Hardware Buyers Guide

Getting Around Navigating within the Hardware Guide Using Acrobat Reader couldn’t be easier, but if you haven’t already done so please examine the accompanying Get- ting Started and Help files on the CD. Within this interactive hardware guide, there are several options available. Whenever you see text that looks like this clicking on it will take you to the appropriate part of the guide. You can return to your place by clicking on the Go Back tool in the Reader icon bar at the top of the screen. On most pages you’ll see an arrow icon in a red box at the lower-right corner; clicking there will take you to the appropriate part of the products and pricing Directory at the end of the guide. Again, the Go Back tool will return you to your position. Finally, on the Contents screen clicking on any of the red- and-white section headings will take you to that section of the guide. Enjoy. Macworld Hardware Buyers’ Guide —> Macworld Macintosh Hardware Guide 1994 What to buy Where to buy How to buy smarter Welcome to Macworld Interactivene day, perhaps, all mag- electronic format other than ASCII text – which O azines and newspapers is no alternative at all. The same but more so may look, and arrive, a for graphics. little like this. Surely not Although Acrobat is not ideal, it is a good on CD, and certainly the “first technology”. At least it overcomes the delivery software will be ASCII limitation, allows the presentation of far in advance of what is colour graphics, and lets you search for rele- possible today. What you vant text. are reading now might be considered the elec- Already we know some of the future direc- tronic equivalent of a medieval manuscript – tions for Acrobat, which will include multime- little more than an indication of what is to dia abilities like QuickTime video and audio. come. But electronic publishing and distribu- At some time in the future, another version of tion is undoubtedly the future of publishing. this Hardware Guide may include audio-video This project is one that I’ve wanted Mac- interviews with industry leaders, video tutori- world to undertake for a long time, but the als on how to install memory upgrades, and technology simply wasn’t available. Without a interactive shopping. For now, though, I hope product like Adobe Acrobat, there was no uni- you find this an enjoyable and useful experi- versal way of delivering the printed word in ment. – Peter Worlock Macworld Hardware Buyers’ Guide …