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About Accelerate Your Mac!
The Accelerate Your Mac! website is provided as a free public service to the Macintosh community. I hope you find it useful and appreciate any comments you may have.
The site has grown from single CPU card review in April 1997, to one of the top 10 Mac sites on the web (rated the #1 mac consumer resource by sitelink), providing some of the most detailed reviews of Systems, CPU upgrades, Graphics cards, Storage (IDE/SCSI/Raid/Firewire) and L2 Cache on the Net or in print. The most detailed reviews (IMHO) of Mac upgrades and systems anywhere on the web or print, illustrated tutorials, searchable databases of owner ratings/reports, discussion forums and unique daily news are also provided. Reader feedback has been overwhelming and their contributions are priceless. In the summer of 1998, the site readers (led by Randy Mita and Brad Lau) had a secret fund drive and donated a brand new Powerbook G3. I don't think there has ever been anything like this anywhere else, and I will never forget it.
The site now receives over 6 million hits a month (as of 1998, and growing) and has won many awards. For a summary of our first year, read the 1997 Year in Review article - but the best is yet to come! The site has grown in features and size by more than 10 times since then, with no end in sight.
xlr8yourmac.com has provided free tech support to hundreds of thousands of Mac users (over 1 million page views per month) with a readership that ranges from students, home users, VARs, major news networks, developers/industry professionals and movie studios. I spend about four to six hours in email a day assisting viewers in getting the most from their Macintosh. I've recently improved the Frequently Asked Questions and CPU Upgrade Owner's ratings database (growing daily, searchable by mac model/upgrade brand), Mac Drive Compatibility Database (seach for Hard drive/DVD/CDRW/Tape/Removable drives), Mac game/video Card Performance Database and topics pages on Systems reviews/articles, SCSI drives/controllers, IDE drives/controllers, Firewire controller/drives reviews, Video/Graphics Card/DVD decoder topics pages and more to further assist readers with detailed reviews, how-to guides, technical support and upgrade decisions.

World's Greatest Volunteers:
I also want to thank those that have helped this website, especially Thad Brown (Audio Column) and all the Men in Mac support volunteers (including Heather Boyle who has amazed me with her range of knowledge) as well as the many thousands of readers that contribute reviews, tips and tricks. I stay so busy I often forget to thank them for their contributions and support. They truly demonstrate the motto of this site

Make a Difference: Be the Difference

About Me:
I've been a computer addict since 1978 and a Mac fanatic since 1984. Yes, I bought one of the first original 128k Mac models and did my own 512KB memory upgrade (voiding the warranty of course and the local apple dealer refused to allow me the tradeup offer when the MacPlus was intro'd). I've also owned PC, Amiga and Next computers at various times. I've built, maintained and supported PCs and Macs since they were first introduced and still keep a home-brew PC around.
I've always been a hardware and software "tweaker" even as a child the first thing I did was take my toys apart and see how to make them better or faster. My Mac tweaking started with one of the first CPU upgrades ever offered - the Radius 68020 CPU card and Full Page Display for the Mac SE. My building PCs days started when Doom 1 was released on floppy (i.e. back when a 386 was the high end).
Make sure you check out the table of contents while you're here and thanks for stopping by.
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The Source for Mac Performance News and Reviews
About Accelerate Your Mac!
The Accelerate Your Mac! website is provided as a free public service to the Macintosh community. I hope you find it useful and appreciate any comments you may have. The site has grown from single CPU card review in April 1997, to one of the top 10 Mac sites on the web (rated the #1 mac consumer resource by sitelink), providing some of the most detailed reviews of Systems, CPU upgrades, Graphics cards, Storage (IDE/SCSI/Raid/Firewire) and L2 Cache on the Net or in print. The most detailed reviews (IMHO) of Mac upgrades and systems anywhere on the web or print, illustrated tutorials, searchable databases of owner ratings/reports, discussion forums and unique daily news are also provided. Reader feedback has been overwhelming and their contributions are priceless. In the summer of 1998, the site readers (led by Randy Mita and Brad Lau) had a secret fund drive and donated a brand new Powerbook G3. I don't think there has ever been anything like this anywhere else, and I will never forget it. The site now receives over 6 million hits a month (as of 1998, and growing) and has won many awards. For a summary of our first year, read the 1997 Year in Review article - but the best is yet to come! The site has grown in features and size by more than 10 times since then, with no end in sight. xlr8yourmac.com has provided free tech support to hundreds of thousands of Mac users (over 1 million page views per month) with a readership that ranges from students, home users, VARs, major news networks, developers/industry professionals and movie studios. I spend about four to six hours in email a day assisting viewers in getting the most from their Macintosh. I've recently improved the Frequently Asked Questions and CPU Upgrade Owner's ratings database (growing daily, searchable by mac model/upgrade brand), Mac Drive Compatibility Database (seach for Hard drive/DVD/CDRW/Tape/Removable drives), Mac game/video Card Performance Database and topics pages on Systems reviews/articles, SCSI drives/controllers, IDE drives/controllers, Firewire controller/drives reviews, Video/Graphics Card/DVD decoder topics pages and more to further assist readers with detailed reviews, how-to guides, technical support and upgrade decisions. World's Greatest Volunteers: I also want to thank those that have helped this website, especially Thad Brown (Audio Column) and all the Men in Mac support volunteers (including Heather Boyle who has amazed me with her range of knowledge) as well as the many thousands of readers that contribute reviews, tips and tricks. I stay so busy I often forget to thank them for their contributions and support. They truly demonstrate the motto of this site Make a Difference: Be the Difference
About Me:
I've been a computer addict since 1978 and a Mac fanatic since 1984. Yes, I bought one of the first original 128k Mac models and did my own 512KB memory upgrade (voiding the warranty of course and the local apple dealer refused to allow me the tradeup offer when the MacPlus was intro'd). I've also owned PC, Amiga and Next computers at various times. I've built, maintained and supported PCs and Macs since they were first introduced and still keep a home-brew PC around. I've always been a hardware and software "tweaker" even as a child the first thing I did was take my toys apart and see how to make them better or faster. My Mac tweaking started with one of the first CPU upgrades ever offered - the Radius 68020 CPU card and Full Page Display for the Mac SE. My building PCs days started when Doom 1 was released on floppy (i.e. back when a 386 was the high end). Make sure you check out the table of contents while you're here and thanks for stopping by.

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Users of this web site must read and are bound by the terms & conditions of use.