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Appendix A - Macintosh LINKS

PURPOSE: This is not intended to be a comprehensive Macintosh links page. However, I have included what I consider to be a few key Macintosh-oriented links. (If you open these links, these sites will contain links to most other Macintosh sites.)

NOTE: You may find more up-to-date links on the Columbia Apple Pi and Pennsylvania Apples links pages (links to these groups are on Page 1 in the User Group descriptions).

This Appendix A Links Page consists of the following 3 sections:

Section A.1 - Mac Advocate (below)

Section A.2 - Technical Resources And Evaluation (below)

Section A.3 - Purchasing (below)

Section A.1 Mac Advocate

Note: This grouping into 3 sections of "advocate/technical/purchasing" is only approximate. A lot of these links overlap into all 3 categories.

Marrathon.com -- www.marrathon.com -- Apple's Mid-Atlantic K-12 Systems Engineer Dave Marra's "Why Macintosh" links and links to technical resources
Ammunition Headquarters-Macintosh News and Reports -- http://macrules.com/users/ammo/
Apple - AppleMasters --www.apple.com/applemasters/
Mac EvangeList -- www.evangelist.macaddict.com -- Guy Kawasaki's Internet-based mailing list of positive-Apple and anti-Apple news stories.

Section A.2 Technical Resources, Evaluation, & Information

Apple Product Archives -- http://product.info.apple.com/productinfo/datasheets/pbmatrix.html -- this shows information on some of the previous Powerbooks.
Apple's Orchard -- www.enigmaworks.com/orchard/ -- Apple-related news
Low End Macintosh -- http://lowendmac.com/ -- All kinds of information about older Macs, plus current new articles.
Mac Addict -- www.macaddict.com
MacFixit -- www.macfixit.com -- technical information
MacOpinion -- www.macopinion.com -- Mac commentary
Macworld Magazine Online -- www.macworld.com -- you can search this site for product reviews that have appeared in Macworld magazine.
Macworld Magazine - you can look in back of the actual magazine (the hard copy actual magazine, not the internet version) for used, refurbished, discontinued, closeout, and other good deals on Macintosh products.
Ziff Davis Magazines -- www.zdnet.com -- you can search this site for product reviews that have appeared in MacUser (now combined with Macworld), MacWeek, and also PC-oriented magazines for printers and other peripherals that work with both Macs and PCs.

Section A.3 Purchasing

Apple Refurbished Products -- www.apple.com -- look for the link to the Apple Store.
Deal-Mac -- www.deal-mac.com -- tracks best deals for purchasing Macintosh products -- updated daily.

Note that their 'ad index' page -- www.deal-mac.com/adindex.phtml --has links to about six vendors that regularly offer good deals on refurbished Machintoshs.
O'Grady's Powerbook Page -- www.ogrady.com -- exclusively devoted to Powerbooks -- topics on purchasing, rumors about new models, and owner-feedback, etc.
The PowerBook Source -- www.thememorysource.com -- more PowerBook related articles.
Ziff Davis Netbuyer Marketplace Product Search Page -- marketplace.netbuyer.com/cgi-bin/utility -- you can search for a particular product, and the search engine on this page will generate a list of vendors and prices.
Note you get only vendors that are part of the this netbuyer system, not all vendors. You will find some of the vendors listed by Deal-Mac, but not all other them.

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