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Fax On Demand 1-800-234-0455 ext. 668 ONCEPTIONS OF THE FU- ture rarely match what even- tually comes to pass (remem- ber those artists’ renderings from the early 1960s promis- ing turbine-powered cars by 19702). Just last year, every- where we turned we read about the information super- highway—a cable-based mir- acle network that would de- liver video-on-demand and revolutionize our shopping habits. Gone the way of the turbine car. While the popular press touted the infobahn vision, hundreds of thousands of people discovered that a broad-based method of distributing electronic infor- mation was here already in the Internet. And this, rather than video-on-demand and electronic shopping, was what they really wanted (as predicted in “Dream- Net,” Macworld, October 1994). Today you can barely turn around without encountering references to the Internet, commercial online services, and the Net’s graphical offspring, the World Wide Web—on taxicab placards, bank ATMs, TV programs, and even cereal boxes. The Mac's Powerful Presence Macintosh users need hardly be remind- ed that we represent only 8.5 percent of the personal computer market. Every time we walk into a software retailer look- ing for new applications or updates to ones we already own, we come face to face with the evidence. But what you may not know is that Macintosh users play a dis- proportionately important role in the growth of online activity. According to industry analysts, around 25 percent of all people using America Online and around 15 percent of CompuServe sub- scribers are logging in from Macs, and a recent study by the Georgia Institute of Technology shows a similar—and ris- ing—percentage of Macintosh users active on the World Wide Web. Accord- ing to a May 1995 Dataquest study, 19 percent of the Internet population is Mac- intosh users. This disproportionate presence holds true not only for Net trollers and Web STATE OF THE MAC BY ADRIAN MELLO Manifest Destiny The Mac’ special relationship with the Web surfers—the people exploring what the online community has to offer—but also on the server side of the equation. According to the same Georgia Tech study, Mac-based Web servers consti- tute over a fifth of those in use by infor- mation providers. Let me hazard a few hypotheses as to what’s behind the Mac's online extrover- sion. First, people who buy Macs are pio- neers. If you were a conformist, you'd have bought a PC. The same pioneer spirit that draws you to the Mac draws you to the vast frontier of online possibil- ities. Add to that the fact that the Mac’s interface supports online exploration, whereas the PC punishes it by throwing up an inhospitable thicket of complexity. Next, Macs are widely used in higher education, and universities were major players in the development of the Inter- net. This explains not only the large num- ber of Mac-based servers but also the prevalence of good Web-browsing and -authoring tools. Having lots of Mac clients on the Web is important, but the Mac could become the road warrior of the infobahn if it can hang on to its leadership in Web production. It’s the platform of choice in design, publishing, multimedia, and marketing communications, and pub- lishing on the Web is a natural extension of those strengths, A Surfing Server ‘The Mac’s suitability for Web authoring is unsurprising. Less obvious, perhaps, is the Mac’s strength as a Web server. Hardly anyone uses PCs as Web servers. The available server software is a pain to configure, and the content-development tools lag far behind, Unix still leads in the server environment because the Internet was founded on Unix servers. But the Mac has some strong points that could change that. One is price; a Mac costs half as much as a comparable Unix machine. Also, a Mac server is a lot easier to set up and use; Unix servers need Unix experts to get them going. On the downside, the current Mac hardware limits simultane- ous connections, which can produce per- formance bottlenecks for large sites. Unix offers more custom tools, but a decent collection of server tools exists for the Mac—more than you need to create a simple Web site. Finally, the Mac’s net- working architecture is a good fit with direct Inter- net connections. Properly configured, MacTCP is relatively easy for users. Network administrators can handle most of the hard work and send users the proper numbers to plug into their control panels. Open Transport will fur- ther simplify user setup and expand the number of multiple-user connections MacTCP can support. Web Evangelism The Mac is well positioned to play a dom- inant role in the Web's rapid develop- ment, which will create a demand for many new product solutions. Apple should do whatever it can to support the many Macintosh users who have already jumped onto the Net—especially for- ward-thinking smaller developers—just as it did when the Mac helped create desk- top publishing. Doing so will establish another prosperous market for the Mac, continues MACWORLD October 1995 19 STATE OF THE MAC with the ability to yield innovations for years to come. One clear opportunity is in Web page-development tools. Currently, designers must use simple text editors to write HTML (HyperText Markup Lan- guage) scripts to create Web pages. They hate it because it’s more like program- ming than page design. There’s no Web counterpart yet for PageMaker or Quark- XPress that lets you see the pages as you edit and manipulate them, though both Adobe and Quark have announced that they are adding Web-publishing features in their programs’ next versions. Novell’s WordPerfect and Microsoft Word will do the same. But don’t be surprised if the big guys are bested by a new company that crops up from nowhere to offer a product completely optimized for online publishing. Ceneca Communications, for example, is one to watch in this area. Apple should also evaluate its tech- nology portfolio and do what's necessary The motile SoftBoarid mrite! 203 Imagine the meeting where you all have the same vision, the same objectives, and the same notes. SoftBoard only looks and feels like an ordinary whiteboard. Whatever you create on a SoftBoard® appears instantly on your Macintosh® or Windows®-based PC. 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By letting developers build smaller, more targeted parts, OpenDoc suits pre- cisely the kind of developers that are attracted to the Internet. It will let chem build businesses based on quickly fielding products that meet the Web’s fast-chang- ing needs, without getting bogged down in the distribution costs associated with traditional software channels. OpenDoc tools will also benefit Web users, giving them more product options and permit- ting them to operate efficiently, without a lot of resource overhead, This minimalist approach is already evident in the design of Web browsers, which are made to run on minimal sys- tems and across platforms. Because the Net continues to evolve, browsers have been designed to handle just basic HTML, and sometimes a few other types of files. But their architecture allows for tiny helper applications you can swap in and out, depending on what sort of files you want to use and on changing standards. Most helper applications focus on doing one or two tasks very well while running under 1MB of RAM. In some ways, it’s OpenDoc before OpenDoc exists. CyberDog, Apple's own set of Open- Doc parts, will let Web surfers create links between any desktop applications that support OpenDoc and the Internet. It may also encourage other developers to build OpenDoc parts for the Internet that augment CyberDog’s offerings. The Next Link For our part, Macworld will be spending more time watching the Net and helping you take advantage of the online explo- sion, This month we introduce a four- part series, “Internet Essentials.” The first two parts are “Make the Right Connec- tion” and “Pick the Best Browser.” In next month’s Macworld, we will tell you how to build your own Web pages and how to deal with online security issues. Web surfers, be sure to visit our new Web site (http://www.macworld.com). The NetSmart section is a great place to learn more about the Net. 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However, I was sur- prised by the Zip’s four-star rating. While I realize four stars is nothing to sneeze at, [have been nothing but thrilled withymy Zip’s performance and value and don‘t see any reason why this beautiful de didn’t receive that fifth, star. Iomega almost singlehandedly created a new si dard for mass media storage, durability, and price/performance, and its technical support both on AOL and via phongjhas been superlative. a I know it’s not often a product gets five big ones. But if you peruse the lomega conference on America Online and listen to the many ecstatic Zippers, and then consider that Iomega has created a remov- able-storage device that’s faster, smaller, more durable, and far more inexpensive than its closest competitors, I think you'll agree with me that Iomega perhaps wasn’t given its due credit. Craig J. Weiland via America Online OUR REVIEW OF THE ZIP DRIVE IS absolutely correct—Iomega may have shown us the next generation of floppy disks. The drive is just wonderful! Tt was difficult to find, and the disks are not easy to find either, but hey, with this device I was able to replace the near- ly 400 floppy disks littering my comput- er area with just 7 Zip disks! Hooray! I agree that the lack of a power switch and full SCSI identification are annoy- ing. But consider this—these are the worst problems of a first-run product, which means it can only get better. This is one time when the product lives up to the advertisements. Jerry Levy Washington, D.C. 1° 94935 Tip of the Day T HREE DAYS AGO I BLITHELY BEGAN feeding my Power Mac the 33 disks Thad recently received from Microsoft as the Office 4.2.1 maintenance release. Had I known just how much maintenance was involved, I might have simply left all those disks in their plastic wrapper. After five reinstalls; four phone calls to technical support; multiple trips from the Prefer- ences file to the Trash; and other voodoo: to solve the “cannot find Word,” “cannot find Help,” and “cannot find Office Setup” messages—by day’s end things were still missing and couldn’t be found. T turned on my computer this morn- ing, launching Word (much faster, I must say) and here was today’s Tip of the Day: “Did you know . . . Things that go away by themselves can come back by themselves.” Wow! That’s incredible. No more reinstalls and no more calls to MS; no, today I’m just going to sit back, relax, and see if this fortune comes true. Jeb Sanford McLean, Virginia Guyworld HANKS FOR DEFENDING MICRO- soft’s right to do business without a lot of government interference (Wise Guy, July 1995). You described perfectly the no-win situation of a company successful enough to make its competitors jealous: if it charges too much, it is gouging the consumer, but if it charges too little, it is guilty of unfair competition, But, Guy, you gave the Justice Department everything it wanted when you said that “the government needs to protect citizens from a company with monopolistic powers that gouges people.” Who gets to decide what is price gouging and what is fair—a government ap- pointee? A competitor? You? The people who create a product are the only ones who should have the right to set its price. If we think it is too high, we are free to live without it. If we can’t live without it, then no price they ask is really too high. Deanna Davis via the Internet CD Confusion BOUGHT THE JULY ISSUE BECAUSE IT came with a CD-ROM. The words “De-bug your System 7.5 with Apple’s latest release” on the CD jacket, super- imposed on an image of a bunch of insects, implied that the update fixes a lot of bugs. When I opened the magazine, I could not find one single description of a bug that was fixed. However, I did see this caption on page 5: “Yeow! Apple ships conflict-ridden System Update 1.0...” So should I install 7.5.1 on my Per- forma 6115CD or not? I knew about the General Controls thing already and I don’t use any of the applications that you published conflicts about, but what bugs, if any, are actually fixed? Josh Mayfield via the Internet continues MACWORLD October 1995 25 INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY Quickly Clarify Your Ideas G ETTING CLEAR AND FOCUSED RIGHT AT THE START OF A PROJECT IS OFTEN THE MOST DIFFICULT PART THE NEXT TIME YOU BEGIN TO DEVELOP AN IDEA OR PLAN, USE INSPIRATION’ —THE REAL- TIME IDEA DEVELOPMENT TOOL. FOR QUICKLY CLARIFYING AND ORGANIZING YOUR THOUGHTS. Ar anyrate, Fur to “pie FULLY inTROnaTED ‘urLine View Call (800)877-4292 to request your set of four INSTANT IDEA CLARIFICATION, QUALITY DIAGRAMS & PROCESS FLOWS EFFECTIVE IDEA MEETINGS QUICK PRESENTATION VISUALS Inspirati spiration The Real-Time Idea Development Tool Inspiration Software 503.297.3004 Tel. + 50: Web Site: wwwinspiration.com ©1995 Inspiration Software®, Inc. 26 October 1995 MACWORLD LETTERS w The specific 24-bit accelerated video card included with Apple’s $4699 Power Mac 9500/120 (“First of a New Breed,” August 1995) is the Xclaim GA, part of the mach64 family of cards from ATI Technologies. DataViz sells Mac-to-PC null mo- dem cables only to MacLinkPlus customers who need to replace lost or damaged cables (PowerBook Notes, August 1995). @ Macworld Lab results for the PCI Power Macs were incorrectly calculated in the newsstand copies of the Septentber 1995 issue, Refer to the results in this issue’s “Power Mac: The Next Generation” feature instead. System 7.5.1 fixes a number of problems—such as multisynchronous monitors forgetting start-up set- tings, scrambled video on AV models, and failing to recognize IDE drives—as well as adding functionali- ty to the Mac OS. For a complete list of changes, go to ftp://ftp.info.apple.com and download the Sys- tem 7.5 Update file in the Software Updates folder of the Apple Support area —Ed. HE JULY NEWS ITEM “SYSTEM 7.5 Update Causes Conflicts” says, “Al- ways install software with extensions off. Ifyou are installing from a CD-ROM, use Extensions Manager to disable all exten- sions except those needed in the CD- ROM drive.” Farther along I read, “If you have any Apple extensions or control pan- els that are either renamed or disabled by an extension manager, the Installer will not update them, ‘The solution is to make sure all extensions have their original names, then enable them with your exten- sion manager and reboot. . . hefore run- ning the Installer.” I guess I’m not understanding; these two statements seem to contradict each other. I will be installing from a CD, so could you please clari Chu Wong via CompuServe Happy to—if you've renamed any extensions or con- trol panels, change the names back to the original and restart with all extensions on (this gets the exten- sions lined up in the order the Installer expects). Then restart again, this time with all extensions off (except the ones you need to run the CD-ROM drive). Now run the Installer. That way, the Installer will correct- ly update your System software —Ed, I'd Buy That for a Dollar TRUGGLING WITH WORD 6 ONE afternoon at work, I explained to our copy editor that I had finally figured out how to make big money in publishing: print up hundreds of thousands of bumper stickers that say: “Honk if You Hate Word 6.” “Please,” she replied. “The world is noisy enough already.” Dorothy Rosa via America Online Go Nightingale [22 TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF the free demo mentioned in July’s Let- ters regarding the music-notation pro- gram Nightingale. Although your editor- ial note says a free demo is available, CompuServe doesn’t recognize Go Midibren, What’s the story? Jobn Panning via CompuServe D'oh! | should've put Go Midibven. Once there, log on as a member and go to Library 15. The Nightin- gale 2.0 demo files are right there. Also, check out the Nightingale 2,0 review in this issue—Ed Dissin’ the Net N JULY’S “GETTING YOUR FEET WET on the Net” (dt Work news), you state that “the downside of using an online ser- vice is that none currently provide access for Mac clients to the World Wide Web.” This is simply not accurate information. CompuServe now offers a PPP connec- tion for anyone with MacTCP installed. This allows you to choose between Netscape and Mosaic to surf the Net. You can also use other PPP-dependent pro- grams like Homer. America Online has just released its version 2.6 with an exter- nal Web browser that works very well. Eventually the WWW browser will be integrated into its Mac client as AOL has already done with the Windows version. I think Prodigy has a browser, too. Even eWorld will have one this fall, and Micro- soft Network has promised one by next summer. The Internet is more than just the World Wide Web. Most of these online services also provide FTP and news- groups. CompuServe adds Telnet to that list. They all do it for a monthly base fee of about $10. So before you dismiss the online services—know the facts. Douglas Bergere via eWorld At the time that article was written, no service had a Web browser. The online services were, as a group, promising much and delivering little. The features “Make the Right Connection” and “Pick the Best continues Optical’s Cookin’ INTRODUCING THE PINNACLE APEX 4.6 GB" OPTICAL HARD DRIVE THE BIGGEST BREAKTHROUGH IN STORAGE The only two advantages magnetic hard drives held over optical drives have now been eliminated. In both price and performance, the new Pinnacle Apex 4.6 GB is the first optical drive to totally cook magnetic hard drives. Faster than average hard drive (throughput 6 MB/sec max) * Less expensive than hard drives of equal size ¢ Enormous 4.6 Gigabyte capacity per disk * Unlimited capacity - just add another disk * Direct Overwrite media (one-pass write) * Greater reliability and durability than hard drives * Removable disks allow easy portability and security THE CROSSOVER IN STORAGE TECHNOLOGY We've always known that some day optical drives would replace magnetic hard drive technology in the computer industry. Simply put: optics are superior to magnetics. The numerous limitations of hard drives make this fact obvious. Hard drives “PINNACLES COOKIN’ crash, they're a pain to move around, they fill up too quickly, and you constantly have to back them up.... So why do we buy these things? Because up until now, we've never had an alterna- tive that offered the speed, price and capacity of the Pinnacle Apex 4.6 GB optical drive. The Apex signals the dawn of a new era in computer storage. DESIGNED FOR ALL YOUR STORAGE NEEDS The Apex's combination of high capacity, impressive speed and removable/portable media make it the ideal storage device for a broad range of applications: * Graphics/Desktop Publishing * General Data Storage * Digital Video » Digital Audio ¢ Data Archiving No matter what your application, the Apex’s recipe of price- performance, removability, and reliability make it the obvious choice over magnetic hard drives. With its removable disks, it's the last storage system you'll ever need to buy - the revolutionary Pinnacle Apex 4.6 GB optical hard drive. Now that we've whetted your appetite, satis- fy your hunger for storage with the hottest drive ever. To order or fora deoer near you cal 1-800-553-7070 “Barbecue Bill’ Blum President & CEQ { if LETTERS Browser,” in this issue of Macworld, rate stand-alone Web browsers, as well as the browsers recently added to commercial online services.—Ed. A Crucial Compiler Slips CRUCIAL COMPILER SHIPS” MISSES the point with regard to Symantec (Power Mae News, July 1995). Symantec abandoned Macintosh developers two years ago by not doing a PowerPC environment. Who knows why it reentered the game at this late date? Its earlier compilers, Think C 6 and Think C 7, were late, slow, buggy, and lacked support from Symantec. The pre- mier reference product, Think Reference, has been abandoned also. It has not had an update for more than a year, and real- ly nothing new for almost two years. The database is filled with errors as well. The grapevine says Symantec might be bring- ing out a new version, but am no longer interested, By the way, the review of Symantec C++ 8.0 is less than candid, and somewhat biased toward Symantec (Reviews, July). CodeWarrior 6 has been out longer than the July issue of Macworld, yet you chose to compare C++ 8.0 to CodeWarrior 5.0. As for code size, CodeWarrior 6 produces smaller code than my earlier Think C (I optimize for code size in code resources). And no mention was made about online reference materials for C++ 8.0 (you know, Think Reference . . . 7). We need a critical assessment of Symantec as a player in the Macintosh world, If not for Metrowerks, Symantec might not be there, either. Ken Kashmarek via the Internet Readers who want to experience the lively debate regarding C++ 8.0 and CodeWarrior can pop into the Usenet group comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools, or check out keyword Mac Development on America Online or Go Developer on CompuServe —Ed. Give Us a Break HIS LETTER IS IN RESPONSE TO your response to Bart Stidham in the July 1995 Letters. Stidham correctly called you on the carpet for omitting a very fine freeware solution for “Meeting the E-Mail Challenge.” Your response that the article was “aimed at corporate users interested in building large, complex E-mail networks” raises some very inter esting questions. Help me out on this. Just what percentage of your readers are involved in building large, complex E-mail networks? Five? Ten? You don’t 28 October 1995 MACWORLD suppose that your magazine is only inter- ested in promoting software that does, or could, lead to more advertising revenue? I suspect that the commercial providers would take a very dim view of, heaven for- bid, a free solution. Steven L. Bruning via CompuServe Mast people are glad that Macworld manages to cover diverse topics for a variety of readers. In this instance the focus was on corporate users; February's “Small-Office Blueprint" was aimed entirely at the small- or home-office reader. We also regularly cover shareware solutions in our pages, particularly in The Desktop Critic —Ed. Three-Book Monte | "VE NEVER MET DEKE MCCLELLAND, but I’m a big fan of his books and reviews. For example, I bought his Mac- world Photoshop 2.5 Bible. When I up- graded to Photoshop 3, I also upgraded to the Photoshop 3 Bible, second edition. In the July 1995 issue of Macworld, New Products extols the virtues of Photo- shop 3 For Mac For Dummies. Just below this text is a half-page ad for the Photoshop 2.5 Bible. The ad is headlined, “At Last! ‘The Definitive Reference to Image Edit- ing with Adobe Photoshop 2.5.” At last? Please. I’ve had my copy for over a year. Why not an honest ad that lays it all out? You need a book about 2.5 because you have no intention (for some strange reason) of shelling out a lousy $149 for the upgrade to 3? IDG has it. You've upgraded to or just bought 3? Fine, IDG has your book, too. And if you really want your hand held, IDG will even sell you the Dummies version of the thing. I rely on Macworld so I can make informed decisions when I’m ready to buy. For your publication (by running the ad) and the book’s publisher (by placing the ad) to attempt to mislead readers into thinking that 2.5 is the latest Photoshop book by McClelland is a serious breach of faith. Robert W. Simon via America Online 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). Include 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. 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Masel automatic font mapping + 100,000-word spell checker * floating toolbax controls * TruMatch™ & PANTONE® ‘Spot or Process colors + color separate any graphic clement, including CMYK TIFFS * specify, separate & print spot, process or color tints * color calibration * UCR & GCR + object-level overprinting » moiré elimination + transition effects batween presentation slides «floating layers plete » edit bitmap, gray- scale, duotone, indexed color, RGB & CMYK TIFF images » 24 ala channals + feathered-edge is FOR DESIGNERS | selections + quick masks * magic wand + multiple rectangular & elliptical lassos * solt-edged brushes * prossute-sensitve tablet support» clone & rubber stamp * dodge & bum * selectively saturate & balance, hue, saturation, brightnes gamma contals» image sharpening, softening, stylzing, distortion & noise fiers «live proviews © compatible with all Photoshop plug-in filters * TWAIN, scanner support * device-indapendent CIELAB color space + 2,000 typefaces (both TrueType" & Type-1) & 20,000 color clipart images on CD-ROM * extensive VO support including: Adobe™ Mustrator 5.5, Adobe Photoshop 3, EPS, XPress OCS, TIFF (RGB 6 CMY, Kodak Photo CD, MacOrawr® Pro, PICT, TARGA, JPEG, GES, CGM, OXF"; QuickTime”; HPGL, CoreiORAW™ 5, Designor 4, Windows Bitmap & Metale, WG, Plain Text, Microsolt™ Word, Rich Text (RTF) & MacWrite® Pro and more. 5 MacBulleiin Apple's Changing Clone Plans __|n on- going refinement of its plans to support the Mac OS on clones and the joint Apple/IBM/Motorola Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP), Apple has now decided to port System 7.5 to CHRP by the end of 1996, according to Jim Gable, Apple's CHRP licensing direc- tor. The first CHRP-based systems should ship from IBM and others in 1996. Previously, Apple said it would port only the next major Mac OS, code-named Copland, to CHRP and cited the extra work needed to port Copland as a reason for that OS's delay until late 1996 or early 1997 from its original early-1996 target release. © DayStar Clone Targets High End DayStar Digital (404/967-2077) has set the initial con- figuration for its Genesis MP publishing-oriented Power Mac clone, which should be available in small volumes in September 1995. The unit will come equipped with four 132MHz PowerPC 604 CPUs with a 512K cache, 32MB of RAM (expandable to 1.5GB), a 2GB SCSI-2 Fast hard drive, ten expansion bays, six PCI slots, and a quad-speed CD-ROM drive (see “Tantalizing Potential of Four CPUs," Power Mac News, September 1995). It will be priced under $15,000. The clone will ship with a multiprocessor extension for Adobe Photoshop, and DayStar is working with other software developers to develop multiprocessor extensions for their applications. DayStar expects these extensions to trickle in between September and January. © Power Computing Drops Prices Right before Apple announced the PCI Power Macin- toshes (see “Power Mac: The Next Generation,” in this issue), Power Computing (512/258-1350) dropped the price of its NuBus-based Power 100 system, which offers a 100MHz PowerPC 601 CPU, 8MB of RAM, a 365MB hard drive, and built-in video and Ethernet. A base model Power 100 now costs $1699, down from $2399. Apple Fails to Meet Demand Apple Computer's quarterly profits in the quarter ending June 30 fell about 25 percent, despite a 20 percent rise in Mac sales. The problem was that demand for Macs exceed- ed what Apple could deliver, making many financial analysts doubt the company's ability to forecast demand and manage production to keep up. Apple chief finan- cial officer Joseph Graziano attributed the shortfall to shortages in key components like chips, and said that the company may not be able to meet demand until sometime in 1996—despite Apple CEO Michael Spindler's goal this winter to make better forecasting and delivery a priority for 1995. One result of the tight Mac availability has been a decrease in Apple's share of the overall PC market to about 8.5 percent, down from about 9.5 percent a year earlier, @ 2 Million Power Macs Shipments of Power Macs more than doubled compared with those in the same quarter a year ago. As of June 30, there were more than 2 million Power Macs and upgrade cards sold in the 15 months since they were first released. Apple's goal had been 1 million Power Mac sales in the first 12 months, a goal it reached in about 10 months. Apple's last 680X0-based Mac will probably ship by the end of 1995; the company has already replaced most of its 680X0-based business, consumer, server, and education lines with PowerPC models. La Cie Sold to French Firm Hard drive maker La Cie, an eight-year-old Mac company acquired by Quantum in 1991, is now owned by Electronique d2, Europe's largest seller of external storage products. The Paris-based d2 sells storage options for the Mac, PC, and workstation markets. The company intends to keep the La Cie brand.m MACWORLD October 1995 33 p. 35 Floppies Face Competition p. 36 Faster 680X0 Emulation p. 37 Have CD-ROM Titles Peaked? p. 45 More PowerPC Performance p. 134 Best Web Sites for Publishers and Artists p. 134 Canvas Expands Focus pp. 142, 160 Computer-Telephone Links Get Real p. 160 E-mail Thrives System 7.5.2 Fixes Although Sys- tem 7.5.2 (which ships with the new PCI Power Macs) looks and feels much the same as System 7.5, Apple (408/996-1010) has made some heavy-duty changes under the hood for greater per- formance on the new models. But the new system brings with it some conflicts with hardware and other software. The conflicts identified here occur with the Power Macin- tosh 9500; it’s possible that not all will occur with the other PCI Power Macs (whose final versions shipped just as this issue went to press). Hardware Conflicts ‘The screen may flash or black out momentarily during start-up. This happens when the Mac OS loads its Display Manager software into memory, accord- ing to Apple, but the flash does nothing harmful. Although the problem appears to occur when you're using the video card that’s included with the 9500/120, it doesn’t happen with ATI Technologies’ sepa- rately sold Xclaim GA card. ATI makes both cards, but the company says that the ROMs are different and that may account for the screen flash. Apple’s LaserWriter 300 and Personal LaserWriter LS printers aren’t compatible with System 7.5.2. Apple is devel- oping new printer drivers. The Hewlett-Packard 550c ink-jet printer (800/752-0900) works only via a LocalTalk cable con- nected to the printer port; you cannot use a standard serial cable with the HP printer, Software Conflicts The conflicts are listed here alpha- betically by company. * The SpeedBoost mod- ule in Aladdin Systems’ Desk- top Tools software doesn’t 34 October 1995 MACWORLD support System 7.5.2’s Finder. Aladdin Systems (408/761- 6200) is working on an update. * Apple’s GeoPort tele- communications software does not work if a LocalTalk net- work connection is active. Apple (408/996-1010) promis- esa compatible update (version 2.1) this fall. * Apple’s Newton Toolkit Land 1.5.1 are not Apple is testing a compatibl software fix. © Apple has released an Open Transport 1.0.1 patch to fix a problem with Apple’s ‘TCP/IP protocol, which results in truncated data in some situ- ations anda possible crash after the completion of automatic connections with some Link Access Protocols, such as MacPPP and MacSlip. * Caere’s OmniPage 5.0 and OmniPage Professional 5.0 crash when you try to use the Save As function on a scanned document. According to Caere, the problem is caused by the program’s translation filters. Caere has released a new set of filter: this conflict. Re, ers of these programs can get new translation filters from Caere (408/395-8319), * Casady & Greene (408/ 484-9228) has released Conflict Catcher 3.0.2, which includes support for the new PCI Power Macs. One significant fix lets the program recognize the ATI Graphics Accelerator system extension, which activates accelerated video for Apple’s video card or for ATI’s Xclaim GA. The update is free to reg- istered users of earlier versions of Conflict Catcher 3. ¢ When you try to launch current versions of Compu- Serve Information Manager, you get a message that there’s not enough memory. The solu- tion for now is to open the Memory control panel, turn off the Modern Memory Manager, and restart. Turning off this feature may reduce perfor- mance, so it’sa good idea to use it only when you want to run a CompuServe session. Compu- Serve programmers are report- edly working on a solution, although the company (614/529- 1340) would not confirm this. © Connectix (415/571- 5100) reports that the current versions of Maxima and RAM Doubler RAM utilities do not support the PowerPC 604 chip; an update is expected by the time this issue appears. © DantzDevelopment(510/ 571-5100) has issued an update for Retrospect 2.1 for Power Macintosh. The update, avail- able on the major online ser- vices, adds support for the PCI Power Macs and for start-up drives larger than 2GB. © Dubl-Click Software (503/317-0355) is investigating reports that its ClickChange software freezes on start-up. © Users of Global Village’s PowerPort Gold II modem need to upgrade to version 2.5.5 of the GlobalFax software. The update from any 2.5.X version is available in the company’s sup- port areas on the major online services or at its Web site (http:// www.globalvillag.com). Users of earlier versions of Global Vil- lage’s software should contact Global Village (408/523-1050) about upgrade pricing. acromedia FreeHand SPECIAL REPORT Apple said it couldn't be done, but a small Swiss firm has ported the Mac OS to IBM’s Power- PC platform. This brings the Mac OS a big step closer to broad availability and cloning. Macworld’s exclusive report begins on page 38. 5.0 fails to load all Xtra (plug- in) modules when users launch the program. Macromedia (415/252-2000) is looking for a solution to this problem. ¢ Now Utilities 5’s Super- Boomerang component does not display a direct open sub- menu (the submenu that appears adjacent to the Open command in the File menu). And the Startup Manager com- ponent prevents the ATI Graphics Accelerator system extension from loading. A tem- porary solution is to rename the Graphics Accelerator exten- sion so it loads ahead of the Now Toolbox extension in the System Folder’s Extensions folder (insert an option-space at the beginning of the Graph- ics Accelerator extension’s name). Now Software (502/ 274-2800) plans to release an update for these programs, * Some third-party XTen- sions (plug-ins) for QuarkXPress for Power Mac may make the program freeze up when the application launch- es. According to Quark (303/898- 8888), the conflict involves an undoc- umented change to the network pro- gamming interface in Apple’s Open ‘Transport architec- ture. By the time you read this article, the company’s 3.32 revision should be available via major online services and should fix the problem. * Symantec (310/453- 4600) reports that version 4 of Symantec Antivirus for Macin- tosh (SAM) and the Copy- Doubler component of Disk- Doubler Pro do not run. In addition, MacTools Pro 4 and Norton Utilities 3 do not sup- port disk volumes larger than 4GB; the new Power Macs do support larger volumes. Syman- tec expects to have fixes avail- able by the time you read this. PCI Performance Anomaly Unrelated to System 7.5.2 but of concern to buyers of the new Power Mac 9500 is the fact that cards in the 9500's top three PCI slots may run more slowly than cards in the bottom three slots. The PCI slot requires one controller for every three slots anda bridge chip for each pair of controllers; Apple’s PCI design apparently causes more over- head on one set of slots than on the other.—GENE STEINBERG Bye-Bye, Flopny Drive? THREE TECHNOLOGIES VIE TO SUPPLANT THE FLOPPY “eet new Zip drive, which uses 100MB remov- able cartridges about the size of 3.5-inch floppies, has revived yearnings for what until now seemed like an impossible dream: replacement of the continues 3 High-capacity, low-cost drives may supplant the floppy drive. In Briel Publishers Invest in Netscape Five media giants—international Data Group (Macworld’s parent company), Times Mirror, Hearst, Knight-Ridder, and TCI Technology Ventures—as well as Adobe Systems have invested $2 million each in Netscape Communications, whose Navigator Internet browser is a de facto standard. The companies plan to work with Netscape in developing electronic publishing tools that are based on the Navigator technology. © More PCI Cards Ship Adaptive Solutions (503/690- 1236) has released its Power- Shop Photoshop accelerator, which costs about $3000. Silicon Valley Bus (408/623-2300) is shipping the $249 Multi- Port/PCI, which adds two PC- style serial ports, one parallel port, and one game port; an extension that enables the Mac to see these ports; and GDT ‘Softworks’ PowerPrint soft- ware, which lets the Mac work with PC printers. The ports work with Macintosh and Windows programs running ona PC card or under emu- lation in SoftWindows. Apple, IBM Offer Multimedia Tools Another effort in the Apple-IBM. partnership that produced the PowerPC has begun to result in tangible product. Kaleida Labs (415/335-2098)—a jointly sponsored company—has shown its Script multimedia authoring tools and program- ming environment. Scriptx lets developers create animations, such as games, that play on Macintosh, Windows, and OS/2 PCs. The graphical language lets developers add components from a disk, a server, or even the Internet, through simple file import, as well as modify characteristics of elements by selecting them and changing parameters in dialog boxes. MACWORLD October 1995 35 THE AMCOEx INDEX OF USED MACINTOSH PRICES Average Monthly Machine/RAM/Hard Drive Sale Price Change PowerBook 140/4MB/40MB $600 -$25 PowerBook 165/4MB/80MB $1025 -$25 PowerBook 180/4MB/80MB $1300 ee PowerBook Duo 230/4MB/80MB $750 $0 Mac Ilsi/3MB/40MB $275 ~$75 Mac IIci/4MB/80MB $500 $150 Mac |Ifx/4MB/80MB $475 -$150 Centris 650/8MB/230MB $1075 $100 ‘Quadra 800/8MB/230MB $1275 —$400 Quadra 900/8MB/160MB $1075 ~$100 Power Mac 7100/66/8MB/350MB $2000 ~$250 Power Mac 8100AV/8MB/500MB/CD $3100 $50 CE a standard 1.4MB floppy with a small, inexpensive, rewritable, widely compatible storage product that offers capacity more in line with today’s com- puting needs. Unfortunately, attractive though the new Zip and Sy- Quest products may be, they don’t offer read-write compat ibility with 14MB floppies (let alone with each other). Now Compaq, 3M, and Matsushita Kotobuki have joined to introduce a 120MB floppy. The new drive reads and writes 1.4MB and 720K floppy disks (but will need en- hancements to read and write 800K Mac disks), Compaq will have short-term exclusive rights to the drive when it’s introduced later this year. The new drive stores data in mag- netic form, but uses laser-guid- ed track positioning to achieve such high data density. Data- transfer rates should exceed those of a normal floppy by a factor of five, but overall per- formance won't approach nor- mal hard-drive speeds. The three companies hope to avoid the failures of previous attempts to increase the storage capacity of the standard floppy: IBM briefly sold a 2.88MB floppy; Apple even supported 2.88MB drives in the Quadra ROMs, but never delivered the drives because a mere doubling of capacity didn’t justify the chaos that would result from another floppy format. CD-ROM drives are re- placing floppies in limited ways, such as for software distribu- tion. Microsoft Office, for ex- ample, comes on 33 floppy disks or just one CD-ROM. But CD-ROM is read-only, and CD-Recordable (CD-R) discs can be written to only once—good for archiving but not for general storage. CD- Rewritable (CD-RW), an eras- able CD format, won’t be avail- able for about two more years, and even then erasable CDs will experience compatibility problems with standard CD- ROM drives. Insite Peripherals made a valiant effort three years ago with its 21MB floptical drive that could read from and write to 1.4MB floppies, and the company pioneered laser-guid- ed track positioning. Several vendors have offered flopticals for the Mac, but at a mere 19.2MB formatted capacity and much higher cost than floppy drives and disks, the floptical just couldn't compete with SyQuest cartridges and other removable media. So pricing for the new drive will be critical; the Com- paq-3M-Matsushita group esti- mates a price of $200 for the drive and well under $20 per disk. Unfortunately, this price is probably not low enough to make the 120MB drive a credi- ble replacement for standard floppy drives, which cost PC vendors $25 to $35.—cary Lu 36 October 1995 MACWORLD Faster G80K0 Emulation UTILITY RUNS OLDER PROGRAMS FASTER ON POWER MACS To make the transition to PowerPC suc- cessful, Apple had to ensure that all the 680X0 Mac soft- ware ran on the new Power Macs. And Apple did. But 680X0 software runs slowly— at about IIci to Centris 610 speeds on most Power Macs, particularly for I/O operations like disk access. ‘The new PCI-based Pow- er Macs—the 7200, 7500, 8500, and 9500—use a new form of 680X0 emulation, called dynamic recompilation, that is faster thamghe previous Power Macs’ emulation. But the dynamic emulator doesn’t work on older Power Macs. So are you stuck with slow 680X0 emulation? No, thanks Radius Ships New Clone an 8100/80’s built-in emula- tor. In fact, with SpeedDou- bler, an 8100/80 ran 680X0 programs as fast as a 120MHz. Power Mac 9500 does, even though that Mac has a faster CPU and uses the new, faster dynamic emulator. SpeedDoubler does im- pose a penalty for floating- point—intensive calculations, running them 25 percent slower on an 8100/80 than the 8100/80’s emulator. But the more common integer calcu- lations were almost twice as fast with SpeedDoubler. Connectix says Speed- Doubler also makes the new PCI Power Macs faster, even with their dynamic emulator, and Macworld Lab tests show a 10 to 15 percent speedup. SpeedDoubler gets its speed by substituting its emu- lator for the Power Mac’s built-in emulator and by using its own disk caching rather than Apple’s. You can set the disk cache as high as 2MB— which is a lot of RAM to give up—and get an additional 10 percent performance boost, Radius (408/541-6100) has begun shipping its mass-market Power Mac clones (see News, September 1995). The 140MHz PowerPC 601-based 81/110 tower systems have list prices that start at about $5600 and include 16MB of RAM, a 2GB hard drive, a quad-speed CD-ROM drive, anda mouse. Radius ex- pects the street price to be about $4800. Catalog seller Mac- Warehouse (800/905- 9279) is also selling the systems under its Power User brand, starting at $4499. to Connectix’s latest effort. The $99 SpeedDoubler (415/ 571-5100), due to ship about when this article appears, sig- nificantly improves the perfor- mance of 680X0 programs on a Power Mac, according to Macworld Lab tests of a late prototype. The tests on an 8100/80 found that Speed- Doubler ran 680X0 programs 37 percent faster overall than é Maeworld Lab found. In its early tests, Mac- world Lab found no incom- patibilities although Connec- tix says it is working to correct some that it found before the progam ships. SpeedDoubler will work with Connectix’s popular RAM Doubler as long as you use version 1.5.2 of the memory booster.—DANNY LEE ‘AND GALEN GRUMAN FOR A DESIGNER OR ILLUSTRATOR THE ONLY TOOL MORE IMPORTANT THAN CANVAS" 5 IS THE COFFEE MACHINE. : We who put words and images on pal for a living have lots of reasons to be profoundly thankful for the new Canvass. I's quick. It's easy. It's complete. Not only does Canvas 5 include all the Now, for the first time you can stay with features that have long made it the program _a single program from concept to comp to of choice for technical illustrators, it now illustration all the way through to color combines the major functions of separations and pre-press. Illustrator, FreeHand™, QuarkXPress” and Canvas 5 has the potential to turn our Photoshop”. An awesome array of tools for 16 hour work days into 12 hour days (while illustration and page design. Typography making our stuff look better). Excellent. and publishing. Photo design and image Now maybe we can have a life.” (ANAS IT’S WHAT THEY'LL THINK OF NEXT. fae, 7400 SV. 87 ‘ami, FL 33173. Prone: (305) 5 Systems, Ino FeeHand isa tra oftheir respective holders. 64, Fax: (205) 273-9069, Canvas isa trademark of De lamar of Mocremeda, Ic. QuarkXPress isa trademark of *Naaath. © 1995 Deneba: Systems, Ine. lustrator and Ire, Al other tradem Circle 57 on reader service card THE BEST OF ILLUSTRATOR™ FREEHAND™ QUARKXPRESS” & PHOTOSHOP™ MacOS SAVE TIME, SAVE A LITTLE MONEY, TOO. Canvas 5 will cost $599. But if you buy Canvas 3.5 right now, you can get acquainted with the program and get a free upgrade to Canvas 5 when it comes out Jater this fall Want more info? Call 800-6-CANVAS EXTENSION 2. A Ni ANS ii aN Surry, a system error has occurred. Welt Does it matter what kind of memory you put in your Macintosh? Well, it matters to your Macintosh. ‘Thats why you should chores Kingston memory. Nobody knows the intricacies of the Mac better than Kingston, And nobody is more fanatical about quality: The prooft Wea test every memory module we make. (Other memory manufacturers test about Translation: You should have bought Kingston memo: 5% of their products.) In fact, we test each one at least eleven times. And we test it in exactly the same model of Macintosh in which it will : MacOS say the least. Of course, if you need any help with the installation process be used. So the chance of anything going amiss is remote, to just give us a call—our technical support is free. Want more information about choosing the right memory for your Macintosh? Just call Kingston. 1 Technology Corporation, 0 Newhope Street © 1995 Kingwon Technology Comportion geo Tech ‘ountain Valley, oction. Al ngs Circle 201 on reader service card CD Titles On the Wane THE MARKET MAY HAVE ALREADY PEAKED tseems like only yesterday that CD-ROM drives be- came common in desktop computers. By many mea- sures, the CD-ROM market is robust, with rapid growth in the number of CD-ROM drives and discs sold, But in one important measure—the number of new CD-ROM titles published per year—the CD-ROM publishing busi- ness may have already peaked. The 1200 new consumer CD-ROM titles released in 1994 (as counted by market research firm InfoTech) may never be surpassed. Only a few hundred CD-ROM titles can find shelf space, even in the biggest computer stores. Some book- stores that started carrying CD-ROMs last year have now given up, citing the inability to demonstrate discs to potential customers and the high return rate. Why a high return rate with all the enthusiasm sur- rounding CD-ROMs? Be- cause customers often find lit- tle real value in discs once they use them, and technical problems with DOS and Windows discs are common. Bookstores that do carry CDs typically have space for only a few dozen titles. Some mass merchandis- ers such as Target and Wal- mart have begun carrying CDs—but only the hit titles. The successful CDs stay on the shelves, squeezing out the new titles. Also, competition has driven down CD prices at a time when the cost of devel- oping a competitive title has grown rapidly, as customers demand more video, audio, and expensive-to-produce in- teractive content. The mar- ket-research firm Dataquest reports that the average sell- ing price has dropped to $11 per CD; that figure includes discs bundled with drives, which account for about two- thirds of all discs sold. As a result, many CD- ROM publishers cannot find a way to sell their titles and may not survive till Christ- mas, the main selling season. Several large book publishers are cutting back their CD- ROM development ef- forts; Putnam New Me- dia has already closed. Online services, particularly the Inter- net, haye begun re- placing the need for some CD-ROM titles, such as frequently up- dated reference materi- al, And computer en- thusiasts who might have bought a CD for entertainment or in- formation a year ago may now prefer to cruise the World Wide Web and other online services. That’s why the CDs that seem to survive the crush are mainly games, interactive explorations, or how-to’s— the kind of material that online services can’t deliver effectively —carv LU FLLeN PROCHNIE calling 415/968-3908. BUGS & TURKEYS @ Wiers of Adobe Photoshop 310 and Microsoft Wverd hive reported crashes with vemont G1 clBieleenleen Unde nrare exten Giveem tenes pioteetons aerated! BicJugplers siya version 20 axed the problems: Users can buy the upgrade for $19.95 by 4 ® Multi-Ad Creator 3.7, a display-ad layout pro- gram, prints halftone screens at 133 lines on some word laser printers—a big problem, since the maximum line count for newsprint and web presses is 85 lines. The com- pany says the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4MV and the Apple LaserWriter 16/600, and possibly others as well, produce the 133-line screens. Affected users can call Multi-Ad Services at 309/692-1530 for a free update disk. So you paid almost two grand for Visual Business Systems’ PostScript image rasterizer program. But did you know you also paid for the loss of your modem serial port? A security dongle for the product works best when it’s plugged into the Mac’s modem serial port; users not only have to unplug their modems, they also have to remove any fax or modem software from the System Fold- er. The company (508/263-9900) says it is working on an ADB version of the dongle and also a new software-based encryption method. Trying to upgrade your U.S. Robotics Courier modem from V.Fast to V.34? Better get a PC or Soft-Windows. The software to upgrade the flash ROMs doesn’t work on a Mac. U.S. Robotics (708/982-5001) says a Mac version is forthcoming. Macworld will send you a Bug Report T-shirt if you are the first to inform us of a 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. In Briel © Lotus Notes for Power Macs Apple Computer and Lotus Development have agreed to provide a CD-ROM