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After the floating-point division problem with Intel’s Pentium became a hot potato (see “Pentium Dementium,” MacBulletin, February 1995), there was another surprise: the Calculator applet (small application) in Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups—used by nearly 60 million people—can’t do arithmetic properly with some small numbers. Perhaps when balancing his checkbook, Bill Gates got too used to adding up numbers that have at least six zeros in them and failed to notice that 2.01 minus 2.00 is not 0.00. Perhaps Intel and Microsoft should have heeded Teen ‘Talk Barbie’s warning to us all on the inherent difficulty of mathematic: To be fair, math is hard, especially on computers. Digital binary math can only approximate some numbers that can be written easily and accurately on paper—A or %, for instance. A computer could spend its life calculating .3333333 for the first example, or 3.14159. . . for the sec- ond. At some point a computer has to round off, so there’s a trade-off between accuracy and speed. For certain very sophisticated math, an entire cottage industry is dedicated to creating algo- rithms that help computers do specific kinds of calculations more accurately. Nor has the Mac been problem-free: witness the spotty history of SANE (the Macintosh Way of Math). The PowerPC family has also had some flaws. For exam- ple, the version of the 601 that ships in Apple’s upgrade cards has some problems with transcendental calculations. The STATE OF THE MAC BY ADRIAN MELLO Divide and Flounder How the Pentium became The Error Inside PowerPCs that ship in complete Pow are fine, but that situation may explain why Apple has been remarkably low-key, not yet openly criticizing Intel. Like Intel with its Pentium flaw, Mi- crosoft has known about the Windows math problem for some time and planned to fix it in the next version, Unlike Intel’s corrected Pentium, however, which is shipping now, Microsoft's Windows 95 (or is it Chicago 93? I get confused) is not due until April or May or now maybe August. An embarrassed Microsoft said at press time that it would post a repair patch online on January 6, 1995, But what's really remarkable about the Intel and Microsoft imbroglios is that both companies knew about their problem, and neither said anything to the public until the bits hit the fan. s I write, reports are coming in of real-world instances of corrupted data resulting from the Pentium flaw. Intel’s estimate is that a typical user would get only one significant error every 27,000 years or so, My, how time flies. Unfortu- nately, time will not fly for the many organizations and individuals who now have to check their work. They need to figure out how much of it may be flawed, find another computer to run their calcu- lations on, run the calculations, and then compare them. A number of suits have already been filed, and it’s possible that Intel will find itself settling with folks who have lost time and therefore money There could be a domino effect: users fil- ing suits against Intel or their computer vendor and then the vendors suing Intel because of the loss of their time, the loss of sales that could have been made while they were fixing problems, and the dam- age to their reputations. As I write, two stockholder suits have been filed against Intel. They'll no doubt claim that, since Intel had known about the flaw since last summer, stockholders should have been told of the possible impact on Intel’s financial performance and stock price. The stock has rebounded since Intel president and chief executive Andy Grove announced, seven weeks after the furor began, that Intel would replace any defective Pen- tium on request. Keeping a problem like this secret is a classic way to get sued by stockholders and lose. And Intel vastly under- estimates users’ capacity for outrage when their concerns are dismissed in a high-handed way. Intel’s early policy of replacing chips only if the company judged it necessary was outrageous. Although Grove apologized for the problem, the company dragged its heels before relenting, That may cost it um of lost prestige that is incalculable. As one of the strongest technology com- panies in the world, Intel will recover. But stumbles like this—and pride before and after the fall—have led juggernauts such as IBM to tumble from the PC heights. Ship in Haste, Repentium at Leisure In personal computers, a new generation comes every two years or less. For this reason, computer juggernauts crash faster than those in other industries. Faced with new competition from the PowerPC and continues MACWORLD March 1995 19 STATE OF THE MAC from clones, Intel adopted several strate- gies to regain its virtual monopoly. It rushed the Pentiums to market—as it had done with earlier generations of the 80X86 family—as if it were too anxious to leave the competition behind. Also, the seeming point of using the trademarked name Pentium, instead of the expected name 586, was to prevent competitors from using an Intel designation—as the courts said those competitors could use the term 486, for instance. Intel also used other monopolistic strategies: it dropped prices on the Pen- tium rapidly, came out with speedier chips more quickly, promised a next gen- eration that would be even more power- ful, and spent around $100 million pro- moting its chips to the general public. 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Also, as operating systems move to support multiple processors, there will be no guarantee of customer demand for any one chip architecture. Although it is unlikely, should any future generation of Intel chips have some grievous flaw, or more to the point, should the PowerPC prove a dominating competitor, Micro- soft would be able to move its software to the next champion among chips. Micro- soft has already spent a great deal of money to make Windows portable by cre- ating Windows NT, which can run on several microprocessors, including Pen- tiums and PowerPCs. With this kind of portability in the offing, and with the Apple/IBM/Motorola converged plat- form a year or so away, no one should take anything for granted. Intel’s Andy Grove should be proud of his company’s success over the years, and he should be ashamed of this episode. Te’s time for a lot of soul-searching for Intel, and time will show how seriously the company takes this debacle to heart. This is clearly an opportunity not only for the makers of chips designed to work like Intel processors (IBM, NexGen, Ad- vanced Micro Devices, and Cyrix—that’s a lot of competition nipping on Intel’s right heel while the PowerPC nips at the left), but also for the Mac and PowerPC. But one question remains: is Apple poised to take advantage of this windfall? Even before the Pentium problem, the PowerPC Macs had proved worthy com- petitors. And when Copland (System 8) gets rid of the System 7.X overhead that makes a PowerPC merely as fast as a Pen- tium, watch out. Unfortunately, Copland has also been delayed—to mid-1996. Apple needs to grab this chance, and the company is slipping already, A word to Apple chief Michael Spindler: the stars are in alignment. If you don’t plan to at least double Apple’s ship- ments in the next year, you aren’t plan- ning to succeed. 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Might not one, there- fore, expect some befuddlement at the beginning? Deke says undoing is a problem, but you can wipe away brushstrokes incre- mentally, giving you more power and control over your editing, and you can always delete an entire layer. Also, P’'ve used Silhouette with great success to cre- ate complex masks very quickly from multihued images. According to Deke, not being able to change the size of the composition win- dow limits positioning an imported image. But because of the way Live Pic- ture works, the size and position of the image when you insert it isn’t that impor- tant. You can plop the image in anywhere atany size and easily and quickly scale and position it later. He further criticizes Live Picture for not having the Macintosh Clipboard fea- tures available, but the layers are essen- tially a clipboard. You can “paste” things there and use them anytime, edit them, move them, delete them, or temporarily hide them. Finally, Deke says you can apply gra- dients only to rectangles, but this is not true. You can make a gradient and apply a stencil of any shape. Deke spent several pages describing a piece of software that operates like no other image-editing program and demonstrating by his comments that he didn’t fully grasp the program. Then he concluded that Live Picture does not measure up to HSC’s claim that the application is a totally new way to approach image editing. Warren Morgan Portland, Oregon EVIEWER DEKE McCLELLAND missed his prunes the day of his Live Picture review. Anyone composing letter- size images for CMYK output in a publi- cation is working with 40MB per image. Composite just two of these images together, and you are at 80MB. Photo- shop (and other pixel-based programs) requires three times the file size in avail- able RAM, but current Macs can hold only a maximum of 256MB, so you're at the wall and into the scratch disk, waiting on hard-drive access times. Live Picture works at the same speed whether it’s chewing on a SMB or 500MB file. Gary Shilling a America Online N RESPONSE TO DEKE McCLELLAND’S review of Live Picture, “expensive” is relative. Ask the Scitex and Eclipse own- ers to do a 3000-pixel airbrush. After working with Live Picture for a year, I find myself using it daily and doing things that in the past would require a high-end dedicated system or lots of time in Photo- shop, If you scared anyone any from pur- chasing it, let’s hope it’s my competi- tion—I'd buy it again! Paul Figura Jacksonville, Florida Ifa change is a change for the better, I'm all for it; if not, I'm against it. | do expect some learning time when using any new program, but Live Picture’s interface distinctions are sometimes arbitrary and do not well serve the user. The Sharpen/Blur layer, the one-direction Silhouetting function, and the gradient tool are all examples of incomplete functions that— While different—fail to deliver as well as tools in less expensive programs, The standard window size but- ton is inoperable exclusively when importing an image; otherwise it works fine. This does not sug- gest a considered feature, but rather an oversight. Regardless of its intention, no purpose fs served by turning the function off. Similarly, no function is served by turning the Macintosh Clipboard off, as the purpose of the Clip- board is to allow you to move elements between documents. By disabling the Clipboard functions and prohibiting you from opening multiple compositions at the same time, Live Picture makes it impossible to swap images between documents. Suppose you have two compositions and you want to transfer images from the first into the second. Presently, Live Picture provides no mechanism for doing this, As | stated in the review, Live Picture is well equipped in the technology department. The pro- gram is lightning fast at most operations, especially ‘on the Power Mac, and it allows you to open and edit fantastically large images. In fact, if speed and access to enormous images are all you expect for your $4000, then Live Picture will not disappoint. 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There isn't a payroll situation Aatrix can't handle! 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 are property of their respective manufacturers. Circle 159 on reader service card LETTERS = In the January 1995 Wiz Tools for PowerBook review, the Con referring to an incompatibility with System 7.5 should not have appeared. Wiz Tools is System 7.5 compatible. @ The correct price for Presenter Professional 3.0 is $1995 (“Inside 3-D Modeling,” December 1994). a The January 1995 review of ClarisDraw 1.0 incorrectly states that you can’t edit bitmapped images. You can dis- play and edit 24-bit images after you import them using the provided transla~ tors. You can also save up to nine zoom views for later use. ClarisDraw 1.0 is accelerated for the Power Macintosh. = The January 1995 Desktop Crit- ic mistakenly attributes product infor- mation to The Presenter Mac/PC TV adapter from Consumer Technology Northwest. This information applies to the Power Presenter from J7 &K Enter- prises. We regret this mistake and look forward to reviewing The Presenter Mac/PC in a future issue, Mr. Martinez’s article on 3-D modeling in your December 1994 issue (“Inside 3-D Modeling”). But while your article did a good job of explaining the basics of 3-D modeling, it didn’t come close to giving the reader enough information to make an educated decision about which product to buy. T have already purchased Ray Dream Designer and Alias Sketch and found both programs lacking. Ray Dream was an obtuse and limiting modeler—almost useless to anyone serious about 3-D. And Alias Sketch 2.0, while a good rendering program, suffers as a competent modeler. Also missing from your article was some kind of score on how well some functions were implemented in the prod- ucts you reviewed. You should also rate these products on technical support. Chris Lockwood Houston, Texas ‘As you've discovered, noone 3-D package is the best in all criteria. We focused on the rendering engine, since it's such a fundamental element, but users should always factor in their individual needs before making a purchasing decision —Ed. Ease Up on the 150 fj DON'T FEEL THAT YOUR REVIEW OF = the PowerBook 150 was at all fair (December 1994). It is much speedier than my PowerBook 145, a pound lighter, and has a better display. I haven’t noticed 26 March 1995 MACWORLD the passive-matrix-eyestrain blues that you gripe about. And the model that the 150 replaces, the 145B, doesn’t have a video-out port either. As for pricing, in the back of your own publication, there were 150’s from as little as $1349. At $100 less than the old 145B, Apple’s new PowerBook 150 is a wonderful replacement that is sure to win many hearts, including mine as soon as my PowerBook 145 is out of warranty in June 1995. One last thing—the absence of that little door on the back is a blessing. Those doors should have recycling codes stamped on them because they break so often. Andy Byrne via America Online Two-Line Fax Solution HAVE A SOLUTION TO THE ONE-LINE phone/fax problem that is elegant and nearly foolproof but is hardly ever men- tioned in articles, including your “Fax or Fiction?” piece (December 1994). Call your phone company and order the ser- vice that gives you a separate number on your line, each with a distinctive ring (usually two short rings on the second number, one long ring on the main num- ber). In my area this costs $3 per month for residential lines, $7 for business. I have a box, smaller than your normal ham-and-cheese sandwich, that can tell if the phone is ringing one long or two short and switch the call to different devices, phone and fax or fax modem. The box I bought three years ago is called a Ring Leader, manufacturer unknown, but I have heard them called ring discrimina- tors and they can probably be found at Radio Shack. David Pyle via America Online Web Junkies, Unite! pec: ENJOYED STEVEN Levy’s Iconoclast column in the De- cember 1994 issue, on surfing the World Wide Web with Mosaic. Anybody who doesn’t understand the importance of knowing the airtimes of “Babylon 5” episodes in Singapore just doesn’t get it, Mr. Levy accurately pointed out the major frustration with Mosaic: the need for speed, He also mentioned that high- speed connections such as ISDN or T1 would cost a lot. 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Here in northern Virginia, Bell Atlantic’s prices for ISDN, while higher than those for a regular analog phone line, are no longer out of reach for the Web surfer with the will to tear himself away from his connection long enough and fre- quently enough to obtain a paycheck. Brian Goodhart Falls Church, Virginia JUST FINISHED READING YOUR INTER- esting article on Mosaic in the Decem- ber issue (“Taming the Internet”). As a former member of the team that de- veloped Cisco Systems’ Web Server (http://www.cisco.com), I agree with everything you said concerning the pres- ent failings of the Mosaic client software. But] was sad to see that Mosaic Com- munications’ Web browser Netscape didn’t receive any print whatsoever. Although it is still in beta form, Netscape is more stable and feature-rich, uses less memory, and performs up to ten times faster over a modem connection than Mosaic. It is available free for personal use from ftp.mcom.com under the /netscape/mac directory. There are ver- sions for Windows and five different vari- ations of Unix. Fernando Lozano via the Internet Unfortunately, when | wrote that article, Netscape hadn't even been named, and Mosaic Communica- tions was still getting up to speed. | agree that Netscape is a better browser, and | currently use it ‘on my Macintosh.—Joel Snyder m The 1994 index to Macworld articles is available by mail. To receive a copy, send a self-addressed legal-size envelope with 64 cents postage (two 32-cent stamps) to Index, Macworld, 501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107. The 1994 index is also available in the Macworld forums on America Online and eWorld, or you can send a request via the Internet to macworld@macworld.com to receive an electronic copy. 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Wings? “Meta tpioon’ 01994 by Doni Sk, Spec ntertionl yo torte Ours OT988 Specter Mae san A Circle 41 on reader service card oe MacBulletin First 040 Mac Clones Drive reseller Cut- ting Edge plans to ship the first clones of 040-based Macs by February 1995. The Quatro 850 uses Apple's Quadra 650 motherboard but comes in a tower case that holds up to three 514-inch and two 34-inch drives. The Qua- tro is available in 25MHz and 33MHz versions. Prices vary by configuration. Cutting Edge also plans to ship Power Mac clones later in the year. 619/441-6992. Copland Clarified The development team for the next-generation Mac Operating System, code- named Copland, has told Macworld that the emphasis in the new OS, due in mid-1996, will be on rewriting much of the core to make it faster, more efficient in its use of resources, less idiosyncratic in how it deals with low-level system components, more accessible to devel- opers seeking to exploit the full power of the Mac, and less subject to unexpected quits and system crashes. Apple will also revamp the user interface. The Copland developers say they will emphasize user customization, active help, and active assistance. They also promise the new Mac OS will be more “fun.” Copland, Windows 95 Delayed Apple has announced that Copland has slipped from late 1995 to mid-1996. Apple says that Copland's delay is due to changes needed to better support the converged PC platform under development by Apple and IBM and due in late 1996. Microsoft says Windows 95 will now appear in August 1995, not June, so the company can ensure compatibility with the wide range of PC systems and add-on hardware; Windows 95 is now running more than two years behind schedule. Windows Clients Debut Windows client software for AppleShare with its Work- group Servers, and Windows client software for Apple- Search with AppleSearch 1.5 ($1799 for one server and Apple will ship unlimited clients) by the end of February 1995 for no extra charge. The AppleShare client is based on an Apple- Talk protocol stack licensed from Miramar Systems. The stack is a 32-bit Windows virtual-device driver (VxD), so it should also work in Windows 95. 408/862-3385. © ATI Enters Mac Market developer of video-display cards for the PC, ATI Tech- A leading nologies, has formally announced that it will ship cards soon after the first PCl-based Power Macs ship, which is expected to be in June. The ATI Mac cards will be based on the well-regarded Mach 64 line for PCs, whose prices range from $300 to $800. A preview of the PCI cards shows them to be competitive in performance with current NuBus-based Mac cards that cost two to three times as much. ATI has no plans to release cards for NuBus-based Macs. 905/882-2600 Macworld Expo Highlights top product announcements at the Macworld Expo in Among the early January were the following: © STF Technologies’ OptiServe, a tiny box that will turn a fax modem into a networked fax server, even over Apple Remote Access. Expected by April, OptiServe should cost less than $500. 816/463-7972. * Cypress Research's MegaPhone, a $50 pro- gram that automates many telephone tasks such as re- dialing and changing dialing patterns when you travel. It also includes answering-machine software and full- duplex speakerphone capability. MegaPhone is expect- ed to ship in February 1995. Apple will bundle a limit- ed version of MegaPhone with its new GeoPort Telecom Adapter Kit. Cypress, 408/752-2700; Apple, 408/996-1010. * Software Ventures’ Snatcher, a $50 scriptable FTP client for the Mac that logs on to remote FTP sites to download text and binary files, presents all host infor- mation with a Macintosh interface. 510/644-3232. m MACWORLD March 1995 33 IN THIS ISSUE p. 35 Faster Power Macintoshes p. 39 Apple's Power Mac Plans p. 130 Umax's High-Resolution Flatbed Scanner EDITED BY TOM MORAN Pp. 36 Easier Access to the Internet p- 37 Online Piracy p. 39 Power Mac Software Wave p. 148 Open Transport Moves Along First Power Macintosh Clones Debut Power Comput- ing Corporation Band Radius have become the first companies to announce Power Macintosh clones, Both companies plan to offer first ms in the spring, perhaps as early as . The as-yet-unnamed Power Mac clones will run System 7.5 under license from Apple Computer. Radius Known for its monitors, video-display cards, and motion-video Radius will offer NuBus: Power Macs configured with Radius products to be com- plete digital-video production and color publishing systems. ‘The initial Radius Macs will use motherboards — either bought from Apple or manu- factured from Apple designs (in either case, likely the 8100 motherboard) and add Radius peripherals. For example, a digital-videa system might include the VideoVision Stu- dio or VideoVision Telecast video-capture card, a Spigot AV video-display card, Video- Fusion software, a RAID sys- tem designed using AV hard drives, and a monitor, Pricing, names, and final configura- tions were not set at press time. 34 March 1995 Radius will later offer sys- tems aimed at color publish- ter Apple ships its first -based Power Macs in June or July, Radius expects to offer PCI Power Macs as well, and it is investigating whether to offer a Macintosh with both PCI and NuBus slots (Apple has no plans for such a Mac). Power Computing The start-up company Power MACWORLD Computing plans to make motherboards for use in oth- er companies’ Power Mac clones, complete Power Mac clones for resale by other companies, and its own brand of Power Mac clones. The first Macs from Power Com- puting are due in the spring, the company says, Power Computing will sell in both the United States and abroad. ‘The company plans first to sell clones equivalent to the current NuBus-based Power Mac 7100 for less than what Apple charges. Although the amount of discount has not yet been set, the company says it may offer configurations for as little as $1000. Later, the company will sell Macs based on in-house designs. The year-old Power Computing, based in Milpitas, California, is funded largely by Olivetti, the giant Italian computer maker. More to Come While Power Computing and Radi- us are the first companies to announce an authoriz Power Mac clone, Apple says that it has granted licenses to several other companies, which have yet to identify themselves. Among those ru- mored to have an agreement or be seeking an agreement to produce clones w. pple are Acer, Motorola, a, Germany’s Vobis, and Zenith. Radius's Mac clone (a prototype is shown here) will focus on video- production and color-publishing users. One effect of the clones may be to help the NuBus expansion-bus standard sur- vive longer, says Radius CEO Chuck Berger, since clone makers are likely to use NuBus after Apple abandons it this June in favor of PCI. The attractions of NuBus to clone vendors are the proven system designs that exist now for them to use and the large installed base of NuBus cards. ‘The initial Mac clones dif- fer from the converged-plat- form PC that Apple and IBM are developing for release in late 1996 (see “IBM, Apple Move to Joint Platform,” vs, Macworld, January 1995). Radius’s Berg- er sees the Mac clone makers ly moving to the con- verged platform when it be- comes available. Power Computing, 408/ 526-0500; Radius, 408/434- 1010.—GALEN GRUMAN AND CHARLES PILLER Apple Speeds Up Power Mac Line Apple Comput- er has replace the Power M intosh 6100/60, 7100/66, 8100/ 80, and their AV variants with faster models. The current models are now the 6100/66, 7100/80, and 8100/100. (The number after the slash indi- cates the Mac’s CPU speed in megahertz.) Although Apple _ has increased the speed of its Power Macs, it has not in- creased their estimated prices; according to Apple, a ba model 6100/66 will cost the same asa base-model 6100/60. Apple estimates that a bas model 6100/66 will cost $1819; a base-~model 7100/80, $2899; and a_base-model 8100/100, $3699. The Power Macs will be available in several configura- tions, The base-model 6100 will ship with 8MB of RAM, built-in video circuitry, a 350MB hard drive, an Apple se, and System 7.5. The base-model 7100 will have 8MB of RAM and a 500MB hard drive. The base-model 8100 will include a 700MB hard drive. For the first time, 4. 256K cache card will be stan- dard on the 6100 and 7100; the 8100 will continue to have the cache card. Options include more RAM, an AV card, a larger cache card for the 8100, and a CD-ROM drive. Apple also will sell a $2500 6100 system with a PC coprocessor card (see Power Mac News, January 1995). continues Apple Won't Fix HuBus Flaws EYES ON THE PCI PRIZE pple recently confirmed that one reason the Power Mac 8100/80 has fewer problems with high-perfor- mance NuBus cards than other Power Mac models is due to that Mac’s bus speed. (All Power Macs but the 8100/110 have flawed controller circuitry and ROMs that can reduce the effective speed to less than that of the highest-end Quadras; see “Video Hits Roadblocks,” Power ¢ News, Macworld, September 1994.) ‘The NuBus bus runs at 20MHz, for which the 8100/ 80's 4OMHz system bus speed is an even multiple. Other Power Macs’ system bus speeds are not even multiples of NuBus’s 20MHz, and this causes synchronization prob- lems that affect high-speed NuBus performance. (The Power Mac 7100/66 and 6100/66 use a 33MHz bus, the 6100/60 a 30MHz bus, the 8100/100 a 33.3MHz bus, and the 8100/110 a 36.7MHz bus.) According to Jim Gable, Apple’s Power Macintosh product-line manager, the new 7100/80 should work better with high-perfor- mance NuBus cards than did the old 7100/66, since the 7100/ 80 also has a 40MHz bus. However, the 8100/100 and 8100/110 may have problems with some NuBus cards that the 8100/80 did not. Because Apple is about to replace NuBus with the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCD) bus, no fixes are planned for the current Power Macs, Gable says. —GALEN GRUMAN In Briel Apple Drops AV Quadras Both the Quadra 840AV and the 660AV have been removed from Apple's price list, leaving only two Quadra models, the Quadra 950 and Quadra 630, still shipping in Apple's 68040-based desktop line. @ More DayStar Power Mac Cards DayStar plans to ship several Power Mac accelerators in January 1995: a $2199, 100MHz PowerPro (for most Quadras); a $1499, 75MHz PowerPro (for the Centris 650 and Quadra 610); and an $1199, 66MHz PowerCard 601 (for the Iici). DayStar expects the PowerCard's price to drop after initial demand has been satisfied. Also, several mail-order companies have been charging $679 to $749 for DayStar's PowerCard 601 accelerator for the Quadra 630 and 605, LC 475 and 575, and Performa 630—not DayStar's original $599 estimate. 404/967-2077. Low-Cost Dye-Sub NEC has announced the Super- Script Color 3000M, a com- bination thermal-transfer-and- dye-sublimation color printer. Print speeds vary from 1 ppm in thermal-transfer mode to 1 page every 10 minutes in dye-sub and variable-dat modes, The Quick- Draw printer comes with color- matching software. The $995 printer should be available in February 1995. 708/860-9500. Portable 100MB Removable Drive lomega has announced the Zip drive, a portable drive that accepts 100MB or 25MB removable cartridges. The 3-by- 5-inch drive may have a street price as low as $200, the company said, with the 100MB cartridges going for $19.95 each and the 25MB cartridges going for $9.95. The drive and cartridges are expected to ship in the first quarter of 1995, 801/778-1000, MACWORLD March 1995 35 | News Two 8100 Speeds The arrival of the Power Mac 8100/ 100 does not affect the availability or $6379 price of the 8100/110 introduced in November 1994 (see News, January 1995). Apple expects to continue selling the L10MHz version to multimedia au- thors, motion-video editors, and pre- press users who want both the fastest pos- sible Macintosh and compatibility with NuBus. The 8100/110 fixes the Mac’s ROM and NuBus control circuitry, which used to slow data throughput to sub-Quadra levels. The new Power Macintosh 6100/66, 7100/80, and 8100/100 con- tinue to use the flawed NuBus circuitry. The new Power Macs also do not use the smaller variant of the PowerPC 601 CPU that the 8100/110 does. The 8100/110 uses circuits that are 0.5 microns wide (a micron is a millionth of a meter), while the other Power Maes use 0.65-micron-wide circuits. IBM Microelectron- ics cannot produce enough of the 0.5-micron-circuit CPUs to assure Apple of sufficient supply for general Power Mac use, and the benefits of the 0.5-micron CPU—faster speed with reduced heat buildup and power consump- tion—aren’t critical for the current Power Macs’ design, since their motherboards can handle 0.65-micron-circuit CPUs at speeds up to 100MHz. Like the 8100/110, the 8100/100 uses a clock- tripled PowerPC chip, which means the bus runs at 33.3MHz. For that reason, some operations, such as com- munications with high-speed NuBus cards, will not run as fast as on an 8100/80, which has a 40MHz bus, Replacement Boards, Performas Not Boosted Apple says it has no plans to speed up its PowerPC-based ‘The latest Power Mac 7100 runs at BOMHz. Performa 6100 series or its Power Mac motherboard replacements to match the speed of the new Power Mac systems. Apple now lets deal- ers replace the motherboard in some older Macs with a Power Mac motherboard. For example, you can replace the motherboard in a vx, Centris 650, or Quadra 650 with a Power Mac 7100/66 mother- board for about $1500. Be- cause Apple is not changing the speed of these replacement motherboards, a Ilyx owner, for example, will not be able to upgrade the Ivx to a Pow- er Mae 7100/80, —GALEN GRUMAN HE = Hest result in test. Results are times as fast asa Centris 650 (Centris 650 = 1.0). Longer bars are better. Products are in decreasing order of overall performance, Power Mac 8100/110 {im 3.4 Power Mac 8100/100* ——____—_ iia 3.2 Power Mac 7100/80" KEVIN CANDLAND ‘Overall Score Indicates typical perlor- mance in a mixed-use environment, such a5 accompany of schoo! In-house Internet Servers ACCESS TO THE INFOBAHN ( oe your company to the Internet still isn’t a task for the faint of heart, but Global Village Communica- tion, BBN Internet Services, and InterCon are working to ease companies onto the world’s largest network. Global Village’s One- World Internet provides E-mail and dial-up Internet access to small and medium- size businesses over their exist- ing LANs. The OneWorld server uses a 28.8-Kbps or ISDN modem connected to a company’s QuickMail or Mi- crosoft Mail server that in turn connects via phone line to Global Village’s GlobalCen- ter, which provides the Inter- net connection. The package also includes server software, MacTCP, and a World Wide Web (WWW) browser. At setup, a OneWorld administrator can choose a domain name (so that users can receive E-mail sent to How the New Power Macs Stack Up CPU- Intensive Indicates performance for most business and personal tasks. FPU-Intensive Indicates performance for analytical, -D, and other specialized uses. user@companyname.com); Global Village and the Inter- NIC (the Internet Network Information Center) automat- ically check the chosen name. When GlobalCenter receives E-mail, it automatically calls the OneWorld server once and hangs up, prompting the server to call GlobalCenter toll-free to retrieve the mail. Global Village says that not allowing incoming calls to OneWorld increases security. The OneWorld administrator can control the frequency at which the server connects to GlobalCenter; the amount of Internet access each user can have; and the ability to send urgent mail immediately, With MacTCP installed, OneWorld users can run Internet client applications, such as the popular Fetch, TurboGopher, and Mosaic clients, as well as the included Global Village Web browser. The 28.8-Kbps Quick- Mail version of the server should ship by the time you read this; the ISDN and Microsoft Mail versions will follow. Global Village has not decided if it will offer a One- World product for Lotus’s cc:Mail and has no plans to offer a PowerTalk product. The company says it will Disk-Intensive Indicates performance: of the Mac's data- transfer capability, which affects al users. Centris 650 mu SRSLGGELAS *Prerelease unlit: performance of shipping unit may vary slightly. * *System discontinued by Apple; however, motherboard replacements will stil convert Selected Macs into these Power Mac systems, BEHIND OUR TESTS ‘Macworld Lab tested several functions in eight key programs plus the Finder to determine real-world performance for the three critical performance areas faced by most users: basic processing ability. (the CPU-Intensive scare), math processing abilty for specialized ‘applications like modeling and data analysis (FPU-Intensive score), and hard drive performance (the Disk-intensive score). We then averaged the results, giving the CPU-intensive score 60 percent of the weight, to derive the overall performance, which gives an accurate measure for most business users of thelr Mac's performance, These results are not comparable with previous 36 March 1995 MACWORLD and Mark Hurlow Macworld Lab benchmarks ‘We tested native versions of software on the Power Macs and {680X0 versions on the 040 Macs. The software included System 75; Adobe Illustrator 5.5, PageMaker 5.0a, Photoshop 3.0, and Premiere 4.0; Fractal Design Painter 2.0; Microsoft Excel 5,0; Specular Intemational Infini-D 2.6; and Wolfram Research Mathe- ‘matica 2.3. Our 680X0 Macs had 16MB of RAM, while the Power ‘Macs had 24MB, All systems were run with 8-bit color on 17-inch ‘monitors —ANacworld Lab testing supervised by Danny Lee release a more fully featured Web browser in the future. The company expects the sery- er to cost $1500 to $2000 and monthly fees to be less than $100 for small LANs with light Internet use. Hourly connec- tion fees should be between $6 and $10 per hour. For larger companies with heavier usage needs, BBN Internet Services offers the Internet Server, a turnkey Unix server that can be man- aged from a Mac or a Win- dows PC. The Internet Server provides incoming and outgo- ing E-mail, newsgroups, WWW, Gopher, and FTP. The standard system lists for $9895 and includes. Pentium- based Unix PC with 16MB of RAM, a SOOMB hard drive, an Ethernet card, and a tape drive. BBN also offers Internet connections, or the company will work with customers and their Internet-service pro- viders to configure a new serv- er. For $1450 per year, users can buy a contract that in- cludes server-software updates plus round-the-clock support. Purchasers must supply their own client software. Providing another in- house Internet option, Inter- Con Systems recently agreed to distribute Pipeline, a client- server Internet-connection package that emphasizes ease of use for the end user (see “A New Mac Pipeline to the Internet,” News, October 1994), The latest version of Pipeline, expected to be avail able by the time you read thi provides full incoming and outgoing Internet-access ser- vices, including E-mail, WWW, Gopher, and FTP. The package requires a Unix server; clients are available for Macs and Windows machines, with OS/2 in the works. The annual server license lists for $7500 plus $50 per user; Inter- Con will customize the front end and provide assistance with server setup, Quantity discounts are available. Glob- al Village Communication, 408/523-1000; BBN Internet Services, 617/873-8730; Inter- Con, 703/709-5500,—CAMERON CROTTY AND JOANNA PEARLSTEIN $ 3 Piracy Ring on Ameri¢a Online MILLIONS OF DOLLARS LOST? ms of the 1.25 million members of America Online are good, law-abiding citizens. Several dozen, how- ever, are apparently using the information service’s gener- ous starter kits and anonymity features to run a commercial- software piracy ring. The group calls itself MinMax, short for minimum effort, maximum gain. A member of this ring begins by signing on to AOL using a free ten-hour starter-kit disk. When signing on, the ring members pro- vide phony names, addresses, and credit card numbers. Because a genuine card number can be initially yerified through a mathematical test, the pirates use a small application to generate numbers that pass the verification test. Once online, the “new member” mails commercial programs to himself or herself. The ring members then trade with one another by simply forwarding their own E-mail messages. No re- uploading is necessary. The list. of pirated programs includes over 200 items, such as Adobe fonts, Word 5.1 and 6.0, Macromind Director, Electriclmage, Sys- tem 7.5, PageMaker, games, and the Holy Bible. To pro- tect their E-mail from pos- sible surveillance by America Online administrators, many of the pirates use an encryp- tion program to encode their messages. An AOL. spokesperson said that AOL could act only on solid proof, and that the messages do not constitute such proof.—pavib POGUE the ual says. U: OCR portion. In both to inform us of column, or a Turkey Shoot“ this space. See How to Contact BUGS & TURKEYS @ Adobe Photoshop 3.0.1’s gamma control panel doesn’t work with the Power Macintosh Upgrade d. Adobe hopes to provide a fix soon, In the meantime, users can (1) open both the Monitor and gamma control panels, (2) change colors to 256 or thousands, (3) adjust amma control panel, (4) reset the colors to the desired level, and (5) close both control panels. Oh—do this every time you restart your Mac. & Although made by the same company, STF’s Faxstf 3.0 crashes if Powerfax Gateway for System 7.5 is installed—despite what the Powerfax Gateway man- who irehaaed STF’s Auto