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I built a PTP clock, and now I'm not sure what time it is
I built a PTP clock, and now I'm not sure what time it is YouTube video by Jeff Geerling

A man with a watch knows what time it is.

A man with two watches is never sure.

I built a PTP clock, and now I'm not sure what time it is.

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All the A-Series Apple SOCs, explained - Part 1 - Low End Mac Before Apple ever had their own custom in-house silicon with the debut of the A4 chip on the iPhone 4, there were Samsung chips. The first few iOS devices relied on these early chips, while every devi...

A brand new full-length article! Be sure to stick around for part 2, as this only covers up to the iPhone 7.

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Apple A5X Chip Specs - Low End Mac This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon “A5X” SOC. Name: Apple A5X MFG: Samsung Released: March 16th, 2012 Codename:APL5498 Part Number:S5L8945 Fabrication Process: 45-Nanomet...

Now updating the iOS/iDevice chip section. Some more articles coming soon - but I'll spare everyone the flurry of posts which would come with updating A6 thru A17 Pro.

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Apple A5 Chip Specs - Low End Mac This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon “A5” series of chips. There are three different variations in existence. Name: Apple A5 MFG: Samsung Released: March 11th, 2011 Codenam...

New for 2.27.2026

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Apple A18 Pro Specs - Low End Mac This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon “A18 Pro” chip.   Name: “Apple A18 Pro” MFG: TSMC Released: September 9th, 2024 Codename: APL1V07 Part Number: T8140 Fabrication Proces...

Back from a two-week break! Low End Mac has a new Tech Spec article.

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Every now and again, a LaBouche cover of Smile - Butterfly comes on in my head.

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In the process of trying to find out which site plugin went rogue and made it say "This site has experienced a critical error". That plugin was lucky I was preoccupied! 😅

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Download Download PowerFox Browser for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

They just updated PowerFox to also have a Mac OS X 10.5 Intel version, also.

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The different types of SSDs in your computer - Low End Mac Whether you’re dropping an OWC Mercury Accelsior AHCI into an old Mac Pro, are replacing a 2.5″ SATA HDD with an SSD, or deal with mostly any Mac made after 2012, Solid State Drives have become the pr...

SSDs are common in computers these days, and today Low End Mac covers the different types you may find in your computer.

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A photo of the top of a G5 powermac, a silvery aluminium mac tower with a front grille of holes for air flow. It still has asset tags on it from Microsoft and Country Life Magazine, in 2004.

A photo of the top of a G5 powermac, a silvery aluminium mac tower with a front grille of holes for air flow. It still has asset tags on it from Microsoft and Country Life Magazine, in 2004.

Next up - cleaning one of the G5s.

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In an Alternate Universe: Apple unveils the 2006 Mac Studio - Low End Mac Imagine this: an alternate earth, with alternate economics, influences, design teams, and whatnot. In this alternate universe, Apple unveiled the Mac Studio in 2006, alongside the first generation of ...

A throwback to April 2025 😁

(Fixed the thumbnail)

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Just wait to buy a new Mac - Low End Mac I must respectfully disagree with the new focus of Low End, er, make that High End Mac. Simply replacing your old Mac every two years, or three at most, isn’t the whole solution to Apple’s financial c...

Why ever buy a new Mac when you can always wait? Here at High End Mac, this is how you do it.

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What are some of the common image file formats? - Low End Mac Everyday when you see any sort of graphic in a GUI (graphical user interface), or in any printed media such as a billboard, poster, etc; they relate to different image file formats. Each format was cr...

Here's a new full-length article for today! Taking a look at the different image file formats we run into on our Apple gear...

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Project rewind: Fixing up an Original Titanium PowerBook G4 - Low End Mac Back in Late 2016, I had the fortune of finding a cheap ~$30 1st-Generation Titanium PowerBook G4 400 MHz, without too many scratches. It reminded me of the 1 GHz one I had way back in 2011, looked li...

New article! A brief, visual project rewind to when I fixed up my Titanium PowerBook G4.

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A disassembled 16-inch M5 Max MacBook Pro with no NAND packages on the main board and two of the battery cells replaced with 1.8" iPod hard drives.

A disassembled 16-inch M5 Max MacBook Pro with no NAND packages on the main board and two of the battery cells replaced with 1.8" iPod hard drives.

Due to rising NAND prices, Apple takes inspiration from the original MacBook Air and ships the M5 generation of MacBooks with iPod hard drives instead of SSDs. Despite the slower speeds, they earned improved iFixit scores due to the better repairability.

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Get the Abstract themed LEM wallpaper for February 2026 - Low End Mac While I haven’t posted as frequently about Low End Mac wallpapers, I stumbled into an idea which I ended up turning into a wallpaper. It’s always fun to play in Photoshop, share creations with others,...

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Now accepting donations on Ko-Fi - Low End Mac Hey everyone, Thank you all for continuing to visit our website, and being a better part of our community. We’ve always been a community-oriented website, and at the end of the day, we are volunteers ...

Got it setup! 😀

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Finally, a properly modern browser for PowerPC Macs - Low End Mac If a brand-new browser with TLS 1.3, WebGL, an up-to-date Javascript engine, NPAPI plugins support, and other modern features for PowerPC Macs with Leopard was on your bingo card for 2026.. here it is...

A new PowerPC Mac App highlight! Taking a focus on that brand new PowerPC browser.

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PowerFox Web Browser - A brand new browser for PowerPC (Beta) Power Macintosh, meet PowerFox Hello all, I'm very happy to announce the beta release of PowerFox Browser for the PowerPC architecture. PowerFox is not a derivative of TenFourFox. Rather, it is a ...

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PowerFox 26.2.1 for PowerPC Beta comes with 2026 SSL certs and looks very promising, considering I was able to login without issue, browsing many websites with their modern UI (including Apple)!

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Why charging overnight doesn't ruin the battery anymore - Low End Mac There is a longstanding tech myth that’s been around for a while – that charging your devices overnight ruins the battery. While there is a grain of truth in this as it stems from the days of Nickel-C...

New article! On a similar vibe to yesterday's topic.

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A few more because of course this is going to be the cover design of all my work notebooks from now until I'm over this phase.

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Why a faster processor doesn’t always mean a faster Mac - Low End Mac In any Mac and many devices, the CPU is just one part of an interconnected system, whether you’re on a Power Macintosh 9600 with a 300 Mhz 604e, a M4 MacBook Air, a iMac Pro, or use an iPhone 17. Most...

Brand-new full-length article!

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Why does it look like it could be radioactive?

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Why does this look like it could be radioactive

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Tech Specs Index - Horizontal View - Low End Mac 68K Macs PowerPC Macs Intel Macs Apple Silicon Macs Desktops Portables iDevices CustoMacs Mac Pros Clones / Other Power Macs CPU / GPU Index PowerPC iMacs Newer iMacs PPC PowerBooks 68K PowerBooks iBo...

The new UI is being worked on, and the basic structure is almost done.

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Cleaned up this one in Photoshop CS4, really like how it came out!

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Introducing - "Horizontal view" for our website UI - Low End Mac Good morning everyone, As always, thank you for taking the time out of your day to stop by and read, and being a better part of our online community. As the website continues to grow and evolve into 2...

New site update today!

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Our FaceBook group surpasses 14K members - Low End Mac As of a few days ago, we reached 14K members in our FaceBook group – 7 months and 2 days after crossing over 13K members on June 26th last year. This is the most we’ve ever had in our group ever, and ...

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A Casio keyboard that has a bunch of real keys but the main section is a touchscreen with a keyboard shown on it

A Casio keyboard that has a bunch of real keys but the main section is a touchscreen with a keyboard shown on it

...but have you ever used a keyboard with a touchscreen with a keyboard on it?

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