Low End Mac News Updates

As of this moment majority of our tech specs are restored for our readers. Site updates have been posted on the BlueSky account and FaceBook so this may be redundant to those in those groups. To those who visit our site and poke around, you might be seeing bits and… Read more »

It’s been almost 2 months since I picked up an M4 MacBook Air 15″ on the day of it’s availability, having replaced the M1 Pro MacBook Pro 16″ as my day-to-day mobile workstation away from the desk. Once I realized I wasn’t locked-into retina mode, it was a game-changer. On… Read more »

Everyone, thank you for your continued patience as this matter is being sorted out. There will be 2 more milestone updates on this specific topic after this post to keep our readers informed of the progress being made. 2 Days ago, a website plugin meant to clear out any participant… Read more »

A site plugin that was meant to delete bot accounts ended up wiping out half the articles instead. Many pages will lead to a missing link right now, however much of the site is still functioning. Will let you know when it’s businesss as usual. Read more »

Macs tend to be very reliable and make great servers, and now that Apple is phasing out OS X Server, we need to look at alternatives. For serving websites and web development, Macs can run Apache web server, MySQL database engine, along with PHP, Perl, and Python – thus the… Read more »

The eMac G4 was the last of any gumdrop-shaped Macs with a CRT display, feeling like a direct spiritual successor to the iMac G3 versus the iMac G4 taking on a wholly new form factor. These days finding an eMac feels more challenging than say 10-15 years ago, when those… Read more »

Aqua was a UI that dominated much of macOS’s existence from 2000 – 2013, losing bits and chunks of it’s style along the way while morphing into multiple different versions that longtime Mac users have grown to love. The very last version of Aqua to contain any elements of the… Read more »

While we recently talked about adding Intel CPUs to our tech spec index, there have also been a number of ongoing changes and updates which haven’t been covered before, so they will be covered here for our readers. This article reflects the updates to the site within the past week,… Read more »

In continuation of the expansion of the Tech Spec article and information index on Low End Mac, all Intel CPUs presumably ever shipped with a Mac have now been added to the tech spec index! This effort involved the creation of over 220 new articles and an unusually long index… Read more »

This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M1 chip.   Name: M1 Chip Released: November 17th, 2020 Codename: APL1102 Part Number: T8103 Fabrication Process: TSMC’s 5-Nanometer Transistor Count: 16-Billion CPU ISA: ARMv8.5-A . . Memory Bus Width: 128-Bit Total channels: 2 Bit per channel: 64-Bit Memory… Read more »