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iPhone Air review: 1 month later - Low End Mac It’s been a month since the launch of the iPhone Air, and I’ve been using it as my daily driver after replacing the iPhone 14 Pro. Now after a month in, I believe I can give a better reflection of my ...

New article! The Low End Mac iPhone Air review - 1 month later.

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Get the (revised) Low End Mac “thermal” Wallpaper - Low End Mac On September 10th 2025 I made an iPhone 17 launch-themed wallpaper to go along with our website, using the SF Pro Rounded font. This is a revised version using one of our chosen open-source fonts, Ope...

One more thing.. 😁

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Mockup screenshot showing Windows Vista's log on screen, stylized after Mac OS X Leopard.

Ditto, desktop. The Windows menu (Apple menu) can be seen open.

Desktop with Control Panel (System Preferences) and Contacts (Address Book) open.

Something's wrong with my Windows Vista install.

Site graphics, our new banner, and.. one more thing. - Low End Mac Good Morning Everyone, As Low End Mac continues to grow, we strive for it to still be useful and relevant even when contemporary computers look nothing like what they do in our website banner anymore....

A bit of an announcement, but also some acknowledgement. Moving forward, Low End Mac will be using open-source fonts in our design work only, to avoid any issues. I intend on looking back at past design work also.

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M5 MacBook Pro 14" Benchmarks - Low End Mac Recently a website called BeeBom posted some benchmarks which reflect what appears to be the new Late 2025 14-Inch M5 MacBook Pro. If there is any indication from this artificial “water pressure test”...

New article! M5 MacBook Pro benchmarks are out.

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Low End Mac contains 0% AI generated content. - Low End Mac According to a recent post by Ask Perplexity on X: “The internet as we knew it is dying. AI content went from ~5% in 2020 to 48% by May 2025. Projections say 90%+ by next year. Why? AI articles cost <...

New article! That post I saw sparked inspiration, and this way the message is on our website, too.

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Low End Mac is 0% AI content. I read everything before typing it out myself, make the graphics on my own in Photoshop CS4, and use search engines to find things. No article on Low End Mac was ever generated by AI, it is all human made content. 💪

macOS 26.0 Tahoe - Low End Mac On September 15th 2025, Apple released the final version of macOS intended to be able to run on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs – macOS Tahoe. This version of macOS makes some very up-front tweaks: ...

macOS Tahoe Developer Beta 3 is out, now reflected on the OS article.

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14-Inch M5 MacBook Pro (Late 2025) - Low End Mac With the new M5 chip quietly added to the entry-level 14-Inch MacBook Pro, it showed up alongside the M5 iPad Pro on Apple’s website, and the M5 Vision Pro. It comes as no surprise the chip has the gr...

New article!

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Intel CPUs in Macs - Index - Low End Mac These links provide a quick way to access CPU specs for Intel-specific chips used on Macs. Amber Lake-Y Arrandale (1st) Bloomfield Xeon Broadwell (4th) Cascade Lake Xeon Clarkdake (1st) Clovertown Xeo...

Low End Mac has the tech specs on mostly every Intel CPU ever used in a Mac. If you want to find out the exact details of ANY Intel chip in your Mac, you can visit here.

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Recent site changes and updates: Week of October 12th - Low End Mac In continuation of the site updates posted before, we will continue covering changes in the form of periodic posts whether they’re big or small. We want our readers to see the changes done to the site...

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Fixed it.

Time to clear your cache! The newer, cleaner site banner is here for Late 2025.

YouTube video by VCF Midwest Getting the most out of your PowerPC Macs! | VCFMW 20 (2025)

Many thanks to @mac84.bsky.social, @oldskool.org, VCF Midwest and anyone unfortunate enough to have been caught in the audience!

Got a PowerPC #Macintosh and no idea what to do with it? If so, watch this video!

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Mac App Highlights - Index - Low End Mac /Software Tech Specs > Mac App Highlights . Apple Silicon Add a set of Googly Eyes to your Menu Bar . Intel 32-Bit Intel Mac App Highlight: LAN SpeedTest . Maximize your Early Intel Mac with these App...

The page for all our Mac app highlights over the years.

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Remember that time we installed Windows 11 on a Sun UNIX workstation?

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Our Progress in 365 days - Low End Mac Hey everybody, Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this. Low End Mac has always been community-based since its creation in April 1997, helping others maximize the life of their Apple...

Good morning everyone,

It's been an honor and a privilege to be a part of Low End Mac as Senior Editor and Graphic Designer, sharing the knowledge and working on the website in a labor of love.

Here's how Low End Mac grew since Late 2024:

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PowerPC Mac App Highlight: Hourworld - WAY more than just timekeeping (Part 1) - Low End Mac Picture this: You can see an entire map of earth with all the time zones, where the sun is shining on earth now, clocks for many cities around the world, a moon calendar, sun calendar, and more, all w...

New article!

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Thank you for sharing! It’s now my new desktop wallpaper on the G5.

Anyone know a video editor? I need help! ytjobs.co/job/30336

(Sharing appreciated!)

Design is how it works, A new Apple commercial - Low End Mac Does anyone remember the smooth intro from the iPhone 17 launch on September 9th? You may come across a brand new Apple commercial strikingly much like the intro to the iPhone 17 launch stream, called...

New article! A very brief compare n' contrast of Apple's design since ~'01.

“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like… Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” —Steve Jobs, The New York Times, 2003.

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Maximizing the 24-Inch 2006 iMac into space.. and beyond! - Low End Mac Back in September 2023, a 24-Inch 2006 polycarbonate iMac ended up in my hands, and I’ve had ideas for years on what to do with this specific model – which mostly came to fruition with this project. F...

New article, revisiting an old project.

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Re-packaging 20-Inch 2006 iMac parts into a wooden box case - Low End Mac A while ago, I assembled a pile of 20-Inch 2006 iMac parts into a fully functioning Mac, albeit fixated to an L-shaped shelf contrivance. It worked for the time being, it’s been working pretty steadil...

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Decided to hook up the Cinema Display to the parts pile box iMac, feels much nicer to use like this.

YouTube video by Apple The Underdogs: BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) | Apple at Work

Now this was a really entertaining commercial/short! A 2025 edition of Mac vs PC.

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Steve Wozniak. He’s experienced, seen a lot of things first hand as well as over time, and has a good perspective.

Had absolutely no idea this even existed! Looks like a cool little app to have on your PowerPC Mac.. gonna have to spend some more time with it before writing a Mac App review.

Steve Jobs in His Own Words - Low End Mac When I first heard the news that Steve Jobs had died, it hurt. It hurt really bad, causing the kind of heartache that is usually reserved for the passing of close family members. Of course, I didn’t k...

Here's what Leaman Crews wrote on Low End Mac the day after Steve Jobs passed away, a writer at the time on LEM.

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Remembering Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011 - Low End Mac On October 5th 2011 around 3 PM pacific time, Steve Jobs passed away at his Palo Alto home at the age of 56. A founding member of Apple, a CEO who turned his company around, a human being whose vision...

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