Archived Links for May 2008

05.20	Low End Mac	SheepShaver Brings Classic Mac OS to Intel Macs and Leopard, Alan Zisman: SheepShaver is an open source project designed to emulate Power Mac hardware with versions for Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, and more.
05.20	Low End Mac	Slot Loading iMacs: The SE/30 for a New Generation, Tamara Keel: About a year ago, I decided that my Mac museum would be incomplete without an iMac, what with it being the "computer that saved Apple" and all. I began browsing eBay with the intent of finding an original Bondi blue tray-loader for the collection. I hadn’t really paid much attention recently to the old CRT iMacs, and I was caught a little off guard by how cheaply they could be acquired.
05.20	Mac Night Owl	The Illusion of the Cheap Mac, Gene Steinberg: It’s very clear that the words Mac and cheap don’t align very well. Although you can buy a fair number of notebooks for hundreds less, the cheapest MacBook remains $1,099. A refurbished model, or one bought through Apple’s educational channels, can save you a modest sum, but that’s the best you can do if you prefer a Mac.
05.20	CNN Money.com	Report: iPhone headed for joint launch in Japan and Korea, Philip Elmer-DeWitt: With less than three weeks to go before Steve Jobs’ June 9 keynote address, Apple may be close to a deal that would add two of Asia’s hottest cellphone carriers to its growing list of international partners.
05.20	Ars technica	3G iPhone launch "confirmed," will be available at launch, David Chartier : You aren’t going to believe this, so you might want to sit down. After all the rumors, the speculation, the months of nail-biting, waiting for Facebook to load over EDGE, late night RSS surfing, and gadgety incantations, the so-called "3G iPhone" finally has a "confirmed" launch date: June 9 at WWDC.
05.19	Low End Mac	My First iMac, Carl Nygren: When I saw the other My First Mac articles, I figured I’d share my story too.
05.19	Low End Mac	The Roots of Apple’s Retail Stores, Tom Hormby: During the mid-90s, Mac users were prone to dealing with poorly trained and ill-maintained Mac sections in big box computer and electronics stores. These environments did not foster customer loyalty, nor did they help differentiate the Mac user-experience from Windows.
05.19	Apple Matters	About Linux and Why Nobody Seems to Care, Aayush Arya: I’ve recently come to the realization that most Windows and Mac users neither hate Linux nor do they want to get into any debates involving it just so that they can attempt to humiliate their Linux using counterparts. I’ve seen many an OS war and there has always been one common thread--Linux is ignored.
05.16	Low End Mac	Beyond the Mac mini, Dan Knight: What if Apple decided to give the Mac mini the MacBook Air treatment? You know, leave out the optical drive and reduce the number of ports. Do you think it would become an even better seller?
05.16	Low End Mac	Mac Pro Beats HP and Dell at Their Own Game: Price, Frank Fox: You can say that Apple is incredibly good at marketing, but that won’t gain them market share for the long run. To match the marketing message, you also need to beat the PC makers at their own game. This means selling Macs for less money.
05.15	Apple Matters	Suicidal Microsoft?, Chris Seibold: The very jaded among us might opine that a very botched XP service pack is little more than a thinly veiled attempt to coerce the laggards to migrate to Vista. While the notion seems plausible on first glance, conflating what can be ascribed to stupidity to conspiracy is usually a mistake. That said, there is a great joke in there somewhere.
05.13	Mac Night Owl	More Reasons for Microsoft to Love Apple, Gene Steinberg: I like being surprised, but I have to tell you that I didn’t expect Office 2008 for the Mac to do very well. You see, Microsoft’s reputation is heavily tarnished these days, and more and more people are embracing Macs; in greater numbers, in fact, than anyone had a right to expect.
05.12	Mac Night Owl	Consumer Reports Flips a Finger Again at Mac Users, Gene Steinberg: When I read an article the other day that Macs were finally getting a better break in the June 2008 issue of Consumer Reports, in an article entitled "Best and worst computers," I felt optimistic. Up till now, although Macs routinely get good marks in their tests, the magazine’s editors do little or nothing to distinguish them from the generic PCs they review.
05.11	MacDailyNews	iPhone ’Currently Unavailable’ via U.S. Apple Store online, Staff: Apple’s next-gen iPhone doesn’t get more imminent than this!
05.10	RoughlyDrafted Magazine	Climate Counts’ Fake Attack on Apple, Daniel Eran Dilger: Copying the self-serving campaigns run by SVTC and Greenpeace, the group Climate Counts has made Apple, Inc. the core of its latest press releases.
05.10	PC Advisor	O2 confirms iPhone is no longer available in UK, Carrie-Ann Skinner: O2 has confirmed reports that the iPhone is not currently available anywhere in the UK, and customers may have to wait for the putative 3G Apple iPhone.
05.09	RedEye	iPhone and .Mac knockout punch for Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Staff: I believe the buzz began when a "source" told TUAW that there’s a revamp of .Mac coming along side the iPhone launch.
05.09	CNET	Why Apple should release a game console, Don Reisinger: And as long as Apple plays by the rules it has played by for the past 10 years, there’s no reason to suggest a game console won’t be a success.
05.09	RoughlyDrafted Magazine	Zune Sales Still In the Toilet, Daniel Eran Dilger: The Zune a joke that gets funnier as time goes by (unless you’re Microsoft).
05.09	The Journal News	Stolen Mac laptop leads victim to alleged thieves, Richard Liebson: A tech-savvy White Plains woman whose apartment was burglarized solved the crime herself after she was able to log on to her stolen Mac laptop, photograph one of the suspects with it and get photos of another, police said.
05.09	TG Daily	Apple may be stylish, but it’s definitely not green (Warning - Silly Article Alert!!!), Christian Zibreg and Wolfgang Gruener : Article examining the silly assertion of the very silly ClimateCounts.org that attempts to report (with a high degree of silliness) that Apple is at the other end of a made-up spectrum in terms of 22 climate and corporate performance tools that the silly organization claims to "cover companies’ track record on measuring their climate change impact."
05.09	InfoWorld	AT&T yanks iPhone free Wi-Fi info from site, Gregg Keizer: Only hours after posting information that indicated iPhone owners would receive free access to AT&T’s public wireless hotspots, the company pulled all references to the service from its Web site.
05.09	Apple Matters	Putting Microsoft’s Bid For Yahoo In Perspective, James R. Stoup: After hearing that Microsoft was walking away from its offer to buy Yahoo, I got to thinking what else they could buy with that kind of money. Here are some ideas.
05.09	Macworld	Microsoft to appeal $1.3 billion EU fine, Elizabeth Montalbano: Microsoft is appealing the $1.3 billion (899 million Euro) fine imposed on it by the European Union for failing to honor a 2004 antitrust agreement, the company said Friday.
05.09	Low End Mac	Apple’s eMate Still a Great Tool in the Classroom, Tommy Thomas: One of the greatest products to ever make its way out of Cupertino was also one of the coolest and most practical. Which product am I talking about? The eMate 300, put out by Apple in the doom and gloom days of 1997.
05.09	Low End Mac	140 Million Copies of Vista Sold (Yawn), Frank Fox: I think Philip Elmer-DeWitt at Fortune, the author of 140 Million Copies of Vista Sold. How Does Leopard Compare?, needs to read my recent column, The Mac’s ’Troubling Low’ Market Share.
05.08	TUAW	Rumor: .Mac relaunch to coincide with iPhone 2.0?, Cory Bohon: A little birdy told us about some unusual happenings at Apple. According to our anonymous tipster, .Mac will undergo a complete revamp that will coincide with the iPhone 2.0 launch (which everyone expects to occur at WWDC 08).
05.08	Obama Central	Will your iPhone destroy the Internet?, Peter Griffiths: Professor Jonathan Zittrain says the latest must-have devices are sealed, "sterile" boxes that stifle creativity and turn consumers into passive users of technology.
05.08	Apple Matters	Unveiling the iPhone 2.0?, Chris Seibold: At WWDC it is widely expected that Apple will unveil a new iPhone.
05.08	Low End Mac	500 MHz iMac with Panther Great for Internet, Watching Video, and More, Carl Nygren: I was offered a 500 MHz iMac G3 DV SE with 512 MB of RAM and an 80 GB drive for $65. Lucky, eh? I simply couldn’t say no.
05.08	Low End Mac	Boomerang: The Blue and White Power Mac G3 That Kept Coming Back, Charles Webb: This is a story about a Blue and White Power Mac G3, which eventually became known as Boomerang.
05.07	The Industry Standard	Apple’s games strategy looks beyond consoles and the iMac, Terrence Russell: Apple is now exploring a hardware technology that has the potential to realign a multibillion dollar industry.
05.06	Mac Night Owl	Is a Home-Built Mac a Waste of Time?, Gene Steinberg: Just the other day, I had a pleasant conversation with Macworld’s Rob Griffiths about his "FrankenMac" project, his weekend warrior project to build a Mac from off-the-shelf PC parts.
05.05	Engadget	Psystar Open Computer notes, benchmarks and video, Nilay Patel: Okay, so we’ve been playing with the Psystar Open Computer for a few hours now, and we’ve formed some early impressions and put together a short video of it in action. We haven’t really tried to stress the system yet, but based on our other experiences with OSx86 machines, we’re expecting things to generally go smoothly.
05.05	Mac Night Owl	Apple Needs to Open Up!, Gene Steinberg: Whenever I consider possible future hardware and software from Apple, the well-worn phrase, "We do not discuss unreleased products" comes to mind. Indeed, getting a roadmap of any of their ongoing development programs seldom occurs, and when it does, there’s always a specific marketing reason, or the need to get developers onboard.
05.03	Electronista	Microsoft backs out of Yahoo bid, Staff: Microsoft tonight triggered surprise by withdrawing its bid for Yahoo.
05.02	Electronista	Lenovo mocks MacBook Air ad with X300, Staff: Lenovo is taking a jab at Apple’s MacBook Air with a commercial for the company’s new ThinkPad X300 ultraportable.
05.02	MacNN	Jobs drops to No. 11 on Forbes’ Best-paid Tech CEOs, Staff: Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs dropped from No. 1 to No. 11 on Forbes’ list of Top Paid Tech CEOs, while Larry Ellison (Oracle, $192m), Nabell Gareeb (MEMC Electronic Materials, $80m), John Chambers (Cisco, $55m), Mark Hurd (HP, $28m), Jen-Hsun Huang (Nvidia, $25m) were among the top (respectively).
05.02	MacNN	Key Apple executives sell off stocks, Staff: Two high-level Apple executives have sold off considerable numbers of stock, according to US regulatory documents.
05.02	Low End Mac	50% Mac Sales Growth Is Only the Beginning, Dan Knight: Let’s give some serious thought to the possible configuration of a midrange Mac, the computer Apple could conceivably produce to kill off the Psystar Open Computer and take on the most popular type of Windows PC, the minitower.
05.02	Low End Mac	The Greatest Comeback, Tommy Thomas: Apple pulled a comeback out of its rainbow-colored hat in 1998, and we all know how spectacular that was.
05.01	Low End Mac	Vista Just One Reason for Growing Mac Market Share, Frank Fox: I wrote last time about Apple’s small but fast growing market share. It is important to remember that Macs are selling 30% more each year while PCs are at best doing 15%. All this leads to another important question: installed base.
05.01	Low End Mac	A Very Pismo Christmas in April, John Hatchett: It was Christmas in April. Well it was to me. An alert reader of Low End Mac had an old Pismo with some bits and parts that they felt needed a good home. After a flurry of emails and an exchange of cash took place, I found myself with a parts Pismo to supplement my old Pismo.
05.01	Low End Mac	Online Answers for Ailing Computers, Alan Zisman: If you’re cursing your computer, you may find this hard to believe, but having worked with personal computers for a couple of decades now, believe me when I say that they’re much easier to set up and use than they used to be.
05.01	Apple Matters	How Much are You Spending on Mac Pretension?, Chris Seibold: Most Mac users make a conscious decision to use the Mac but there are a few that use the Mac out of necessity. The interesting thing is the different takes the types of users have on the Mac. Those that willfully use the Mac are generally big fans and when something goes wring they’ll blame themselves. Those that are forced to use Macs have a different take, for the people in the "have to use a Mac camp" the Mac is far from perfect.
05.01	Apple Matters	Undooming the Apple TV, Chris Seibold: For now the top resolution of HD is 1080P (this is a spec in constant flux). Some have argued that the lower resolution of Apple TV spells doom for the product.
05.01	Mac Night Owl	The MacBook Pro: Two Years On, Gene Steinberg: Two years ago, I bought my first Intel-based Mac, a 17-inch MacBook Pro, to replace a similarly-outfitted PowerBook G4. Yes, I have an affinity for larger screens. In fact, I’d spring for a 20-inch model if I could afford it and it wasn’t too heavy -- and that may be why Apple isn’t producing any.
05.01	Mac Night Owl	Apple and the Enterprise: A New Focus?, Gene Steinberg: How well I remember the claim, years ago, that Macs weren’t really business computers. The interface was simply too cute, and you had to use a genuine PC to get real business chores done. Of course, they forgot that Microsoft Excel actually premiered on the Mac platform before it was ported to Windows. The same holds true for Word.
05.01	Mac Night Owl	Don’t Tell Anyone: Apple Quietly Updates iMac!, Gene Steinberg: At one time, whenever Apple released a new or upgraded product, it would get major coverage at a Macworld Expo and WWDC. Today, two annual events are simply not sufficient to cover the range of Apple’s development process. Indeed, every few weeks, something new arrives with the Apple logo on it, from a new, cutting-edge product, to a simple refresh for an existing product line.
05.01	BusinessWeek	Why AT&T May Deep-Discount the iPhone, Arik Hesseldahl: The big thing about the next iPhone was supposed to be high-speed Internet access and tools for business. Instead, it’s looking like iPhone 2.0 is all about price and that ever- awkward relationship between Apple and AT&T.
05.01	FP Posted	Apple may roll out 3 new iPhone models this summer, Lee Joseph: As if all the chatter about Apple iPhone’s pending arrival in Canada later this year wasn’t enough, we’re now hearing through a Taiwanese news site that Apple may roll out three new iPhone models this summer.