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PLUS! PowerBook Notes @ Star Ratings: Over 350 Products Rated Color Macs Color Classic New Expandable Design, Page 94 Color PowerBook Portable Presentations, Page 120 LO Fast and Affordable, Page 102 Centris 610 & 650 040-Based Midrange Macs, Page 106 : Quadra SOO Faster than a Quadra 950, Page 114 ‘Take a short File Edit Liew Shortcut to bullets. Your most important points are clearly featured in one speed step. Shortcut to tools, Now it takes the least amount of work to use Shorteut to envelopes. Address the the functions you need most. outside from the inside, Automatically. Introducing Microsoft Word 5.1 for the Macintosh. The path to easier This powerful Toolbar features one- computing just got short: step bulleting, automatic envelope ad- er, with new Microsoft dressing and up to 30 custom buttons to Word version 5.1. shorten the trip through repetitive tasks. Now you can speed We've especially shaved time off through your work with your work on complex documents. Now our intuitive new’Toolbar. It putsallof — youcan easily create charts and tables the functions you use most into short __ or insert and edit your own text annota- and easy reach. With a click. tions. Your ideas look great in no time. "Phas fit ean ppiake esta. Offered 1982 Mico Copoaton Als reserved Prin in the OSA. sof Word or the Mac ning ourade mst deramtrale prof purchase. Par mare infra sie cut to work. 10 Ou ? ee) CO) AY aaa el le] dal |E z|||¥ lord| 5.1 B= Shortcut to finding and replacing. Search with a click. Shortcut to font sizes. Modify fast with this big little feature, Shortcut to finding files. Manage Jiles by name, keytoord, author, date, folder, drive or network. Easily. Shortcut to borders. Frame your ideas in a variely of ways, Microsoft Word 5.1 comes with spe- cial installation features and a new bat- tery indicator for the Mac’ PowerBook” Italso has QuickTime" support, which allows you to add full-motion video as easily as inserting a simple graphic. In short, we've made word process- ing easier than ever before. Thanks to you. Because we got there by listening to your comments and suggestions. And for a limited time, as a special Shortcut to print preview. See the overview of your work without a side trip tothe pull-down menu. Shorteut to customizing, Personally assign up to 30 buttons to make your ‘most common tasks easier. reward to all registered users of ver- sion 5.0, you can upgrade to 5.1 for only $14.95: Users of any earlier version of Microsoft Word can upgrade for $129: Call us at (800) 323-3577, Dept. HY3, for more information. And dis- cover for yourself why new Microsoft Word 5.1 won't be easy to pass up. Microsoft Making it easier ‘Stakes alt 800) 323-3572 Department Hi infrmatin ony Canada calf 900590 Mins isa reed rama Mier Corporati, Maint an ac ave metered racks PverBook ad icine ee trademarks of Apple Comper MIRROR’S NEW IS GREATLY FORTUNATELY, 600 DPI 800 DPI Transparency adapter 600 Plus Color Scanner, 800 Plus Color Scanner, for 600 or 800 models with MirrarScan" Software with MirrorScan Software — $599 $999 $1,299 Adobe Photoshop,” seston 2.01 $200 (reins Scanner purchase) 600 Pro Color Scanner, 800 Pro Golor Scanner, with JPEG Compression with JPEG Compression and MirrorScan Software and MirrorScan Software $1,399 S699" MIRROR Low monthly payments with your Mirror credit card. Call for an application. COLOR SCANNER ENHANCED. THE PRICE Introducing the new, improved Mirror family of color scanners. Starting with what we learned from the original Mirror 600, we designed the new 600 Plus to we be the fastest, easiest-to-use , color scanner you could buy. 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GAZINE APRIL SPECIAL REPORT a Golor Classic... ; : WME BY JAMES A. MARTIN Apple adds color, a PDS, an FPU option, anda revamped look to the original compact Mac, butis it worth the expense? WHERE by CHERYL ENGLAND Abest- ae the LOTT keeps pace with a Mac Tei and has none of the LC Il’s limitations, ir Centris 610 and 650 vecccscccccssecsecvsssccsevseeeerseee 4 06 BY GALEN GRUMAN These successors to the midrange Macintosh IT series offer pow- erful 040-based Mac systems—at very competitive prices. Miva Quadra 800... eee 114 WME BY GALEN GRUMAN The latest in Apple’s line of high-performance Macs, the Quadra $00 outperforms the Quadra 950 but costs less. Ming Color PowerBook..................120 BY CARY LU Burdened with a dimly lit passive matrix dis- sepsis play, this 256-color notebook may not be the machine of your dreams, Page 138 4 April 1993 MACWORLD he "a e Ss : ee i“ REVIEWS 126 127 _ image-editing program Strauss: Three Tone 132 137 138 138 140 142 144 146 141 141 oS 150 156 156 ~~ 4th Dimension 3.0.1 Relational database, AY Image Assistant 4.0 Page 102 ‘Mozart: The *Dissonant” Quartet; Sel ubert: “The Trout" Quintet; Richard 458 AcTrain Railroad simulation ‘game 158 “Media-Pedia Video Clips Compton's Multimedia Video clips Encyclopedia 1.00M; The sae 160 Just Joking 1.0 New Grolier Multimedia ane Encyclopedia — Encyclopedias on CD ROM 160 NetVirtual 2.0 Music-education CD ROM ‘Adobe Dimensions Ea B-Deffectssoftware 162. Arthur's Teacher Trouble Norton Essentials for : ee Storyeon kon PowerBook 1.0 PowerBook utilities 162. 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Fee crissy ane Telecommunications software CPU 1.0) PowerBook utility PowerMerge 1.0.2 File-synchronization software ArtBeat Professional 1.0 Draw and paint program OrgChart Express 1.0. : Organization chart program ‘ ae DEPARTMENTS 20 How to Contact Maeworld 23 MacBulletin 25 State of the Mac BY ADRIAN MELLO Changing World-Class Awards 27 Letters as The Iconoclast “BY STEVEN LEVY The teouble with trodes Conspicuous Consumer BY DEBORAH BRANSCUM Exploring Internet, Usenet, and ~ beyond 73 News BY “DAN LITTMAN AND TOM MORAN The Desktop Critic BY DAVID POGUE Witty and wacky sofeware New Products How To/Quick Tips How To/Getting Started BY JIM HEID Mail merge 205 PowerBook Notes By CARY LU Keeping your work in syne 211 Star Ratings 292 Best-Sellers 19! ‘Api 1853, Volume 10. 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The Raven-040 has been Production Proven™for our clients for more than a year.” 14:44 Time toROTATESO Degrees 9:16 Time {0 ROTATE 90 Denre ‘Systems Tested With Elile-3's Timeto SAVE File (MM) SCSI Wide Array BB Time to SAVE Fle Microtet Raven 040 Test Results Are Available Upon Request » IRVINE, CA 92718 For pre-press and graphic solutions contact Digital Resources or call MicroNet Technology for the name of your nearest Reseller. MicroNet Technology, Inc. SALES: (714) 581-1540 © FAX: (714) 837-1164 AppleLink: MICRONET.SLS e Compuserve: 76004,1611 RAVEN 040 is a tracematk of MiroNot Technology, ne. All ther rademarks are property of their respective owners, Circle 139 on reader service card Mat Newton's Alpha: Apple showed an al- pha version of its Newton personal digital assistant (PDA) at the January Consumer Electronics Show. The company said it expected to begin shipping the first full-fledged model of the PDA in the middle of this year at a list price well below $1000. Apple's Record Revenues: |n Janu- ary, Apple reported that its revenues for the first fiscal quarter, ending December 25, 1992, hit an all-time high of just over $2 billion. Net income de- clined, however, from $166 million in the first quar- ter of 1992 to $161.3 million as Apple continued its price-cutting, market-share strategy. Unit sales of Macintoshes were up 31 percent versus the same quarter a year ago. RasterOps Upgrades CorrectPrint The CorrectPrint 300i from RasterOps (408/562- 4200) is an upgraded version that replaces the company’s troubled CorrectPrint 300 dye-sublima- tion printer. The new version is up to six times faster, includes 36MB of RAM, and has a larger color range with better color matching, according to RasterOps. The company says it has begun ship- ping the printer at a list price of $9999 and is of- fering an upgrade for the CorrectPrint 300. Portable PostScript: Mannesmann Tally (206/251-5524) has introduced the Mobile- Writer PS, a portable PostScript printer that weighs 8 pounds and lists for $999. The thermal-transfer printer produces 6 ppm at 300 dpi. It was sched- uled to be available in April. Virtual Upgraded: Connectix (415/571- 5100) has upgraded Virtual, a utility that provides virtual memory support under System 6 or System 7, to version 3.0. Connectix says that the $99 util- ity runs faster and requires less disk space than Apple's virtual memory, which is only for System 7. Virtual 3.0 is for Macs with a 68030 processor; Connectix plans to release an upgrade this spring for 68040 Macs. Pantone’s Color Assistant: Pantone's (201/935-5500) new ColorUp is intended to help people who are not trained as designers to choose harmonious color palettes for presentations and other common design tasks. The $99.95 program walks the user through creating a palette, displays sample graphics using the colors, and can export final palettes to many graphics and presentation programs. It also incorporates some interactive tutorials. Freedom from Choosing: Portfolio Systems (408/252-0420) is shipping version 2.0 of its printing utility DynoPage. The $89.95 package includes a timesaving new feature: users can select printers or fax devices from the menu bar of their applications or from a pop-up list in the Print dia- log box without going through the Chooser. Quick Disk Recovery: Central Point Software (503/690-2650), which makes the com- prehensive data- and disk-recovery utility Mac- Tools, is launching a utility for recovering lost disks and files that runs without requiring the user to un- derstand what has gone wrong or to decide what to do. The $49.95 Safe & Sound comes on a single floppy and deals with such problems as viruses, crashed disks, and lost files. m MACWORLD April 1993 23 THE FASTEST WAY TO PUT 25GB ON A SINGLE TAPE. 7th Annual Maeworld World-Class Awards Survey NAME COMPANY ADDRESS cITY STATE ZIP PHONE fold Place Stamp Here 7th Annual Macworld World-Class Awards Survey Macworld 501 Second Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Speak HOW SATISFIED ARE YOU WITH THE MACINTOSH PRODUCTS YOU USE? ANNOUNCING THE 7TH ANNUAL MACWORLD WORLD-CLASS AWARDS SURVEY Your Mind Every year Macworld conducts the World-Class Awards survey to give our readers a chance to voice their opinions of the Macintosh hardware, software, and computer peripherals they use. This year we're asking you to write in the names of as many as ten products and rate your level of satisfaction with them. Please use this form to provide the following information for each product. First write in the full names of the product and company. Then circle a number from 1 to 10 that represents your level of satisfaction, with 10 being the highest possible rating and 1 being the lowest. In making your evaluation, consider all of the following factors, as appropriate: = features = design = innovativeness = adherence to the Macintosh interface = ease of use = customer service = technical support We're also asking you to name the most promising and innovative hardware and software newcomers to the Macintosh market (to qualify, products must have been released since January 1992), and tell us which companies provide the best customer support. Tell us what you think. Send your form (postmarked no later than March 19, 1993) to: World-Class Awards Survey, Macworld, 501 Second Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. Thank you for your opinions. Results of the 7th Annual Macworld World-Class Awards survey will be announced at the Boston Macworld Expo in August and published in September's issue. 7th Annual Macworld World-Class Awards Survey 1 = NOT AT ALL SATISFIED - - - - 10 = EXTREMELY SATISFIED Compan NAME ‘COMPANY WANE PRODUCT HARE 1 2a @ 5619 # a 40 PRODUCT NAME 423 45 67 € 9 10 COMPANY NAME COMPAR WAME 1234567 89 10 pRopucT wAME {28 #65 6 7 9 40 Coupany name ZomPany NAME FeopucT NAME 4 234-3 6) ce 9) 40 123 43 @ 2a 9 46 COMPANY WANE Toiarany nam 1 238 SG 7 <8 8 40 125 4 5 67 8 9 10 TGiarany name COMPANY NAME PRODUCT WARE 423 45 67 8 9 10 433 4 5 6 7.6 > 10 MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER—HARDWARE TOnPanY Nan FRopuct naMe MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER—SOFTWARE FaopueT NAME BEST CUSTOMER SUPPORT—HARDWARE ora BEST CUSTOMER SUPPORT—SOFTWARE CoraPany wane MACWORLD STATE OF THe MAC World-Class Changes BY ADRIAN MELLO VERY YEAR FOR THE PAST SIX years Macworld has asked its readers to vote for their favor- ite Macintosh products. And every summer, after you indi- cate your choices for best prod- ucts, Macworld reveals the win- ners and presents them with the World-Class Award. The edi- tors have always been proud that the World-Class Awards were based on readers’ opinions instead of editors’ opinions. After all, we get to tell you what we think about Macin- tosh products in the hundreds of product comparisons and reviews we print throughout the year; it’s only right that the people who use these products every day should have a say. This marks the awards’ seventh year, and once again, we are asking you to choose the Mac products that you think best represent excellence. But this year we have changed the basis on which we con- fer the awards. Instead of asking you to choose the best product within a specific category from a list, we want you to name the products that have given you the greatest satisfaction. We're asking you to register how satisfied you are with the products you use. Why the change? Two reasons. One is that it has become unrealistic to expect users to choose among literally thousands of products. How many readers have the time to try out ten word processing pro- grams before deciding which is best? Even comparatively narrow product categories such as project management and math- ematics software have swollen with new offerings in recent years. But there’s an- other reason for the change—to reward those companies that go beyond innova- tion by providing solid products with good support at reasonable prices. Reader Satisfaction A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO I DE- scribed the criteria we use to rate products that we review in Macworld. I would like you to consider these same criteria when you decide how satisfied you are with the products that you use. When judging your own degree of satisfaction, ask the follow- ing questions: Did the product’s interface live up to the standard of quality estab- lished by the Mac’s own interface? Was the program easy to learn and use? Were the features and design of the product ap- propriate, complete, and well-executed? ‘Was the documentation thorough and well-organized? If you have required af- ter-sales support, has the company been responsive? Was the product priced rea- sonably for the job it does? Did it perform quickly and responsively? Was it reliable, or was it incompatible or buggy? Finally, was the product innovative and/or origi- nal? Please keep in mind that you cannot expect a product to be something it was not designed to be. For example, don’t judge your word processor too harshly because it can’t lay out pages as effectively as a desktop publishing program. After you have considered the rel- ative merits of each product you use, choose a number from 1 to 10 to show your overall satisfaction with the prod- uct. The best satisfaction rating you can give is a ten. After we hear from you and other readers, we should have a better idea of how satisfied a product’s buyers feel after they have used it. The products with the highest user-satisfac- tion score in their category will be the World-Class winners. This is the most important measure of all, because even the most in-depth analyses by editors can’t compare to the real-world experience of thousands of readers. We'll share the re- sults and announce the winning products in the September issue of Macworld. Apple Is Back ANOTHER CHANGE TO THE AWARDS is that Apple products will be eligible again. Last year Mac- world eliminated Apple from the contest, leading to con- fusion for some readers. Since that time companies have run advertisements proudly an- nouncing that their prod- ucts won World-Class Awards. These companies have a right this year, we are including Apple products in the competition. This means you can in- dicate how satisfied you are with any Ap- ple product you use, whether itis a printer ora scanner or any Macintosh model. Now that there are so many different Macs, it will be interesting to see how sat- isfied everyone is with their model. Use the same criteria with Apple products as with products from other companies. Note that on the ballot card inserted in this issue, we have room for only ten products—even though you may use more. Please write in the names of your choices from among the products that you use the most and are most familiar with. Special Categories IN ADDITION TO THE NEW CUSTOMER- satisfaction awards, we are continuing to ask you to vote in several special catego- ries. Since innovation has always been key to the Mac, we want to encourage creativ- ity by recognizing new products that cap- ture the imagination of our readers. You can nominate one software product as the most promising newcomer introduced since the beginning of 1992. You can also pick the most promising newcomer out of the hardware products introduced in the same period, Wealso want to recognize outstanding companies that provide the highest qual- ity of support for the products they sell. As part of ourreviewing process, we check on the support that companies provide. We also regularly report on support issues in the Conspicuous Consumer column, call- ing special attention to ex- emplary cases of support in the column’s “Service Heroes” section. Now we would like to hear your choices for best support. If you have experi- enced outstanding technical support or any other after- sales help, you can vote for best customer support for to be proud of their achieve- Which both hardware and software. ments. Unfortunately, since The readers have always Apple did not win any World- Mac products been the heart of the World- Class awards, some readers Class Awards. 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Lo and behold, it is still faster than even the best new Macs and would have been at the top of the list except for some DOS machines. Despite its superior performance, you virtually dismissed the Outbound because itisn’tan Apple Macintosh. If fear that the company might go out of business is the only criterion for not covering the Out- bound, you should endorse only Apple, Claris, and Microsoft and relegate virtu- ally every other hardware and software yenture to the “these guys might not be around in the future” category. Daniel Koblosh Redondo Beach, California ‘Outbound has closed its doors. See MacBulletin, ‘March 1993.—Ed. EING YOUR RE NT s nd on a PowerBook 180, saw several annoying white dots in the screen, and returned it the next day. The dealer wouldn’t ex- change the machine because bad pixels are an epidemic among PowerBooks, and he didn’t want to pillage his stock until we found one I could accept. I later discov- APRIL 1993 ered that Apple considers a screen with fewer than five pixel voids to be the customer’s problem. I can’t believe that for a computer on which the screen is the singular f of the user’s attention, this kind of defect could be excused by a manufacturer’s ar- bitrary standard of what constitutes defec- tive merchandise. Matt Resnicoff New York, New York Formoreon Apple's policy regarding PowerBook pixel voids, see Conspicuous Consumer, July 1992.—Ed, Upgrading Tips EBORAH BRANSCUM’S “THE UP- grade Express” brought to mind a question I have concerning what to do with all the older versions (Conspicuous Consumer, December 1992), I never throw away older versions of software because no one can truly guar- antee upward compatibility here is nothing worse than opening (if you can) a document created by a previous version and finding that nothing looks the way it used to. Irvin Bingham Frederick, Maryland Readers should watch out for incompatibilities be- tween older application versions and new Apple system software versions —Ed Y IDEA FOR UPGRADING IS SIM- ple. Included with the software or on the registration form, the consumer should be offered any one future upgrade for a one-time additional cost. When each upgrade is ready to come out, the com- pany could offer the upgrade to each of its customers and give them the choice to get it or wait for the next. JoAnn Roa New York New Ye continues MACWORLD April 1993 27 Afier Dark THE ULTIMATE SCREEN SAVER 32 incredible displays to prevent phosphor burn-in. Flying Toasters and fantastic Fish. Screen-locking password protection. Company logo and message display. SystemlQ activity monitor. An all-new collection of 26 add-on displays. Contest, winners Mowin’ Man, Tunnel and GraphStat. Virex®-D virus scanning module from the makers of Virex. Boris the Cat. 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Ken Beck Spokane, Washington Ss MALL NEW COMPANIES WITH IN- noyative products, like mine, cannot survive with high piracy rates. The pro- grammers and publishers who worked hard to produce the product and bring it to market get not a penny if you pirate our software. If the software isn’t bought, our company folds and all our work goes down the drain. The software that you continnes co ORR Fic T 1 Oo ‘The suggested retail price for the PowerBook 180 is between $4109 and $4469 (“New PowerBooks: The 145, 160, and 180,” December 1992). The actual resolution of the Hewlett- Packard LaserJet 4M is 600 by 600 dpi (“Workgroup Printers,” January 1993). The modem-port and printer-port labels were reversed in the “What Makes a Logic Board” illustration on page 142 (“Your Computer Revealed: Inside the System,” No- vember 1992). The correct name of Toshiba America’s 17- ppm laser printer is PageLaser GX400 (“Workgroup Printers,” January 1993). The weight of Proxima Corporation’s Color Works sx AS02C and Ova- tion sx A812C LCD panels is 7 pounds (“Crystal-Clear Presenta- tions,” January 1993). Add Noise, a computer art show held in July 1992 in San Francisco, was or- ganized by Bay Area artists Diane Fenster and Sigi Torinus, and by Matthew Boryslawski, principal of View by View, an architectural visualization firm (Art Beat, January 1993). The show was ‘sponsored by Eastman Kodak and View by View, and the opening reception was hosted by Adobe Systems. | PON High resolution color scanners New from Epson. OmniPage’ Direct OCR pson’ introduces eyes for your Macintosh’— complete with everything you need to start scanning immediately. Both the 600C and 800C models feature 24 bit, one-pass and three-pass scanning. Both come bundled with full versions of Adobe’ Photoshop"so you can manipulate all the images you capture. oO = Desktops You get Caere TryPack, so you don’t have to retype docu- ments, You get a PIM, cable, and all you need to make your scanner a desk accessory. We offer an add-on transparency unit, which gives you the flexibility to scan slides. A document feeder attachment for both EPSON > -ay And of course it’s all protected by Epson’s one Drop by your computer store soon and take a look or call 1-800-289-3776 and for representative 75 for more information. Just don’t be surprised if you end up with a scanner, g Notebooks LETTERS liked well enough to steal then isn’t sup- ported or maintained or upgraded. Linda Kaplan President Thought I Contd New York, New York Dp UE TO THE RICH CONTRIBUTION software firms make to the ad line, one should not expect too many pro- piracy stories in Macworld. Too bad, be- cause the free exchange of software is the engine that drives growth in this industry. The world would be a very different place without unauthorized software du- plication. The whole computer industry would be far smaller. Laser printers would start at $5000, and only the well-to-do would have computers in their homes. If you print this letter, please withhold my name and address. I don’t wish to be harassed by the SPA. Name Withheld by Request Berkeley, California Re: Saints and Sinners BOUGHT BEAGLEWORKS IN THE spring of 1992, shortly after getting my computer. I was disappointed to find it extremely slow and buggy, so much so that I found it unusable, I called Beagle Bros and was told that they would send me an upgrade when it was complete. Al- though the quick and courteous response pleased me, I never received an upgrade. Is there in fact a more recent version, and if so, how do I contact WordPerfect for an upgrade? BeagleWorks had a lot of potential, but at the moment it is merely an expensive piece of shelfware. Jonathan Stimmel Brattleboro, Vermont After acquiring BeagleWorks, WordPerfect upgraded and renamed the program WordPerfect Works for ‘Macintosh version 1.2. BeagleWorks owners who bought the product after October 16, 1992, will re- ceive a free, disks-only upgrade, BeagleWorks owners who bought the product before October 16 can get a disks-only upgrade for $8 within in the United States. The new reference manual is $29.95, and the new workbook is $19.95. Readers can contact WordPerfect by phone at 800/451-5151 or by fax at 801/228-5377 for more information. —éd. HE LORAN INTERFACE ON OUR MI- croPhone II and MicroPhone Pro communications software does help users navigate CompuServe, but it was not meant to compete directly with or replace a product like the CompuServe Informa- tion Manager. Loran gives users one online inter- face. 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A Company Responds CCORDING TO THE NOVEMBER 1992 Reviews, “NightWatch is not currently compatible with After Dark and will freeze your After Dark screen.” This statement does not give the whole story. Any two screen savers operating on one computer at the same time will have simi- lar problems; therefore, only one screen saver should be used at any one time. In order to use After Dark as your screen saver and NightWatch as protec- tion for your hard drive, turn off the screen saver feature in NightWatch. Raman Boucher Macintosh Technical Support Berkeley Systems Berkeley, California Letters on Letters WAS AMAZED THAT SOMEONE would write to chastise you on Deborah Branscum’s Conspicuous Con- sumer columns on Ehman and Bridgette (Letters, January 1993), She has done the Mac community a service and should be given a commendation for her reporting. 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All Apple System installed; ready to plug and play La Cie ZFP and Cirrus hard drives deliver the latest Universal Power Supply in high-performance Quantum technology, Approved by FCC and UL, Seeing is believing! Award-winning closeout! La Cie {s replacing our original Silverscanner (1992 World Class Award winner) with a newer model, Now can you can enjoy the rich imagery of our original Silverscanner at cheap thrills prices (perfectly balanced color to our shadowy details to our crisp clean curved lines), Buedon't wait! The only thing limited about our state-of the-art Silverscanner is our inventory. Don’t let this one-pass beauty pass you by this time. Call us and order one right now, before they're all gone! Silverscanner Silverscanner Silverscanner lla with Color {tl and Read-tt ‘with Photoshop and with Photoshop, ColorStudioand OCR. Pro Reade OCR Pro Read-lt OCH Pro Waal $1399. Now! Waal $4799. Nou! West $1899. 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Tounami 40MB (3'') $199 $249 $299 $349 85MB (3ii") $239 $289 $339 $429 120MB (3't') $359 $409 $459 $549 127MB (3!) $309 $359 $409 $489 170MB (3!1') $359 $409 $459 $519 240MB (3}h") $529 $579 $629 $739 525MB (3ii") $1059 $1109 $1159 $1299 700MB (3'i') $1259 $1309 $1359 $1479 1,05GB (3'") $1639 $1689 $1739 $1819 1.2GB (3's) $1709 $1759 $1809 $2049 80MB (21!) for Powerbook $369 See PocketDrive 120MB (24h) for Powerbook $469 See PocketDrive 160MB (21) for Powerbook $699 See PocketDrive Seagate intemal zeP+ HP Internal ZFP+ 1.26B (31) $1799 $1899" 1,056B (a) $2099 $2199" 1.6GB (51') $2299 $2449 2.1GB (5) $2949 $3099 2.4GB (51') $3299 $3449 1.6GB (51) $2399 $2549 DEC Internal ZFP+ 1,05GB (31) $1999 $2099* Available only in our avard winning Cis and ZEP hal eight ens. PocketDrive™ Pack it in your pocket, purse or brief- case. PocketDrives offer convenient desktop connection at a great price. 40MB (2! incl. connector $299 SOMB (2! incl. connector $5 19 120MB (2%) incl. Peonnector $619 160MB (2'/') incl. Peonnector $849 oS Optional PocketDock Cable $59 Extra T-Connector $59 110V Accessory Kit $69 Powerbook Internals Pack more power in your Powerbook. Comes with brackets and instructions. 80MB Powerbook intemal $369 120MB Powerbook Intema $469 160MB Powerbook Internal $699 Silverlining™ Hailed as one of the most powerful and useful hard disk management software available, Silverlining offers unique features found no where else! Give your hard disk a Silverlining. Silverlining $149 and a friendly sales staff. tical Our quiet Cirrus Optical drives offer 128MB removable media storage, compact portability and fast 38ms performance. Includes one free cartridge ($79 value). Cirrus Op Internal External 128MB 31 Optial $1399 $1499 Drive with Retrospect $1499 $1599 128MB Optical Disk $79 ‘While supplies last Cirrus Backu up i Our Cirrus backup solutions power to handle large backup jobs. Includes Retrospect™ and | free tape. Internal External $549 155MB Tape Drive 600MB Tape Dive $699 $799 13-206Bpar $1249 $1349 48GB Compbat $1549 $1649 Test us for real and call now for fast, friendly service! LACIE LIMITED A QUANTUM COMPANY 800-999-1383 International 503-520-9000 Fax 503-520-9100 6 a.m.-6 p.m.PST Mon.-Fri. VISA, MasterCard, C.0.D, and apbroved purchase orders cocepted* “canter a rf ted ere bac pu ute fe Syl. aa a sippat win fa convert Unind Stros, Peas cvtact La Color itcmaton’ isbn. Al slo lax wn ?, in Ge goa tasers cla GU» Guo Carpy. At aba tudor ihe poor) orp congane. Mp occur, © Coit 1992-95 Lal, Lt 6700 SW Crates Pion, Beaver, OA 9700S. Pras: 89) 0-900, Fae (0) 520.9100. ZFP Removable Our 44-88MB removable media drives deliver Syquest technology in a zero footprint case. Includes | free cartridge. 44MB Drive $499 88MB Drive (88C) $719 44MB Cartridge $63 88MB Cartridge $98 ExpressDrive™ Here's tight security and portability. La Cie Express Drives offer removable drive convenience and Quantum quality. ExpressDrive Chassis $399 50MB Quantum LPS Drive $299 100MB Quantum LPS Drive $41 9 120MB Quantum LPS Drive $469 240MB Quantum LPs Drive $819 Circle 246 on reader service card Actual Silverscanner Il Image Silverscanner II™ One look at the image above should convince you that our next generation Silverscanner can really perform! Superior line art, detailed gray-scale and gorgeous color are the trademarks of this one pass, 24bit, high resolution, feature- packed scanning machine, Just scan it! La Cie Silverscanner Il wih Color It and Readlt O.CR. Pro! $1599 with Photoshop and ReadtO,CR. Pro! $1999 with Photoshop, ClorStudio $2099 and Read-It 0.C.R, Pro! il la Ges verscanner = and Read-It O.C.R. Pro! with Photoshop $ 1 3 4 9 $1449 and Read-It O.C.R. Pro! with Photoshop, ColorStudio and Read-It O.C.R. Pro! Great for your image. = al Introducing: 9 With wansparency : | and sheet feeder oplons: From Improve your image. Hug the curves. Continuing our award winning trad of provi When scanning line art, the Silverscanner II really shine outstanding scanning solutions : os At 1600 dpi, you get what amounts to an electronic stat. proudly announces Silverscanner II. It is so good, we it to produce this org olor. Fine image detail. Superior software at the controls, Excellent tonal ra is right in front of you. La Cie’s powerful plug-in modules have been hailed some of tl ft And with features like dynamic color preview, independent color (R,G,B)/gamma correction/contrast/brightness controls, nir ab tings, color dropout and magnified previews, proof scans, 25% to 400% per color. pet cl ig s ent dei scaling in ps and 25 dpi to 1600 dpi in 1 dpi steps and tonal range in highlight and shadow areas in one pe And now with an electronic de ster, color histogram Easy for the beginner, but with all the ful control ie and automatic tone adjustment, all interactive in the advanced user craves. preview. How’s that for an image building machine! ‘Aueduuoo tuNgueNCS eB ‘ID BT sry NOA AueduAOD au LOY aAo] NOA saAuIp ay] Test us for real and call now for fast, friendly service! 800-999-1383 Hitt A QUANTUM GOMPANY and, C.0.D. and approve LETTERS points out the October 1992 slide scanner review (Letters, January 1993), Frankly, he’s whining because you're not publish- ing information he has a direct use for, and that’s just dumb. By the way, Macworld should set up a fax line for Letters, QuickTips, and so on. Several times in the past I’d contemplated mailing a letter to Macworld, but I'd been put off by the U.S. Mail. Steve Godun Piscataway, New Jersey Readers can fax letters and tips to Macworld at our main fax number, 415/442-0766.—Ed. Unfair Gomparisons? N “LOOKING DOWN THE LINE” YOU present an unfair comparison of the Ilyx to the I[ci (December 1992). You state the RAM capacity of the IIvx based on 16MB SIMMs, yielding a total capac- ity of 68MB. You then state the capacity of the IIci based on 4MB SIMMs, yield- ing only 32MB. To my knowledge, the Ifci can accept 16MB SIMMs for a total RAM capacity of 128MB. The IIvx is a great machine, but] get the feeling you’re trying to sell us on this improved LC II at the expense of the Ici. Cedric Fohnson Scottsdale, Arizona According to Apple specifications for the Ilci, it can only accept up to 4MB SIMMs, quite possibly be- cause at the time the llci was being developed, 16MB SIMMs were not available —Ed. HE POWERBOOK 180 MAY HAVE the best combination of screen and power from a computer geek’s mind-set, but tha