{"id":34077,"date":"2022-12-11T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macradio.net\/blog\/?p=34077"},"modified":"2022-12-11T13:07:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T20:07:40","slug":"newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2022\/12\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #1037 \u2014 A Vintage Mac Tale Vol. 2 \u2014 The Case of the Missing 300GB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It happened during what seemed like many years ago. I was knee deep in the original Mac OS platform, and not only upgraded the OS as soon as it came available, but I would buy new gear every year or two. For a time, before my son left home to seek his fortune, I had two desktop Macs, plus a notebook, known then as the PowerBook.<\/p>\n<p>While not the cheapest approach by a long shot, it seemed the reasoned approach for my work situation. Each model upgrade was fairly substantial in the scheme of things, and I got paid to write articles and books about technology. So having the newest Mac was an important part of my work.<\/p>\n<p>At least then.<\/p>\n<p>When Apple switched to Intel CPUs in 2006, there were vast improvements in performance for the first few years. Then, as Intel confronted more and more difficulties boosting number crunching, not so much. It\u2019s one reason among many for ditching Intel and adopting Apple Silicon.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2022\/12\/newsletter-issue-1037\/#300GB\"><strong>Continue Reading\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happened during what seemed like many years ago. I was knee deep in the original Mac OS platform, and not only upgraded the OS as soon as it came available, but I would buy new gear every year or two. For a time, before my son left home to seek his fortune, I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[202,17085,1045,16709,989,15637,71,13365,3990],"class_list":["post-34077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-apple","tag-apple-silicon","tag-intel","tag-intel-cpu","tag-mac-os","tag-macos","tag-macs","tag-os","tag-powerbook"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Newsletter Issue #1037 \u2014 A Vintage Mac Tale Vol. 2 \u2014 The Case of the Missing 300GB - Gene Steinberg&#039;s Tech Night Owl<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2022\/12\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Newsletter Issue #1037 \u2014 A Vintage Mac Tale Vol. 2 \u2014 The Case of the Missing 300GB - Gene Steinberg&#039;s Tech Night Owl\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It happened during what seemed like many years ago. I was knee deep in the original Mac OS platform, and not only upgraded the OS as soon as it came available, but I would buy new gear every year or two. For a time, before my son left home to seek his fortune, I had [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2022\/12\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gene Steinberg&#039;s Tech Night Owl\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-11T07:00:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-11T20:07:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gene Steinberg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@technightowl\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@technightowl\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Gene Steinberg\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/12\\\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/12\\\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Gene Steinberg\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0fe9df12a34fed15d45e05db1c205e2a\"},\"headline\":\"Newsletter Issue #1037 \u2014 A Vintage Mac Tale Vol. 2 \u2014 The Case of the Missing 300GB\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-11T07:00:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-11T20:07:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/12\\\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":181,\"commentCount\":0,\"keywords\":[\"Apple\",\"Apple Silicon\",\"Intel\",\"Intel CPU\",\"Mac Os\",\"macOS\",\"Macs\",\"OS\",\"Powerbook\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/12\\\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/12\\\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/12\\\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\\\/\",\"name\":\"Newsletter Issue #1037 \u2014 A Vintage Mac Tale Vol. 2 \u2014 The Case of the Missing 300GB - Gene Steinberg&#039;s Tech Night Owl\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-11T07:00:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-11T20:07:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0fe9df12a34fed15d45e05db1c205e2a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/12\\\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/12\\\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/12\\\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Newsletter Issue #1037 \u2014 A Vintage Mac Tale Vol. 2 \u2014 The Case of the Missing 300GB\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Gene Steinberg&#039;s Mac Radio Tech Blog\",\"description\":\"Tech Commentaries From Best-Selllng Author Gene Steinberg\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0fe9df12a34fed15d45e05db1c205e2a\",\"name\":\"Gene Steinberg\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/24fa8d75c69c3030b03da85850df6d736f514f8393b61cc4ac158168b192df2e?s=96&r=r\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/24fa8d75c69c3030b03da85850df6d736f514f8393b61cc4ac158168b192df2e?s=96&r=r\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/24fa8d75c69c3030b03da85850df6d736f514f8393b61cc4ac158168b192df2e?s=96&r=r\",\"caption\":\"Gene Steinberg\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.technightowl.live\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Newsletter Issue #1037 \u2014 A Vintage Mac Tale Vol. 2 \u2014 The Case of the Missing 300GB - Gene Steinberg&#039;s Tech Night Owl","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2022\/12\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Newsletter Issue #1037 \u2014 A Vintage Mac Tale Vol. 2 \u2014 The Case of the Missing 300GB - Gene Steinberg&#039;s Tech Night Owl","og_description":"It happened during what seemed like many years ago. I was knee deep in the original Mac OS platform, and not only upgraded the OS as soon as it came available, but I would buy new gear every year or two. For a time, before my son left home to seek his fortune, I had [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2022\/12\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\/","og_site_name":"Gene Steinberg&#039;s Tech Night Owl","article_published_time":"2022-12-11T07:00:33+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-12-11T20:07:40+00:00","author":"Gene Steinberg","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@technightowl","twitter_site":"@technightowl","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Gene Steinberg","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2022\/12\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2022\/12\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\/"},"author":{"name":"Gene Steinberg","@id":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/0fe9df12a34fed15d45e05db1c205e2a"},"headline":"Newsletter Issue #1037 \u2014 A Vintage Mac Tale Vol. 2 \u2014 The Case of the Missing 300GB","datePublished":"2022-12-11T07:00:33+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-11T20:07:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2022\/12\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\/"},"wordCount":181,"commentCount":0,"keywords":["Apple","Apple Silicon","Intel","Intel CPU","Mac Os","macOS","Macs","OS","Powerbook"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2022\/12\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2022\/12\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\/","url":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2022\/12\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\/","name":"Newsletter Issue #1037 \u2014 A Vintage Mac Tale Vol. 2 \u2014 The Case of the Missing 300GB - Gene Steinberg&#039;s Tech Night Owl","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2022-12-11T07:00:33+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-11T20:07:40+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/0fe9df12a34fed15d45e05db1c205e2a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2022\/12\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2022\/12\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2022\/12\/newsletter-issue-1037-a-vintage-mac-tale-vol-2-the-case-of-the-missing-300gb\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Newsletter Issue #1037 \u2014 A Vintage Mac Tale Vol. 2 \u2014 The Case of the Missing 300GB"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/","name":"Gene Steinberg&#039;s Mac Radio Tech Blog","description":"Tech Commentaries From Best-Selllng Author Gene Steinberg","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/0fe9df12a34fed15d45e05db1c205e2a","name":"Gene Steinberg","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/24fa8d75c69c3030b03da85850df6d736f514f8393b61cc4ac158168b192df2e?s=96&r=r","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/24fa8d75c69c3030b03da85850df6d736f514f8393b61cc4ac158168b192df2e?s=96&r=r","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/24fa8d75c69c3030b03da85850df6d736f514f8393b61cc4ac158168b192df2e?s=96&r=r","caption":"Gene Steinberg"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.technightowl.live"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}