MacWorld 9302 February 1993

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Apple = ©1982 age ope Ail reo. pee gy, Macias 0 our bet are eid kro pe Copter, Seem 7 ad ies dena le Cpr: Ta es crt ey Main oper THE ONLY SMM TAPE DRIVE THAT CAN MAKE CHANGE. STATE OF THE MAC Navigating by the Stars BY ADRIAN MELLO OMETIME IN JANUARY OR February, Apple expects to sell its 10 millionth Macin- tosh. This milestone marks a remarkable year in which the Macintosh had a 20 percent growth in unit sales and Apple surpassed IBM to claim the title of maker of the best-selling personal com- puter. As the Macintosh in- stalled base has been grow- ing, so have the number of products available to support it. The Mac is a very healthy personal computer platform, and we all know that one of the key signs of a healthy computer is the size of the soft- ware base that supports it. But with thou- sands of hardware and software products now available for millions of Macintoshes, users have a problem. It’s no small task to choose among all these products to find those that best meet all your needs, Since its founding, Macworld has dedi- cated itself to helping readers find the best products for their use. Ten months ago Macworld nearly doubled the number of stand-alone reviews appearing in each is- sue to provide more purchasing guidance through the product maze. We also added ratings to our Reviews section to provide an immediate assessment of each product. ‘These ratings have made it much easier to quickly evaluate the relative worth of the many products we review. Star Ratings ‘THIS MONTH WE MAKE IT STILL EASTER for our readers to find the quality prod- ucts that meet their requirements, by add- ing a section called Macworld Star Ratings. ‘The Star Ratings section appears in the back of the magazine and includes all the products evaluated in Reviews over the course of the past year. Products are or- ganized into categories and then listed al- phabetically. Each product review is sum- marized with a star rating and one or two concise sentences that capture the essence of the reviewer's opinion. Your search for the ideal product be- gins with the star rating itself. Each prod- uct is rated with one to five stars. Five stars is the best rating we give; one star is the worst. Five-star ratings are reserved for truly exceptional products that may inspire a quasi-religious experience in the reviewer. Four stars are awarded to well- designed products that excel in their re- spective categories. Three stars are given to good products that are reasonably ef- fective for their intended use. Two stars means the product has one or more short- comings that currently prevent the re- viewer from recommending it. One star means the product is badly flawed or de- ficient and the reviewer recommends avoiding it until the manufacturer signifi- cantly improves it. Keep in mind that ratings and reviews ultimately represent a reviewer’s opinion. Different reviewers can have different takes on the same product. Products have a complex set of features applied to a var- ied set of jobs—no two reviewers will weigh this mix in precisely the same way. You can gain a little more insight into the rating by looking at the pros and cons listed in the header of each review. How- ever, when you are seriously considering a product for purchase, it’s always wise to read the body of the review to un- derstand the reasoning behind the re- viewer’s opinion. That’s why we provide a reference to the original review for each product listed in the Star Ratings section; we also indicate the current ver- sion number so that you know wheth- er the product has been updated since the review was written. Behind the Ratings TO PROVIDE CONSISTENCY, TH tors at Macworld ask that all rev ers apply key criteria to every product they evaluate, The main crite- ria that influence the ratings are interface, ease-of-use, de- sign, documentation, support, value, performance, reliability, and innovation. Interface has long been a key facet of the Macintosh’s usability, and ratings take this into consideration, Ease-of- and support are important because it’s not enough to create a good product without providing a solid framework for using it. Support is especially important; users need to be able to count on a company’s assistance. Judging the value of a product requires the reviewer to as whether the product is competitively priced and whether it’s priced reasonably for the job it performs. Performance in- cludes an appraisal of the product’s speed and responsiveness. Reliability is crucial because even a fast and well-designed product can be useless if it’s incompatible or buggy. Finally, the rating includes a consideration of how innovative a product is. Macintosh products have a proud his- tory of pioneering new application areas as well as providing more-elegant solu- tions for existing categories. We think it’s important to reward products that con- tinue this tradition. PowerBook Notes IN ADDITION TO STAR RATINGS, WE'VE also started publishing a monthly column called PowerBook Notes. Using a Power- Book has become a new way of life for many Macintosh enthusiasts, judging by the 400,000 PowerBooks Apple sold last year. PowerBook Notes is written by Mac- world contributing editor Cary Lu, who has been writing about the Macintosh since its introduction in January 1984. This issue’s premier column begins by telling you how to get the most out of your PowerBook by paring down software overhead to produce an astonishingly lean system that maximizes avail- able storage and memory. We hope that, like the Mac, Macworld will continue to improve with time. Star Ratings and PowerBook Notes are both the result of readers like you telling the editors how the magazine can better meet your needs. As the new editor- use covers how long it takes to Guidance in-chief of Macworld, I am es- learn to use the product and in pecially interested in finding what stages users are exposed through out what changes and addi- to more-complicated features. tions you would like to see in When evaluating a product’s the product coming months. Please write design, the reviewer considers to me with your ideas so we whether the product’s features maze can continue to keep our fin- are well chosen and well implemented. Documentation gers on the strong pulse of the Macintosh. m MACWORLD February 1993 37 A color publi so revolutiona news every Take any big story in the San Francisco Examiner® The Oakland Hills fire. The Gulf War. The fall of communism. The Giants leaving. And Radius had a hand in it. The Examiner cranks out five editions every day, With deadlines ranging from a merely frantic three hours, to a maddening, ulcer~ inducing 40 minutes. Pretty impressive, But what's really remarkable is that they put them all out in color. Thanks to Radius. How do they do it? Chris Gulker, Director of Development at the Examiner, explains, “We have to work fast.” An understatement, “And Rockets have given us the speed we need to really make doing IT'S BEEN QUITE A DECADE THE EXAMINER CAPTURED IT ALL IN RADIUS 24-BIT COLOR. intensive color this kind of work feasible on a desktop system. WE M AK Ee Giants leaving SF City fights to keep | hall team. Giants going, going gone, = FS They re out of here ROCKET SPEED HELPS THE EXAMINER PUT OUT FIVE COLOR EDITIONS A DAY, BY THE LOOKS OF THINGS, THEY NEED IT, “Radius' Color Matching System represents another major breakthrough for us in terms of hitting really tight deadlines, Rather than going through the whole figamarole of waiting for proofs then making all the necessary adjustments, we now = 1130AM have complete | confidence that what we " see on the monitor really is what we'll get in print. “With this high level of comfort in the color On our screens, we've basically been able to turn our journalists into color separators. Which means we save in | terms of both time and personnel, “We've also done a lot with video frame “WE CAN GET A COLOR PICTURE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S CAMERA TO THE PRESSES IN THE SPACE OF 40 MINUTES" grabbing. During the Gulf War, for example, the best images were coming from CNN. 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