Laptop Design For Disassembly Slashdot/ 2/21/11. Apple is headed in exactly the opposite direction on this issue.

WallStreet Was Great, but Pismo Is the King of Expandable 'Books Charles Moore, Low End Mac, 2/18/11. Charles certainly loves his Pismos, just like I still love my PowerBook 1400.

Business Is Booming Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect, 1/28/11. "America's leading corporations [Apple included] have found a way to thrive even if the American economy doesn't recover. This is very, very bad news." My 2008 Mac Pro was one of the last Macs still assembled in the USA (sadly, with parts made by Foxconn)

Mac Plus 25th anniversary: One of Apple's greatest computers Benj Edwards, MacWorld, 1/14/11. It's what the first Mac in 1984 should have been.

Apple Juicz charges your MacBook Air with solar power Jeff Porten, Macworld, 1/3/11. Gee, didn't I already do this with my PowerBook 1400 back in the day. It fit right into the cover. Worked fine.

Awesome Clocks Made From Turntables, Apple Computers, Bikes and More Jaymi Heimbuch, Tree Hugger, 12/29/10. Don't just throw that old Mac into the dumpster, turn it into art instead and save the planet! Sadly, this great idea will never become a mass movement. Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head don't much care about much of anything other than who will be on next season's Dancing with the Stars.

The true cost of your new Christmas laptop? Ask the eastern Congolese Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian, 12/12/10. "The minerals are dug by hand from remote mines, often by forced labour. Conditions are dangerous and accidents frequent. Many mines are directly controlled either by corrupt army commanders or armed rebel groups." Apple should do the right thing and support urban mining, the recycling of rare earths from used electronic devices.

Google Destroys 25 ChromeOS Laptops To Prove A Lame Point Jaymi Heimbuch, Tree Hugger 12/10/10. As someone who fixes old computer equipment to avoid having to throw usable kit into the dumpster, I have to ask... where is the brave new world of Google taking us? Right over a cliff, that's where.

Use an old Mac as a backup server Christopher Breen, MacWorld, 11/11/10. Even if old Macs can't run the latest version of OS X, many of them run PPC Linux just fine. Now, if Apple would just make Snow Leopard play nice with Linux file and SSH servers.

Bringing Back Pismo Charles Moore, Low End Mac, 11/4/10. "I'm not one to give up on a tool that still can do what I require of it just because it's got some age on it. I love old stuff." I do too.

SSD: Why the 2010 MacBook Air Is So Fast Dan Knight, Low End Mac, 10/27/10. Reminds me of an article Dan wrote a while back that suggested running a PowerBook 1400 from a CF memory card in a PCMCIA adapter instead of its hard drive. Mine has a 1GB card with plenty of room for Mac OS 9.1, virtual memory, all applications, and most file storage. Fast and quiet

iLife 11: Another Nail in the PowerPC Coffin Dan Bashur, Low End Mac, 10/21/10. iLife 11 may be the cat's meow, but that does't mean the software you still use productively on your PowerPC machine will, all of a sudden, stop working.

Speaking of cats, Tiger, which works on all G3, G4, and G5 Macs, is still the fastest version of OS X ever.