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In many circles, Micro- soft is viewed as an invincible force that will eventually crush Apple’s system soft- ware business (of course, it wasn’t long ago that IBM was regarded with the same kind of awe). ‘The competition between Microsoft and Apple takes on mythic proportions— a David versus Goliath, Part Two—in the minds of Apple enthusiasts or those who fear Microsoft hegemony. In reality, Microsoft has bigger fish to fry, and Apple doesn’t need to vanquish Microsoft to have a healthy business. All Apple has to do is make sure the Mac OS contin- ues to be perceived as a viable alternative to Windows. Now that we’ve gotten re- alistic about Apple's challenge, we can take an objective look at the competitive environment. Apple's Challenges Windows provides most of Microsoft’s new growth in operating systems and as such presents the most serious challenge to the growth of the Mac OS. Further- more, Windows is viewed as the natural upgrade path from DOS. This gives Win- dows a lot of leverage in growing its mar- ket share. Apple’s challenge is to demon- strate that it can approach or exceed the growth pace of Windows. To do that, if Windows grows by 10 million units the STATE OF THE MAC BY ADRIAN MELLO Should Apple License the Mac Operating System? What the Mac really needs is to be special again Jac OS needs to grow somewhere in the inity of 3 or 4 million units. Common wisdom has it that if Apple hopes to adequately grow its market share i license and/or port the Macintosh Operating System. The licensing strategy has been a key point in the decade-long debate about market share and the Mac’s survivability. It’s virtually certain that Apple’s management devotes intense at- tention to its competitive position, so if licensing is such an obvious choice, why haven’t they done it? Apple has two major licensing op- tions. It could license the Mac OS to other hardware vendors who would produce Apple-sanctioned clones. Apple could also port the Mac OS to Intel-based PCs. important to recogn: Apple enjoys important advantages by be- ing the lone vendor of both hardware and system software for the Macintosh. As new Mac models appear, Apple can inte- grate new technology and overcome po- tential compatibility problems more eas- ily than if it had to take multiple systems vendors into account. Because Apple is the sole provider of the Mac, the company has full control of the structure, pricing, and distribution channels within its own mar- ket. This gives Apple a lot of power to control its own destiny. ‘The benefits of any licensing arrange- ment must outweigh the advantages Apple enjoys by being the sole vendor. Perhaps the main reason Apple hasn't licensed its operating system is that its revenues are based on hardware sales, not software sales. The company probably can't afford an abrupt drop in hardware sales while people buy products with licensed ver- sions of the Mac OS. Licensing Mac Clones For years, the Mac market has prayed for Mac clones the way drought victims pray for rain. At one time, clones would probably have pro- vided huge growth to the market share of the Mac OS. It’s not at all clear that this would still be true to- day. If Apple were to li- cense clones, would the clones result in incremental sales or simply cannibalize Apple’s existing market? Even if clones increased the size of the market, would the licensing profits offset profits Apple would have earned by selling the hard- ware itself? Now that Apple has seriously reduced the price of Macs, clones would no longer have a huge price advantage. Given the strength of, and loyalty custom- ers have for, the Apple brand, users would be unlikely to buy clones that didn’t offer a significant price advantage or some other distinction. As in the DOS PC mar- ket, clones might succeed by offering a different balance between price and sup- port or by satisfying the needs of vertical markets. Apple has already demonstrated a willingness to conservatively pursue the latter option. continues MACWORLD November 1993 47 STATE OF THE MAC ers, Let's that Dell decides to license the Mac Operating System. It produces a Mac clone that turns out to be a phenom- enal s. But a significant percentage of its sales appear to come at the expense of Mac sales. Apple doesn’t like this, and on the nex ision of the Mac OS, Apple is not quite as supportive of Dell. This puts Dell several months behind in devel- opment and makes its customers unhappy. Authorized clone makers would both compete directly with Apple and depend Of course, all of this assumes that the appropriate hardware makers would jump at the chance to produce and sell Mac clones. My guess is that Apple has already tested the waters by quietly approaching some key computer makers and has failed to generate enough interest becaus can’t offer a deal that both parties fi worth the risk, Here’s a hypothetical case to help un- derstand why it might be difficult for Apple to forge an alliance with clone mak- DOS; Windows” 3.1 and 486 cae Orange PC MS-DOS “’ Coprocessor Run Mac” and PC programs simultaneously VGA graphics on a Mac monitor 16 times faster than SoftAT™* sling, ‘$809. ‘The OrangePC NuBus™ card is truly a technological breakthrough for running, tions on the Macintosh. Combining the dre nd full VGA graphics in a window on a monitor, it rep! state-of-the-art hardware solution, Unlike zy DOS software emulators, OrangePC packs the power and features to get the job done for serious corporate users at a price which eliminates the DOS clone alternative (386 starts at $899). 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It has targeted Macintosh models for business, consumer, and edu- cation channels. This doesn’t mean that clones couldn’t happen or that this li- censing strategy couldn’t work. It just means that it is not as easy as it appears at first glance. Running on Intel Processors One of the most exciting possibilities would be for Apple to design a version of the Mac Operating System that could run. on Intel-based PCs. This strategy could dramatically increase Apple’s installed base. However, DOS and Windows users are no more likely to buy a Mac on a 486 than they are on a 68040. These users buy on the basis of price and applications com- patibility. Corporate users have histori- cally chosen Windows because it repre- sents a growth path that lets them maintain their existing standard: DOS. Now that Windows itself is a growing standard, it is unlikely that companies that have adopted it will immediately change course, especially if they are of- fered an either/or choice. For these r sons, a Mac OS running on Intel-based PCs would have to run Macintosh, DOS, and Windows applications—a sizable technical challenge. Assuming that Apple could overcome the technical challenges, it would still have to consider whether the payoff of such a project was worth the vast resources it would have to commit. Apple’s potential market would not include all Intel-based PCs. Due to its graphical interface, the Mac OS would be unlikely to run in any usable way on anything other than 486 and Pentium machines. After all, this is pretty much true for Windows as well. Beyond this, if Intel software sales seri- ously eroded Mac hardware sales, would Apple be ready to convert its business to selling system software? Think of it this way: Apple would have to sell 10 to 20 copies of the Mac OS for use on Intel- based PCs to make up the revenues from selling one midrange Macintosh. How likely is that? 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I doubt that many DOS and Windows users would upgrade to the Mac OS—simply because they would see no need to, After all, most Windows users don’t even know they have a problem! Most of them regard the Windows interface as a big improvement over DOS and don’t detect a significant difference between the Mac and Windows interface. On the other side of the desk top world, one GUI (graphical user inte: face) is as good as another, In any case, Apple’s window of opportunity is rapidly closing because the next version of Windows is likely to look a lot more like the Mac, now that Microsoft has won its lawsuit with Apple over the inter- The Importance of Compelling Benefits Thaven’t yet touched on the most impor- tant issue of all, which lies at the core of It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out SuperSet is a great value! You don’t have to be a genius to recognize a good value. And Datawat offers you the best. 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The Mac has always sold well because, beyond its interface, it offered compelling applications that were largely unavailable on other personal computers. This is not so true anymore. Windows users have few complaints with ince most major Mac applications are now available on Win- dows. And this is actually the greater cause of concern, because it reflects on the a whole—whether we're talking about licensing a version of the Macintosh OS or packaging it with Apple’s hardware. Applications like desktop publishing haye always been part of the Mac’s unique selling proposition, If Apple hopes to keep the Mac alive by offering an alternative to Windows, Apple must encourage distin- guishing and compelling Mac applica~ tions. It is crucial that Apple convince its developers to create truly remarkable ap- plications that can be delivered only on the Mac. The best way to do this is to field ground-breaking technology that offers developers exciting and unique opportu- ies. To Apple’s credit, it has done thi with the AV Macs, which provide impor- tant new architectures for telephony and video. Apple should push hard in this di- rection and support other new technolo- gies that promise both a near-term and long-term payoff, rather than worry too much about clones or porting the OS to 486 systems. Although it’s safe to assume that Apple has investigated licensing scenarios and found that they aren’t worth the risk, this is not to say that some kind of li- censing strategy doesn’t make sense. Apple should probably skip the Intel op- tion but go ahead and work out a non- competitive licensing arrangement with hardware vendors who want to solve problems in markets that Apple doesn’t understand or shouldn’t risk resources on (such as workgroup servers), The adoption of the PowerPC CPU should create an environment that permits both the Mac OS and Windows to run on the same hardware platform. In fact, Insignia announced that it is developing software that enables Win- dows programs to run. on PowerPC-based Macintoshe: If Apple combined a limited licensing with offering price-competitive it could probably reduce risk and maximize the gain of its available re- sources. This strategy along with good products should permit Apple to keep pace or gain market share for the Mac, But its first priority should be to maintain the Mac’s identity as an alternative that offers important applications you just can’t find on Windows. m It’s The Ultimate In Storage! 4500 RPM : : 19 msec effective access finie 2.0 MBytes per sec. data throughput Introducing the Sera 1.968 optical hard drive from Pinncle Micro = Buy a Pinnacle drive with our awn mbigh HRS OHD with speeds more than three times faster than the award-winning PMO: 4M Bytes cache and save up 650 and a sustained data throughput that will satis any di mee audio or digital video aplication. 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MicroNet 80 Technology + livine, California 92718 + Sales Telephone: (714) 4 at y Sales FAX: (714) 453-6101 * AppleLink: MIGRONET.SLS « Compuserve: 76004, ila Circle 113 on reader service card aso ScHuManen ae Lelters Real-Time Readers S.A SATISFIED OWNER OF AUTO- Doubler, I feel I should point out a serious flaw in Matthew Leeds’ article, “Real-Time Compression” (August 1993). Mr. Leeds makes an assumption that too many Macworld writers have made in the past—that time and money are of equal value to all. Many Mac users (myself in- cluded) are willing to tolerate slightly slower performance to gain 50 percent more hard drive space cheaply. Here’s a quick lesson in the real-world economics of real-time compression. I bought AutoDoubler a little over a year ago, and that purchase (less than $50) en- abled my Mac IIsi to function facto- rily with its paltry 80MB drive. Since then, the price of an external 240MB Quantum drive has fallen from about $800 to about $400, and I can now afford to buy one. As Mr. Leeds says, a few hun- dred dollars is nothing to sneeze at. Lawrence Barden Oakland, California | WAS SURPRISED THAT YOU PANNED Fifth Generation Systems’ technical support in your August compression ar- ticle. My experience, though not by tele- phone, has been quite pleasant. I left que- ries and comments about Pyro on the company’s board on America Online and received friendly, helpful, personal E-mail sent within 24 hours. Alex Forbes San Mateo, California M’aidez, 800/SOS-APPL S. BRANS M’S STORY ABOUT the Quadra 800 owner who moved his system files around (they don’t move themselves) and then screamed when a local dealer charged him to clean up the mess leaves me full of dread (Conspicuous Consumer, August 1993). Servicing dealers are not owned by Apple Computer—they are compensated by Apple for performing individual war- ranty repairs. Apple does not guarantee the integrity of the System Folder, and any damage customers do to those files is their responsibility. Images of all the disks that the dealer used to repair the gentle- man’s Quadra were on the CD that came with the machine, and the owner’s manual is precise about doing what the local dealer did. It simply takes time to do it, and in business, There is little profit in selling hardware—it’s skill with customer solutions and being there when needed that keep a local dealer afloat. Free and total support for anyone else’s customer is not a good business practice in any industry, and it is suicide when computers are involved, After receiving angry calls from Mac- world-reading customers who wanted their money back for everything from virus elimination to data recovery and fire-dam- age repairs, I checked with Apple by call- ing the same number the aforementioned gentleman did. I was told that, while it could be possible that an “overzealous new hire” may have gotten carried away and harried the dealer into giving the customer’s money back, it is not Apple’s policy to provide free software trouble- shooting, except via phone support. As dealers’ profit margins narrow even further, let’s hope that there are some still around when consumers are encouraged to turn there for free maintenance. Bruce Chilson Executron Computers Santa Rosa, California WO DAYS AFTER I PURCHASED A LaserWriter 600, I realized that I could not print the second side of a page—toner smudged the top inch of the sheet. My dealer (with whom I have been working for seven years) said that there was nothing they could do and that [ must call Apple. That was the beginning of a two-week: nightmare. First, the rocket scientist at 800/SOS-APPL told me that the printer didn’t support double-sided printing. When I pointed out that the feature was outlined in the manual, he said he’d check. and call me back, which he did—two days. later, He then dispatched a field engineer to fix the problem (another two-day de- lay). The engineer replaced some parts, but the printer still didn’t work. At that point, I could either wait another two days or more while he obtained new parts and kept trying, or I could return the printer. T chose the latter. I paid $2500 for a printer that didn’t work from day one. The dealer should have replaced it immediately, but instead Thad to deal with people at Apple who were unfamiliar with their own equip- ment, uncooperative, and even rude. I found myself shouting and using bad lan- guage to get anywhere with those people. Yes, the dealer made some price and ser- vice concessions after I screamed from Cupertino to Dallas to Buffalo, but ’'m still out the lost time and work, and the continates MACWORLD November 1993 25 COLLECTION SCREEN SAVER Delight in the magic of Disney with al or favorite Disney characters in The Disney Collection Screen Saver .., the latest addition * fo the After Darke family! Stand-alone product. After: Dark compatible! Features: © Prevents screen-damaging phosphor burn-in ..| © Over 15 colorful animated Disney displays © Screen-lacking password protection © Runs all After Dark displays! rs Sit back and relax a5 Goofy. “organizes” your desktop, te watch Mickey:cast his spells as the. Sorcerer’s Apprentice from Fantasia, or swim urider the sea with The tittle Mermaid! ukeley Syste, trode go ond tho Boke traders Circle 84 on reader service card 26 November 1993 MACWORLD LETTERS w In the sidebar “Comparing the LC 520°s Performance” (“The Macintosh LC 520,” September 1993), the longest bars in the System Performance graphs should have been colored red to indicate the best result in each test, u In cataloging the hardware features of the AV Macs (“The AV Macs,” October 1993), we stated that the Quadra 840AV has a PDS slot. The Quadra 840AV has three NuBus slots, but no PDS slot. a In “Planning to Negotiate” (At Work news, October 1993) Negotiator Pro architect Daniel Burnstein was misidenti- fied as. a Harvard law professor, Burnstein is former director of the Harvard Law School Videodise Program and former associate of the Program On Negotiation, Also, the price of the Negotiator Pro add-on for purchasing negotiations bas been raised to $495. mental cruelty of having to become a harpy in order to be treated fairly. If I treated my clients the way Apple and the dealer treated me, I'd have no business. Linda K, Danahy Gowanda, New York A Few of My Favorite Things COUNT MACS AND BMW AUTOMO- biles among the good things in life. Hence I read with interest Adrian Mello’s “Name That Macintosh” in the August 1993 issue (State of the Mac). He rightly bemoans Apple’s anarchic, confusing, and self-subverting approach to naming prod- ucts, But he’s wrong to cite the method- ology of BMW model designation as an example of similar arbitrariness and mys- tification, Indeed, in his search for a meaningful system, Mello need look no further than the nomenclature of BMW. Steven Dworers Brookline, Massachusetts ‘Macworld received several treatises on the naming customs of German automobile manufacturers, speculative theses on the origins of Mac names (many readers think Apple missed a bet when it chose ‘SE/30 over SEx), and the following exposé of code names used by Apple over the years —Ed. NRE TO ADRIAN MELLO’S column on Macintosh names, here are a few of the names that Apple’s develop- ment engineers have called their gizmos while they worked on them. Macintosh PlusPlus, Maui, Chablis Macintosh SE/30: Green Jade Macintosh Classic: X.0. Macintosh Classic II: Montana, Apollo Macintosh LC: Elsie Macintosh LC II: Foster Farms Macintosh II; Milwaukee, Reno, Paris, Cabernet Macintosh IIx: Spock Macintosh Isi: Erickson, Raffica, Raffika Macintosh cx: Aurora I Macintosh Ici: Aurora II, Pacific Macintosh IIfx: F-16, Blackbird, Stealth, Zone 5 Macintosh Portable: Esprit, Malibu, Laguna Portable w/ backlight: Aruba PowerBook 100: Asahi, Derringer, Rosebud PowerBook 140: TIM LC, TIM Lite PowerBook 170: TIM. Quadra 700: Shadow, Spike, Ice Quadra 900: Darwin, Eclipse, Hex System 7: Big Bang, M80, Pleiades Macintosh Plus keyboard: Nimitz Apple Extended Keyboard: Saratoga Brian Kendig via Internet Macworld Censor Gensured WAS DISAPPOINTED AND ANNOYED to see that you had defaced the pro- vocative advertisement from Global Vil- lage Communication in your August issue. There was nothing offensive or improper about the uncensored original; on the contrary, it was a handsome and intrigu- ing piece of artwork. Your “censored” sticker is what makes it all seem naughty. Brian Hayes Durham, North Carolina WAS QUITE OFFENDED BY GLOBAL Village Communication’s two-page spread in your September 1993 issue. I note that Global Village garnered one of your seventh annual World-Class continues Thunder” II is the only 24-bit graphics solution that combines three breakthrough technologies for explosive performance: the highest resolution, the fastest image processing, and the industry's fastest QuickDraw”™ acceleration — all ona single card. ONLY THUNDER II GIVES YOU 39-PERCENT HIGHER-RESOLUTION SCREEN AREA. PERIOD. — Color professionals want to see more, scroll less, and work faster. Only Thunder II, combined with our SuperMatchi" High-Res 20 display, provides a 39-percent higher-resolution screen area — up to 1360 x 1024. ‘The next standard for display performance. ADOBE CHARGED AND DUAL DSPs FOR THE FASTEST IMAGE PROCESSING. 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THE NEXT GENERATION OF IMAGE ACCELERATION STARTS WITH THUNDER Il. ‘The SuperSource for Color The Superhse logo, the SuperMacs whop ard PosScxip are waermarts of Ado! btsined wag Th ops Ine, Macintosh Quadra and QuickDraw are uademaris of Apple Compste, li ks performed by SoperMac Labe Circle 88 on reader service card LETTERS Awards for its products. It’s strange, then, that the company would employ such a disgusting illustration and headline to promote its products. ‘The products may be world-class; the advertisement is trash, Tt is unfortunate that a fine magazine such as Macworld would accept the adver- tisement for publication. I am sure I am not the only reader who was offended. If the advertisement was intended for pub- lication in Hustler magazine and appeared in Macworld by mistake, then I apologize. Charles Downs Phoenix, Arizona N KEEPING WITH THE TREND started by your censorship of the won- derfully innovative Global Village adver- tisement in your most recent issue and ap- peasement of (to use the appropriate, politically correct terminology) “the graphically challenged,” I request that you also censor PLI’s pro-automobile ad on. page 261, for promoting smog-producing cars instead of environmentally friendly bicycles; Apple’s sexist and racist PowerBook ad on pages 172 and 173, for failing to recognize that Corporate America is not always white and male; and Data Desk’s ad on page 46 for stereotyp- ing wolves as evil. Of course, you may also want to censor this letter for being offen- sive to the sarcastically challenged. J. W. Akers-Sassaman via CompuServe Finder: More Than Meets the Kye © DAVID POGUE, IN RE) his recent column “Iconomics 101” (The Desktop Critic, July 1993)—you’re usually more perspicacious than this, so I was surprised when you claimed that “icons are the only way the Mac's inter- face is graphic.” What about the menu bar? What about a zoom effect as win- dows open or close? What about the graphical metaphor of a window? What about cursors that change shape and con- trol-panel sliders and tool bars and rulers and floating palettes? It must have been a long time since your last experience in command-line hell, and your memory has weakened with your advanced age, so you're taking all this for granted, Lee Smith Toronto, Canada Give CD-I Credit N THE “PHOTO CD: A SHOPPING LIST” sidebar in the “Hands-On: Photo CD” article July 1993), you list consumers’ 28 November 1993 MACWORLD options for Photo CD playback mecha- nisms, You mention 3DO, but you neglect the relatively mature CD-I tech- nology developed by Philips. Philips was instrumental in developing Photo CD technology with Kodak, and the PCD Writer that records Photo CDs was devel- oped by Philips. Philips CD-I players are multisession and also support CD-I, CD- DA, CD-XA, and CD+G. Chris Severton Senior Engineer, Opthmage West Des Moines, lowa High-Tech Upgrade N YOUR REVIEW OF THE CENTRIS- es (Reviews, June 1993), you mention bringing the clock of the 610 up to 25MHz by changing the crystal and add- ing a heat sink to the processor chip. Could you tell me where I might obtain these items? Michael Zak West Seneca, New York Clock crystals and heat sinks are generally available from large electronics-supply stores—check your local yellow pages under Electronics or Electronics Sup- pliers. Readers should note that upgrading your Mac in this fashion voids the warranty, and you could toast your motherboard during installation ‘Macworldis currently looking at several kits for Centrises, LC III's, Quadras, and the llsi that various companies are considering marketing. Our prelimi- nary assessment is that they do the jab with mini- ‘mal limitations (such as disallowing the use of cer- tain extrawide NuBus boards).—Ed. Sex... (Yawn) | WAS AMUSED TO SEE THE PLETHORA of letters you got concerning Steven Levy’s column on pornography (Letters, August 1993), Personally, I'd put pan- dering to people’s sexual peccadilloes way, way down on my list of immoral acts causing the ruination of this industry or this country. Neil Taylor Mishawaka, Indiana Letters should be sent to Letters, Macworld, 501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107; via fax, 415/442-0766; or electronically to CompuServe (70370,702), MCI Mail (294-8078), America On- line (Macworld), or AppleLink (Macworld’), or via Internet (70370.702@compuserve.com). Include re- turn address and daytime phone number. Due to the high volume of mail received, we can't respond personally to each letter. We reserve the right to edit all letters. All published letters become the prop- erty of Macworld, m There are basically two very important things to look for in 24-bit oe graphics cards. @ Performance. @ Pric ‘The only thing worse than slow performance Scream With Your Mae, is paying too much for it. But before you start screaming about paying too much, take a look at Ultura” LX — the 24-bit color graphics card from E-Machines that gives { é rice, you the best of both. You'll see Ultura LX outperforms most of the 24-bit color graphics cards on the market! You'll also see it only costs about half as much ==. E-MACHINES. = BEST VALUE IN COLOR.. Uhtura LX gives you the QuickDraw” acceleration you need for the processing demands of owv—_ today’s photorealistic graph: pplications — on high-resolution displays up to 21 inches in si Ultura LX speeds 24-bit color graphies by more than 1,000 percent, so you can take full advantage of QuarkXPress? Adobe Photoshop” Adobe é Fi : 3 He | Illustrator; and Aldus FreeHand — so you can spend time creating, not waiting. oH Now there’s no longer any reason to suffer the slow performance often janes Coae associated with 24-bit color or the high costs of othe! Jerated graphics cards. Publishing Benchmark 20 ryy ., ‘4 . pe 6 funning ona Macintosh ‘That's because Ultura LX, along with the full range of graph Quadra 950, ards and large-screen color displays from E-Machines, gives you the Best Value in Color. All for a price that will have you cheering. J Ultura LX $1,299 Suggested Retail Prico For your nearest Authorized Reseller, or a copy of our new catalog, call: (800) 344-7274. For information via fax, call: (800) 541-4787, menu item 117 for a datasheet, item 905 for a copy of the benchmark report. ©1993 Soperdtac Technolgy, Ine. The E-Machines log od QuikDeww are trade Circle 136 on reader service card Image 040=Tivin 64 MHz DSPs with 40 MHz 68040 and 128K cache Also available without DSPs: Quad 040~40 MHz 68040 and 128K cache. Introducing DayStar’s Image 040... The Ultimate Imaging Accelerator for Quadra and Centris Users! The Image 0.40 provides the fastest performance possible... up to and beyond the Quadra 840s), Apple’ fastest Mac! It supercharges every function... in every application! You get all the benefits of powerful acceleration and Adobe Charged imaging performance. Ita breeze to install, 100% compatible and doesn't waste a NuBus slot or require additional memory. All this comes to you at a fraction of the price of buying a new Quadra 840,y from Apple. ADOBE CHARGED” SUPERFAST IMAGING FUNCTIONS The Image 040 supercharges all functions in Adobe Photoshop as fast or faster than the Quadra 840,y. In fact, many of the Adobe Charged functions run up to 500% faster, like Sharpen, Unsharp Mask, Gaussian Blur, Rotate and Resize. We've also included Charger Suites software which supports Adobe Photoshop, Fractal Painter, Adobe Premiere and more! It includes the complete library of DayStar$ Adobe Charged functions, supercharged filters and DayStar’ real-time filter interface...PowerPreview™. ACCELERATE ALL YOUR OTHER APPLICATIONS TOO! With the Image 040, acceleration doesn’t stop with Photoshop or other image processing applications. In fact, virtually all applications run 15 to 30% faster than onthe Quadra 840ay including graphics, page layout, modeling, spreadsheets and word processing. SUPER IMAGING SOFTWARE INCLUDED FREE! 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The Leader in Macintosh Acceleration and Image Processing. for the Quadra 700, 800, 900, 950, Centris 610, 650 and 660av $556 Atlanta Highway, Flowery Branch GR 30542 + (404) 967-2077, Fox: (404) 967-8018 » Also alluble on GSK Schedle #GSADOKIAGSE29O ter rads cd rd namaste steed rer a especie aes. At, sho Adobo, te Ale Chad loge ad Ade Patestwp ow ders oF Aho Spt, lc. Pot speiicsisns oe sje io chge wit etic, 178 DyStr git, Circle 7 on reader service card ae Macbulletin Apple Splits System Software Apple's System 7 Pro (one user $149, ten users $999), expect- ed to debut in mid-September, includes two system extensions previously sold separately: AppleScript, which lets you customize your Mac environment through scripts, and QuickTime 1.6, for playing digital videos. System 7 Pro also comes with the new PowerTalk exten- sions, which bring Apple Open Collaboration Environ- ment's (AOCE) built-in E-mail and groupware services to the Mac (see “AOCE—Apple's Plan for Groupware,” in this issue). System 7 will continue to be developed and sold for home and education users. Newton's Flaws Prompt Response Newton MessagePad owners report some problems with AC adapters, start-up, and erratic handwriting recogni- tion. Apple has responded with a thank-you letter to purchasers that includes the support number (800/505- 2775). “We've heard of a few incidents where the MessagePad does not perform at an optimal level," says the missive."As a result, we will address any issues you may have with your MessagePad as quickly as we can.” lomega Cuts Bernoulli Prices |omega has cut prices on its Mac-compatible Bernoulli remov- able-cartridge drives. The Macinsider 150, a 150MB internal drive, went from $975 to $589. The Mac- Transportable 150 is now $699, a 28 percent drop. The MacTransportable 90's price fell 17 percent to $589. The company also cut cartridge prices by up to 54 percent. lomega (801/778-1000) recently increased the warranty on its 34-inch drives to two years. IBM Ships Mac Monitors |BM (800/772- 2227) is offering two color monitors that do not need a Mac adapter. The $1260 IBM 17P Color Monitor is a 17-inch display with 1280 by 1024 resolution and a refresh rate of 77Hz. The IBM 21P Color Monitor is 21 inches diagonally, has a resolution of 1600 by 1200 at 60Hz, and should list for around $2000, although that price was not firm at press time. Both conform to the EPA's Energy Star energy-saving program and the Swedish MPR-II guidelines for reduced ELF emissions. CE Sells Software Start-up PrairieSoft has purchased DiskTop, Alarming Events, Amazing Paint, MockPackage Plus Utilities, and In/Out from CE Soft- ware. PrairieSoft (515/225-3720) is handling technical support for all the products and is considering whether to update them. Fast Ethermet Grand Junction (510/487- 5985) has announced the FastSwitch 10/100 hub, which will provide twenty-four 10BaseT switched Ethernet ports and two 100-Mbps Ethernet ports for $7250; the 10/100 will be available in the fourth quarter of 1993. FastSwitch 10, scheduled to ship this fall, will offer the same twenty-four 10-Mbps switched ports without the 4100-Mbps ports for $6250. Microsoft versus Justice Department The U.S. Department of Justice has picked up where the Federal Trade Commission left off, initiating its own investigation of Microsoft's trade practices. A Justice Department spokeswoman would not comment except to say that the department was reviewing the FTC doc- umentation to reduce duplication of effort. Microsoft said it will cooperate fully with the inquiry. Symantec to Buy 5th Generation Another merger will further the great software consol- idation of 1993 if Symantec completes its acquisition of utility vendor 5th Generation Systems. In recent years, $225 million Symantec has acquired Peter Norton Com- puting and its Norton Utilities for Macintosh, Leonard Software and its GreatWorks integrated package, and Contact Software and its ACT contact manager. mM MACWORLD November 1993 34 IN THIS ISSUE Hale the Quantum Leap hen Apple ships Power- PC Maes in early 1994, you can expect better perfor- mance and competitive prices, But most important, the PowerPC Macs will be Macs. Although they will not use Motorola’s 680X0 series of CPUs, the core of every Mac- intosh ever built, they will run today’s Mac software, use the familiar Mac Finder, and run the same Mac System 7.1. The first versions should also sup- port most current-generation Maes’ add-on NuBus boards. Small wonder that usually skeptical third-party develop- ers are very enthusiastic. According to Apple and third-party developers who have seen prototypes of PowerPC-based Macs, here’s what you can expect. Operating System ‘The first PowerPC Mac will use System 7.1. The visible difference will be a special enabler in the System Folder, as there is now for 68040- based Macs. The real differ- ences will be inside the Sy tem: its core toolboxes—com- ponents, like QuickDraw, that interact with application pro- grams, like Microsoft Word 32 EDITED BY TOM MORAN p- 33 Digital Film Upgrade p.34 CD-ROMs for Rent p. 34 RasterOps' 20-inch Monitor p. 35 Fax Modem for Cellular Phones p. 35 Quadra Accelerator p- 36 Color Card for the LC p.36 AV Desktop Conferencing p. 36 Portable Optical Drive and Aldus PageMaker—will be rewritten in the native pro- gramming language used by the PowerPC chip. In typical business applications as much as 90 percent of the activity on the computer will be executed in the much faster native PowerPC code, Apple says. The other System 7 com- ponents will run in emulation, with their Motorola-specific November 1993 MACWORLD commands being translated to PowerPC commands through a component in the operating system. (The emulation will support everything available in the 68L.C040 CPU used in the Centris 610 and some Centris 650s.) This takes up more processor time than does the toolbox translation described above, but the overall drag on performance is minimized, since only less-frequently- used routines are emulated. ‘The use of emulation, rather than rewriting all the System 7 components, let Apple get the Mac Operating System up and running on PowerPC-based hardware quickly. Apple says that the first PowerPC Macs will run Sys- tem 7 and your current appli- cations at the same speed as a DAVID KAHL Centris 650 will run them today, and developers confirm these estimates. And if you upgrade your applications to PowerPC-specific versions, they’ll just get faster. Much of the native PowerPC toolbox routines and the emulation system will be in the PowerPC Mac’s ROMs, so you won’t be able to install a PowerPC Mac’s ver- sion of System 7 onto a non- Apple PowerPC computer. Apple says it will license the ROMs to developers such as DayStar Digital so they can produce accelerators and other system upgrades. Applications Thanks to the emulation, a PowerPC Mac will run almost basically both versions in one file. Apple expects large pro- grams like word processors and illustration software to be offered either in separate 680X0 and PowerPC versions or with disks for both systems in the box, while utilities and other small applications will likely be sold in fat-binary ver- sions that run on either CPU. Hardware The first PowerPC Mac will use the PowerPC 601 CPU, which was designed and first built by IBM and later by Motorola. The business-level PowerPC 601 CPU runs at 66MHz internally (but it will likely communicate with the system board at a slower rate, perhaps 33MHz, since buses to PowerPC every current System 7-com- patible Mac program (includ- ing control panels and INITs). Apple and developers are now testing compatibility and are finding only a few problems mostly in programs that by- pass the operating system to deal with hardware them- selves, Apple says. But expect third-party developers to quickly deliver native PowerPC apps. For example, Macworld has seen an early PowerPC version of Aldus FreeHand that is much faster—two to three times— on a prototype Quadra-level, 80MHz PowerPC Mac than on a Quadra 900. Others developing native PowerPC applications include Adobe, Aldus, Claris, Deneba, Frame Technology, Microsoft, Quark, and WordPerfect. Popular software will like- ly be sold in two versions: one for 680X0 Macs and one for PowerPC Macs. Developers also have a third option: writ- ing applications so they run natively on both types of Macs. But this kind of soft- ware, called a fat binary, will be almost twice the size of a PowerPC-only or 680X0-only version, since a fat binary is faster than 50MHz are hard to design). Versions running at 50MHz and 80MHz may also be available. (Apple would not detail its product plans, saying only that the first PowerPC Macs will be Quadras.) The PowerPC 601 costs PowerPC 601: Up close and personal with the heart of Apple's new machines. about 30 percent less than comparable Intel 80486 CPUs used in most PCs because it’s smaller; the same size silicon wafer yields more 601 CPUs than 80486 CPUs. It also gives Apple, for the first time, a CPU as fast as leading Intel CPUs. Motoro- la’s benchmarks put the $374 66MHz PowerPC and $950 66MHz Pentium on equal footing (the PowerPC is much faster in specialized computa- tions but a tad slower in more common computations), while the 601 is half again as fast as the $500 66MHz 486DX2 CPU now used in high-end business PCs. The first PowerPC Macs themselves will likely use Cen- tris and Quadra cases and standard sets of basic parts, Last year Apple decided Estimated to standardize on Availability for the cases used in PowerPC Software Peay ents Because PawerPC Macs are being designed to run existing Mac software as well as PowerPC- specific software and even Windows software, people wil likely use several types of programs simultaneously, 610, Ilvx/Centris 650, and Quadra 800. That makes upgrades easier to design and antici- ‘While waiting for PowerPC native applica- pate: Apple has tions, most PowerPC users will run their exist- ing 80XO Mac software. Vendors may choase to sell small applications in a form called fat binary that can run on both 680X0 and PowerPC Macs, When Insignia Solutions releases its Windows interpreter for PowerPC, ‘Mac owners will be able to run Windows programs not available on the Mac, The graph below estimates the mix of pro grams most users will likely have on their PowerPC Macs over the next two years. Program | Darker color indicates gre: type | share of software in u 680X0. Fat binary PowerPC: Windows 1934 H 1955 "Fest PowerPC Macs expected committed to pro- viding a system- board upgrade for newer Macs—the Quadra 800, Cen- tris 610 and 650, and the IIvx. 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November 1993 33 | News But that means any 680X0 application that requires an FPU will not run on a Power- PC; you'll have to get a PowerPC-specific software upgrade or use a slow software FPU emulator. Apple will have to rework its virtual memory scheme in System 7 to be compatible with the PowerPC’s built-in memory-management unit. However, Apple expects this to cause no compatibility problems, since applications won't be allowed to address this unit directly but will have to work through the operat- ing system instead. Down the Line The second set of PowerPC Macs will likely be based on the PowerPC 604 CPU, which was jointly designed by IBM, Motorola, and Apple. The 604 will be built by Motorola and is expected to be twice as fast as a 601 or Intel’s 66MHz Pentium, according to Motorola. Apple may have 604-based Macs in late 1994, Perhaps in early 1995, Macs based on the PowerPC 603 will appear. This CPU is being designed to use | power than other PowerPCs, making it suitable for use in PowerBooks and low-cost computers. The 603’s per mance is expected to fall be- tween that of the 601 and 604. A fourth PowerPC CPU, the 620, will go in works! tion-level Macs that push the high end of performance, But workstation-level Macs don’t seem a high priority at Apple, which has left this market to Unix workstation developers ike ystems, IBM, and Silicon Graphics. Other PowerPC Computers IBM and others are also devel- oping PowerPC-based com- puters that will run their own ing systems. One such operating system is Power- 1 Open, a version of Unix bas on Apple’s A/UX and IBM’s AIX that will run both Mac- intosh System 7 and OSE/Mo- tif applications. Several ven- dors will offer PowerOpen- 34 November 1993 based Unix workstations. Other PowerPC-based computers won't run Mac software, For example, IBM plans to deliver by year’s end prototypes of PowerPC PCs that use its new Workplace OS, which is based on the OS/2 operating system, Related Apple Changes Apple has announced other rategies that will interplay with the PowerPC. * All Macs will eventually include the audiovisual tech- nology introduced this year with the AV Macs. But you should expect some PowerPC Macs to ship with AV technol- ogy and some, without. * Apple will eventually switch from NuBus to Intel’s PCI bus, which most PC developers say they will use. But probably not until 1995. * Apple will license parts of its operating system soft- ware, but it won’t say whether that means other companies will sell Mac-compatible PowerPC computers or that ain portions (such as ‘Draw/GX) might be lable on other platforms to ease interoperability. PowerPC's Importance to Apple PowerPC represents a make- or-break strategy for Apple. Apple has seen profits erode because of price-cutting re- quired to compete with cheap, powerful Windows PCs. Ithas seen Windows go from a laughingstock to an interface that garnered 22 million users in two years versus Apple’s 10 million in ten y And it has seen its core 680X0 CPUs outstripped in terms of perfor- mance by Intel’s 486 and Pen- tium series. Making the transition from the Macintosh to Power- PC, coupled with as-yet-vague plans to be more interoperable with the PC universe at large, is Apple’s attempt to put the Mac ahead of Intel and Micro- soft both technologically and economically. It’s a risky moye, but the potential payoff is huge—for Apple and Mac owners alike,—GALEN GRUMAN MACWORLD TREND CO-ROMs or Rent A REVOLUTION? ith some CD-ROM titles costing hun- dreds of dollars, it's com- forting to know you can now rent or borrow a disc. 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