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One of the best aspects of this transi- tion is that it has permitted a major step forward in performance and technology without causing users a lot of headaches. There have been very few problems, which is remarkable given the magnitude of this change. Emulation has worked well, and most applications previously written for the 680X0 series of proces- sors suffer few if any compatibility prob- lems. Because there are few differences in hardware between the two architectures, other than the change in microprocessors, existing add-in boards and hardware work well with the Power Macs. Apple also pro- vides a fairly compelling upgrade path for most owners who have invested in Mac hardware in the last couple of years, with only narrow exceptions, All major Mac software packages have now been introduced in native Power Mac versions. We count well over 300 native Power Mac software packages available at press time, and more are com- ing (see the table “Who Offers Power Mac Software” in “Making the Move to Power Mac,” in this issue). Because of this quick adaptation, software availability is no longer an issue for the vast majority of current and potential Power Mac users. State of the Power Mac Less than a year after their introduction, the Power Macs have clearly made the grade and have fulfilled all the expecta- tions laid out for them, Macworld remains STATE OF THE MAC BY ADRIAN MELLO Power Maes on a Roll How the Power Macs are picking up momentum committed to providing you with the best information on the Power Macintosh. As part of that commitment, in this issue we present the first part of a major two-part article on the current state of the Power Mac. Part one lays out all the strategic points needed to help you make the right upgrade decisions (see “Making the Move to Power Mac,” by Galen Gruman, in this issue). This feature will help you under- stand whether or not you should upgrade and what the best upgrade options are for your current model. Also in the article is a comprehensive list of vendors and their products now available for the Power Mac. Now that so many applications are available it’s important to follow up and see just how much performance has improved. In our next issue, the second article will present Macworld Lab’s find- ings on the actual performance gains of key native Power Mac applications. This will help you determine which programs to upgrade in your applications library and when to simply save your cash. In addition to this special qwo-part article we will continue to cover the Power Mac in every issue. Our Power Mac News section will continue to focus on the technological progress of the Power Mac, while in-depth feature stories will provide complete information for making the right product-purchasing decisions. And you can be sure that as new Power Mac models and technologies appear, Mac- world will provide you with the necessary in-depth information to help guide you through the decision-making process. What's Next? Now that the Power Macs havea full head of steam, where is Apple likely to go with the platform in the coming year? Here are five probable developments. 4. PowerPC Everywhere Apple in- troduced the Power Maes less than a year ago, and it’s clear now that they are firm- ly entrenched. The PowerPC will be- come ubiquitous across the Macintosh lineup. Power Macs already dominate Apple’s desktop business offerings. In the coming year, expect to see complete line- ups of PowerPC-based Performas, LCs, and PowerBooks. By 1996 non-PowerPC Macs will likely be a footnote in Apple's product lineup. 2. Faster Power Macs Power Macs will become available with increasingly faster versions of PowerPC chips. The PowerPC ar- chitecture has a lot of headroom and is nowhere near its performance ceil- ing. Users will see faster clock-speed versions of the 601 chip that now inhabits all Power Macs. The first example of this was the 110MHz Power Mac 8100. But don’t let that tempt you to play the waiting game: there will always be something faster. If you need to upgrade to a faster model now, a future computer can never go fast enough to make up for the time you would lose by sticking with a slow machine. 3. Widening the Bottlenecks Apple will begin to modify the architecture around the PowerPC processor to pro- vide even greater system-level perfor- mance. During the perilous transition to PowerPC, Apple was prudent not to alter the technology that moves data in and out continues MACWORLD February 1995 21 STATE OF THE MAC of the Mac and slings it around once it’s inside. Now it’s almost time for that next stage: in 1995 Apple will ship the first Power Macs based on the PCI peripheral bus (see “PCI Power Mac Preview,” News, December 1994). The PCI bus will pro- vide a performance boost, but it is also a standard that other computers will share. That should translate into lower costs for peripherals and more options for users. 4, PowerPC Clones Appear The first bona fide Mac clones will be based on the PowerPC and should appear by the end of summer. Apple has said that five or six licensees of the Mac OS will be announced by midyear. It’s important to understand the distinction between new vendors of non-Mac PowerPC systems and new licensees of the Mac OS. 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It even repairs infected files — all from one central location! Virex. It’s the fastest, most complete protection ever. Just ask the Experts. SEE US AT MACWORLD EXPO BOOTH #1916 9700 ©1994 All rights reserved. Datawatch and Virex are registered Nand Virox Administrator ara trademarks of Datawalch Corporation, ct names are trademarks of thelr respactive awners. February 1995 MACWORLD expand the number of installed Macs. Even so, the fact that this alternative chip architecture is gaining licensees means that there is a healthy alternative to the Intel architecture. It’s also possible that if the Mac OS is the dominant operating system running on PowerPC hardware, then there will be incentive to take advan- tage of its many applications. 5. Apple and 1BM_ It seems clear to everyone but Apple and IBM that their cooperation needs to grow. They remind me of a couple who have been dating for a few years but can’t quite work out their commitment. I can hear it now: “We broke up over PReP, but it was just too difficult being apart so we worked out a converged platform.” Apple and IBM’s commitment to develop a converged plat- form should extend the PowerPC land- scape (see “IBM, Apple Move to Joint Platform,” Power Mac News, January 1995). The benefit to users should be lower costs and more options. With two large players now supporting an alterna- tive hardware standard, it’s likely that most other vendors planning PowerPC machines will support the same standard. In fact, FirePower Systems, one of the companies that has designed the first PowerPC systems for several clone ven- dors, has all but announced its intent to support the converged platform. Although they've worked outa shared PowerPC hardware platform, Apple and IBM are now squabbling over whose operating system they will put on whose machines, It’s as if they decided to get back together but are now arguing over who moves into whose place (they agreed that they should live in the same building but keep separate apartments). Last time I checked, the two said they have an open relationship and they can still date other operating systems. Don’t be surprised to see them warm- ing up to each other’s OS over the com- ing months. I suspect that in the end the pair will work out some sort of joint licensing arrangement that will satisfy both. That probably means IBM will push OS/2-based systems but offer Mac and Windows NT systems to its customers, using Apple’s brand rather than an IBM Macintosh clone. Apple will likely sell Macs running NetWare—and perhaps OS/2—as server components for Mac- mostly markets. 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Now that Apple’s screw-the-dealer campaign has produced its logical result—a drought of technical support at the retail level—the need for knowledgeable help with Maes is greater than ever. 1-800-SOS-APPL is a cruel hoax; I’ve yet to get through, and neither have my associates, Why hasn’t Apple made eWorld a direct-access point where desperate Mac owners could post specif- ic questions and hope to see answers within a reasonable time? David D’Costa via the Internet OR WHAT LITTLE IT OFFERS, eWorld is too expensive. It’s good to see Apple is offering free time to new users, but it’s too late and poorly adver- tised (I found out only after perusing Macworld’s message board on America Online). The other crippling feature of eWorld is its lack of free areas. It’s crim- inal to have to pay to check my bill or see how much time I’ve used. And if I have to run to answer the door in the midst of an online session, logging off and then on again is a real pain, Rob Narberes via the Internet Down-to-Earth DreamNet S THE FORMER EXECUTIVE DIREC- tor of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and current coordi- nator of The 21st Century Project at the University of Texas, I want to offer con- gratulations and thanks to Charles Piller for an excellent article on the overhyped “information superhighway” (“Dream- Net,” October 1994). Thanks also to Macworld for funding a useful poll. This will be very helpful for those of us in the public-interest sector trying to build a national network that avoids the brain- dead glop of TV/Hollywood culture. The article very cogently pointed out the many contradictions of current dis- cussions about the “information super- highway.” It was one of the most intelli- gent pieces I’ve seen on the subject, and I hope that everyone in Congress reads it. I will be recommending it to my contacts in Washington. The article mirrors most of what I’ve been saying in public appear- ances and in my own writing. When Macworld takes on important national issues like education, privacy, and the “information superhighway,” you guys do such a superlative job that it makes me all the more angry to see the trash offered elsewhere. The computer field needs a serious and intelligent pub- lication to take on these issues, and although I think Macworld covers these things too infrequently, when you do fea- tures on public issues they're the best available. Keep up the good work. Gary Chapman Austin, Texas Privacy Prevention HE CONCLUSION OF KRISTI COALE'S: article on software-piracy prevention in the November issue of Macworld seemed to place users’ privacy rights above the need to protect the company and its assets (“Piracy Prevention”). As a network manager, it is part of my job to protect the company against the prolifer- ation of illegal software. Our employees are informed of all audits, as well as the company’s policy against any software not installed by a member of the IS depart- ment. Since the computers, the software, and any work performed by employees are the property of the company, there should be no privacy issue. Network managers should provide users with a copy of the company policy on software installation and software audits. 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In fact we're so sure that you'll love it, we have a 30 day money back policy. * $49 price Is guaranteed by calling Aatrix directly “trademarks ace property of their respective manufacturers. | Circle 159 on reader service card LETTERS marks “How the 8100/1 10 Stacks Up” in News and “What PowerPC Offers Entry-Level Maes” in Power Mac News had slight rounding errors for the Power Mac 7100/66 and Quadra 800 that understate some performance by 0.1 per- cent. The corrected scores appear in this month's (February 1995) “Making the Move to Power Mac” feature. @ The icon indicating that Macro- media’s MacroModet 1,5 is native for the Power Macintosh was inadvertently omit- ted in the table “3-D Modelers Com- pared” (“Inside 3-D Modeling,” Decem- ber 1994). MacroModel bas been native since April 1994, @ Pasco Sc list price of $697 December 1994). m Also in the December 1994 New Products, the correct phone numbers for Vision’s Edge are 904/386-4573, 800/ 983-6357, and 904/386-2594 (fax). Adobe Systems? telephone number is 415/961-4400 (“Adobe Premiere 4.0,” Reviews, and “Adobe Ilustrator 5.5,” Star Ratings, both in December 1994), @ In our December feature “Optical Expansion,” the author noted that in some cases, companies that offer longer-than- Mac65 has a (New Products, usual warranties have been known to go out of business before the warranties on their products have expired. We did not, however, mean to cast aspersions on any of the vendors of optical drives who offer t20~ ‘year warranties. | pany can be heavily fined should the pol- icy be taken lightly. Since putting your employer at risk to this extent can be cause for di |, users should welcome an internal audit to guard against such an event. This will allay us ars and help stop the proliferation of illegal software. Erich Knaak Seattle, Washington Workplace privacy is a tricky problem, encompass- ing such sensitive issues as what workers keep on their hard drives and whom they call during the workday. Whether a company adopts the rather dra- conian policy recommended by Mr. Knaak or a more liberal attitude toward office hardware, it's essential that the company clearly state its policy and that the policy be understood by everyone involved. For fur- ther reading on this topic, see Macworld's special report “Privacy in Peril" in ourJuly 1993 issue —Ed. WAS DISTURBED BY KRISTI COALE’S statement: “If you detect illegal soft- ware, destroy it and then replace it with a 28 February 1995 MACWORLD legal copy.” I have personally experienced times when the company wouldn't buy a particular piece of software for me, and I was forced to buy it for myself with my own money. would be quite aggravated if the system manager deleted my soft- ware just because he couldn't find a com- pany record of its purchase. Why not just ask the employee? He may have the box and the receipt right at his desk. David W. Gr Casselberry, Florida VALIS’s MelaFlo’ yo REVIEW OF OUR PROGRAM MetaFlo’ stated that there is no Undo in morphing mode (Reviews, August 1994). This is incorrect. To undo a morph, you just select the morphed layers and click on Undo from the tool palette. MetaFlo’ asks you if you want to reedit the morph points; if you select Yes, the control points are restored along with the control boundaries, and you may edit them and morph again. Jeff Anderson VALIS Group Tiburon, California You can undo a morph if you click on Undo in the palette and select Edit in the ensuing dialog box The confusion arose because neither the Undo com- mand nor the #-Z keyboard equivalent works while in morphing mode—Ed, System 7.5 MONTH AND A HALF AGO I OR- dered the System 7 Pro upgrade to System 7.5 through a catalog. For $19.95 this seemed like a fair deal; I was told that System 7.5 probably would not ship for a week or so, No sweat. A month later [ calle company and was told that indefinitely back-ordered. “Cripes,” I said, and canceled my order. I called another mail-order house. They also told me 7.5 was back-ordered, but only for a week. “Fine,” I said, “I'd like to order the System 7 Pro upgrade to 7.5.” The man on the phone was quiet for a second, and then asked me when I'd bought System 7 Pro. I couldn't remem- ber. Ino longer had the receipt. It didn’t seem like that long ago—three, maybe five months? “Too long,” the guy told me. I had to have ordered it after June 1994. Even though I own System 7.1, for which a $34.95 upgrade to 7.5 existed, the only upgrade I qualified for cost $99. continues XXXXL STORAGE oa mars Optical 11308 2 Siew" Pinnade > It seems impossible to find a hard drive that’s large enough to fit your storage needs today. That XL hard drive you just bought is now full. 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They told me there was a waiting list for System 7.5 at least a month long. “Screw it,” I said. ‘The other day I noticed System 7.5 on the shelf at a local Mae store. For $99 Tcould take it home and start using those sticky notes. Instead I left the store empty-handed. I went out of my way to buy System 7.5 fora fair price but nobody would give it to me. Mark Thomas Goleta, California HENI GOT MY FIRST MAC, IT CAME. with an insanely great piece of soft- ware: the Mac OS. I was irritated to dis- cover recently that I had bought System 7.1 too early to qualify for an upgrade. I find myself in the same boat as people who have never purchased any version of the system software. The Mac OS is great software; I just wish Apple wouldn’t insult early adopters. Chris Brandt via the Internet Hellish Programming AVID POGUE'S REASONING IN HIS article on poor fax software is faulty (The Desktop Critic, October 1994). He states that “it has to work with 90 Mac models, and the 200 fax-modem models that might be attached,” and so on and so on. If this were an insurmountable prob- lem, nota single DOS or Windows pro- gram would work, It has got to be easier to code for the Mac with a modest 90 models, than the PC platform. Such rea- soning is just an excuse for poor code. Shannon Wyatt via the Internet Letters should be sent to Letters, Macworld, 501 Sec- ond St, San Francisco, CA 94107; via fax, 415/442- 0766; or electronically to CompuServe (70370,702), MCI Mail (294-8078), America Online (Macworld), eWorld (Macworld), AppleLink (Macworld1), or via the Internet (letters@macworld.com). Indude return address and daytime phone number. Due to the high volume of mail received, we can't respond personal- ly to each letter. We reserve the right to edit all let- ters. All published letters become the property of ‘Macworld, m Before you buy a color printer, you'd better double-check your facts. 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Call today! 1-800-Strata3d Circle 223 on reader service card pees MacBulletin Apple Demonstrates PCI Power Mac At Comdex in November 1994, Apple demonstrated pro- totype next-generation Power Macs based on the high- speed PCI bus (see “PCI Power Mac Preview," News, Macworld, December 1994). One Power Mac contained the mach64, a PCI graphics accelerator from ATI, a major player in the DOS/Windows market; a graphics accel- erator from Radius that uses a Weitek processor; and two Fast and Wide SCSI-2 boards—one from QLogic, the second from FWB—both based on a QLogic chip, according to Apple. Apple is working with 100 poten- tial vendors of Mac PCI products, and 20 companies are doing PCI boards for the upcoming Power Macs. Those 20 are 4-Sight, Adaptec, Asanté, ATI, ATTO, Avid, DCA, DEC, Diamond, Farallon, Fast US, FWB, Harle- quin, Hermstedt, Intelligent Resources Integrated Sys- tems, Linotype-Hell, Neutral, QLogic, Radius, and Sec- ond Wave. Pentium Dementium Intel president Andy Grove issued an apology to Pentium users con- cerned about a flaw in the chip's floating-point divi- sion. The flaw is estimated to appear once in 9 billion floating-point divisions, according to Intel. However, some unconfirmed reports indicate that the problem may be much more common. The company said it will resolve the problem for users likely to encounter the flaw, pos- sibly by replacing the chips in their machines. Intel stopped short, however, of issuing a general recall of the millions of Pentiums thought to have shipped with the problem. The math flaw can be demonstrated by divid- ing 4,195,835 by 3,145,727, then multiplying the quo- tient by 3,145,727. The Pentium wrongly returns 4,195,579. Intel said it has fixed the problem, but that fixed chips are probably not yet appearing in systems. Concerned users can call Intel at 800/628-8686. Migrating PowerBook Memory Apple has confirmed that the memory in the PowerBook 500 series will be compatible with the forthcoming Power- PC upgrades for these notebooks. Previously, Apple said it was unsure whether it could guarantee compatibility, since it had not completed its design of the PowerPC upgrade card. Apple only recently determined that the PowerPC 603 CPU in the card had sufficient cache to work with the PowerBook 500 series’ RAM. Apple is expecting to ship the cards in late spring or summer, but it will not comment on other details, 408/996-1010. Front-runner Apple: “We'll Make More” Apple was the leading vendor of personal computers in the critical U.S. market during the third quarter of 1994, shipping 641,492 systems, according to industry analyst Dataquest. Apple, which does not release exact sales figures, said that demand for the 630 family, the PowerBook 500 series, and the Power Mac line was strong, and that Apple should meet its goal of shipping 1 million Power Macs in their first year. Apple said that because of strong demand for Macs, it is plan- ning a new, 200,000-square-foot logic-board factory. Hayes Files under Chapter 11. Modem and communications-equipment manufacturer Hayes Microcomputer Products has voluntarily filed for pro- tection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S. bank- ruptcy laws. According to the company, the move was precipitated by a “short-term cash shortage,” and busi- ness would continue as usual, with Hayes meeting its production-schedule, product-delivery, and customer- service commitments. The company plans no layoffs. Axion Unnerved? Teleconferencing- equipment vendor Axion's phone numbers for sales and tech support and its 800 number had all been discon- nected at press time. m MACWORLD February 1995 35 N THIS ISSUE p. 37 Apple's Secret PowerBooks EDITED BY TOM MORAN p- 37 Soft Windows for Quadras p. 37 Spigot AV Producer p. 38 Democracy Online p. 38 Sony 17-Inch SOHO Monitor p. 39 DOS Cards for 040 Macs p. 39 Stuffit Deluxe p- 40 Bargain 1200-dpi Printers Word 6.0 Performance Disappoints B: most accounts, Micro- soft Word 6.0 for the Macintosh isa tour de force of new features and improve- ments, But accessing those additional features smoothly and efficiently may require more Macintosh than most users have. Microsoft recommends a Mac with a 68020 or better processor, at least 4MB of RAM, and 24MB of disk space for a complete installation of Word 6.0. But many users of 68030-based Macs say the application is too slow for them. Users of 030-based Macs make up about half the entire Mac installed base, according to the market- analysis newsletter Hartsook Letter (published by Pieter Hartsook, Alameda, Califor- nia). And some of those users are removing Word 6.0 from their hard drives and return- ing to version 5.1 until Mi- crosoft improves Word 6.0’s performance. Slowdown Shown Macworld Lab tests show that Word 6.0 performs at about half the speed of Word 5.1 in many everyday tasks (for more on Word 6.0, see Reviews, i this issue). We tested Word 6.0 on a Centris 650 that had 36 February 1995 Apple extensions. 44-page file with ome graphics in it took wi as long in the new version, as did printing to a PostScript file. Performing an exact word count in Word 6,0 took 30 seconds longer than it did in Word 5.1. In response to complaints about slow performance, Mi- crosoft has released a docu- MACWORLD ment called Setup and Perfor- mance Optimization, which is available from online service: or by calling Microsoft di- rectly, The 8-page document advises users to add RAM to their systems, reduce the Memory control panel’s disk cache setting to 32K, reduce the number of colors the monitor displays, limit the number of installed exten- sions, and create a RAM disk. Microsoft says the per- formance slowdown is a di- rect consequence of the new Word’s larger set of features and improvements, which the company says users have requested in the two years since Word was last updated. Another reason given for the problem is the switch from having separate code for the Mac and Windows versions; the two versions now use the same code, developed first for ‘Windows. “We had to make some hard choices,” explains Martina Lauchengco, prod- uct manager for Word 6.0. Microsoft decided that the performance penalty for the new features was acceptable because the company believes most 030-based Mac owners will upgrade to faster Macs in the next few years. But other recently upgraded pro- grams with lots of new fea- tures don’t show such a slow- down, including Microsoft's own Excel 5,0 and rival Novell Application Group's WordPerfect 3.1, However, during the transition from Word for Windows 2.0 to version 6,0, users of 386 machines had similar perfor- mance problems. Launch Delay One of the worst delays with 6.0 occurs when a large number of extensions and fonts are installed—loading the Word 6.0 application can take sever- al minutes, On a Centris 610, the launch time was more than 7 minutes, compared with about 2 minutes for Word 5.1. On the same system, the new Excel 5.0 did not show a cor- responding slowdown com- pared with version 4.0. Other Macintoshes tested did not show a similar slowdown dur- ing the launch of Word 6.0. Microsoft confirms that cer- tain extensions and fonts can cause a slowdown at launch, although it has nor yet identi- fied which extensions cause the problems. The company hopes to make a list of the extensions that affect Word 6.0 performance available by the time you read this. Fonts play a part because Word 6.0 checks each font as it launch- es to see if it is corrupted. For users who choose to revert to Word 5.1, Microsoft said it is offering a free filter for Word 5.1 that lets it read Word 6.0 files. The filter is available from Microsoft directly and also from online services. Microsoft, 206/882- 8080.—MATTHEW HAWN AND JOANNA PEARLSTEIN Apple’s Secret PowerBook Plans Ro to sources close to Apple and internal Apple documents ob- tained by Macworld, Apple’s first line of PowerPC Pow- erBooks is slated for a May or June an- nouncement. Later in the year, these ma- chines should be fol- lowed by a PowerPC Duo and, according toone source, the pre- viously announced PowerBook 500 Pow- erPC upgrade card. Documents ob- tained by Macworld indicate that Apple’s next line of PowerBooks will be based on the PowerPC 603+ chip, which should offer significant speed benefits to the Power- Book family. New Case Design and More Code-named M2, the new line of PowerBooks will use the specially designed PowerPC 603+ chip with a 32-bit data path, probably running at 100MHz (see “PowerBooks May Face Delay,” Power Mac News, Mac- world, September 1994). Sources close to Apple say that Apple plans three versions of the M2, one with a 10.4-inch active matrix LCD color screen, one with a 10.4-inch passive matrix LCD color screen, and one with a 9.5- inch passive matrix mono- chrome screen, The 10.4-inch screen, popularized by IBM’s well-received ThinkPad note- books, has been scarce, but major suppliers are expected to ramp up production in 1995. The 10.4-inch size would give the PowerBook a viewable display area close to that of a regular 14-inch mon- itor, All three machines are expected to ship with at least 8MB of RAM on the mothe board, expandable to 64MB, and back ports, including PowerBook Re The M2 serene tne rectangula”look than th 100 series. Importa features include: (1) a built-in PCMCIA slot, (2) an Infrared transceiver on the back panel, (3) a media bay that will accept either a floppy drive or a special CD-ROM dive that takes 35-inch dises, and (4) a single, ithumion battery with LEDS inccating charge status. Artst!s concept: SCSI, ADB, video in, audio in and ont, and a single se- rial port, but excluding the Ethernet port and modem expansion slot. According to our sources, Apple will use IDE hard drives in the M2 PowerBooks, but it’s not clear what capacity drives will even- tually ship. The M2 machines will inherit their keyboard and trackpad from the 500 series, but little else, according to a source close to Apple. The new PowerBooks will sport a media bay where customers can plug in either a floppy drive or a specially designed CD-ROM drive that uses 3,5- inch discs; the internal Apple documents further indicate that Apple has been inv gating adding PCI capability to the media bay. Other changes include a built-in PCMCIA slot (for one Type Hl or two Type I cards) and an infrared transceiver on the back panel that will provide wireless LocalTalk connec- tions and support for Newton. transmissions (see “Spindler Says Clones on the Way,” avs, November 1994), According to our sources, Apple will ship the M2 with a new, lithium-ion _ battery. continues on page 40 MACWORLD In Briel PLI Reorganizing Peripheral Land Inc., longtime vendor of storage options for the Macintosh, is undergoing financial difficulties and may be acquired by Eyetel Technologies, according to a PLI executive. PLI has restructured its debt and made cost reductions to continue operating, the | executive said. The company, which once employed 189 people, recently had an additional layoff of around 15 percent to 20 percent of staff, to a current level of 70 employees. SoftWindows for Quadras Insignia Solutions is shipping a version of SoftWindaows, its Windows-emulation software, that runs on 040-based Macs. The software runs DOS and standard-mode Windows appli- cations but does not run en- hanced-mode Windows apps. To run SoftWindows for Mac- intosh version 1.0, the company recommends 16MB of RAM. To run Windows and DOS requires at least 23MB of free disk space. The $499 soft- ware can read PC CD-ROMs, and it emulates PC serial ports and a printer port. It comes with Novell NetWare client software. 415/694-7600. Spigot Runs Millions of Colors Radius is bringing out the Spigot AV Producer, which supports 24-bit digital video capture and playback at 30 frames per second (60 fields per second) for NTSC or 25 frames per second and 50 fields per second for PAL. The Spigot AV Pro- ducer has more colors, less banding, and fewer dropped frames than previous Spigots, the company says. It works with QuickTime 2.0, JPEG compression, JPGI (to support DigitalFilm files), and X Com- mands for use with Macromind Director. The board, expected to list for $1799, fits in the DAV slot of AV Macs, and should begin shipping in January. February 1995 37 | News Democracy Online FUTURE CAMPAIGNS? TT of endless lies from politicians? Certain that campaign financing rules the land? Well, you may not have to take it anymore if the promise of several on- line democracy projects comes true. The California Online Voter Guide, a project of the California Voter Foundation, is one example. During the November 1994 state elec- tion, voters could access the service and find out about nine statewide races, the can- didates involved, the issues, and the platforms of the six political parties in California. Accessible through the Internet, America Online, or the World Wide Web, the service offered in-depth in- formation, including bio- graphies of the candidates, en- dorsements, position papers, and speeches. With online information, voters can edu- cate themselves and get to know the issues in much more depth than is possible with other media. Also, when more voters get their information from voter-information ser- vices, it will level the playing field for candidates who may not have the money fora large campaign, said Kim Alexan- der, executive director of the California Voter Foundation. These kinds of services may BUGS & TURKEYS If you own a Radius Thunder IIGX 1600 graph- ics-acceleration card, you might have noticed that the CMYK plug-in that ships with Adobe Photoshop 3.0 doesn’t work. If you happen to use this configuration on a Power Mac, you'll find that the DSP plug-in conks out, too. Radius says a free fix will be available by late Novem- ber from its tech-support line (408/541-7680) and from online services such as America Online, AppleLink, and the Radius BBS. @ QuarkXPress 3.3 and System 7.5 are like two kids that just can’t play nicely—users have reported conflicts when faxing or printing composites and halftones, And did we mention that XPr files on locked media? A free patch—3.31r2—repa these and other Quark quirks. The 680X0 version is avail- able online; the Power Mac version is available (with a valid serial number) only from Quark, 303/894-8888. First Apple stopped shipping system disks with certain Macintosh models, now it’s leaving out the manuals, System 7.5 ships with a slim booklet called the System 7.5 Upgrade Guide, which highlights new 7.5 fea- tures, Anyone upgrading from System 6 must rely on Apple Guide, Apple’s online help, which Apple says cov- ers “three-fourths of the features of System 7.5.” Macworld will send you a Bug Report T-shirt if you are the first to inform us ofa serious, reproducible bug that we report in this column, or a Turkey Shoot T-Shirt if we shoot your turkey in this space. See How to Contact Macworld. a8 February 1995 MACWORLD be the best road to campaign finance re- form, according to Alexander, The Democra Network, put togeth er by the Center for Governmental Stud- es in Los Angeles, another project in- tended to bring more light to hear on the election process. Itadds inter- active multimedia to the mix, with an application that voters can use to see candidates’ speeches, to hear their positions ‘on various commentar groups or other re- sources. The soft- ware can run on a computer, or on a cable TV hookup if the cable com- pany has installed The Democracy Network. Several such pilot proj- ects are currently under way. Funded by national founda- tions, The Democ- racy Network also received some Maes from Apple. The Califor- nia Online Voter Guide and The Democracy Network are both available along with related services on the Political Participation Project World Wide Web page, which can be reached at hetp:/Avww.aimit. edu/pro- jects/ppp/home.html. The Center for Governmental Studies, 310/ 470-6590; The California Voter Foundation, 916/737-6270.—t.m. Sony's 17-Ineh SOHO Monitor NEW TRINITRON DESIGN dding to its highly regarded ‘Trinitron mon- itor line, Sony has brought to light the Multiscan 17sf, a 17- inch flat-screen digital display that Sony says is designed to suit the requirements of busi- ness buyers while still fite the budyets of small-oft home-ottice (SOHO) us Based on redesigned ‘Trini- tron tube technology, the Multisean I7sf monitor lists for $999.95, but Sony expects the street price to be around $899. With its all-new ‘Trini- tron tube, the display is sever- al inches less deep than most competing 17-inch monitors The Multisean 17sf includes Sony’s new 0.25mm Super Fine Pitch aperture grille At press Sony expected to ship the Multisean W7sf hewinning on November 15. The company is already time, The Multiscan 17sf is a flat-screen, Trinitron display that lists for just under $1000 offering the Multisean 15st, 15-inch digital monitor with basically the same features as the Multisean 17sf, ineluding front-panel digital controls, tilt-and-swivel base, Digital Multiscan technology, mostly automatic geometric adjust= ment, maximum resolution at 1024 by 768 pixels at 751, and two factory-set white points (5000 and 9300 degrees Kelvin) with one uses setting. Vhe Multisean 15st carries a suggested list price of $569.95 Sony also recently intro- duced the CPD-1425, an ana- log 14-ineh “Trinitron moni- tor intendes solution ava list price af $399.95, The CPD-1425's maxinuin resolution is L024 by 768 pivels, its tube has a 025mm str pitch, its refresh rate is 75Hz at 8 624 pixels, and it’s ay now. It synes to several pr as a low-cost frequencies but is less versa~ tile than the sf-series moni- tors, which can syne to any video signal from a graphies board. To work with Macs, all three of the Sony monitors require the company’s $18.95 MacView adapter, all three have silica antiglare coating, and all three comply with Energy Star and VESA DPMS _ power-management standards and with the MPR 1990:8 (formerly MPR II) guidelines for electromagnetic emissions. Sony, 800/352- 7669.—T.M. PC Cards How Offered for O40 Macs PC VENDOR LICENSES APPLE TECHNOLOGY putts forward with its multiple-operating-s tem strategy, Apple has licensed the software and hardware technology from its DOS Compatible Card to another company for use in PC coprocessors for most 040 Maes. The unusual move by Apple meant that in mid- November 1994, Reply Cor- poration began shipping the DOS on Mac PC coprocessor card, based on this licensed Reply's DOS on Mac card adds a PC to many Macs. technology, for the Centris and Quadra 610. (This card can also be used in a Centris or Quadra 660AV, but you must remove the AV card.) Cards for the Centris 650 and Quadra 650, 700, 800, 900, and 950 are expected to ship in January 1995. Reply is known in the PC market for its IBM PS/2 motherboard upgrades. The Reply card for the 610 fills the void left when Apple discontinued its DOS Compatible Card for the 610 in March 1994 after two and a half months, because Apple’s supplier ran out of the necessary parts. For the other supported 040 Macs, the Reply cards mark the first direct compe- tition against Orange Micro, which has several PC co- processor cards in its OrangePC line. The existing OrangePG cards work in any NuBus Macintosh (including 680X0 and Power Mac mod- els), while the Reply DOS THE AMCOEx INDEX OF USED MACINTOSH PRICES hiring wieek of Movember 20. Conngurato ‘norcompacl models Average Monthly Machine/RAM/Hard Drive Sale Price Change PowerBook 100/4MB/20MB_=sSSC«SS575 a $0 PowerBook 140/4MB/40MB $725 -$25 PowerBook 180/4MB/80MB $1550 +850 PowerBook Duo 230/4MB/80MB $800 $25 Mac Classic/2MB/40MB $325 $25 ‘Mac SE/30/2MB/40MB $475 -$25 ‘Mac LC II/4MB/40MB $525 +$25 Mac IIsi/3MB/40MB $525 -$25 Mac lici/4MB/80MB $650 -$100 ‘Mac IIfx/4M1B/80MB $850 ~$25 Centris 650/8MB/230MB $1300 +8100 Quadra 900/8MB/160MB $1925 +$75 provided by the American Computer Exchange of Alana (800/786-0717). It reflects als ide keyboard and exclude monitor and daplay. cards plug into the Mac’s Processor Direct Slot. Using NuBus slows down the Orange Micro cards but lets them plug into a wide range of Macs; using the Quadra PDS lets the Reply cards run faster than otherwise equivalent-speed OrangePC cards but limits the cards to working only with the Centris 610 and 650 and Quadra 610, 650, 700, 800, 900, and 950. ‘The Reply cards have one SIMM slot that uses the same 72-pin SIMMs as a Quadra and most PCs; if no SIMM is installed, the card uses the Mac’s RAM—just as Apple’s new DOS Compatible Card for the Power Mac 6100 does: (see Power Mac News, Mac- world, January 1995). The Reply cards use the same soft- ware as Apple’s card. And the SoundBlaster-compatible daughtercard bundled with the recent Apple card is a $95 option for the Reply cards, Also optional for the Reply card is NetWare IPX and Unix TCP/IP networking support, which Reply expects to make available in January. Apple includes this software with its card. The cards will be available with a choice of a SOMHz 486DX2 ora 66MHz 486DX2 CPU. The initial supplier of the CPUs will be Cyrix Corporation, although Reply says that this will change as the primary PC CPU suppli- ers—Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Cyrix, and Nex- Gen—adjust their prices. (Apple is currently using Intel’s 66MHz 80486DX2 processor.) Reply’s basic card for the 610 costs $495. The basic card for the other 040 Macs costs $495 for a S0MHz card and $595 for a 66MHz card. The SoundBlaster daughtereard costs $95, and the networking software, $50. MS-DOS 6.23 and Windows 3.11 are includ- ed. Reply, 408/942-4804. —GALEN GRUMAN RICHARD RETHEMEYER MACWORLD In Briel Stuffit Deluxe 3.5 Stuffit Deluxe 3.5 helps users by automatically recognizing and expanding files compressed with such exotic cross-platform for- mats as BINHEX, UUencode, Unix Compress, gzip, and ARC. Users can stuff a document by dragging it from the desktop to an open archive window; to unstuff it, just reverse the pro- cedure. In related news, Aladdin also updated its background hard disk compression package, Stufflt SpaceSaver, adding a tighter compression algorithm. Stufflt Deluxe 3.5 ($129.95) and Stuffit SpaceSaver 3.5 ($79.95) are now both accel- erated for the Power Mac and are available from Aladdin Systems, 408/761-6200. Color StyleWriter Pro Watch Although it's not yet official, Apple is preparing to switch its production from the existing Color StyleWriter Pro printer to the newer Color StyleWriter 2400, depending on demand. An Apple representative said both products will remain in the company's offerings until it becomes clear there are not enough orders to justify making the Color StyleWriter Pro. Early demand favors the newer 2400, but there is still a healthy call for the Pro, DEClaser 3500 Digital Equipment Corporation has begun shipping the DEClaser 3500, a 12-ppm network laser printer that produces 600 dpi, includes PostScript Level 2 and PCL 5 emulation, and has 53 built-in fonts. The DEClaser 3500 switches to the page-descrip- tion language required by an incoming file and has multiple ports that are active simulta- neously. It can hold from 3MB to 19MB of RAM and offers memory-management capability that reduces RAM requirements. The Macintosh version lists for $2099; an optional PostScript fax option goes for $349. 508/493-5111. February 1995 39 | Mews “POWERBOOK PLANS" continued ‘There will be space for only one battery on the new Power- Books, but the lithium-ion bat- teries already in use in PC portables are lighter, more powerful, and recharge more quickly than their nickel-cad- mium or nickel-metal-hydride counterparts. According to one source, the new batteries will have five LEDs that will light up to indicate charge status when the user presses a small button on the battery. Our sources also say that the M will use a new, 36-watt power supply similar in design to the current Duo power supply. A source close to Apple describes the M2 as being phy: ically similar to the 500 serie: but not as curvy. The bottom half of the computer is thicker, and the area around the track- pad doesn’t slope off but is more square. The display por- tion of the M2 clamshell is thinner than the 500 series’ and basically flat, with a single speaker centered below the dis- . The infrared trans- ceiver will be mounted next to the I/O ports on the left end of the PowerBook hack plane. The Last 040 Power- Book At the same time as the M2 series’ release, sources say, Apple will unveil the last 680X0 PowerBook, appropri- ately code-named the Omega. The Omega will be practically an extension of the M2 line, the major difference being its 33MHz 68L.C040. The ould ship with a 9.5- inch passive matrix LCD sereen with 16 levels of gray, a 160MB IDE hard drive, and possibly with only 4MB of RAM. The Omega will have the same ADB, § , serial, and stereo- out ports; and the same infrared capabilities, media bay, PCM- CIA slot, keyboard, tr and case design as the M2 line. ise: pected to Also, the Omey: ship with a nicl JUST Wail Till Next Year APPLE PLANS EVEN MORE POWERBOOKS Aw: looking at the Apple Portable Division crystal ball for the next year would see two words: PowerPC and docking, According to internal Apple docu- ments obtained by Macworld, Apple has two major projects in the works for 1996. The first, code-named Nautilus, would be a notebook Mac driven by a 133MHz version of the PowerPC 603+ and would have a PCI bus. Apple’s design goals for the Nautilus include three models, all with color screens and a complete array of ports, possibly replacing SCSI with the high-speed FireWire interface (see “Will FireWire Replace SCSI?” News, Macworld, March 1994). Apple’s early plans call fora PCMCIA-based internal hard drive as well as a PCMCIA expansion slot, and a redesigned keyboard and floppy drive t toa thinner, lighter unit. According to the documents we obtained, Apple is investigating at least two dockit les for the Nautilus; one dock concept would use the FireWire port to connect to a desktop station, while a second would provide full port replication 4 la Duo Docks. Even further into the portable future isa project code- named Argonaut, a high-performance portable that is scheduled to have a second-generation PowerPC archi- tecture and is intended to replace the M2 and Omega PowerBooks (see “Apple’s