Low End Mac

[...] Thank you, donors, for your generous support of Low End Mac! Without you we would not be able to pay our bills, let alone make a donation to ALS research. [...]

[...] ? Do you like older kit? Would you like to write for a long running Mac website? Low End Mac has been running since 1997, born when the internet was in it’s infancy and sites [...]

[...] I love Macs, and I’ve been publishing Low End Mac since April 1997. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I haven’t had much time to write [...]

[...] Low End Mac has been through some difficult times since we moved from static HTML pages to WordPress. Site [...]

[...] It’s been two long years since the Mac mini was updated, and while a 1.4 GHz Core i5 CPU may not sound very powerful, then new US$499 price [...]

[...] When it was introduced in January 2005, the G4 Mac mini was the smallest desktop computer on the market – and the least expensive Mac Apple had ever [...]

[...] The Mac mini has always been the runt of the Mac litter, and not just in size. When Apple upgraded the G4 [...]

[...] When it was introduced in February 2006, the Core Duo Mac mini was the smallest desktop computer on the market – and the second-least expensive Macintosh Apple [...]

[...] project hit a snag but I am not giving up on it. Read my latest instalment. I took pity on an original iPhone a few months ago and have been fixing it up ever since. I repaired the broken power button [...]

[...] goodbye to this beat up beast, but it’s not all bad news. After months of fixing up an original iPhone 16GB model and coming up against a number of problems, a final attempt to get it [...]

[...] I love the original iPhone – but it’s lack of 3G mobile speed can be a big problem when out and about – but there is a [...]

We try to avoid calling any Mac a Road Apple while it’s in production, so we conducted our post mortem after the Cube was “put on ice”. Like [...]

The Yikes! Power Mac G4 is essentially a Blue & White Power Mac G3 with a better CPU and no ADB port. If the Blue & White G3 is a Best Buy, [...]

[...] It’s debatable whether the Mac IIsi is really a Second Class Mac. The IIsi was a bit of an odd duck. On the one hand, it was the only Mac II to ship without [...]

When it was introduced in January 2005, the G4 Mac mini was the smallest desktop computer on the market – and the least expensive Mac Apple had ever [...]

[...] The power supply in my Power Mac G5 fried itself. What G5 Power Macs can I use for a donor power supply? Truth be told, this is my [...]

[...] ? Well, I’d forgotten about them until I received this monstrosity with a recently acquired Power Mac G5. The keyboard had a layer of dust and lots of wear marks […] [...]

[...] When Apple introduced the Power Mac G5 in June 2003, it made a big deal of the G5 being a 64-bit CPU. It even mentioned that on the [...]

[...] I’ve been using Classic Mode on G4 Power Macs for years, but now I have a 2.3 GHz Power Mac G5 with dual processors. It can’t boot Mac OS 9 natively, but it can run Classic Mode. How fast [...]

Road Apples. That’s our category for the worst products Apple ever made. Products such as the Apple III and the Performa 5200 that just had to many [...]

In the history of mouse design, none have earned more scorn than the round USB mouse that Apple shipped with early iMacs and Power Macs with USB. Fro [...]

[...] less than brilliant departures from the norm. We’ve already named Apple’s round USB mouse a Road Apple. This time we turn our attention to the USB keyboard introduced with the iMac. Before Apple [...]

[...] We try to avoid calling any Mac a Road Apple while it’s in production, so we conducted our post mortem after the Cube was “put on ice”. Like [...]

This is the first in a series of articles showing how Adam Rosen uses four vintage Macs to read, recover, convert, transfer, and return files to his c [...]

This is the second in a series of articles showing how Adam Rosen uses four vintage Macs to read, recover, convert, transfer, and return files to his [...]

This is the third in a series of articles showing how Adam Rosen uses four vintage Macs to read, recover, convert, transfer, and return files to his c [...]

This is the fourth in a series of articles showing how Adam Rosen uses four vintage Macs to read, recover, convert, transfer, and return files to his [...]

[...] This is the first in a series of articles showing how Adam Rosen uses four vintage Macs to read, recover, convert, transfer, and return files to his clients. Today’s installment [...]

[...] This is the second in a series of articles showing how Adam Rosen uses four vintage Macs to read, recover, convert, transfer, and return files to his clients. Today we look at how he [...]

[...] This is the third in a series of articles showing how Adam Rosen uses four vintage Macs to read, recover, convert, transfer, and return files to his clients. Today he looks at his  [...]

[...] This is the fourth in a series of articles showing how Adam Rosen uses four vintage Macs to read, recover, convert, transfer, and return files to his clients. Today he shares how he [...]

[...] Low End Mac (LEM) began in April 1997 as a way for me to learn Web design and to help Mac users get the most out of their aging Apple gear. There weren’t many online resources yet, and we grew [...]

[...] video its default instead of Adobe Flash, which is still be supported. What does this mean for Mac users? HTML5 video doesn’t require additional software, which immediately sets it apart from Flash [...]

[...] the G5 being a 64-bit CPU. It even mentioned that on the box. But what does that mean to Mac users? At first, not much. Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, which was current at that time, has almost no [...]