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What originally started as a way to reorganize the splash page for the tech spec index quickly evolved into a deep-dive into every tech spec article – turning into a multi-week long retooling and design project that culminated into a completely re-engineered tech spec index. It seemed like there was a good amount of positive […]
As some of you may know, I’m a huge fan of using Adobe Photoshop (specifically CS4 an on G5 Macs), and I recently re-acquired a hard copy of the Adobe Photoshop CS4: In a Classroom, the book which I used to learn the program to begin with in the early 2010s. In addition to brushing […]
How about a USB 2.0/3.0 SATA 6G adapter that works with just about any hard drive or solid state drive and even has fast transfer speeds on a PowerPC Mac too? Check out – the Apricorn USB to SATA 6G adapter. This PNY SSD previously wouldn’t work inside a PowerPC Mac as it wouldn’t be […]
Early Intel Macs saw their heyday in the early 2010s with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and then some people patching onto Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite.. before ultimately stopping at Mac OS X El Capitan as many Macs lacked SSE 4.1. Many early Intel Macs were eclipsed by later ones with more processing power, but […]
The Apple Silicon steam is rolling, the Intel Macs are in their twilight zone, and PowerPC Macs can still be used in one way or another. Here at Low End Mac, we believe in the long term value of Apple hardware – we want to help elevate your Mac. These apps are already circulated, should […]
As some of you may know, I’m a huge fan of using Adobe Photoshop (specifically CS4 an on G5 Macs), and I recently re-acquired a hard copy of the Adobe Photoshop CS4: In a Classroom, the book which I used to learn the program to begin with in the early 2010s. While I haven’t had […]
1998: In the computer world, it is all too easy to get so bedazzled by the latest and greatest that one’s vision becomes clouded. Currently, the latest and greatest PowerBooks are the G3 Series II “PDQ” models, and they are indeed fabulous machines.
June 26th 1998: ClarisWorks doesn’t get nearly the respect it deserves. For a paltry $99 you can have a modular suite of applications that does everything 90% of users ever need to do with a computer. How many of us actually utilize the power features of fatware like Microsoft Office?
Low End Mac has been through a lot of changes over the years. For much of Low End Mac’s earlier days, we used Claris Home Page to edit and design our content (many different table-based designs). We switched to Cascading Style Sheets some years back and then to WordPress, so every now and again you […]
Apple has had some amazingly closed systems, some with not quite enough expansion, and a few that had so many expansion options that the mind boggles. This article takes a brief look at the most expandable Macs every by CPU.
The first video game console, the $100 Magnavox Odyssey, was released 45 years ago in September 1972. The Odyssey had up to three square dots on its black-and-white screen controlled by wired controllers. Plastic overlays were used along with dice, cards, play money, poker chips, and other board game accessories along with 12 different game cards (the […]
A lot has changed since the first Macintosh. Apple no longer uses a phone connector for its keyboard or DE-9 serial ports for its mouse, printer, and modem. As others have recently pointed out, the only connector still in use from 1984 through today is the analog headphone jack. Macs have always had some form […]
Editor’s note: Back in 2013 when Dan Knight still ran Low End Mac, it was around the time our website was transitioning over from HTML to WordPress. This article documents his experiences and some of his tips for others looking to migrate to WordPress. This article was complete, pulled out of our draft archives from […]
The Small Computer System Interface (SCSI, pronounced scuzzy) that every Mac from the Mac Plus on has supported (except for the iMac and the Blue & White Power Mac G3) is a mixed blessing. SCSI is a parallel interface, meaning that bits of data travel alongside each other rather than in tandem like they do […]
This day in age, a certain recent OS started shipping with it’s own built-in password manager app – and as it turns out, there’s been a password manager app out for PowerPC for a little while! Version 3.5.15 was out in 2010, so this app certainly falls into the category of abandonware. Password managers aren’t […]
This may be old news.. but I just only recently stumbled into this! If you’ve ever wanted to enable two-finger scrolling on your pre-2005 PowerPC ‘Book – there’s an app for that. iScroll 2 is a modified ADB driver, it works with Mac OS X 10.3 and up (although a certain version of the driver […]
You take the 10th-gen iPad from 2022, give it some iPhone 14 Pro parts, and bam – new iPad. No Apple Intelligence on this model due to system constraints, although it gains an extra 2 GB of RAM from the previous generation like how other Apple devices received a RAM upgrade across the line. Considering […]
During the 16th annual conference hosted by Apple at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Apple announced the transition to the Intel platform as well as the release of a developer transition kit (DTK). These were the first-ever released Intel computers by Apple, although the commercial debut for the first Intel Mac is at least […]
Back in 2021 roughly half a year after Apple Silicon was released to the consumer market, we got our first iteration of an iPad with a desktop-class CPU in it – the M1 iPad Pro. They chucked an M1 into an iPad Air a year later, and fast forward to 2025 – we now have […]
Earlier this week on April 2nd, Apple seeded the iOS 18.5 and macOS 15.5 betas, shortly after sending out the finalized version of iOS 18.4 and macOS 15.4. Both updates brought a massive list of security fixes, which makes it a strongly recommended up date if you haven’t already updated your device. This topic was […]
Here at Low End Mac we often cover PowerPC Mac App highlights and tricks, where you can read up about the different ways you can make your Mac work better for you. Whether you need to extend a desktop to a second monitor, enable window tiling, momentum scrolling or need to enable the “over 128 […]
Not all Macs are made equal. Many these days can extend their display and even support multiple monitors, however there was a time when the Mac you bought could only mirror the display externally. For those Macs such as an iMac G5 or an eMac G4, there is a piece of software known as Screen […]
Way back in 2012 Mac OS X Lion came with a brand new feature called Launchpad – it gave you quick access to your applications folder overlayed across the screen, and it continues to be a staple of macOS to this day, seeing hardly any changes from how it was originally introduced 13 years ago. […]
The company is also expanding the .DS_Store Apple Foundation Program to enhance learning opportunities for these small system files that seem to copy and paste themselves into oblivion at the Apple Finder Academy. Philadelphia, PA Apple today announced plans to expand in the City of Philadelphia, starting with the launch of the Apple .DS_Store online in […]
I must respectfully disagree with the new focus of Low End, er, make that High End Mac. Simply replacing your old Mac every two years, or three at most, isn’t the whole solution to Apple’s financial crisis or the consumer’s lust for power. Anyone who has followed computers for more than a couple […]
I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, and I’ve come to the conclusion that absolutely everything has turned upside down since we started pushing beyond the Chinese Calculator. Our species was founded on the hunter-gatherer work ethic (Not the one where you gather hunters or the one where you hunt the gatherers either), […]
Featuring the groundbreaking M4 Extreme chip, the new Mac Pro sets a new benchmark for desktop performance. Designed for professionals pushing the limits of Al, 3D rendering, and scientific computing, it’s the most powerful and capable Mac ever made. (Credit for all photo mockups on this article go to @basicappleguy.com on BlyeSky!)
Imagine this: an alternate earth, with alternate economics, influences, design teams, and whatnot. In this alternate universe, Apple unveiled the Mac Studio in 2006, alongside the first generation of Intel Macs. The Mac Studio was released as an answer for a more powerful small form factor/ITX workstation, a step up from the Mac mini. In […]
We recently heard of the announcement of WWDC 2025 which is set to be in early June, alongside a design preview teased by the official logo for this year. For this year we can expect iOS 19 to be announced, with many rumors circulating around the potential to drop support for certain devices. While you […]
Luddite Mac is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek celebration of vintage Macs — and even Apple IIs. The point we always try to make at Low End Mac is that until it dies no computer is ever less capable than it was when you bought it, so try to make the most of it. Our other focus […]