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More iOS Devices Sold Than All Macs Ever, Half of Kindle Fire Owners Want an iPad 3, and More, iOS News Review

Also iPad owner demographics, Dropbox-enabled text editor, Tubi iPhone sound amplifier, and more.

February 27 in LEM history

98: End of Newton - 01: Apple's Internet strategy - 02: Professional elitism and gatekeeping - 03: Fighting spam with Bayesian filtering - Creating an RSS news feed - Recovering from the FireWire hot swap fiasco - 04: What gets bigger as it gets smaller? The hard drive - 07: Lisa emulator - 08: Mac again - Apple: Better by design - 2008 MacBook Pro value equation

Mountain Lion Obsoletes the MacBook I Just Bought, John Hatchett, Recycled Computing

John Hatchett just got his first Intel Mac, a preowned MacBook, in December, and now it looks like it won't be able to run OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

How to Get Mountain Lion on Unsupported Macs, Messages Beta Available for OS X Lion, and More, Mac News Review

Also the utility of Dropbox, Gatekeeper in OS X 10.8 is cause for worry, tools needed to work on a Mac mini, and more.

Ivy Bridge Delay Could Postpone New MacBooks, Apple Rumored to Be Working on ARM Laptop, and More, The 'Book Review

Also how to use an external MacBook Air SuperDrive with most Macs, Apple considered AMD for 2011 MacBook Air, single-platter 7200 rpm 500 GB drive from Hitachi, and more.

Software Compatibility: It All Depends, Dan Knight, Mac Musings

From the early days of the Mac to the present, software dependencies move us forward while leaving older Macs behind.