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A deceptive minimalism belies this machine’s utility and value. And as any product designer worth his or her salt knows, there’s an elegance in that simplicity. With the Power Mac 5200/75 LC, Apple has again figured out how to package a full-featured computer in the simplest possible shape. This computer is such a clear reflection of a computer user’s desires that it makes me smile. It reminds me of the way I felt the first time IT saw a PowerBook. In fact, your first glance at the Power Mac 5200 might fool you into think- i ig only part of a system. microphone and speak- ers, and its tilt-and-swivel base, the 5200 could easily be mistaken for one of the new multimedia monitors. But take a closer look and you'll notice the CD- ROM and floppy disk drive openings. And the story doesn’t stop there. Inside the Power Mac 5200 you will find a gen- eral-purpose Processor Direct Slot, plus an expansion slot for either a modem or an Ethernet card, and another slot for a TV tuner. Now admittedly, the Power Mac 5200 is about twice the size and, at 47 pounds, almost three times the weight of a Mac Classic, but that’s only to be expected. Its built-in multimedia capabil- ities demand a bigger monitor (15 inches, STATE OF THE MAC BY ADRIAN MELLO Heir to the Mac Classic A new model shows how, at Apple, design is the difference whereas the Classic’s was only 9), a big- ger hard drive (the 5200 will come stan- dard with a 500MB internal drive), and a double-speed CD-ROM drive. One mark of a truly elegant solution is that from the moment it comes into being, it seems so obvious and natural that you have trouble fathoming why no one came up with it earlier. The Power Mac 5200/75 LC fits that description. Its all-in-one predecessors—which include the Power Mac Performa 520, 550, 575, and now, the 580—all offer good func- tionality and value, but they lack the 5200’s design integrity. In comparison, their efforts to mimic the appearance of a conventional three-piece desktop com- puter system—composed of monitor, CPU cabinet, and keyboard—just made them look clumsy. Design Ideals The Power Mac 5200 is an appealing computer—a small but significant step toward addressing the increasingly com- plex collection of user requirements—but its arrival on the scene can hardly be con- sidered an earthshaking event. It does, however, make an important statement about Apple Computer’s enlightened product philosophy. Long the computer industry’s leader in intelligent product design and packag- ing, Apple owes much of its remarkable success to an ability to anticipate what customers want—even before anyone has had a chance to dream up a wish list. Competitive pressures have forced Apple to become more pragmatic about its business, and clearly Apple regards its firm commitment to exploring interesting new designs as a pragmatic decision. If the Power Mac 5200/75 LC doesn’t con- vince you, take another look at the new design concepts highlighted in our last issue (see “Inside Apple’s Design,” Mac- world, May 1995). Beyond Mechanical Machismo Traditionally, your dyed-in-the-wool computer enthusiasts and power users have been willing to defend arcane and clumsy approaches on the basis of raw computing capability alone. After all, computers are essentially all nuts and bolts anyway, right?—not much more than an aggregate of so many megahertz, mega- bytes, milliseconds, and dots per inch. For years, this wire-head reasoning permitted DOS users to look down their noses at the Mac’s superior graphi- cal interface—that is, until most of those users adopt- ed the clearly derivative Windows operating sys- tem. However grudgingly they may have learned their lesson, even the most recalcitrant naysayers now acknowledge that produc- tivity depends on usability at least as much as it depends on power. The Mac’s user interface is only the most obvious example of Apple’s design philosophy, however. Because of it, many people have failed to look beyond the appealing face, at the Mac’s deeper virtues. The ideal that computers should be adapted to people’s behavior, rather than the other way around, is evident throughout the Macintosh product line and has been for years—a fact that Apple has generally failed to market effectively. continues MACWORLD June 1995 19 STATE OF THE MAC Recently some competitors’ promotions suggest that they invented plug and play. But every Macintosh since the computer’s introduction over ten years ago has offered full plug-and-play capability. And unlike its competitors, Apple can proudly point to a tremendous degree of consis- tency. It has always been easier to attach the Mac to printers, networks, and other devices because Apple’s engineers not only made the connections work, but they also made a point of evaluating the user’s experience of assembling a Macintosh system. Furthermore, while other com- puter makers are only now figuring out how to assemble and market multimedia ready machines, Apple has long included features such as built-in sound, Quick- Time, and CD-ROM drives. As a result, the Mac has always been less confusing to use. In this generation of Macs, the Power Mac 5200/75 LC and its all-in-one sib- lings are pinnacles of design achievement, demonstrating that when you opt for How fast is Windows” on a Macintosh‘? OrangePC (Inte! DX4/100) OrangePC (Intel 486 DX2/66) OrangePC (Inte! 486 DX/33) IBM PC (Intel 486 DX/33) SoftWindows* (PPC 8100) IBM PC (AMD 386 SX/25) SoftPC* with Windows 3.0 rt yo Supr? new! 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The argument goes that lower-margin companies, unencumbered with research-and-development expendi- tures comparable to Apple’s, will can- nibalize Apple’s market by offering low- cost alternatives to the Mac. Undoubtedly, Apple will lose some sales on the basis of price alone. Competition from other platforms led Apple to price the Mac more aggressively over the past two years, but recent price cuts in the PC market have upset the equation again. Still, it’s unlikely that clones will offer a sufficiently large price advantage to offset the appeal of Apple’s superior prod- uct design evidenced by the Power Mac 5200/75 LC and PowerBooks. While some price-se customers will choose lowe: natives, I’m will- ing to bet that the majority of customers will still prefer Apple. Apple’s competitive outlook in its own market is good as the company con- tinues its leadership with innovative design and continues to integrate the kind of functionality that anticipates future customer applications rather than being satisfied with the status quo. A Postscript in Passi As Apple resurrects the spirit of the Clas- sic in the Power Mac 5200/75 LC and other new models, it has also quietly laid to rest that cute happy Mac that appears at start-up. From the very first Mac onward, this icon let you know that the shaped computer was special on the , too. But with the System 7.5.1 update that Apple released in mid-March, the happy Macis no more. Instead, a large version of the new Mac OS logo appears. It’s a small thing, yet it dramatically heralds the end of the era of the propri- etary Mac. Now competing as an open, licensed architecture, the Macintosh has a new, less endearing symbol to prove it. All of Apple’s statements, all of its concrete actions, didn’t have the same effect on me as the disappearance of that familiar happy face. The happy-Mac icon repre- sented the soul of the Macintosh, and that soul has been replaced. Apple’s changes in direction are unquestionably for the bet- ter—essential if Apple is to have a fight- ing chance of being a key player in the microcomputer business. But the change in symbolism is poignant nonetheless. The Mac is dead. 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Furthermore, with the street prices of the mainstream word processors exceeding $300, I think that FrameMaker, though more expensive still, is certainly worth consideration as an alternative. I’m writing a book, and I couldn’t live without FrameMaker! David Wagner Boulder, Colorado ‘Macworld has always been enthusiastic about FrameMaker (see Reviews, March 1994, for exam- ple). But since FrameMaker is a publishing package, and it costs $895, we felt it didn’t belong in a strict ly word processor-oriented article Ed. WAS APPALLED AT YOUR WRITER'S incomprehensible favoring of Word’s features, and denigration of WordPer- fect’s features, in your competitive evalu- ation of high-end word processors—that is, until the very end, when the reason became crystal clear. According to the capsule bio, writer Robert C. Eckhardt has a vested interest in Word as an author of books on how to use the monstrosity. Ignoring for a moment the inherent conflict-of-interest issues, this background suggests the writer has an unparalleled familiarity with the nuances (and interface) of Word, more so than with WordPerfect. One naturally tends to like what one is more familiar with. Your choice of a writer with such bias as author of this flawed article has pro- foundly shaken my confidence in Mac- world’s value as a source of objective, discriminating information. Warren A. Potas via the Internet Microsoft Corporation didn't pay Robert Eckhardt for his book—IDG Books Worldwide, a sister company to Macworld, did. And Word isn't Mr. Eckhardt's only program of expertise; in addition to writing the feature “Word Processing Powerhouses,” he reviewed both Nisus and WordPerfect for Macworld. As the capsule bio pointed out, he also wrote a book on FullWrite. Macworld stands by Mr. Eckhardt's credibility and integrity Ed. K “WORD PROCESSING POWER- houses” you declined to issue an Edi- tors’ Choice for Slow 68040 Macs and Slower. I disagree: the best choice for those is Microsoft Word 5.1. I was using Microsoft Word 5.0 and had planned to upgrade to 6.0, skipping 5.1. When I learned about 6.0’s “features” (for example, its Windows interface and - eliel 5 sluggish performance), I rushed out to get version 5.1. There are lots of mail-order houses that still have ample stock at excel- lent prices. If you have a slow 68040 or less (and even if you have a fast 68040 and don’t need the kitchen sink full of new features), I suggest you can’t go wrong with Word 5.1. Ed Bruckstein New York, New York FTER READING STEVEN LEVY'S complaints about Word 6.0 (The Iconoclast, March 1995), I honestly have to wonder if he wrote those Whiner-fam- ily skits on “Saturday Night Live” back in the late seventies. I have never heard a person make so many exaggerated com- plaints about a product. His main gripe seems to be that Word 6.0 is just too good for him. So what if Word is big? It has everything you could ever need in a word processor. If Levy doesn’t like all the space it takes up, why doesn’t he delete some of the wizards (does he really use the Recipe template?) or move the clip art to floppies? The tutorial is so basic, why not get rid of it? After doing these and other little tweaks, Word 6.0 takes up only about 11MB on my hard drive. And as far as the long wait at load-up time Levy moans about, why does it take only 30 seconds to load Word 6.0 on my machine (a lowly Performa 475)? I don’t think a SMHz difference in processor speed would add six and a half minutes to boot-up time. Also, yes, I completely agree that the Mac OS is far superior to Windows, but being a computer consultant at a medi- um-size university, I can assure Levy that having almost identical interfaces is much more of a blessing than a restriction. If users move from a Windows machine to a Mac, they don’t have to worry one bit about having to learn their way around a completely different interface. This is great in a university or office setting. If 1995 technologies are too big and continues MACWORLD June 1995 25 If you're tie-dye and they're black-tie— Let the DOSon Mac card from Reply tie your Mac in with their PCs Nowas a Mac user in a corporation with mixed DOS and Mac environments, you don’t have to feel like you're left out in the cold, Reply’s DOS on Mae card is designed with areal 486 or Pentium OverDrive processor to deliver performance equal to a dedicated PC. Plugging directly into the PDS slot of your Mac the DOS on Mac card provides direct access to all your Mac peripherals. Open, run and print DOS/Windows applica- tions, use DOS/Windows CD-ROMs, even copy and paste between Macintosh and Windows applications. 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Nisus Writer can generate both single- and multilevel indexes. The descriptions of Apple's TSOP and SOJ chips (PowerBook Notes, April 1995) were inadvertently reversed. m@ The FWB SledgeHammer2000- FMF RAID systems capacity and price per gigabyte are incorrectly listed in “The RAID Option,” April 1995. The correct capacity is 2.0GB, with a per-gigabyte price of $1180. The “unnamed company” that will provide support for Apple’s Mobile Mes- i m (In Brief, News, March "he National Dispatch Center, 619/654-9000. = The correct toll-free number for Motorola is 800/894-7353 (“New- ton with a Radio,” In Brief, News, April 1995). Two other drives deserved an Edi- tors’ Choice pick for RAID 0 in “The RAID Option” (April 1995). They are: Joule RAID Competitive pricing and fast performance from an experienced stor- ‘age specialist. Company: La Cie (503/ 520-9000). List price: $2999. DisKovery 8200W A surprising bargain for top performance if you need a high-capacity system. Company: Opti- ma Technology (714/476-0515). List price: $7790. complex for Levy, maybe he should just stick to MacWrite. It’s small and only takes 10 seconds to load on a Centris 610. William A. Hodena Eau Claire, Wisconsin The Scoop on MacWrite Pro eee ENJOYED “LEAN WRITERS” (March 1995). Do you have solid infor- mation that Claris intends to continue MacWrite Pro? It’s been widely rumored both in the Claris support area on Amer- ica Online and in ZiffNet/Mac that the product will be either abandoned or fold- ed into ClarisWorks 4. Michael Jay Friedman via America Online According to a company spokesperson, Claris has no plans at this time to discontinue MacWrite Pro.—Ed. Desktop CD-ROM Publishing R TLY OUR COMPANY BOUGHT a Yamaha CDR-100 [the internal version of the drive featured] with Toast 2.5, and we couldn’t be happier! Unlike your findings, we did not go through many bad CDs (“Desktop CD- ROM Publishing,” March 1995). We found that a bad CD gets written at the same ratio, 1:10, asa bad floppy. The soft- ware is extremely easy to use and the doc- umentation well written (the software is from Germany and the translation was off at times, but we knew what they meant). Your article mentions that the soft- ware is from Plasmon. The software we received is made by Astarte. Although I haven’t actually tested any other software or hardware (a little diffi- cult at an average of $6000 a pop), I would definitely have suggested Toast as the way to go, instead of leaving the Editors’ Choice open as you did. Richard Donagrandi via America Online We're glad you're satisfied. We had less trouble with Toast than with some other programs, but consider- ing its price we didn’t feel it deserved selection as Editors’ Choice As the article stated, Astarte's Toast is sold by Optimage as CD-It All. A number of companies now bundle Toast with their CD-R drives. When we wrote the article, Astarte hadn't made Toast available in the United States as a separate package. —Jim Feeley LaserWriler Confusion c= YOU CLEAR UP A DISCREP- ancy on the LaserWriter 16/600 PS that was reviewed in the March 1995 issue of Macworld and in the February 1995 issue of your sister magazine PC World (“Laser Printers: The Price Is Right”)? In Macworld, the 16/600 was tested as a “workgroup” printer against other “work- group” printers, but in PC World itis test- ed as a “network” printer against other “network” printers (such as the HP 4MV, not the HP 4MPlus). ‘The bigger question is how there can be so much of a subjective swing that continues store ALL your DATA on RECORDABLE CDs! "1 SELLING RECORDABLE CD system Oss _ Backup on CD! Or Create a CD of Data, Video, or Audio poco -----4 OnLy “1695 1. 2X CD Recorder 2. Double-speed CD-ROM Player 3. Tape Drive Replacement THE © 1. Store graphics for only 3 cents per megabyte 2. Create data, video, audio CDs 3. 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Cutie View to further organize and wat, Call (800) 877-4292 for your FREE IDEA BOOK Inspiration Inspiration Software*, Inc. 503.245.9011 Tel. * 503.246.4292 Fax ©1995 Inspiration Software®, Inc. 28 June 1995 MACWORLD LETTERS Macworld states that there is “unimpres- sive” printout quality, while PC World states that “the LaserWriter 16/600 PS produced the best 600-dpi output of any printer. Text clarity was superb all the way down to 4 points, and scanned pho- tographs retained subtle grays.” Macworld did not seemed impressed by the text out- put upon “closer examination” or even scanned-image output after the Photo- Grade upgrade. I guess it’s time for me to go check out the printer in person. G. Yeong via the Internet PC World categorized workhorse (read workgroup) printers as $750 to $2000, 8 to 12 ppm, and with a paper capacity of 250 sheets or more; it categorized network printers as networkable higher-end work- group printers with speeds from 16 to 20 ppm. Mac- world makes no distinction between workhorse and network printers—we think all business printers should be networkable. But to address your bigger question: why “unimpressive”? We didn't mean to imply that the output was below-standard—we just felt it should be better than that of the LaserWriter Pro 630, the printer it replaced. As our reviewers stated, the 16/600 didn't do as well as the Pro 630 on our line- art test. PhotoGrade, which should enhance scanned images, had no effect on the 16/600—again, unlike the 630. Our last gripe about the 16/600's output concerns the paper trays—350 sheets for a high- speed workgroup printer is unimpressive. We would've been more impressed if the optional 500- sheet paper tray were standard. —td. MIDI on My Mind mm OVERJOYED TO FIND “TWO MIDI Sequencing Programs,” the first article I remember reading on serious music software for the Mac (Reviews, March 1995). My joy was short-lived, however, after reading the somewhat narrow-sight- ed review, which completely ignores Emagic’s Logic, a direct competitor with both Performer and Vision. In many respects Logic exceeds both packages, with features such as audible scrubbing and real-time playback quantization, along with a fully functional notation capability that produces much better sim- ple music printouts in a pinch. I know that not every product can be featured in every issue; however, in a spe- cialized market such as professional-level MIDI sequencing, the few competing players should be given an equal voice regardless of the size of the company behind them. Emagic offers the most per- sonal support I’ve found from a software company—most likely because the com- pany was formed by the programmers. It’s strange that with the Mac as the industry standard for music applications it is so hard to find hardware and software reviews in the leading consumer publica- tions. Please don’t let this review become a lone island in the sea of Macworld. Brian Campbell Denton, Texas Our review wasn't meant to cover the entire MIDI market, just the two products reviewed, Performer and Vision. Readers who are curious about Logic can reach Emagic at 916/477-1051.—Ed. FTP, FPU Confusion LETTER FROM FERNANDO LOZANO claims that a beta of Netscape is available from ftp.mcom.com under the /netscape/mac directory (Letters, March 1995). When I try to log on to that FTP, however, I am asked for a user name and password. Where do I get these? Bruce Williams Albuquerque, New Mexico Sorry for the confusion. Here's what you do: log on as anonymous and you won't need a password. Netscape Navigator is currently version 1.0 and is free to educators and nonprofit groups.—Ed. NOTICED SOME PRE-POWERPC PRO- grams do not recognize the Power Mac’s FPU. Is there an extension or util- ity that can help? Scott Proctor via the Internet Pay your $20 shareware fee for John Neil's Soft- wareFPU and he'll send you the Power Mac-native, registered version. —Ed. Hanover, Where? or BRIEF CORRECTION TO STEVEN: Levy’s otherwise excellent article on digital signatures (The Iconoclast, Febru- ary 1995): despite President Freedman’s best efforts, Dartmouth is still a college, not a university. C. Walker Page via the Internet Letters should be sent to Letters, Macworld, 501 Sec- ond St., San Francisco, CA 94107; via fax, 415/442- 0766; or electronically to CompuServe (70370,702), MCI Mail (294-8078), America Online (Macworld), eWorld (Macworld), AppleLink (Macworldt), or via the Internet (letters@macworld.com). Include return address and daytime phone number. Due to the high volume of mail received, we can't respond personal- ly to each letter. We reserve the right to edit all let- ters. All published letters become the property of Macworld. m1 OUR COLOR But the features that come with it will. 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Says Erv Barnes, “After evalu- ating all the notebooks on the market, we chose PowerBook because it was by far the easiest for any salesperson to learn. Instead of becoming adoorstop, the PowerBook is being adopted by the field with unbelievable enthusiasm.” Salespeople are able to tap intoWhirlpool’s information base at the home office to get com- petitive information, pricing, inventory data— instantly, during a sales call. This way, they can answer questions more quickly and accurately, make better-informed decisions, appear more professional and, ultimately, close more sales, Plus, with the built-in multimedia capabilities of the PowerBook computer, salespeople can show videos and animations, making a normal sales presentation more persuasive than ever: All of which can give your salespeople a new power, too. The power to be more respon- sive, more productive, more effective, The power of Macintosh. The power to be your best? Director of Information Technology, and Ed Herrelko (tight), Executive Vice President of Group Sales, at Whitipoot Corporation, Benton Harbor, Michigan Erv Bames (left), the sale means having the answer. With this computer, we can get the information our tomers need, right on the spot. Making the sale means being persuasive. By delivering presentations on the PowerBook, we can get our point across with enormous impact. Combine this with the fact that it works with our mainframes, Intel-based PCs and Windows, and were talking about a tool that’s not just us a competitive edge. I forming the way we do business’ -Ed Herrelko it, Salespeople can show video clips of Whitlpoo! com- Is and product demonstrations—a more dramatic tful way to sell competitive product advantages. ih fatyes ke Appl” gude—hich fakes lep through the Macintosh—Whirfpoo's people “mastered the computer with minimal raining, Yours can too. 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KS Labs and Newer have released fixes; DayStar said a patch would be available in early April. With Sys- tem 7.5.1 installed, Symantec's MacTools Trashback crashes at shutdown. Aladdin System's Stufflt Space- Saver may make files invisible; SpeedyFinder 7 may not load; files on CD-ROM drives may disappear under Con- nectix’s RAM Doubler 1.5.1; and Metrowerk’s Code- Warrior PowerPC debugger conflicts with the update. Symantec and Metrowerks have updates; Connectix is working on a fix; and at press time, Aladdin had not determined the source of the problem. Aladdin, 408/761-6200; Connectix, 415/571-5100; DayStar, 404/967-2077; KS Labs, 614/374-5665; Metrowerks, 512/346-1935; Newer Technology, 316/685-4904; Symantec, 503/334-6054. Apple Reorganizes, Diery Resigns Say- ing it intends to focus on its areas of traditional strength and competitive advantage, Apple Computer recently reor- ganized into four divisions. The areas of focus will be home, education, business, and entertainment. The divisions are worldwide marketing and customer solutions; worldwide research and development group; sales and customer sup- port; and manufacturing and distribution. At the same time, executive vice president lan Diery, who had been in charge of hardware at Apple, resigned. The Fastest Mac on Earth In April Apple Computer plans to ship Apple Workgroup Server (AWS) models based on faster PowerPC 601 chips. The CPU in the new AWS 9150 will run at 120MHz, faster than any other Mac. The CPU in the revised AWS 8150 will run at 110MHz; in the 6150 it will run at 66MHz. The company estimates that prices will range from $2549 to $8709, depending on the configuration. Adobe, Netscape Join Forces Adobe has joined with Netscape Communications to integrate Acrobat, Adobe's portable-document software, and Netscape Navigator, Netscape's browser for the World Wide Web. Adobe's Acrobat WebLink, a plug-in for ver- sion 1.1 of Netscape, will let users link Acrobat PDF (portable-document format) documents to other docu- ments on the Internet. A future version of Navigator will display Acrobat documents. Finally, Adobe says a future version of PageMaker will output HTML documents. Adobe, 415/961-4400; Netscape, 415/528-2555. Microsoft Countersues over Video for Windows Responding to Apple's latest copyright- infringement lawsuit (see MacBulletin, May 1995), Microsoft has filed a countersuit maintaining that it did not use any of Apple's QuickTime for Windows code in its rival product, Video for Windows, and Apple is try- ing to lure developers away by posting online notices calling it inferior to QuickTime for Windows. Publish on the Internet or Perish companies recently announced plans to turn Macintosh systems into World Wide Web corporate-information Four servers for the Internet. Starting in May, Apple plans to bundle Web-site software with Apple Workgroup Serv- ers. Delphic Software's ALI Internet Server ($995 to $1995 list price) is due by fall 1995. InterCon Systems’ InterServer ($795 list) is due this spring. StarNine Tech- nologies plans to ship by summer separate products that offer HTTP Web service, Web service plus commercial transaction support, and information publishing. Apple Computer, 408/996-1010; Delphic Software, 909/792- 7932; InterCon Systems, 703/709-5500; StarNine Tech- nologies, 510/649-4949. m MACWORLD June 1995 33 N THIS ISSUE EDITED BY TOM MORAN p. 36 AOL's Piracy Response p.37 Beyond 4x CD-ROM p. 37 New DOS-Equipped Mac p. 41 PowerPC Speedup Secrets. p. 116 Improved Color Matching p- 122 Easier Videoconferencing p. 123 First Word 6.0.1 Tests p. 134 Networking with PCI The Sleekest Desktop Mac Yet Driving desktop computer design to new heights, Apple is bring- ing out the Power Macintosh 5200/75 LC, a 75MHz PowerPC 603— based all-in-one system that looks more like a monitor with disk drives than the ex- pandable computer it is. In fact, the Power Mac 5200 is not much bigger than a 15- inch monitor alone. Despite the awkward name, this mass-market Mac combines much of the sleek look of the Apple AudioVision 14 Display with a system sim- ilar in features to the 68040- based 630 series. But the Power Mac 5200 is the first Macintosh to use the new PowerPC 603 processor, a low-power variant of the PowerPC CPU line. With the 56K external cache, the 603- based 5200 offers roughly equivalent performance to that of a 60MHz 601-based Power Mac (see the bench- marks, “How Fast Is the 5200?” in this section). 603 versus 601 Why isa 75MHz 603-based Power Mac slower than a 66MHz 601-based Power Mac? There are three main reasons. 34 June 1995 MACWORLD ° The Power Mac 5200 transfers data from the CPU chip to memory 32 bits at a time; the other Power Macs transfer the data 64 bits at a time. Although the proces- sor still runs an internal 64- bit bus, the 32-bit bus built into the motherboard means that many I/O functions out- side the processor happen half as fast as they would with a 64-bit bus. runs at 25MHz, while the Power Mac 6100/60’s system bus runs at 30MHz and the 6100/66’s m bus runs at 33MHz. 5200’s slower bus slows down overall data transfer and thus reduces the whole system’s efficiency. * The 603 is simply not as fast as the 601, partly because of its internal cache design. The 5200, with its 603 CPU and 256K external cache, just manages to keep up with the 6100/60, which has a 601 CPU and no cache. Add a 256K cache to the 6100/ 60 and the performance dif- ference becomes very appar- ent, as Maeworld Lab’s bench- marks show. However, while the 75- MHz 5200 may not deliver as much speed as users might first expect, at an estimated price under $2000, the 5200 compares favorably with a Power Mac 6100/66, which would cost about $2600 for an equivalent configuration. Apple expects to begin shipping the Power Mac 5200 on April 3, 1995, as an LC model, with prices starting at $1699, The LC line is avail- able only to education buyers. But historically, the introduc- tion of LCs is followed by Performa models available to all consumers, usually in a few months as manufacturing vol- umes increase. Apple hinted this would be true also for the 5200. Macworld expects a Per- forma version before Septem- ber. And while the Performa usually costs several hundred dollars more, it also includes more bundled software than the LC equivalent. Packed with Options The 47-pound system will come with System 7.5, 8MB of RAM, a SOOMB internal IDE hard drive, and an AppleCD 300i double-speed CD-ROM drive. The 5200 has the same type of commu- nications slot, LC II-style PDS slot, video-in slot, and TV tuner slot (so you can watch TV in a window) as the Quadra 630 has. Although the 5200 system shares many fea- continues on page 38 The Radius System 100, based on a Power Mac 8100/110 motherboard, is optimized for image manipulation. Radius and DayStar Clones FOCUS ON SYSTEMS FOR PROFESSIONAL PUBLISHERS should ri- ous competition in the high-end desktop publis ing market later this as both Radius and Da Digital bring out Mac clones for professional publishers. Ra- dius’s first offering is aimed at image editors, while DayStar is using the first implementa- tion of multiprocessing tech- nology on the Mac to aid in Apple several types of media creation. Radius's Image-Editing Clone Macworld Lab tested a prototype of the Radius System 100, a workstation tuned for image manipulation and based on a Power Mac 8100/110 motherboard. Because it uses an Apple motherboard, the Radius Mac performed as expected— nearly identical in speed to a comparably equipped Power Mac 8100/110 (see the bench- marks “The Radius System 100: A Little Faster”). Also as expect- ed, spot checks on compatibili- ty revealed no problems. The Radius system will ship in late April or early May, although it will not be avail- able in volume until July, according to Radius. The first few systems out the door will be based on the slower, 8100/80 motherboard, but most of those dealer demo units. ‘The System 100 will ship with an FWB JackHammer SCSI accelerator, two hard drives (2GB and SOOMB), 40MB or more of R. (the system we tested had 40MB), a Radius Thunder IV GX-1600 video card (which replaces Apple’s standard video card), a double-speed CD-ROM drive, Adobe Photoshop, and Radius Color Composer, as well as a Radius-labeled third- party keyboard and mouse. Radius expects to sell its system for the same price as, or a little less than, a compa- rably configured Power Mac 8100/110. At press time, it cost about $11,000 to $12,000 continues In Brie HP Recalls OfficeJets Hewlett-Packard is recalling 10,000 OfficeJet printers that have a manufacturing defect that could cause a severe electrical shock. HP says it detected the potential prob- lem during routine testing and has not received any reports of related injuries. Owners of units with seri- al numbers beginning with US4B1 to US4B9, US4BA to US4BU, US4C1 to US4C9, and US4CA to US4CK can get a free replacement by calling 800/233-8999. Some Prices Fall, Some Rise Apple has reduced prices on five high-end 500-series PowerBooks by about 15 percent, cuts that are ‘comparable to those in the PC notebook computer market. Pinnacle Micro reduced the Sierra 4.3 Gigabyte erasable optical drive by $500, to $2495. Reply Corpo- ration has raised the price of its 66MHz 486DX2-based DOS board for 040 Macs from $599. to $699. Prices for its other DOS- on-Mac products remain un- changed. Apple, 408/942-4804; Pinnacle Micro, 714/727-3300; Reply, 408/942-4804. New Conflict Catcher Casady & Greene has tweaked its extension-taming software into a third version. Using the Intuition feature, users can quickly single out and test suspicious start-up files. Two new features help users be better informed: View Info dis- plays descriptions of many start- up files, including version number, and Conflict Catcher 3 can attach name labels to start-up icons. Conflict Catcher 3 retails for $99.95. 408/484-9228. @ Mouse Crashes Power Mac Using a Kensington ADB Turbo Mouse trackball that's older than the current 4.0 version can crash your Power Macintosh, according to the company, since previous versions were designed before the Power Macs shipped. Kensington is offering special upgrade pricing to Power Mac owners. 415/572-2700. MACWORLD June 1995 35 THE AMCoEx INDEX OF USED MACINTOSH PRICES Average Monthly Machine/RAM/Hard Drive Sale Price Change PowerBook 100/4MB/20MB $400 -$50 PowerBook 140/4MB/40MB $675 +$25, PowerBook 180/4MB/80MB $1525 -$25 PowerBook Duo 230/4MB/80MB $825 $0 Mac Classic/2MB/40MB $325 -$25 Mac SE/30/2MB/40MB $525 +$25 Mac LC 1I/4MB/40MB $400 $25 Mac IIsi/3MB/40MB $400 $25 Mac IIci/4MB/80MB $625 $o Mac Iifx/4MB/80MB $700 -$50 Centris 650/8MB/230MB $1225 $25 Quadra 900/8MB/160MB $1900 so Index provided by the American Computer Exchange of Atlant (800/786-0717). 1 vetlects sales Chri week of Mach 20 Contigations incade keyboard and exclude monitor and dipay bowed fornencompact model for users to build a comparable 8100/110 system by buying the components separately. Radius is betting that pub- ishers and digital-imaging professionals will choose Radius’s preconfigured and tem (with spe- ized service and support) over the option o! embling their own system. The company plans to announce a video-editing clone soon that could ship in July or August. That system would include special video hardware and software, and most likely Level 0 RAID storage, and would ship in rack-mounted or desktop versions. By July, Radius plans to build its own motherboards for both sys tems, although those boards will be nearly identical initial- ly to Apple equivalents. DayStar’s Multiprocessor Clone DayStar Digital an- nounced in late March that it will ship PCI-based Power Mac clones in August that use single or dual PowerPC 604 CPUs. In each instance, the CPU will reside on a daugh- terboard so users can easily switch to faster CPUs later. Internal Apple documents show that Apple imi plans for its PCI ystems, although the company would not confirm this. DayStar’s Genesis MP tower s designed for compute-inten- sive publishing, image ma- nipulation, animation, and rendering—will cost between $5000 and $10,000, depend- ing on model and configura- tion, according to DayStar. The DayStar dual-CPU unit, based on its nPower mul- tiprocessor architecture, will be the only available Mac-compat- ible multiprocessor computer using PowerPC technology. (Radius offers its Rocket 68040 add-on cards for multiprocess- ing on older Macs.) The DayStar machines will ship with 32MB of RAM (expandable to 512MB or more), three or more PCI slots, eight internal expansion bays (including those filled by the CD-ROM, floppy, and hard drives), and DayStar’s Colori- meter 24 and ColorMatch soft- ware. DayStar will also include extensions to its color-management tools and Photoshop that enable multiprocessor computing. DayStar eventually intends to ship machines using up to four CPUs. The Mac OS does not support true multi- processing, so how does DayStar get around that problem? Its nPower creates a program interface that estab- lishes a primary CPU to run all Mac OS toolbox operations, according to product manager David Methven. But applica- tions updated for the purpose will be able to split up com- pute-intensive tasks, such as rendering and photo retouch- ing (which typically don’t make a lot of calls to the toolbox), The Radius System 100: A Little Faster Overall Score CPU-Intensive FPU-Intensive —_Disk-Intensive Photoshop Results are times as fast Indicates typical Indicates perfor- Indicates perfor- Indicates perfor Shows the benefit as a Power Mac Performance ina mance for mast mance for analyti-_ mance of the Mac's of the DSP acceler- 8100/110 (@100/110 = _mixed-use environ- business and per- cal, 3-D, and other data-transfer capa- ation when using 4.0). Longer bars are ment, such asa__sonal tasks specialized uses. bility, which affects Photoshop. better. ‘company or school. all users Radius System 100 $2 13 12 1.0 SE 22 Power Mac 8100/10 — (2 13 12 1.0 21 Power Mac 8100/10 <0 $0 $10 1.0 7.0 IV GX-1600, SCSI JackHammer, Seagate Barracuda drive). "With a configuration similar to the Radius System 100's (Thunder D Be Macworld Lab tested operations in nine applications plus the Finder and then ranked the results against the performance of a standard Power Mac 8100/110. We then combined those rankings into three basic performance areas. The CPU- Intensive tasks evaluate the Mac’s essential computing performance; the FPU-Intensive tasks gauge performance for tasks that take advantage of the float s-point unit. and the Disk-in)ensive tasks ei 2e the perfor- ‘man: you'll pet for launching poe" «ns, open. art losing files. and copying files. The overall ombine the results of the CPU, FPU, and disk tests, giving the CPU resuits 60 pereent of the 36 June 1995 MACWORLD R ‘overall score and the FPU and disk results 20 percent each. Macworld Lab ran 32 additional tests in Photoshop to demonstrate the performance gain with the use of DSP chips. These tests ranged from Guussian blurs to Unsharp Mask. All three systems used 40MB. ‘of RAM, a disk cache set at 96K, and a 21-inch monitor with a resolution of 1024 by 768 in 24-bit mode under System 7.5 with standav’ exters\.os. These results are not comparable with other recent! sor/ ochmarks —Maeworld Lab testing super- vised by Mark Hurlow and Danny Lee between the two CPUs. Hav- ing the two CPUs work con- currently should nearly dou- ble performance. Because the CPU daughterboard is on the system bus, each processor has the same access to the mother- board memory; the second CPU does not have to work through the primary proces- sor, which reduces system overhead in coordinating the two CPUs. DayStar is targeting the Genesis MP for media pub- lishers, which includes people who work with prepress, 3-D, and animation.—CHARLES PILLER AOL's Piracy Woes ATTACK AND COUNTERATTACK Av: Online has re- ponded to actions of online pirates who illegally dis- tributed commercial software and harassed the author of an earlier Macworld article expos- ing their activities (see “Piracy Ring on America Online,” News, Macworld, March 1995). As previously reported, software pirates routinely abuse AOL’s start-up kits to gain anonymous accounts, which they use to trade com- mercial software online. A subculture of young traders has arisen; rival trading rings with spicy-sounding titles welcome only members with a proven track record of ante- ing up good “warez” (pirated programs). Blacklists are cir- culated, containing the names of participants who received MATT WALTON good software but failed to reciprocate. At almost all hours of the day, private elec- tronic “rooms” are created for the purpose of trading; using a pseudonymous tem- porary account, Macworld was offered $900 worth of com- mercial software by E-mail within 15 minutes of arriving in such a room. Perhaps worse, increasing numbers of these anonymous traders are graduating to hacker status. Using freely circulated instruction sheets and macro kits, they have learned to access private AOL staff areas, corrupt message areas, and even de- lete or cancel members’ ac- counts. One set of hint sheets Macworld received provides step-by-step instructions for the following: * obtaining new mem- bers’ passwords (by convinc- ing them that the hacker is an AOL staff member) * obtaining working cred- it card numbers (to gain further free AOL access and to order equipment by mail order) * “dubbing”—editing members’ typed comments in chat rooms, to make them appear to say things they never actually said * sending a “mail bomb” —automatically generated duplicate messages, sent to a victim’s mailbox by the hun- dreds, until that mailbox is full * causing another mem- ber’s hard drive to thrash inces- santly (on Windows PCs only) ‘The loopholes for hackers and freeloaders may be clos- ing, however. America Online is reluctant to discuss specifies of its counterattack, for fear of giving miscreants advance warning. However, many of the live Mac-software trading rooms are being shut down almost as soon as they’re formed; others are often visit- ed by “nares” posing as trad- ers. New accounts started with phony credit cards are being cut off more promptly, and various other card-verifi- cation schemes are in place. “When we become aware of BUGS & TURKEYS Illustrations copied from Macromedia FreeHand 5.0 and pasted into other apps such as Word show up ‘on screen but not in printed documents it is working on a fix. In the meantime you can FreeHand drawing to disk and then insert or place that file in your new document. Avoid copy and paste. You've been slaving over an Excel 5.0 spreadsheet and saving diligently. Then your three-year-old pulls the plug on your Mac. Zap! No problem. You've been saving, right? Wrong. Excel toa disk cache in memory and doesn’t save to the hard disk . Macromedia says ve your 's save function saves until the cache is full or until you close the application or window. The fix is part of the Excel 5.0a upgrade, which Microsoft promises will be available by the time you read this, Get it online or call Microsoft at 206/454-2030. Contrary to earlier promises, Radius doesn’t plan to make its VideoSpigot and Spigot II ‘Tape digital- video boards compatible with QuickTime 2.0. Radius tech- nical support says that if enough users complain, Radius may change its mind. Send E-mail to support@radius.com. Radius still plans an April 1995 software update designed to make SpigotPower AV compatible with QuickTime 2.0. Macworld will send you a Bug Report T-shirt if you are the first to inform us of a serious, reproducible bug that we report in this column, or a Turkey Shoot T-Shirt if we shoot your turkey in this space. See How to Contact Macworld. [start-up kit] certificate num- bers that are continually being reused, we take appropriate action,” said Pam McGraw, spokeswoman for AOL. AOL has now developed the ability to resurrect a screen name that’s been deleted by the hackers, and is rumored to have call-tracing technology in the works. And while AOL won’t confirm it, a knowl- edgeable source told Macworld that several of the worst offenders have been caught and slapped with large fines. According to this source, one of the pirates even landed in jail—MACWORLD STAFF The Latest Spin on CD-ROMs LOOKING BEYOND 4x DRIVES uad-speed (4x) CD- ROM drives are begin- ning to arrive on the scene in force, and as a result the double-speed drive—which replaced the single-speed drive a few years back—is beginning its descent into oblivion. But as this happens, possible successors to 4x drives are on the horizon and promise to make the 2x-to-4x transition more interesting. Plextor, for instance, has announced what it says is the first 6x CD-ROM drive. The 6Plex, an internal SCSI-2 drive :d on a mechani: from Shinano-Kenshi (Plex- tor’s parent company), prom- ises transfer rates of 900 kilo- bytes per second (KBps) or more—six times that of the original single-speed, 150- KBps drives. Plextor attributes the speed increases to a faster spindle motor. Access time should be about 145 millisec~ onds, the company says. (Most 4x drives’ access speeds are 150ms to 200ms.) The drive, expected to ship in April 1995, will have a 256K data buffer and will list for $599. An external ver- continues MACWORLD oN Apple Expands 040 Line ADDS DOS TO THE 630, UPDATES THE 575 Ithough Apple’s focus is now clearly on Power Macs, the company has also taken another cross-platform step, unveiling the Macintosh LC 630 DOS Compatible, essentially a 630 with a 66MHz 486DX2-based PC card built in. Iwill ship with System 7.5, MS- DOS 6.22, Windows 3.1, a SO00MB IDE hard drive, 8MB of RAM on the Mac motherboard, 4MB of RAM on the DOS board, SoundBlaster, joystick port, and DOS-compatible se al and parallel ports. Its prelimi- nary price as an LC model (for the education market) is $1899. A Performa model will likely ship by September for a few hundred dollars more. Apple cannot offer owners of the current 630 models this DOS board: Apple put the PC video circuitry on the new 630’s moth- erboard, not on the DOS board, and current 630 models wouldn’t have this necessary circuitry. Apple also introduced the LC 580, basically an update to the 575 with 8MB of RAM (now expandable up to 52MB), a 500MB IDE hard drive, a video- in slot (for 630-like TV), and an external video connector for mirror mode (useful for presen- tations or classrooms). It has a preliminary price of $1199. A Performa model should ship later this year. The LC 580 and the LC 630 DOS Compatible should ship to the education market on April 3, 1995.—1.m. AICHARD RETHEMEYER Two daughterboards (outlined) and ‘on-board VGA video let this version of the Quadra 630 run PC programs. June 1995 37 Panasonic's new quad-speed CD-ROM drive can also read and write a new type of 650MB optical disk. sion should be available this summer at a suggested list price of about $699, accord- ing to Plextor. PLI expects to ship in May 1995 its $1295, 15x QuickCD — system, which promises data-transfer rates up to 15 times that of a single- speed drive (2.25MB per sec- ond) and an access time under 40ms. The standard system incorporates a 4x CD-ROM drive, an internal 540MB hard drive for caching, a Motorola 68000 pr