. Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 12.03. A user reports both Panther and Leopard run more smoothly and use memory more efficiently than Linux. Also thoughts on PowerPC abandonment in Snow Leopard and replacing Eudora in Leopard.
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- Analysis: Giz Explains: Why OS X Shrugs Off Viruses Better Than Windows, Matt Buchanan, Gizmodo, 12.03. "Critical areas are walled off from normal users - you see this when OS X asks for a password to install updates or change a system setting."
- Virus: Virtually every Windows PC at risk, says Secunia, Gregg Keizer, Computerworld, 12.03. "More than 98% of Windows computers harbor at least one unpatched application, and nearly half contain 11 or more programs at risk from attack, a Copenhagen-based security company said today."
- News: Analyst: iPod shortage spreading, Tom Krazit, CNET News, 12.03. "An iPod shortage at Amazon.com appears to have spread to other distribution channels, according to an analyst."
- Analysis: Apple Doesn't Make Me-Too Products!, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 12.02. If Apple were to enter the netbook market, it would do it in a uniquely Apple way.
- Analysis: Price and Popularity: The iPhone App Store's Data Show Who's Making The Most Money, Peter Cooper, MobileOrchard, 12.02. In the games category, the most profitable game is neither the most popular nor the most expensive.
- News: Apple removes antivirus support page, Jim Dalrymple, Macworld, 12.02. The KnowledgeBase article "was old and inaccurate. The Mac is designed with built-in technologies that provide protection against malicious software and security threats right out of the box."
- Web: Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web, Joshua Davis, Wired, 11.24. How Dan Kaminsky discovered a catastrophic flaw in the DNS system - and how it was fixed.
- News: Mac Internet share hits record 8.87%; Windows drops below 90%, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune, 12.01. "Apple's (AAPL) slice of the Internet pie grew measurably in November as both the Mac and the iPhone hit record numbers in a Net Applications Web survey issued overnight Monday...."
- History: Honeywell's Kitchen Computer remembered: The $62,550 machine no one bought, Austin Modine, This Old Box, The Register, 11.27. No keyboard. No screen. But it could store recipes, had a cutting board, and shipped with an apron. Total sales: zero.
- Advice: Final Vinyl Makes Sound Routing and Recording Surprisingly Simple, Bob Rudis, The Apple Blog, 11.28. "This tiny utility lets you choose any input source (an iMic is not a requirement...) for monitoring, recording and in-stream effects manipulation."
- News: '60 Minutes' report: How online gamblers unmasked cheaters, CNET News, 11.30. "The company . . . was finally forced to acknowledge that a former employee had cracked their software code and cheated online players by looking at their cards."
- Opinion: What an Apple Tablet Means, and What It Should Be, Holden Scott, This Old Mac, 11.23. Why many of us long for a Mac Tablet, and Apple's tablet designs of the past - WALT, PowerBook Duo Tablet, and Newton.
- Software: Stainless - Not Quite Chrome for OS X, Lonnie Lazar, Cult of Mac, 11.30. Stainless, now at beta 0.4, is an attempt to port the idea of Google Chrome to Mac OS X, particularly one process per thread. Leopard only.
- Rights: Death and taxes in virtual worlds, Dave Rosenberg, CNET News, 11.30. "The taxation subject seems to be more a case of what happens when virtual money turns into real money than it does a question about virtual transactions."
- Opinion: 25 Unanswerable Questions About Apple, Harry McCracken, Technologizer, 11.26. "Apple's long history is rife with defining moments . . . and, therefore, with roads not traveled that might have led to radically different places."
- Advice: How to Use a Mac to Make Important Decisions in Life, Alexis Kayhil, Mac 360, 11.21. "Decision modeling software is aimed at business because most of us won't turn over our decision making process to our Macs, even if the software was free."
- News: Confirmed: Apple now price-matches any item in its stores, David Chartier, ars technica, 11.25. "Apple's conditions for matching a competitor's price include the product being in stock and having the same model number, and Apple will even compete against web prices."
- Rights: Apple Bends to Studios, Adds Copyright Protection to MacBooks, Brian X. Chen, Wired, 11.19. "Apple has secretly included a copy protection scheme called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) in the external display ports on the latest models of it MacBooks...."
- Rights: Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots?, Slashdot, 11.19. "[A] management-side attorney . . . believes that, in most cases, computer booting does not warrant being called work."
- Software: Camino 1.6.5 Web Browser Released, Applelinks, 11.19. If you haven't tried Camino lately, we urge you to give it a try. It's our favorite browser at Low End Mac headquarters.
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