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OS X Dooms Apple

I think we have enough time now with Mac OS X Public Beta to reach a painful conclusion: The transition will not work, at least not well enough to sustain the Apple we know. I believe that’s true, even...

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A Place for the Classic Mac OS in the Age of Snow Leopard

Mac OS X is a brilliant operating system. But what about the “Classic” Mac OS in the Age of Snow Leopard? In it’s early versions, OS X was quite slow and full of bugs. Version 10.3 Panther was the...

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How Fast Is Classic Mode on a Power Mac G5?

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 is it? One...

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No Need to Worry about Apple’s Switch to Intel

2005 – Switching the Macintosh platform to Intel x86 processor architecture is not a panacea, but Apple’s adoption of Intel processors should not be a major source of headaches – except for the...

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How Apple’s Intel Transition Hurts Elementary Education

2006 – Here I am, writing another article about PowerPC processors vs. Intel processors (my previous one was PowerPC vs. Intel: Has Apple Been Lying to Us?) – but this article touches on another...

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Power Mac G5: The Economical Alternative to a Mac Pro

2012 – Last week I went to a local Mac store so I could have a look at the latest models. Even though I am pretty much stuck on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (and happy with it), I closely watch recent...

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OS X 10.4 Tiger Is Still Very Useful

Getting an old (2002) 700 MHz iMac G4 with just 512 MB of memory up and running reminded me of what a nice – and still useful – operating system Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is, especially on that old Apple...

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