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All ights reserved July 1997. Apple, Macintosh and Ma under lcense from Apple Computer, Inc. The Mac OS logo is regStered in the United Stat Power Tower, PowerCenter, PowerBase and Powertron are trademarks of Power Computing Ci Machines Corp. and is used under license. All other brand and/or product names are the prop ‘and specifications are vakd in the US. only and are subject to change without nati. The high end for the rest of us. The new PowerCenter Pro 240 comes locked and loaded with the new PowerPC 604e 240 MHz processor. Winner of the MacWEEK 5 Diamond Award, the PowerCenter Pro has “redefined the midrange.” — ay | Tt’s not a computer,: | e > PowerComputing Features News 26 Jobs in the Driver's Seat Recent events at Apple leave little doubt as to who’s in control. 84 Upstart Macs BY TOVA FLIEGEL Speed rec- ords shatter as Macworld Lab tests a new generation of Macs— the first CHRP systems, the first PowerPC 750 systems, and the first 350MHz Mac. Sneak Peek 28 QuarkXPress 4.0 Quark’s first major upgrade in four years adds drawing tools, character styles, and book-pro- 94 Best Mac Web Sites duction features, but not much BY HOWARD BALDWIN Mac- more. world’s road map to the Web sites—technology, support, share- Sneak Peek 32 ClarisWorks 5.0 Claris adds tool bars and Web links to an otherwise modest ware, and shopping—every Mac owner should know about. Expert Guide upgrade. 100 Connect with ISDN BY MEL BECKMAN Get the Macworld Expo telephony features you want and 38 Best of Show Awards the speed you crave with ISDN. ‘The competition was fierce, but Macworld’s expert guide shows Macworld’s editors managed to you how. pick the hottest new products introduced at Macworld Expo in Boston. Umax rolls out the industry's first system with in-line cache, the home- office SuperMac C600x, page 46. Need a second printer? The Alps ‘Masterpiece MD-2300 produces photographic-quality output for under $1000, page 52. 2 October 1997 MACWORLD Find File features and shortcuts, page 107. Opinion 17 Letters 23 State of the Mac BY ADRIAN meLLo Is Steve Jobs good for Apple? 71 190 The Desktop Critic By DAVID POGUE Warez trading posts. 12 How to Contact Macworld 81 115 New color lasers offer lower prices and easier maintenance, page 42. 118 107 120 The Thrill of the Hunt BY JOSEPH SCHORR i around the desktop with F File. 411 Quick Tips BY LON POOLE and shortcuts. Tips, tricks, ON THE COVER ‘Steve Jobs photo by Archive Photes/Reaters system photo by Kevin Candland ‘A host of inexpensive new video- conferencing cameras hit the market, page 30. Buyers’ Tools Star Ratings Macworld’s ratings for hundreds of hardware and software prod- ucts at a glance. Mac Superguide Macworld’s guide to every Mac system and clone on the market, lab tested and Star Rated. Media Improving Your Web Typography, Part Two sy Jim HID Sorting through a wealth of design options. Publishing Workshop BY DAVID BLATNER Ma QuarkXPress master pages. ering Graphics Workshop BY CATHY ABES objects to 3-D art. Taking 2-D And the winners are .. . page 38. 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Imagine the freedom you'll have. With PowerPrint installed, you'll be able to print from your Mac to over a thousand different printers from companies like Canon, Epson, So get PowerPrint if you think you'll be needing to print to a PC-—printer anytime soon. And don’t forget to call Bob, the poor guy. He could really use some advice. PowerPrint — the simple solution for anyone who needs to connect a Mac to a PC — printer a Gs” + ot \ Call us: 800-865-5503 tur OWAVE iii FS cee j qwerPrint. Visit: www.infowave.net set hen ite mrt cn ac nme aeaaaca—} 5 Circle 32 on reader service card a Jer NEUMANN Nuts about Newton FTER READING THE REVIEW OF Apple’s MessagePad 2000, I had to wonder if Macworld was nuts (Reviews, July 1997). It’s fairly plain to any regular user of the MP 2000 that the review—although factually accurate—misconstrues the market and functionality the device was designed to address. This is a serious computer designed to meet the needs of doctors, lawyers, researchers, engineers, multimedia producers, and similar mobile professionals. You criticize the size of the MP 2000, failing to notice that it fits perfectly in a doctor’s lab coat or a Day-Timer-style case. In your criticism of the new Inter- Connect port, you miss its versatility and performance, which open the door to audio input/output, for example. Most questionable, however, is the price comparison of the MP 2000 to a Pentium notebook. Show me the color 8MB/700MB Pentium notebook that goes for days between charges, rests unobtrusively in the palm of my hand, recognizes my handwriting, powers on instantly, is optimized for truly mobile communications, and sells for $1099, and T’'ll reconsider this nutty review. Topp WILson Somerville, Massachusetts People love their Newtons. It’s been a long time since we've seen such positive remarks about an Apple product. Your letter made me want to rush out and buy a Newton. Of course, $1100 isn’t pocket change, as our reviewer, Cameron Crotty, pointed out. Crotty also adds, “No com- puter can do what the Newton MessagePad 2000 does—it exists in a class by itself. But while that bas a nice ring to it, just remem- ber that it’s an awfully expensive class. I really liked the MessagePad 2000, I just couldn’t imagine paying nearly $1100 for it.” —Ed. Control Strip under Control ALSO WONDERED WHERE THE CON- I trol Strip was, and why I didn’t have it since I updated from System 7.5.3 to 7.5.5 (Letters, July 1997). You can’t cus- tom install something that isn’t included on the master system software CD- ROM. I asked around a lot and finally got the answer. The Control Strip control panel came bundled only on certain Power Macintosh and Performa series computers. How- ever, you can install the Control Strip software by installing Apple’s Display Software (version 2.0.2). This can be downloaded from Apple’s software li- brary, swupdates.info.apple.com; click on ‘Macintosh, then on Display-Peripheral. Cart A. SWEDBERG Issagquab, Washington ot Lelters Comparing Apples and Oranges? ‘OUR COMPARISON OF THE TOP-OF- the-line Macs and PCs is infuriating (“The Mac Wins the Race,” July 1997). Irs not that I like PCs—I don’t—but I feel the article needlessly gave up some points for the Macs by stressing that the Macs are more expensive. You should instead focus on value, showing that while the Macs reviewed are more expensive, Macs get more per- formance per dollar. Or you should have tested less expensive versions of the PowerCenter Pros to show that they still whip the PCs’ butts. Saying that Macs are faster is great, but the message is greatly diminished when you leave am- munition on the table for the other side to use. I can already hear my Windows- using colleagues saying, “Yeah, but like he said, Macs are still more expensive.” A little more careful selection and there wouldn’t have been any “but” for PC users to throw at Mac owners. Tar Morris Austin, Texas T.THE END OF YOUR STORY YOU stated that the Mac and clones are still more expensive, and there are two things Thave to say about this. First, in the June 1997 issue of PC World, Apple rates among the top three computer manufacturers in product re- liability. That must be worth a penny or two. Second, have you ever tried to set up a Windows 95 printer, scanner, or any- thing else that’s not standard on the computer? Setting up a Windows ma- chine just takes time, even for experienced users. If time is money, the cost dif- ference between Macs and Windows continues www.macworld.com October 1997 17 | CKMAIL PRO SERVER = A full-featured aa POP3 Mac OS = E-mail server. 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The Mac is simply a superior machine, especially in the plug-and-play and ease-of-use are- nas. We want a platform that is easy to use, is easy to train on, and doesn’t need a lot of tweaking to operate properly. Keep up the good work. Don’t be afraid to compare more Windows prod- ucts with Mac products. It helps me do my job better and be more informed. JERRY AXTELL Macon, Georgia AM NOT SOME RADICAL WINTEL USER. I currently use a Power Macintosh 9500/180 MP, recommend Mac Internet servers, and own a Sony PC. The Sony does not belong in the company of most of these machines. Sony is building a computer directed squarely at the home market. It’s not a speed machine, and Sony does not promote it as such. I know that articles must be prepared in advance, but the arrival of the Pentium II in May 1997 cannot be ignored. Dell and Compaq are now shipping 266MHz. Pentium [I-based computers for under $3000. Even without the Pentium II, the PC should at least have been tested with a SCSI drive. You cannot include a $10,000 ma- chine like the DayStar and fail to in- clude dual-processor Pentium Pro ma- chines. If you had chosen Intel-based machines that cost the same as the Macs, I think your test results would have been different. Apple is better for the same reason a Mercedes-Benz is better than a Ford. It’s just plain more fun to drive and a greater pleasure to own. No one is going to buy an Apple computer because it is a little faster this month, when we all know this will go back and forth between Intel and Motorola forever. Speed does not sell computers. Fred KRUGHOFF New York, New York With the exception of the subjective video testing, awe limited ourselves to objective, quantifiable test results from which to draw our conclusions. The concepts of value and usability, while important, weren't part of this story's equation. And while Macintosh users may not want to admit it, there are PC users who believe in the value and usabil- ity of their machines too. As for what we did and didn’t test, we didn’t test any Intel multiprocessing machines because these are Windows NT-based systems that run specialized software with no Mac equiv- alent. Unlike the Mac multiprocessors, they are designed as servers, not for an individual user's desk. While such a test would have evened out the cost factor, there’s really no way to compare these machines in performance because of the differ ences in functionality. We received the prototype Pentium IL from Compul.ink late in the testing process, so we were able to incorporate it into the benchmark but not in much of the other testing. And you're right that the Sony system isa solid PC, but not the fastest. However, by com- paring the Sony's performance with that of other PCs (PC World, June 1997), we can tell that the Mac still would have outperformed faster PCs. The difference between the Mac and the Sony is greater than the difference between the Sony and other PCs. Also, see “275MHz Mac Powerhouse” (September 1997) for the performance of the new G3 Macintosh. This machine runs about 50 percent faster than the fastest Mac we tested against the PCs. If there was still a question about which platform is faster, there certainly isn't now.—Ed. The Power of 17-Inch Monitors AM A GRAPHIC DESIGNER AND I'M ready to buy a new computer for home use. I have been very impressed with your opinions on the Power Computing clones. Since I am thinking of getting the PowerCenter Pro bundle, I was excited continues The World's First Do-it-Yourself Ad. Rather than try and sell you on x Canvas 5, we invite you to sell yourself with a 30 day free trial offer. " nly one person knows oO what you want in a graphics program: you. * So go on — try Canvas 5 (fully functional, not some weenie sampler) for 30 days, free. If you like, you buy. 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Check out more of Clement's story at www.4inchsquare.com/mac. “How | fit 5 Fortune 500 co! a warehouse full of big ideas, and the | entire kingdom of Valhalla i BECAUSE IT’S YOUR STUFF.” ito a -INCH SQUARE.” 2 1997 lomega Corporation, Tomega, the Tomega logo, and Jaz are éegistered tradeimarks. and “Because Its Vout Stuff 3 trademark, of famegs Corporation. all other trademarks are property of thelr respective: Holders, The Views expressed therein are the views oF the endotser and are not the views of, and do not constitute a8 endorsement by, amy perion of fim for whom the endorser has provided services: LETTERS to see the article on 17-inch monitors in the July issue (“17-Inch Screen Stars”). I was disappointed that you left Power Computing’s 17-inch monitor out of the article when you have been recommend- ing that system so highly. Curis Manan Seattle, Washington The monitor that Power Computing offers is available only to purchasers of new systems. It is not available to the general public, or even to peo- ple who bought Power Computing systems earli- er without a monitor. We did not review it because the vast majority of our readers would not be able to buy it. We will consider reviewing it as part of a Power Computing system bundle in the future. —Ed. Emailer Edification ‘OUR REVIEW OF CLARIS EMAILER 2.0 (July 1997) neglected to mention one very serious shortcoming of the program: by default it cannot display long e-mail messages over a certain length in its browser, and instead saves them to your downloads folder. You must then use a second application (not SimpleText, which cannot display messages greater than 32K) to view the message. Emailer is thus unsuitable for reading large mes- sages such as most mailing-list digests. Joun Woo New York, New York The text limit for a single message in Emailer 2.0 is 64K of plain text, which is fairly long, so I don’t think of the limit as a shortcoming. In (fact, this is an increase from the previous 32K limit. L get hundreds of messages a week, includ- ing many mailing-list digests, but I probably get only a few that are too long and end up as enclo- sures. For those messages that are too long, you can write an AppleScript to automatically open the enclosure in a program like ClarisWorks. —Tom Negrino How to Make a Mac Thrive JUST READ “MACS CAN THRIVE IN AN NT World” (News, July 1997). I have seen related articles before—they all say what can be done—but I have never seen an article on exactly how to connect a Mac to a PC. I can’t seem to get an answer to two basic questions. First, with a Power Mac 6100/60 (running System 7.5.5) on the same desk as a Windows NT machine, what are the exact software and hardware combinations needed to allow file sharing—from the most basic to more complex? What are the cost/capability trade-offs of various options? This may seem like a dumb question, but all I get for answers from dealers is what a specific product can do. From techies all I get is complex talk on what is possible to try. Second, how do you handle file shar- ing with PCs over a network? Most net- working people really understand either the PC or the Mac side—not both. Is this something I can handle on my own? Ronatp S. Lemos West Covina, California Network data exchange between computers bas 10 components: the physical network itself and the network protocol used to exchange informa- tion. The most popular physical network is Exhernet. You can easily set up an Ethernet net- work between a Mac and a PC (“Connect Your Workgroup,” August 1997). The Macintosh and Windows worlds have their own proprietary protocols, so one of the machines is going to have to speak the language of the other. You can make your Mac speak Windows’ networking language (IPX) using a product such as Thursby Software Systems’ Dave (Re- views, May 1997), which makes the Mac look like a Windows machine to other users on a Windows network. Alternatively, you can make a PC look like a Mac running AppleTalk using a product such as Miramar Systems’ PC MacL.AN (Reviews, November 1996). There are other, more costly and complex alternatives. You could use a Windows emulator on your Mac and gain all of Windows’ net- working functionality. Or you could run TCPAP on all your machines using Unix Net- work File Sharing (NFS) for data exchange. 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I don’t know for a fact that this will happen, but as I write this in late July, rumors of Jobs's ascension are abundant and the idea has a distinct logic. In any case, I’m going to go out on a limb and base this column on that assumption. Even if he doesn’t take an official role, Jobs now appears to be the prime force behind the company’s direction. His influence is evident in many important decisions, and Apple executives appear nearly jubilant about his increased in- volvement. Naturally, questions arise about whether his increasing influence is good for the Macintosh and where it may lead. I am strongly in favor of Jobs’ taking the chairman’ role. Although I’m concerned about how he will handle issues such as licensing the Mac OS, I think the potential for good far outweighs the bad. Here’s why. Bold Thought and Action Jobs has the charisma and vision to inspire Apple’s employees, customers, and devel- opers. If Apple employees are going to fight out the tough road to recovery, they need a leader they can believe in. Jobs has the energy and ability to focus a company so that it pursues a single-minded course of action. And after years of beleaguer- ment, customers and developers need to feel there is a light at the end of the tun- nel. Since Apple’s troubles began, no one has painted a compelling picture of the Mac’s potential for success. Jobs also has the personality and instincts to deal with the almost over- whelming media exposure Apple receives. In the face of falling market share and poor financial results, Apple’s recent lead- ers have been like deer caught in the headlights. The result has been an on- going black cloud over the Mac market, which has depressed sales. Here’s the most important point: Jobs is capable of bold thought and action. Apple needs a leader with unconvention- al vision who can play outside the rules. Apple can’t be conservative, but must go for the long bomb to differentiate itself and grow. The last major move Apple made (apart from the Next acquisition) was the shift to PowerPC—arguably at a time when processors no longer provided significant product differentiation. What Happens Next? Some fear that Steve Jobs might under- mine or abandon Apple’s licensing pro- gram. At the World Wide Developers Conference in May, he said that Apple should license nearly everything but it must get a fair price. As I write, Mac OS 8 is released but licenses for it are un- signed. It makes me wonder if they ever will be signed. Jobs may advocate building Intel- based Macs. It’s rumored that he has already approached Advanced Micro Devices to discuss using its Intel-compat- ible processors (which some might view as heresy). Jobs is hardware agnostic. He doesn’t spend much time talking about hardware and he seems focused on enabling applications through software technology. Next gave up hardware some time back, and its progeny—the Yellow Box—runs on both Macs and PCs. Jobs may be not only hardware ag- nostic, but also OS agnostic, at least for the part of the OS that is closest to the hardware and handles most basic opera- tions and tasks. Jobs seems much more interested in those aspects of the operat- ing environment that touch users and developers directly. Jobs emphasizes the Internet, and he may believe that the real growth opportunity cen- ters on applying Web tech- nologies to solve customers’ problems. Jobs may promote more direct marketing of the Mac- intosh. Direct sales have long represented the bulk of the market, and this method would allow Apple to reduce its costs so it could become more competitive. Power Computing has proven the effectiveness of selling Mac systems directly to customers. In fact, there is a distinct possibility of a merger be- tween Apple and Power Computing. Jobs could use Power Computing’s brands to set apart Apple’s direct-marketing efforts and to make a foray into Intel-based PCs. Besides, Joel Kocher, Power Computing’s president, would be a great choice for Apple’s next CEO. But P’ve already gone out far enough on a limb. Stay tuned and tell me what you think will happen, at mello@macworld.com (if it hasn’t already happened!). And keep an eye on Macworld Online (wow. macworld.com) for wp-to-the-minute cov- erage of changes at Apple. m www.macworld.com October 1997 23 Connectix Makers of RAM Doubler and Speed Doubler. ©1997 Connects Coxporation 1655 Camo De, San Mate CA S403 USA (650571-5100 « Fay 658571:5195 « ewncconscermrcom ‘Conctrx Vinal PC ea madera of Connecti Cs Allee rama ane the popes thelr rapective ler: NOW, JUMP INTO THE OTHER 95% OF THE COMPUTER STORE. NEW CONNECTIX VIRTUAL PC GIVES YOU A WHOLE NEW FREEDOM You love your Mac, but some software is written only for the PC. 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PC SOFTWARE ON YOUR MAC Circle 192 on reader service card Ca EG Mac WEEK OCTOBER 1997 Apple Forges Alliance with Microsoft MICROSOFT DEAL, NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS ANNOUNCED AT EXPO by Stephen Beale WE he scene was eerily rem- iniscent of the famous 1984 commercial that launched the Macin- tosh: hundreds of peo- ple sitting in neat rows, their attention focused on the chair- man addressing them from a huge video screen. But this was no TV spot; it was Macworld Expo. The man on the screen was Bill Gates, and this time there was no hammer-wield- ing woman rushing forward to disrupt the proceedings. Apple still lacks a perma- nent CEO, and the thorny issue of Mac OS licensing is unresolved. But under the leadership of de facto chief executive Steve Jobs, Apple now has a new relationship with longtime nemesis Micro- soft, as well as a revamped board of directors. “We have to let go of the notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose,” Jobs said during his August 6 Mac- world Expo keynote, adding, “The competition between 26 October 1997 Apple and Microsoft is over as far as I’m concerned.” The new alliance has the following components: * Microsoft will buy $150 million in Apple stock and not sell it for at least three years. *The companies have given each other a “perpetual cross-license” for their exist- ing patents, allowing both to develop new products without fear of lawsuits over alleged MACWORLD patent infringements. Microsoft’s Internet Ex- plorer will be the default Web browser for the Mac OS, but Apple will also ship other browsers with the system. © The two companies will work to ensure compatibility between their Java virtual machines. Apple will support Microsoft's extensions to Java as well as Sun Microsystems’ 100% Pure Java. * Microsoft has made a five-year commitment to releasing new Mac versions of Microsoft Office. Over that time, Macintosh users will see the same number of major upgrades as Windows users. Speaking through a satellite connection, Gates said that Microsoft Office 98 for the Mac will ship by 1998. He added that, in some ways, the Mac version will “be more advanced than what's on the Windows platform.” A New Board Jobs, who has essentially been running Apple without an official title since Gil Amelio’s resignation as CEO, announced that he has joined a revamped board of directors that now includes experienced hardware and software industry veterans. Also named were Larry Elli- son, CEO of Oracle; Jerry York, former chief financial officer of IBM and Chrysler; and Bill Campbell, CEO of Intuit and former head of Claris. Du Pont chairman Edward Woolard and Hughes International president Gareth Chang remain from the previ- ous board. Gone is longtime director and former Apple chairman A. C. Markkula, an Apple cofounder. The Jobs Saga The Expo announcements capped a bizarre two weeks during which Jobs denied widespread rumors that he was about to be named Apple chairman. In a memo to employees at Pixar, Jobs's computer animation company, he said that he had been offered the CEO and chairman positions and had turned them both down. It was also a time when Apple’s testy relationship with its Mac OS licensees nearly became open warfare (see “Mac OS 8 Ships with No License Deal,” in this section). New Directions In his keynote, Jobs said that Apple will focus more attention on the education and content- creation markets. The com- pany will also work more closely with major developers, such as Adobe Systems, on comarketing deals and efforts to make key applications run better on the Mac. Apple is shifting public emphasis from Rhapsody, its next-generation operating system, to the Mac OS, so people don’t think Apple has abandoned the Mac OS. (Jobs didn’t even mention Rhap- sody in his keynote speech.) Sales of Mac OS 8 have shot through the roof, Jobs said, with 1.2 million copies sold less than two weeks after its July 26 release. Although it was not announced at Expo, sources close to Apple say that Jobs has been working with Apple engineers to develop a low- cost network computer (NC) that could ship as soon as Christmas. Ellison, now on Ap- ple’s board after considering a takeover bid earlier this year, has been a big NC advocate. Another likely change is an aggressive move into direct sales of Mac systems, 4 la Power Computing. The Mac market has shifted largely to catalogs and other forms of direct marketing, but until now, Apple has not aggres- sively pursued direct sales. Good or Bad? Jobs’s recent involvement with Apple has generated much excitement among users, ven- dors, and Apple employees, and he has filled the leader- ship void left by Amelio’s departure. However, in his opposition to Mac OS licens- ing, Jobs has seriously dam- aged Apple’s relationship with its licensees, and his looming presence complicates the search for a strong CEO. Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and other industry veterans may be on board, but it remains to be seen whether these latest changes can help stop Apple’s slide into obscurity. BEST of SHOW Epson's $12,999 Powerlite 7000 offers 1024-by-768-pixel resolutior Projectors Offer Higher Resolutions TRADE-OFFS ARE DIMMER PICTURE, MORE WEIGHT by Andrea Dudrow ith notebook com- puters promising higher screen reso- lutions, some ven- dors of LCD pro- jectors are racing to keep up with the burgeoning ranks of mobile presenters by offering 1024-by-768-pixel resolution. But that sharper picture usually comes at the expense of brightness or portability. That's because most 1024-by-768- pixel projectors use three LCD panels, compared with one typ- ically found in 640-by-480- pixel and 800-by-600-pixel models, and the additional pan- els make it harder to force light from the projector. Larger LCD panels can boost bright- ness but require a heavier case. A projector's brightness is measured in lumens: for small to medium-size rooms, 400 to 600 lumens is adequate. Con- trast ratio determines picture clarity; all rank at or above the accepted range of 100:1. High Res at a Price You will soon be seeing 1024-by- 768-pixel projectors from Epson (310/ 782-0770, www.epson com), InFocus (503/ 685-8888, www -infocus.com), Mit- subishi (714/220- 2500, www.amitsubishi- display.com), NEC Technologies (630/ 775-7900, www.nec -com), and Sharp in. (201/529-8200, www -sharp-usa.com). Epson’s $12,999 14.5- pound PowerLite 7000 con- nects directly to your Mac and offers 400 lumens of brightness with a 300:1 contrast ratio. InFocus’s $11,999 12-pound LitePro 730 has a Mac-com- patible input port and offers the same brightness plus full- motion video. Sharp’s $12,995 600- lumen XG-E3000U includes a Mac adapter, but at 30.8 pounds it’s almost twice as heavy as many less-bright 1024-by-768-pixel models. Mitsubishi’s $11,995 LVP- X100 has the same brightness in a 20-pound case; you can save your presentation on a flash-memory PC Card and play it directly from the projec- tor. A Mac adapter is included. Also $11,995 is NEC’ 15.9- pound 450-lumen MultiSync MT1000, which plugs directly into your Mac. Brighter Picture, Fewer Pixels If high resolution isn’t your top priority, consider one of the more portable 800-by-600- pixel projectors from ASK LCD (201/896-8888, waw.ask no), NEC, Philips (770/821- 2400, www.philipsled.com), Po- laroid, and Sharp. These mod- els usually produce brighter images than their 1024-by- 768-pixel cousins. ASK LCD is updating its 800-by-600-pixel_ Impression 8300 using Texas Instruments’ DLP (Digital Light Process- ing) technology (see “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall? News, continues www.macworld.com October 1997 27 Sneak PeEieok QuarkXPress Makes Moderate Leap BY GALEN GRUMAN ‘Coming nearly four years after the last major upgrade, ‘QuarkXPress 4.0 is not the radical revision you might expect of the top page-layout program. But with version 4.0, Quark (303/ 894-8888, www.quark.com) does target several areas for signif- icant new functionality. Graphics-Friendly A slew of Bézier drawing tools let you create moderately complex illustrations within QuarkxPress. Better, you can create text and picture boxes with Bézier tools; these boxes let you mask imported images and set up “columns” of type with unusual shapes. You can also convert single lines of text into picture boxes, so you can use text as an image mask or an easily editable Bézier shape. ‘QuarkXPress 4.0 lets you import The artistically or create clipping paths for graphics. inclined will also love the new clipping-path features. The program can use a TIFF image's alpha channel or clipping path to generate a clipping path within a Quark document, letting you create form-hugging text wraps around images. If your graphic doesn't include such an outline, QuarkXPress can create its own clipping path by masking out all white areas in the image—a neat trick. And however you got a clipping path for that image, QuarkXPress lets you edit it. More Styles Perhaps the most useful changes are the new character styles capability—which lets you assign for- matting to pieces of text, not just to whole paragraphs—and the inclusion of the formerly separate QuarkPrint plug-in, which lets you manage your print jobs more easily. However, | wish that creating character styles was a little easier. But | simply adore the new Append feature that lets you selectively append style sheets, colors, hyphenation settings, booklists, dashes, and stripes from other QuarkXPress documents—what a great idea! Quirks in QuarkXPress | did find some oddities in the beta | tested, although these may be resolved in the final ver- sion, due out this fall for $895. One is that you lose most image controls on imported bitmapped images if 32-bit preview is selected; at lower preview resolutions, all controls are available. Another is the lack of support for Mac OS 8's contextual menus, a feature the Windows version includes. Allin all, QuarkXPress 4.0 is a strong upgrade, despite the fact that the layout features, typography tools, and basic organization remain largely untouched. The new features are well designed, and every QuarkXPress user will find many of them appealing. 28 October 1997 MACWORLD March 1996), which the com- pany claims won't sacrifice brightness or portability. Ex- pected to cost $8995, it offers 600 lumens of brightness and will ship with a Mac adapter. ASK LCD’ $9495 Impression A4 includes a Mac cable and features 500 lumens in an 11- pound package. Sharp’ $8995 600-lumen XG-E1200U weighs 30.8 pounds and comes with a Mac adapter. At 21 pounds, Po- laroid’s (617/386-2000, wow .polaroid.comi) $6995 600-humen Polaview 211 weighs almost twice as much as its predeces- sor, the Polaview 10. Polaroid will supply a Mac cable if you ask for one. For $8495 you can get NEC Technologies’ 15-pound MultiSync MT810, which stores up to eight images, puts out 550 ANSI lumens, and doesn’t require an adapter. Philips’s ProScreen 4000 and ProScreen 4100 both ship with Mac adapters, weigh 17.5 pounds, and use a UHP (Ultra High Performance) lamp, de- signed to minimize brightness loss over time. The $6695 300-lumen ProScreen 4100 offers 800-by- 600-pixel resolution, while the $5500 350-lumen ProScreen 4000 features 640-by-480-pixel resolution. Not Too Bright, but Light With Lightware’s (503/641- 7873, www.lightware.com) and ‘Telex Communications’ (612/ 884-4051, waw.telex.com) new releases, you trade brightness for lightness. Lightware’s 9.45- pound MVP800 features 800- by-600-pixel resolution, a rela tively dim 275 ANSI lumens, and a pop-up lens for $6995. If your Mac doesn’t have a VGA video port, you'll need to buy an adapter. Telex’s $5995 800- by-600-pixel Firefly P350 puts out 250 to 300 ANSI lumens in a 9-pound case that collaps- es to 2.7 inches when not in use. The package includes a Mac adapter. Commotion on the Desktop SPECIAL-EFFECTS SOFTWARE BRINGS IMAGE EDITING TO FILM AND VIDEO by Stephen Beale he Macintosh could soon be playing a more prominent role in film and television produc- tion thanks to Commo- tion, a new video-painting pro- gram created by a visual-effects supervisor at Industrial Light & ‘Magic. Scott Squires developed the software over the past six years for his own work at the renowned special-effects house and has established a company called Puffin Designs (415/ 331-4560, waw.puffindesigns .com) to market the package. Don't Do This at Home Scheduled to ship in August for $2495, Commotion aims squarely at film and video pro- fessionals. It has most of the features you’d expect in a sophisticated image-editing program, but rather than being oriented toward still images, it is designed for use with video or film clips. 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But Commotion dem- onstrates that the Mac still has an important role to play among the creative profes- sionals who transform a direc- tor’s imagination into cine- matic reality. ‘Commotion's Super Clone feature lets you replicate images across multiple frames. 30 October 1997 MACWORLD | News More Cameras on Parade NIKON, OLYMPUS, AND EPSON ANNOUNCE THEIR LATEST MODELS by Stephen Beale he onslaught of new digital cameras contin- ues with recently an- nounced consumer models from Olympus America (516/844-5000, waw npus.com), Epson (310/782- 0770, www.epson.com), and Nikon (516/547-4200, wow -nikonusa.com). ‘Two from Olympus 9 Olym- pus has introduced the D-220L and D-320L, succes- sors to the D-200L and D-300L, respectively. Both cameras feature smaller de- signs than their predecessors’, long with removable media and a video-output port that lets you view images on a TV. Images are stored on Solid State Floppy Disk Cards (SSFDCs); a 2MB card is included in the package. 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Circle 208 on reader service card | News ClarisWorks Gets Its Own Office BY STEVE SCHWARTZ With version 5.0 due in September, ClarisWorks gets a promotion and a new title: ClarisWorks Office. A bundle that adds Claris Home Page Lite, Netscape Navigator, business tem- plates, and clip-art images, Office will be the official retail prod- uct. Not available separately except as an upgrade, ClarisWorks 5 offers only two significant new features—button bars and doc- ument links—but includes numerous minor enhancements. Buttons and Links Replacing the Shortcuts palette, the button bar lets you quickly execute commands relevant to whatever environment you're in. Customization options include specifying the bar's placement (top, right, left, bottom, or float- ing), adding and removing buttons, creating your own bars, and designing and assigning macros to buttons. Regardless of which bar is currently displayed, you can switch from one bar to anoth- er using a drop-down menu. Power users will appreciate the ability to create three types of links in Office documents: menu-accessible bookmarks, document links (clickable text or graphics that move you to a bookmark in the same document or that open another docu- ment), and URL links to Web sites. You can create links from selected text, an object, a paint image, spreadsheet cells, or doc- ument frames. Using links, you could make a live table of con- tents for a report or enable readers of a memo to jump to relat- ed information on the Web, for example. Multimedia and Graphics Other useful—but undra- matic—additions include password protection for documents; context-sensitive help for dialog boxes; the ability to drag and drop text and objects between documents, programs, and the desktop; named, as opposed to numbered, cell ranges in spread- sheets; an integrated equation editor, better alignment of objects embedded in word processed text; a multimedia database field type; a texture palette; a ClarisWorks Assistant for designing busi- ness cards; and an Open Scripts Folder menu for easy access to ClarisWorks-related AppleScripts. Owners of previous versions can upgrade to Claris- Works 5.0 alone for $49; to get the add-ons you'll have to buy the Office bundle for $99 and apply for a $30 rebate. Although ClarisWorks 5 is a solid, well- designed program, its upgrade value is ques- tionable. Serious Inter- net users will probably find it worthwhile, but the add-ons and minor 1m eG You can customize ClarisWorks’ enhancements may not built-in button bars or create yourown —_ be enough to entice the by adding and removing buttons. typical user. October 1997 MACWORLD KEVIN CANDLAND onto the open screen of a Pow- erBook. It features a built-in microphone, a zoom lens, automatic white balance, and manual and automatic focus. The $349 Kritter, from irez, was developed for the PowerBook 2400 and 3400. It uses a technology called Zoomed Video—avyailable through an included PC Card —to send images directly to the laptop’ video buffer, by- passing the system bus to speed performance. It is bundled with Kai’s PowerGoo, Kai's Photo Soap, and videoconfer- encing software. For the Desktop Toshiba (714/583-3000, www.toshiba .com/pecam/) and Panasonic (201/348-7000, wwzw.panasonic .comtalive/) both offer video- conferencing cameras that work with desktop computers in addition to laptops. Panasonic's EggCam is bundled with CUSeeMe software. Toshiba’ $139 IK-MMI1 can capture video at 30 frames per second with 512-by-492- pixel resolution. Compatible with most. videoconferencing boards and software, it can be used for videoconferencing, video e-mail, and video capture for Web pages. Panasonic's $129 EggCam was designed for video e-mail on Windows, but can also be used as a videoconferencing camera for the Mac. It is bun- dled with CUSeeMe software and produces images at 542- by-496-pixel resolution. Apple Gets Enterprise Boost from CA COMPANIES ANNOUNCE JASMINE INTEGRATION by Stephen Beale omputer Associates (516/342-5224, www .tai.com), a major de- veloper of corporate data-management and enterprise computing software, has given Apple a boost on two fronts by announcing that it will integrate Jasmine, its new object-oriented database pack- age, with Rhapsody, Apple’s next-generation OS. The move represents an endorsement of Rhapsody by a large software vendor and could enhance Apple’s presence in the enter prise computing market. Corporate Multimedia Jas- mine is an object-oriented database package that in- cludes multimedia authoring tools, allowing programmers to create media-rich applications for corporate networks. Under the agreement, the companies will ensure that applications created with Jas- mine will run in all software environments supported by the Rhapsody Yellow Box, includ- ing the Mac OS, Windows, and Rhapsody itself. Programmers will also be able to use the object-oriented authoring tools in the Yellow Box to create applications that interact with Jasmine databases. The Yellow Box is the portion of Rhapsody that will include such features as preemptive multitasking and protected memory. 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However, Jasmine’s media-authoring and object- oriented programming capabil- ities will likely be strong attrac- tions for corporate customers who want to move multimedia content over their networks, Unicenter Unified The companies also announced that they will integrate the Mac OS and Rhapsody with Computer Associates’ Unicenter TNG, an enterprise computing infra~ structure that allows adminis- trators to manage networks, applications, and databases within a single framework. By year’s end, Computer Associates plans to release software that permits Unicen- ter TNG to monitor CPU usage, drive failures, and other conditions of Mac systems connected to corporate net- works. Apple plans to offer software that will allow Macin- tosh users to control Unicen- ter TNG’s system-administra- tion functions through a Web- browser interface. Newer's MaxPowr Pro CPU upgrade will offer speeds up to 275MHz. Newer CPU Card Sports PowerPC 750 MAXPOWR PRO BOOSTS MAC PERFORMANCE by Howard Baldwin s the new PowerPC 750 CPU comes to market with its zip- py backside cache, Newer Technology (316/943-0222, wazw.newertech com) plans to ship upgrade cards for the Power Macin- tosh 7300, 7500, and other CPU-upgradable models. Newer plans to ship its MaxPowr Pro CPU upgrades in late August at 250MHz and 266MHz speeds with either 512K or IMB of backside cache. Macworld Lab tests on a prototype 270MHz version showed that the up- grade pushes the Power Mac 7500 and 7300 past any current 604e system (see below). Pric- ing has not been determined. Newer also announced its Nupowr 500/183c PowerPC upgrade card for PowerBook 500 computers, which re- places the 68LC040 processor originally used in the Power- Books. It uses the low-voltage 183MHz PowerPC 603ev processor, and sports 128K of external cache. Also included is a Control Panel that lets you turn off the cache with- out rebooting the system, for maximum battery life. The 500/183c will be available without RAM for $850 or with 16MB of RAM for $1063. The 16MB version hangs over into the internal modem space. Mac 0S 8 Ships with No License Deal A SLAP IN THE FACE TO MAC OS LICENSEES by Stephen Beale n July 26, Apple reached a long-elusive milestone: it finally shipped a major up- grade to the Macin- tosh Operating System. Mac OS 8 may be modest com- pared with the forthcoming Rhapsody—or the defunct Copland—but as Apple soft- ware chief Avie Tevanian proudly observed, “We shipped it on time, with the features we promised, and with very high quality? Unfortunately, July 26 was also an ominous mile- stone for Mac OS licensing. Because the day passed with no new licensing agreement in place, Power Computing, Umax Computer, Motorola, continues HAM] %MaxPowr Pro Reenergizes Older PCI Machines Based on the superfast PowerPC 750 (also called G3) CPU, Newer Technology's MaxPowr Pro 270 propelled the Power Mac 7500 and 7300 past any current 604e-based Mac. This prototype 270MHz card had only a 512K Level 2 backside cache. Newer will initially ship 250MHz and 266MHz versions. mI Best overall performance. Longer bars are better. Bold indicates best result in test. » New product. An Apple Power Macintosh 7100/80 has a SpeedMark score of 1.0. 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The practical impact was limited because _ licensees could still buy retail copies of Mac OS 8 for inclusion with their systems, but Apple’s relationship with its Mac OS licensees has reached a new low. This became apparent at the early August Macworld Expo in Boston, as Power Computing, fearing that Apple may try to eliminate the licensing program, tried unsuccessfully to foster a mass protest of the company’s licensing policies. Close, But . . . Shortly before Gil Amelio’ July 9 res- ignation as CEO, Apple and the licensees appeared close to a new licensing deal. A tentative agreement, dated June 18, was included in legal documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with Power Computing’s forthcoming initial public stock offering. The proposed agreement represented a compromise on several points: * Apple would allow OS licensees to offer PowerBook clones, first through exten- sions to the Mac OS, and later through a Common Hard- ware Reference Platform (CHRP) specification for notebook computers. * Licensees would pay royalties for each Mac OS system on a sliding scale, with the most powerful systems commanding higher royalties than more modest configura tions. Licensees would pay lower royalties for markets in which Apple has not been successful. The exact fees were unspecified, but the San Jose Mercury News reported in July that the maximum royal- ty for a single-CPU system would be $200. * Apple would require li- censees to submit CHRP sys- tems for technical evaluation and Mac OS certification. 36 October 1997 | News Licensees would submit sealed systems to prevent Apple engineers from learning about any hardware innovations inside. Certification would be based on a standard test suite. Apple said it will routinely complete the technical evalua~ tion within two business days, and OS certification within five business days. The licensees have said that Apple’ current certification system thwarts their ability to innovate and is sometimes used to delay competing products (see “Pos- sible Hope in Licensing Fra- cas” News, September 1997). Apple will not publicly discuss the negotiations or the reasons for the delays in reaching an agreement. But Apple executives have said that licensees are taking busi- ness away from Apple without expanding the Mac market. At the July 22 press con- ference announcing the re- lease of Mac OS 8, Apple marketing chief Guerrino De Luca said that the company hoped to have a completed agreement “as soon as possi- ble.” Previously, De Luca had said he expected a deal by the time Mac OS 8 shipped. Expo Ruckus “The conflict over licensing nearly reached the boiling point at Macworld Expo. As attendees walked into the opening keynote fea- turing Steve Jobs, Power Computing employees passed out “Freedom of Choice” signs, hoping that the audi- ence would launch a protest if Jobs openly attacked the licensees. Jobs—who has been functioning as Apple’s de facto CEO—did not mention Printer Puts Color Photos on Laser Paper New from Alps Electric (408/432-6000, www.alpsusa.com) is the $389 MD-1000, the latest in a line of color printers using the company's MicroDry inks. The MD-1000 lets you produce color photographs at 600 dpi on paper stocks designed for laser printers. It will also print on transparen- cies, greeting cards, T-shirt transfers, and backprint film. The Mac version uses a SCSI interface and is bundled with Adobe Systems’ P