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RICK LEPAGE
This month's issue is packed with a ton of reviews,
including new Apple desktops and 75 software
gems, as well as the return of Minifinders.
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MATT DEATHERAGE 70 More Mac Software Bargains
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to the dismay of Watson fans. and utilities for controlling your OS X Mac, facilitating network and Internet
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Product Evaluation Is Our Mission, As This Issue Makes Clear
On Further Review
PRODUCT REVIEWS ARE THE LIFEBLOOD OF A PUBLICA-
tion such as Macworld. On average, we review and rate 35 new Mac-related
products each month. Each review is thoroughly evaluated by our editorial staff.
Our reviewers know that they need to put all hard-
ware and software products through a rigorous set
of tests, and our editors do their best to ensure that
the reviewers didn’t miss anything along the way.
While we can’t possibly guess every way that a
product can be used, our goal is to give you a top-
down view of the product, so you can understand
what it’s good for and why it may or may not
be worth your money.
This month, we're going for broke. Most of the
issue is made up of reviews (although you'll find our
columnists in their usual spots, and our news section,
Mac Beat, hasn't gone anywhere). Throughout this
blockbuster issue, you'll find reviews of the updated
iMac and the midrange Power Mac G4 desktops,
complete with Macworld Lab-test data; stand-alone
evaluations of Apple’s Final Cut Express, Maxon
Computer's Cinema 4D R8, and more; and compara-
tive reviews of Mac OS X fax software, 35mm film
scanners, and Palm OS handhelds.
Low Cost, High Quality
In this issue, you'll also find a supersize version of our
Mac Gems column that features brief reviews of 75 of
today’s best low-cost Mac software (“More Mac Soft-
ware Bargains,” page 70). As I noted in the column's
debut last month, there is a huge amount of develop-
ment going on in the Mac market right now, largely
by unsung developers, and we want to make sure
we're on top of it for you.
We published our first software-bargains story
in our July 2002 issue, showcasing 60 low-cost
shareware and commercial software packages from
nearly as many developers. Since that time, there’s
been an even bigger wave of new programs and
updates—so many that we could have filled an entire
issue with reviews of these products. Once you
dig into our story, I’m sure you'll find a few gems
that you'd like to install and play with, no matter
what you're looking for—keyboard- or system-
enhancement utilities, such as Michael Kamprath’s
excellent Keyboard Maestro and bitart’s unique
Cocoa Gestures; outliners, such as AquaMinds’
NoteTaker and Dan Schimpf Software's Mac-
Journal; or fun stuff, such as HairerSoft’s Amadeus
Tand Math Game House's iStorm.
As I talk with some of these smaller developers,
I’m impressed by their boundless enthusiasm. Many
of them are using OS X to build some beautiful and
useful products. Take a look at Wincent Colaiuta’s
slick and smart Synergy, for example: I can’t see why
any iTunes junkie wouldn't want to spend $5 for the
functionality this utility adds to the Mac. Syngery is
also a splendid example of how to use OS X’s trans-
parency features to create a well-designed back-
ground application.
The only downside to this miniboom in Mac soft-
ware is that there’s an awful lot of stuff to sift through.
(1 would also like to see a moratorium on using the
letter i at the beginning of a product name—surely
some of these creative minds can come up with better
titles!) We'll do our best to continue to give you a
glimpse into this fascinating world. Who knows? A
few of these companies could very well turn into the
major Mac OS developers of the next decade.
Return of Minifinders
Time was, Macworld and MacUser magazines reg-
ularly printed capsule reviews of the most-recent
products, giving readers a chance to catch up on any
reviews they missed. Those capsule reviews were
especially useful to people who, when they were ready
to make a purchase, couldn't
remember what our buying
advice had been.
That's why I’m happy to
introduce our new Minifinders
section. This month, starting
I'm impressed with the
boundless enthusiasm
of small Mac developers.
an page 88, you'll find capsule
reviews (with mouse ratings) of more than 400 prod-
ucts reviewed by Macworld in the past 12 months.
This section should make for an extremely useful ref-
erence. And starting with next month’s issue, you'll
find Minifinders, which will feature capsule reviews of
the top new Mac products most recently reviewed in
Macworld, at the end of the Reviews section. You'll also.
be able to search through Minifinders and read the full
text of any review online at www.macworld.com. [7
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In tough times, business profes-
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Bugging Out
Most readers couldn't have been happier with our February 2003 cover story, But a
few others saw the phrase “Jaguar Bugs" in bold, eye-catching type on the cover and
found themselves, well, bugged by the idea of a Mac magazine pointing out problems
with Apple's operating system. Look, we've been enthusiastic supporters of OS X—
something that bugs another segment of our readership—and we'll continue to be.
But pointing out ways to make a great OS run even better is part of what we do. Still,
keep sending in your comments—even negative feedback doesn't bug us.
BACK
keep their own shops up-to-date. You’ve
given ammunition to holdouts, who now
cause support headaches in environments
that benefit from being homogenous.
LEO MARTIN el
I've been a Mac user since day one. I've
run my business on a Mac for 16 years.
“Exterminate OS X Troubles” convinced
me not to switch to OS X. It appears that
Apple has lost its vision—what happened
to ease of use?
ROBERT FLEMING ies
Unbelievable. Virtually an entire maga-
zine devoted to fixing OS X bugs. Face
it—OS X isn’t really Mac-like at all, and
until Apple twists that aberration into
looking and acting like a Mac, it will
remain dead in the water.
BERNARD YOMTOV. ies]
T appreciate the tips on how to get around
various OS X problems, but I think you
could provide a valuable service to your
readers by being more critical of the
companies responsible for the problems,
including Apple. For example, the Febru-
ary 2003 issue provides some workarounds
for getting printers to work with Jaguar.
Why should this be necessary? I have an
HP LaserJet 3330 multifunction machine.
This is a current product, widely sold and
promoted as compatible with OS X. Yer it
doesn’t work with Jaguar. That is uncon-
scionable, and you should say so, as well as
pry loose from Hewlett-Packard some
information as to when this will change.
KENNY STILLMAN.
We all know that Jaguar isn’t perfect. We
all know that Mac computers aren't perfect.
We can agree that they are 100 percent bet-
ter than any Windows box, But then I go to
the bookstore to get my new issue of Mac-
world and see in big, bold letters “Top 10
Jaguar Bugs Fixed!”—to a PC user, that
translates to “Macs suck.” Unless you're on
a mission to undo all the “Switch” cam-
paigning that Apple has done, you should
refrain from having negative headlines
about Macs and OS X, It sends a bad mes-
sage to any non-Mac person. Leave the OS
mudslinging to the PC magazines.
JOHN DALBEC Les
Tm a big fan of OS X. T bought my newer
Mac at least partly because of it. That said,
I can see room for improvement. I think
the dialog box that pops up with a “permis-
sion denied” message should have a lock
icon you can click on to continue or restart
the current operation as the root user (after
entering an administrator name and pass-
word, of course), to override any permis-
sions that might get in the way. There's a
lot of shareware devoted to fixing permis-
sions problems or overriding permissions
altogether; Brian Hill's Pseudo and Gideon
Softworks’ FileXaminer are examples.
February: The Cruelest Month
MARK STENROOS, (es)
Reading the February 2003 issue was one of
the most depressing experiences in this
longtime Mac advocate’s life. The cover
ner “Top 10
” The next stop was
From the Editor's Desk, in which Rick
LePage informed me that this “very good
year” meant that OS 9 would no longer be
supported through further upgrades. Turn
to Feedback, where four of the first six letters
bemoan the misery of running OS X. Cut
to Ted Landau’s article on OS X troubles,
which describes the world of pain one
encounters when attempting to run the
simplest of functions or applications in
OS X. And as if hearing about the OS
X-native bugs weren’t enough, we're
informed that one needs to buy third-party
software to fix some of them. If I want that
kind of trouble, I may as well call Gateway
and save myself a thousand or so bucks.
Eddys Recount
JOE SCHOTT i=)
In awarding Mac of the Year to the
800MHz iMac (“The 18th Annual Edi-
tors' Choice Awards,” February 2003),
you wrote, “The top model’s 17-inch . . .
flat-panel display puts the perfectly fine
15-inch iMac’s screen to shame.” T was
fortunate enough to buy my 15-inch
iMac with a SuperDrive the very day
Apple jacked the price up $100, so T paid
$1,999—a price that promptly dropped
by the time I finally got delivery and
that now rests at $1,699, It’s good to be
reminded that I paid for a product
shamefully inferior to a similarly priced
one. This really doesn’t conjure up
impressions of “perfectly fine” to me.
Why X
JOHN FOLEY es
Reader comments about OS X (Feedback,
February 2003) are reminiscent of earlier
times when other versions of Mac OS
were introduced. My, how the Mac faith-
ful groused about how it broke software
and changed the way they used Macs. It
should be evident to all that OS X is
just another signpost along the road to
wherever Apple is taking us. Whether or
not to use OS X is a choice, but I think we
all need to consider one possibility:
Apple’s digging in on when it will no
longer load OS 9 on new systems means
that software developers will have no rea-
son to update their applications to run on
anything other than Apple’s latest version
of OS X.
iHnatko on iApps
ANDERSON LAM ies]
EEDBACK
ing programs for the Mac (“ils the
Loneliest Number,” February 2003). But
I think there is another perspective to all
this. How many of these developers would
write for the Mac in the first place? The
i-apps encourage consumers to purchase
Macs, thus growing the user base. By
increasing the number of Mac users, soft-
ware developers will naturally want to tap
into this growing customer base. The
i-apps also allow users to sample the con-
venience and pleasures of working with
MP3, digital photography, and digital
movies. I now use each of these technolo-
gies; without the free i-apps, I would have
been very hesitant to invest money in an |
unfamiliar hobby.
HOWIE SWAIM. {ey}
Not that it negates Andy's point, but you
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B. JEFFERSON LE BLANC i}
I thought Andy Ihnatko had a very valid
point regarding how Apple’s i-apps could
discourage software developers from mak-
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FEEDBACK MAY 2003
| he had been aware of the freeware utility
DVD Capture. The biggest challenge is
getting iDVD to pause on the frame you
want to snap. Once you get there, it’s rela~
tively easy to use DVD Capture to pick up
the frame and save it to the Clipboard or
toa file.
Snapz Pro X and DVD Capture are both coal
tools, My point was not that you can’t grab
DVD frames, but that Apple stands in your
way.—Andy Ihnatko
Their CUPS Runneth Over
DAVID LEE MYERS. ics}
Many thanks to Dan Frakes for “Jaguar's
Printing Power” (Secrets, February 2003).
Frakes writes, “Don’t run out and buy a
new printer,” and that says it all. I was
about to consign my ancient Epson Stylus
Photo 700 to the trash heap when CUPS
saved the day. This relic is now chugging
away happily in OS X.
DAVID TURCASO eS
Thanks to Dan Frakes and the good folks
at Gimp-Print, I can now print to my old
workhorse HP LaserJet 6P. CUPS allowed
me to set up the Netgear print server
that it’s attached to, but I couldn't print
from some applications, such as Apple-
Works and Acrobat Reader. Between
Dan’ article and the Gimp-Print docu-
mentation, I not only know why but also
have fixed the problem.
‘Book Reviews
PHILIP STEIN B
Have we longtime Mac users become so
jaded that we don't recognize Insanely
Great when we see it? InfoWorld, not
known to be partial to Apple, recently
reviewed the 1GHz Titanium PowerBook
and gave it incredible raves. Rick LePage
gave the same machine a 99¢¢@ rating
(Reviews, February 2003). Wake up,
guys—we have a world-class winner on
our hands, and we should let the world
know about it.
| Canada Counts, Too
| ANDREW BENNETT ics}
Tread Jeffery Batttraby’ review of
| MYOB’s AccountEdge 3 (February 2003)
with enthusiasm and wanted to purchase
an updated version. One huge problen—
it does not sell in Canada. Same with
QuickBooks 5.0—no version for the
Mac in Canada. I don’t know how many
Canadian readers you have, but I think
we warrant consideration when you're
reviewing these products.
MYOB sold its Canadian business unit to
Intuit, which sells the AccountEdge product
as Intuit Accounts for Mac. For further
information, you can contact Intuit Canada
at 888/333-8580 or visit www.intuit.com/
canada.—Jeffery Battersby
Taxing Demands
PAUL E. KENT jes}
Regarding “Depth and Taxes” (Mac Beat,
February 2003), the policies of H&R
Block and Intuit toward Mac users
should irritate all of us. Although H&R
Block offers TaxCut in Standard, Deluxe,
and Platinum versions to Windows users,
Mac users are offered only the $40
Platinum version. If all you need is the
Standard or Deluxe version, too bad.
Intuit just charges more for identical
products. TurboTax Basic is $30 for
Windows users but $40 for Mac users.
And Deluxe is $40 for Windows users but
$50 for Mac users.
Fortune Tellers
FRANKLIN HARRINGTON BS
After reading “What's in the Cards” (Mac
Beat, February 2003), I have a question that
has bugged me since the iMac came out:
When will Apple come out with a true
entry-level box? When the iMac was
released, it was a great way to get my mom
into a new computer with all the upgrades
in one box. My father now has to upgrade,
but he has been a Windows and DOS per-
son since IBM said it was OK to have a PC.
Now he’s ready to jump to Mac. So what
bugs me? The fact that he has a perfectly
acceptable display, a USB printer, a key-
board, a mouse, speakers, a Zip drive, and
external FireWire drive, and no cheap
Mac—a low-priced box without all the
graphics-professional add-ons or the mega-
expandability—to replace his PC with.
ANDREW DAVIS Le]
I predict that Apple will make the screen
on the iMac rotate 90 degrees, from land-
scape to portrait. This physical reorien-
tation would make the screen able to
display a whole 8.5-by-1l-inch page
without scrolling and would make it nicer
for Web browsing.
The Truth about TWAIN?
TONY CERVO S|
Kudos to Andrew Shalat for the infor-
mative “When Shall the TWAIN Mcet?”
(Mac Beat, February 2003). I beli
however, that attributing the origin
of the acronym TWAIN to a Kipling
poem is incorrect. I remember reading,
at a developer newsgroup several years
ago, that the group that developed the
TWAIN protocol couldn’t come up
with an interesting acronym, so they
used “TWAIN” internally as a joke—and
it stuck. The joke was that the acro-
nym stood for “Thing Without An Inter-
esting Name.”
Chronology makes all the difference. Our
research indicates that the Kipling refer-
ence came first and that the acronym fol-
Jowed.—Andrew Shalat
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only for version 6.5 or later; the upgrade price
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2003) misidentified the acronym CUPS. It
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WHAT'S NEW
WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE
WHAT'S HOT
WITH SAFARI, APPLE TAKES A MORE OPEN APPROACH TO PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Pulling Back the Curtain
To most Web surfers, Dave Hyatt’s
Weblog probably doesn’t seem like
anything out of the ordinary. But to
Mac users, Hyatt’s Web page, which
chronicles his work on Apple’s Safari
Web browser, offers a rare glimpse
into product development at a com-
pany known for keeping a tight lid
on its inner workings.
Apple typically guards any prod-
uct-development news as if it were a
state secret. But S: s different
from most products: it’s based on an
open-source project, meaning that
chunks of its code are open to any-
one who wants to refine, modify, or
expand upon them. As a result,
Apple is handling things a little bit
unusually this time—everything
from placing a bug button, for
instantaneous bug reports, in the
Safari toolbar to sharing code with
developers from outside of Apple.
Then there’s Hyatt’s Weblog.
Hyatt works on the open-source
part of Safari’s rendering engine.
Only a few hours after Steve Jobs
introduced Safari at January’s
Macworld Conference & Expo,
Hyatt was writing about the Web
browser at www.mozillazine.org/
weblogs/hyatt/. That same day,
he was answering user bug reports
from people like Web designer
Mark Pilgrim. “He's been incredi-
bly responsive,” Pilgrim says. “I’ve
been flabbergasted by how open
jonsive he was.”
Open Season
Safari is only the most recent
example of the company’s more
open approach to software devel-
opment, according to Apple. Brian
Croll, Apple’s senior director of
product marketing for systems
software, says that Apple develop-
ers have been down in the trenches
with open-source communities on
several software projects in the
past, including Mac OS X, OS X
Server, and Rendezvous. “It’s a
fundamental strategy as to how
we're developing software [at]
Apple for OS X, that open-source
mentality of going out there, work-
ing with the community, and going
in a dialogue with the community,”
Croll adds.
One of the things Apple has
been doing to maintain dialogues
with open-source communities is
passing along its work on the
KHTML project—the Konquerer
HTML rendering engine devel-
oped by the open-source KDE
Project—to its core development
group, the KDE Project, and the
Mac OS X developers’ community.
Asa result, The Omni Group may
be able to use the Safari code to
improve its own browser, Omni-
Web. “Making use of [Apple’s pub-
licly available] frameworks might
allow us to reach our compatibility
goals for OmniWeb much more
‘han if we had continued
path of reworking much of
our own engine to gain compati-
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Safari Guide Dave Hyatt's Safari Weblog marks an unusual amount fo openness in
Apple's product-development process.
bility,” says The Omni Group's
CEO, Ken Case.
Contacting KDE
By sharing code, Apple has also
made friends within the KDE Proj-
ect, the group of developers who
work on the open-source KHTML
rendering engine at Safari's heart.
Dirk Mueller, a KDE Project mem-
ber who works on the KHTML
rendering engine, says that much of
the KDE community wasn’t even
aware of Apple’s plan to base Safari
on KHTML. “The public release
on January 7 was surprising to us as
well, and we were not involved in
the development before,” he says.
After the keynote, Safari Engineer-
ing Manager Don Melton e-mailed
Mueller and other KDE developers,
introducing himself and adding that
he'd like to engage in an ongoing
dialogue with the KDE group; he
then sent a second e-mail detailing
Apple's changes to the KDE build
the company had been using. Ever
since, Mueller says, “we regularly
exchange patches and discuss the
further development.”
Mueller points out that the
working situation is fairly unusual
within the open-standards world:
KDE is developed in a manner best
described by open-source advocate
Eric Raymond as, “a great bab-
bling bazaar of differing agendas
and approaches,” and Safari is not.
“KHTML/KJS is developed ina
very original bazaar style,” Mueller
says. “Though this is very difficult
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to handle for companies like Apple,
they do an excellent job here.”
Openness has its limits. Pilgrim
notes that unlike a lot of open-
source projects, Apple doesn’t keep |
a public database. So the Web
designer is keeping a running list
of Safari bugs and test cases on
his own Web site (http://diveinto
mark.org/safari). “I can’t guarantee
[that Hyatt is] going to be check- |
ing my page every day of his life,” |
ays Pilgrimyalthough henotes |
that some cascading style sheet-_|
rendering problems he noted in |
his bug list were fixed in one of
Safari’s beta builds. |
Whether Apple will beable to |
maintain warm relations with the
KDE open-source community
remains to be seen. In the mean-
time, everyone's basking in the
warm glow of consensus. Croll says
that Apple is “extremely happy
with the results” of making Safari
open to others. As for developers,
The Omni Group's Case says, “We
think it’s great that Apple has been
so open with the development on
Safari. In general, a more open
development process can mean
that more user concerns are
addressed and users get a sense of
being involved in the development
of the product.” However Safari
may turn out, Pilgrim notes, Apple
is “getting a huge amount of
brownie points from the open-
source community and the design
community for their public
face.” —LISA SCHMEISER
MICROSOFT BUYS VIRTUAL PC FROM CONNECTIX
Emulation Sensation
The leading Windows-emulation software for the
Mac is now in the hands of the leading Windows
developer. And news of Microsoft's February purchase
of Connectix’s Virtual PC product line has caused a
stir among Mac users, leaving some wondering what
the future holds for the popular program.
Both Microsoft and Connectix insist that Mac users
have nothing to worry about in the deal that gives
Microsoft ownership of Virtual PC for the Mac (as
well as two other Connectix products, Virtual PC for
Windows and Virtual Server). Still, some Mac users
can't help but remember the last time Connectix dealt
one of its products—in 2001, when the company sold
its Virtual Game Station to Sony. The PlayStation-
emulation technology hasn’t been heard from since.
But don’t assume that a similar fate will befall Virtual
| PC. Microsoft has given every indication that it plans to
keep the product alive. It’s handing development of the
Mac version of Virtual PC over to its Mac Business
Unit, a division that has enjoyed some success in mak-
| ing Microsoft Office more Mac-like and improving the
productivity suite’s interaction with its Windows coun-
terpart. “[Virtual PC] is a perfect fit with our strategy,”
| says Tim McDonough, director of marketing and busi-
ness development for Microsoft's Mac Business Unit.
As part of the
deal, many of
the people who
developed Virtual
PC for Connectix
are coming over
to Microsoft—
between 30 and
40 initially, says
Conneetix Vice President Kurt Schmucker.
‘The latest update to Virtual PC integrated Windows
applications with OS X’s Dock, right down to a stylish
re-creation of the Windows Start menu, but the compa-
nies declined to say whether that release had prompted
Microsoft’ interest in the product. “But it’s safe to say
the positive reaction to Virtual PC 6 didn’t hurt the deal
atall,” Schmucker says. For its part, Microsoft says that
Virtual PC fits in with its focus on cross-platform com-
patibility and that adding the program underscores its
commitment to produce software for the Mac.
Because Microsoft develops the operating system that
Virtual PC emulates, Schmucker believes that there's an
opportunity to further improve the product. “Microsoft
| has both pieces under control,” he adds. “The level of
integration will be significantly greater than it would be
for a third party like Connectix.” McDonough won't
comment on future changes, but he does concede that it
will be easy for Microsoft to improve Virtual PC's inte-
gration with Windows. “I think we know exactly who to
call,” he says.—PHILIP MICHAELS
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Color digital and monochrome digital printers from Oki
Data (800/654-4620, wwww.okidata.com): The Oki
€5300n color LED printer ($1,299) is network-ready and
prints 12 color or 20 monochrome pages per minute at a
maximum resolution of 1,200-by-600 dpi. The Oki B4200
($299) and Oki B4300 ($419) are compact LED mono-
chrome printers. Both printers produce 19 pages per
minute at a resolution of 1,200-by-600 dpi, The B4300
features a larger toner capacity and an operator panel.
System Hardware
UPS-monitoring cards from Invensys Powerware (800/
554-3448, wwwwinvensys.com): The ConnectUPS-X and
Connect UPS-BD Web/SNMP cards (both $299) are now
0S X-compatible; they make it possible to monitor and
control Powerware Uninterrupted Power Supplies. The
cards include NetWatch client software and MultiView
‘monitoring software.
“Announced
‘Ahardware-recycling program by Epson (800/463-7766,
wwwwepson.com): Under the Web-based program, partci-
pants pay $10 per product to cover the cost of shipping
and recycling eligible Epson products, including printers,
scanners, digital cameras, and projectors (a complete list
is available at Epson's Web site). In exchange, participants
will receive a $5 coupon that can be used in future pur-
chases of Epson products. compte BY KEUY LUNSFORD AND
PHP MICHAELS
26 | MACWORLD May 2003
WITH APPLE STORES EXPANDING, MAC SHOPPERS FACE MORE CHOICES
Selling Points: Where to Shop
Just a few years ago, buying a Mac meant either ordering directly from Apple (over the
phone or via the Web) or paying a visit to an Apple-authorized reseller. But that all
changed in 2001, when Apple opened its first brick-and-mortar stores in McLean, Vir-
ginia, and Glendale, California. Since then, more than 50 Apple stores have sprung up
in the United States, as part of a strategy Apple Chief Financial Officer Fred Anderson
calls the “key to growing our market share and driving the growth of the compan:
Apple’s goal with its retail push may be to attract new customers and not take bus
ness away from existing Mac resellers, but some independent Mac specialist stores are
complaining that Apple’s strategy is doing exactly that. So several resellers—which pro-
vide both sales and expanded technical support—have filed lawsuits against Apple
alleging unfair competition and breach of contract. No matter what the outcome of the
suits is, the Mac retail landscape has undergone some dramatic changes, leaving Mac
shoppers with more choices—and more opportunity for confusion. So which is the best
option for purchasing a Mac these da
for in terms of customer service, price
Apple Online
Pros Apple's online store may be the
easiest way to purchase and configure
a Mac. Thanks to the site’s extensive spec
sheets, answers to questions are always
close at hand.
Cons Selection is somewhat limited. Since
you're ordering directly from Apple,
expect to pay list price.
Mail Order
Pros Wide selection and low costs are
the primary selling points. Vendors also
often have great deals on older models.
Cons Customer service can be hit or miss.
Returning orders can be dicey, and you
will pay all the shipping costs.
Computer Retailers
Pros Some outlets are more Mac-friendly
than others—take the 170 CompUSA
stores that have Apple employees mind-
ing the store-within-a-store section.
You'll also enjoy a great selection of Mac-
compatible PC peripherals.
The answer depends on what you're lool
Cons Nothing drives home the M.
percent market share like it to most
general-interest computer stores.
Apple Stores
Pros Apple's retail outlets offer customers
an opportunity to try out new models and
software. With a walk-in tech-support desk
and resident gurus, there's more M:
advice available there than anywhere else.
Cons Steve Jobs said in January that 85
million people live within 15 miles of
one of the 50-plus Apple Store locations;
that leaves the other 205 million people
in this country with some driving to do.
Apple Specialists
Pros Authorized resellers put a great
emphasis on customer service and offer
extensive technical support, especially
for older products mostly ignored by
the Apple Store. Specialists also provide
a high degree of repair services.
Cons That level of customer and techni-
cal service often comes at a price.
| wwenvzmacworld.com
NEW MODELS HIT THE MARKET AFTER PHOTOGRAPHY TRADE SHOW.
BRETFORD BASES DESK DESIGN ON APPLE'S DIGITAL-HUB CONCEPT
Focus on Digital Cameras
It happens every spring—the weather warms up, the flowers bloom,
and digital-camera enthusiasts have a whole new crop of devices to
sort through after leading manufacturers unveil their new models
at the annual Photo Marketing Association trade show. Here are
some highlights, from three digital-camera makers, that should be
of particular interest to Mac users. —RICK LEPAGE
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard (800/752-0900, www.hp.com) has announced
two new cameras along with an optional dock:
Photosmart 735 ‘This $299 3-megapixel camera features a 3x
optical zoom, 16MB of internal memory, support for Secure-
Digital/MMC (SD/MMC) cards, direct print capabilities with HP
printers, and limited manual controls. It will ship in June.
Photosmart 935 The $449 5.3-megapixel camera comes with a
3x zoom lens, a 32MB SD/MMC card, and more manual controls
and scene modes than the 735. It’s expected to ship in April.
Photosmart 8886 Docking Station This $99 optional dock can be
used with the Photosmart 735 and 935 cameras; it comes with
two rechargeable NiMH batteries and a remote control. The dock
has a built-in battery charger and an AV mode for connecting to
a TV directly, It ships in April.
Nikon
Nikon (800/645-6687, www.nikonusa.com) has announced three
new cameras, including one thar features a unique body style:
Coolpix 2100 This $250 2-megapixel camera with a 3x optical
zoom has more than 14 scene modes and a movie mode. It comes
with a 16MB CompactFlash card, USB
cable, and nonrechargeable battery.
Coolpix 3100 This $350 camera sports
a 3x zoom lens and the same scene- and
movie-mode features as the Coolpix 2100,
but it’s a 3.2-megapixel model. Like the
Coolpix 2100, its now shipping:
Coolpix SQ This $499 3.2-megapixel
camera with a 3x zoom lens has a stylish
square body and a swiveling len
similar to the old Coolpix 900 series. It comes with a re
battery, dock, and 16MB CompactFlash card. The SQ will
later this spring.
The Nikon Coolpix SQ
Olympus
Olympus (888/553-4448, www.olympusamerica.com) has intro-
duced four new cameras, all of which are shipping
D-390 This 2-megapixel, entry-level camera costs $149 and fea-
tures a fixed 38mm lens, an optical viewfinder, and a movie mode.
D-560 Zoom ‘This $299 camera has a 3-megapixel CCD, a movie
mode, and five scene modes.
¢-740 Aimed at photographers looking for a longer zoom than the
previous two models, this $499 3-megapixel camera has a 10x optical
zoom (equivalent to 38mm-380mm on a 35mm camera).
€-750 Ultra Zoom This $599 4-megapixel model has the same
10x optical zoom as the C-740. Italso sports a metal body, a movie
mode, and a hot shoe for attaching an external flash unit.
_weewimacworld.com
A Home for Your Hub
Furniture maker |
Bretford (800/521- |
| 9614, wwwdigital
hubworkspace
.com) thinks the
Mac's unique abil-
ity to get the most
out of electronic
| devices deserves
a unique setup. So
it designed a desk,
the Digital Hub Workspace, based on Apple's digital-hub
concept. The Digital Hub Workspace features an optional
digital-gear locker that attaches to one of the desk’s three legs,
providing easy access to digital devices, CD-R and DVD-R
media, or whatever else you want to store there. Another
optional accessory lets you mount your Power Mac G4 tower
toa second desk leg, freeing up even more space on the 68-by-
44-inch work surface. A power hopper equipped with 10 out-
lets attaches to the back of the Digital Hub Workspace to free
the floor of cable clutter. But the desk’s most impressive feature
may be its Hexibility—a built-in crank lets you adjust the desk’s
height to anywhere between 24.5 inches and 43 inches. Since
each of the three legs features a high-tension spring to offset
any weight, you can reset the Digital Hub Workspace’s height
without having to take anything off the desk. The Digital Hub
Workspace sells for $1,199; adding a full complement of acces-
sories raises the price to $1,995—and turns the center of your
digital life into the center of attention —PHILIP MICHAELS
USB SCANNER READS FINGERPRINTS TO PROVIDE MAC ACCESS
Security at Your Fingertips
Passwords and permissions certainly provide plenty of protec-
tion when it comes to safeguarding your Mac against unwanted
users, But if you want another way to keep your computer from
falling into the wrong hands, Sony hopes you'll let your fingers
do the walking to Puppy Suite for OS X. Distributed in North
America by Pacific Software Publishing (425/957-0808, www
puppysuite.com), Puppy Suite is a $199 USB fingerprint scan-
ner that allows Mac users to log in to a computer by placing
a finger on the device, which uses fingerprints to verify identity.
‘To read a fingerprint’ grooves, Puppy Suite relies on capaci-
tance—the tiny electric fields
generated by your finger mov-
ing over the scanner, The USB
device, which requires an OS
X-powered Mac, can store as
many as 1,000 fingerprints. The
setup software lets users scan
backup prints and even set pass-
words for layers of security as
complex and unique as the pat-
terns on a finger—DAVID READ =
MACWORLD | 27
Nay 2008
Hardware
r MAC BEAT| [MAY 2003 }
| MULTIMEDIA _
BEAT
Video
A.10-bit uncompressed video board from Blackmagic
Design (www.decklink.com): The DeckLink 2 ($995) is
aan SDI video card designed for connecting a Mac work-
station to digital broadcast decks.
A high-definition video board from Digital Voodoo (www
.digitalvoodoo.net): The HO|Vengeance ($11,995) is the
first uncompressed high-definition 10-bit SDI broadcast
card with two HD-SDI outputs, one HD-SD! input, and a
| standard-definition SD! down converter on a single PCI
| Software
|
card for the Mac.
Audio
| Logic Platinum 6, from Emagic (530/477-1051, www
.emagicusa.com): This updated music-production soft-
ware features better CPU management, video synchro-
nization, and increased format support ($949; upgrades,
| $129 from version 5.X, $278 from version 4.X).
| Video
|
Boris Continuum Complete 2.0, from Boris FX (
| 772-6747, www.borisfx.com); This updated version of the |
| filter package contains 110 16-bit filters for Adobe After
| Effects 5.5, Apple Final Cut Pro 3, Discreet Combustion
2.1, and Boris Red ($595; upgrade, $199)—compiLeo By
| JONATHAN SEFF
fran
BEAT
Software z
Connectivity
QuickLink Mobile for Mac 0S x, , from Smith Micro (949/
362-5800, wwwwsmithmicro.com): The application config
ures both mobile phones and Macs to permit connectivity
between the two via wireless Internet access, so mobile
users can tur their cell phones into Intemet-access hubs.
‘The software also allows users to monitor cell-phone bat-
tery levels and signal strength to better keep tabs on what
kind of Net access to expect ($60).
LL
FIP Client for Mac OS X, from Vicomsoft (888/842-
2608, www.vicomsoft.com): The updated version of the
FIP client adds OS X support and appropriates many
S X interface features, such as live resizing, The applica-
tion also supports multithreaded requests and the abil-
ity to resume interrupted queries and downloads ($35;
upgrade, $30).—compiten By USA ScHMEISER
|
|
HITTING THE SLOPES WITH THE iPOD-FRIENDLY SNOWBOARDING JACKET
Burton Amp: Smokin’ Jacket
The crowds at January's
Maeworld Conference &
Expo may have drooled
over Apple’s $499 Burton
Amp jacket, the skiing and
snowboarding jacket that
features soft buttons on
the sleeve for controlling
your iPod when you're
out on the slopes. But
what would a real teenage
snowboarder think of the
jacket, which was created
| by snowboarding pioneer
| Jake Burton's own Burton
Snowboards in partner-
ship with Apple? To find out, Macworld
outfitted 17-year-old Michael Gordon
with an Amp jacket and an iPod and sent
him out for a busy weekend of MP3-
enhanced snowboarding:
“Irs pretty awesome,” Gordon says.
“The jacket is comfortable, with lots of
k nd is super waterproof. The iPod
chest pocket, and I was thinking
hat it would hurt if I fell right on it—but
perfectly padded. You can't even tell
at it’s there.”
» Dress Up Your iPod with Add-Ons
If Burton's iPod snowboarding jacket isn’t your thing,
parade of iPod-friendly paraphernalia that add substan
Coat of Arms Michael Gordon con-
trols his iPod with the buttons on his
‘The Amp’s on-sleeve
control buttons also
impressed Gordon—and
he wasn’t alone. “Every-
body was amazed when
they saw me—they’d say, |
‘Oh my God, are those |
buttons on your arm?” |
‘The buttons are easy to
use, but not so easy to
push that you'd hit them
accidentally. When I get
ona chair lift, I want to
turn down my music so I
can talk with my friends
while I’m listening. But
when I start to ride and the wind starts to
blow, can turn it up.”
Still, Gordon didn’t completely flip for
the jacket-iPod combo: there’s no sepa-
rate Hold button on the jacket, so you
must leave the iPod's Hold button off and
run the ccidental button-pushes.
al, our snowboarder gives
approval, except for its $499
a lot. As soon as
comes down, it'll catch on
k.” JASON SNELL
you can choose from an entire
ind style. Here are a few
‘our favorite playlist.
Transmitters An iPod may put hundreds of songs in your pocket, but you'll need an
FM transmitter like the iTrip, from Griffin Technology (615/399-7000, www.griffintech
nology.com), if you want others to listen, too. The $35 iTrip (pictured left) plugs into
your iPod's headphone jack, with a second plug anchoring to the FireWire port. Devices
) such as the iTrip or the iRock 300W, from First International
',) Digital (847/202-1900, www.myirock.com), broadcast music
| stored on the iPod over an FM frequency that you can receive
aD) from any nearby car or home stereo. The difference? The $30
\ iRock requires two AAA batteries and broadcasts its signal over
four frequencies. The iTrip draws power from the iPod while using any FM signal.
Protection A pair of carrying cases are aimed at shielding your iPod from bumps and
bruises. iPod Armor (pictured right), from Matias (888/663-4263, www.ipodarmor
.com), features a rugged aluminum construction. Unlike other
cases, iPod Armor’s hard outer shell doesn’t actually touch your |
iPod, thanks to its cushioning open-cell EVA foam int |
force of a fall hits the outer shell of the $50 case, not the iPod. If
controlling the iPod while it’s still in its protective casing is key,
consider an iSee, from Contour Design (800/462-6678, www
.contourdesign.com). The $30 clear carrying case features an
opening for the iPod's scroll wheel and buttons, —ADELIA CELLINI
28 | MACWORLD | May 2003
file on: Canon Digital Creator.
U.S. Digital Creators Receive Global
Recognition in International Contest
It was the simplicity and sensitive handling of the subject that
won Brad Trost the Bronze award in the Digital Graphics/
Illustration (Print) Division of the 2002
Canon Digital Creators Contest. “It started
as a study. I was interested in seeing how
these 3D objects would look if I scanned
them,” described Brad, a Portland, Oregon-
based graphic designer. “It created a black
and white tonal image that looked
like a graphite rendering.” After scanning, Brad imported the
images to Photoshop, combined them, and hand-stitched the
outputted pages.
When asked why he entered the Canon contest, Brad explained,
“the international interest makes it different from most of the
contests here in the States. I think that the work people create
is inspired by their daily life and culture. I like to see that
influence.” Because the contest is free to enter and is international
in scope, it offers an incredible opportunity for young digital
artists everywhere to put their work in front of prestigious, well-
known professionals working in the digital field.
For Ben Pinckney, an Arizona-borm self-described “digital
carpenter” who resides and works in Taiwan, it was the judges
that inspired him to create his entry “Superelectronic” for the
————,_ Web Division. “When I found out one of
my favorite musicians, Ryuichi Sakamoto,
was one of the judges, I had to enter,” said
Ben. “All the judges of the contest are
so well respected.” His entry, submitted
under the group name of Aoineko, received
an Honorary Mention and will be among
the Canon contests award-winning works that will be on exhibit
for the first time this year in New York and Los Angeles.
Established just three years ago, Canon's annual contest has
grown from a successful regional competition into a global event,
gamering 5,025 entries from 77 countries and regions in 2002. By
actively supporting the artistic use of digital technology and by
opening the Canon contest to the world, Canon seeks both to
push the boundaries of visual expression and to be the place
the world looks to for the best digital art. Entrants can win
cash and Canon products in four different digital categories:
photography, graphics /illustration, movie, and web design.
In 2003, the dialogue continues. Entries for the 2003 Canon
Digital Creators Contest are accepted March 24th through
September 4th. For contest rules and an entry form, visit
www.canon.com/cdce/
CANON DIGITAL CREATORS CONTEST EXHIBITION
The Cooper Union UCLA
March 27 - April 12, 2003 May 1 - May 17, 2003
The Great Hall Gallery Department of Design|Media Arts
East 7th Street at Third Avenue | EDA (Experimental Digital Arts)
New York City 11000 Kinross Avenue
‘Westwood, Los Angeles
FREE ADMISSION; OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
“This book contains pictures of a vase and a goblet
arranged in 36 permutations, literally. The Imagery
is very appealing - the creator takes something very
regular and ordinary and, by combining and photo-
‘graphing them in a really sensitive way, makes
them magical. The style of photography is
almost like a rayogram, where you can almost
‘see through everything, It is sensitively handled
‘and beautifully bound. tis one of my favorites.”
Dirk Van Dooren (tomato)
Digital Graphies/lustration (Print) Division Judga
—
Pages from “36 Permutations.”
Screen shots from “Superelectronic.”
“The creator of this site mixes up
so many different graphic styles
that it's hard to believe it was
done by a single person.”
‘Tota Hasegawa (tomato)
\Wob Division Judge
www.canon.com/cdcc/
© 2003 Canon U.S.A., Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Canon xnownow"
RECORDERS STORE DIGITAL VIDEO FOR PLAYBACK, EDITING
ges Cutting through the Tape
B F AT Forget celluloid and videotape. Thanks to advances in digital-recording devices, pure
data could eliminate both from video production—and sooner than you might think.
Take the compact DV Bank FireWire, from Datavideo ‘Technologies (562/696-
| :
Liu a —} 2324, www.datavideo-tek.com). The $1,100 device looks and acts like a normal video-
A flatbed scanner from Canon (800/652-2666, www.usa internal 60GB IDE hard drive instead of on a video cassette. The DV Bank can |
-canon.com): The CanoScan 9900F ($400) features a receive digital video from any DV or Digital 8 camera via its FireWire connection.
3,200-by-6,400-dpi resolution with 48-bit color depth. The
scanner includes film guides to support batch scanning of
as many as 24 negatives or eight mounted slides,
oS ~, Once the video has been recorded, users can access
it randomly for quick playback. |
Other manufacturers vying for tapeless produc-
| Software _ tions include Laird Telemedia (800/898-0759,
"Pugin wwvilairdtelemedia.com) and Focus Enhancements
|
|
| 5 e
| Scanners tape recorder, but it stores incoming DV material—as much as 4.5 hours—on an
|
|
Photoshop Camera Raw Plug-in 1.0, fom Adobe (800/ (408/866-8300, www.focusinfo.com). Laird’s Cap-
233-6687 wrwadsbecam\sThepluginisscomveron.. | a * Div is available in 40GB and 60GB versions for
tool that manipulates and converts raw-format digital- The DV Bank FireWire $1,295 and $1,595, respectively. Unlike the DV
camera images and imports them directly into Photoshop Bank, the CapDiv can save video as QuickTime
7.0.1 of later. The plug-in supports a variety of cameras movies, making re-digitizing unnecessary. Focus Enhancement’s $1,695 FireStore is
and offers control over white balance, sharpness, resolu- | 4 yideotape-recorder emulator without an internal hard drive. You add whatever size
tion, and color space. Also included is a plug-in that adds
support for the JPEG 2000 image format ($99).
Image Browsers
ArcherPro 3.1, from Parker Software Development
(www.parkersoftware.com): The update to the multi- .
media viewer adds a background menu for changing the CABINETS COULD LESSEN SOUND FROM LAST YEAR'S NOISY MODELS
background color of each image individually. A new pref- .
see ea es Soot lah oa The Silence of the Power Macs
color ($30; upgrade, free), } COMPILED BY PHILIP MICHAELS.
: — When Apple rolled outan upgraded line any noise is prohibitive to productivity.
of dual-processor Power Macs last sum- ‘Those users may want to consider a
mer, the company was hoping to make noise-reduction case such as those in the
some noise in the computer world, But the CoolMac Silencer series, from Crywolf
grumbling about the noise generated by Consulting (866/266-5622, www.crywolf
the mirrored-drive-door machines proba- _ store.com). Crywolf’s gCab for Power
FireWire drive you like, thus removing any capture-time limitations.
‘Tape-free video production may still be a ways off. But these three devices mark an
| important step toward leaving tape on the cutting room floor.—ANTON LINECKER,
INPUT-DEVICE
BEAT
bly wasn’t what Apple had in mind. Maes uses heat-pipe and airflow technolo-
The dual-processor models introduced gies to keep your Mac cool without exter-
Hardware last year generate more heat than earlier, nal fans, Crywolf claims that the case
Mice single-processor units; therefore, they can reduce a Power Mac G4’ noise level
‘Awireless mouse from Belkin (800/223-5546, wwwobelkin | require more fans and larger heat sinks. from 65 to 37 decibels. At $699, the gCab
or isn’t inexpensive, but if your profession
demands quiet, the resulting silence could
be golden —aNnbRE
.com):The MiniWireless Optical Mouse ($50) uses radio | The two fans located in the dual-proces
frequency, operating at 27MHz and working as far as three | Power Macs’ power-supply unit appe:
feet away from your computers. The mouse is targeted at be responsible for the increased noi
mobile users, ‘The updated Power Macs unveiled
nat |_ by Apple this year address the prob-
| Jem with quieter fans. A firmware
Drivers update for last year’s models decreases
USB Overdrive X 10.2, from Alessandro Levi Mont- | fan noise when the machine is running
acini (www.usboverdrive.com): The Jaguar-compatible | QS 9, And an exchange program set
version of the USB driver for configuring mice, track- |
balls, and USB-based input devices adds support
for joysticks and game controllers. Also receiving an
update is USB Overdrive 1.4, which is aimed at OS
9 and OS X’s Classic layer. The new version adds sup-
port for mouse-wheel scrolling in Classic applications
\_ ($20}:—comouso ey PHP MICHAELS
pple allows owners of mirrored-
drive-door Power Macs to swap their
original power supplies and system fans
for quieter versions.
Still, for owners of the older mirrored-
drive-door Power Macs who use their
computers in professions demanding near Crywolf’s
silence—for example, audio enginee!
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\_ Users). —COMPILED BY PHILIP MICHAELS
-CIWAC BEAN MAY 2003 X——
| PRODUCTIVITY
BEAT
| Software |
Layout |
RagTime 5.6.3 for OS X, from ComGrafix (800/448-
6277, www.comgrafix.com): The latest version of the
business publishing application has been updated to run
natively in OS X 10,2, RagTime lets users create spread-
sheets, annual reports, and catalogues ($695; upgrade,
$100 for RagTime 5 and later),
Messaging =
FirstClass 7.1, from the FirstClass division of Open Text
(888/808-0388, www.firstclass.com): The update to the
integrated messaging and communications software
adds full client support for OS X (pricing varies).
Utilities |
TechToo! Pro 4, from Micromat (800/829-6227, www
smicromat.com):The updated repair utility is now com- |
patible with OS X, providing it with new MultiTesting and_ |
optimization features, Due in April, the new version
includes Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Tech-
nology test monitoring for diagnostic analysis of hard
drives, ($150; upgrade, $50 for version 3.0 and Drive 10
i
| STORAGE
BEAT
Hardware
Hard Drives |
An external hard drive from Western Digital (949/672-
7000, www.westerndigital.com): The FireWire/USB 2.0
‘Combo external hard drive features a WD Caviar 7,200-
‘1pm drive in 120GB ($300) or 200G8 ($400) capacities.
The stackable case features two FireWire 400 ports and
‘one USB 2.0 port.
‘An external hard drive enclosure from Migla (wwwwmiglia
-com):The MiniBank MT-II ($119) features an aluminum
case with one FireWire 400 port and one USB 2.0 port. User
configured, it will hold almost any 2.5-inch drive.
Media Readers
|
|
A flash memory readeriwriter from Addonics Technologies |
(408/433-3899, www.addonics.com): The FireWire Mini
|
|
DigiDrive ($89) is compatible with CompactFlash Type |
and Il, SmartMedia, Memory Stick, MultiMedia Card,
MicroDrive and SD formats. The Mini DigiDrive can read
and write between two different media types simultane-
| ously —COMPIED ey JAMES GALBRAMTH
MACS AT WORK
Hitting the Road with OSX
OS X brought symmetric multiprocessing
and protected memory to the Mac, but
how about the ability to get 25 miles to
the gallon? While that capability may be
missing from most of the Macs shipping
these days, it’s part of the OS X-powered
entertainment system on board Honda’s
Studio E concept car (a sort of pie-in-
the-sky vehicle prototype), which was
on display during January’s North Ameri-
can International Auto Show in Detroit.
With the Studio E, Honda
took its Element SUV and
turned it into a rolling audio
and video studio built around
the needs of a club DJ. Honda
equipped the Studio E with an
onboard Mac that can mix mul-
tiple inputs. Users can attach
turntables, an effects generator,
or a more traditional guitar,
drum machine, or microphone.
The concept car also features
a motorized, 42-inch high-
definition plasma display that folds down
from the car's ceiling and out the back.
Studio E’s mobile entertainment system
transits more than 800 watts of power to
11 speakers, throughout the vehicle,
ranging in size from 2-inch tweeters to
the thunderous 10-inch subwoofers
beneath the car’s rear cargo floor.
Because it incorporates OS X, the con-
cept car enjoys a budding online fan club
NEW MACROMEDIA PRODUCT BRINGS FLASH-DRIVEN INTERNET APPS OFFLINE
Aqua-Mobile Honda's Studio E concept car runs its onboard
equipment on OS X.
among Mac users—a development that
has taken Honda by surprise. “That's
great that people are interested in a
vehicle with these computer capabili-
ties,” spokesman John Fitzsimmons says.
The carmaker outfitted this car with a
Mac because the computer is popular
among Honda's interior designers.
“That's what they have in their offices,
so that’s what they used in the car,”
Fitzsimmons adds.
But don’t clear out space in your
garage for the Studio E just yet. Honda
makes no promises as to when, or even
if, it will manufacture Studio Es for sale.
“Studio E is pure concept,” says Tom
Elliott, executive vice president of Amer-
ican Honda Motor Company, “simply
an example of what could be done.”
Even so, one day all roads may lead to
OS X.—ADELIA CELLINI
Flash MX Takes a Central Stage
When Macromedia rolled out its first version of Flash in 1997, developers quickly
recognized the file format as a great way to add complex, interactive animations with
bandwidth-pleasing file sizes. But even with the advent of more-complex, interactive
Flash applications, users still had to be online to use them.
Macromedia wants to take Flash off the Web and put it on your desktop, with the
introduction of its latest effort—a Flash-based application browser named Macro-
media Central. The new program will sit on your desktop, serving as a repository for
Flash-based applications that you can use even while offline. For example, a Price-
Grabber.com program already under development would let offline shoppers sort
through pricing information about various products, automatically updating the data-
base whenever the user connects to the Web.
The Central browser will be a free download for end users, who will then try out and
later buy Flash-based applications designed for the browser. In April, Macromedia will
release a beta developer's kit for adapting existing Web applications. Look for the final
version of Macromedia Central to ship this summer.—KELLY LUNSFORD
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offering may be the Bravo Disc Publisher, from Primera of being recruited to your cause ($35).
Technology (800/797-2772, www.primeratechnology.com). The Bravo not only has Worms Blast, from Feral Interactive (www.feral.co.uk);
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= DVD-R/CD-R recorder to duplicate DVDs at 4x and CDs at 16x). The Bravo, imaginative array of destructive weaponry available to
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BY CHRISTOPHER BREEN __
Although Apple claims to be
innovating its way out of
the current economic malaise,
the company also clearly recog-
nizes the benefits of good
old-fashioned price-slashing.
That's how we account for
the latest batch of Power Mac
G4s—models that sport not
only a handful of innovative
features but also, in the case of
the dual-1.25GHz Power Mac
G4, a price that’s $1,300 less
than last year's similarly con-
figured Power Mac's.
We listened to and looked
carefully at the 1GHz ($1,499)
and dual-1.25GHz ($1,999)
Power Mac G4s. These Power
Macs are much quieter than
their buzzing predecessors,
they boast substantial innova~
tions, and they are inexpensive
enough to be great buys for
professional users who have to
have the sheer power and
expandability that a Power
Mac affords.
Apple Power Mac G4lual-1.25GHz (previous)
Apple Power Mac G4/1GHz (FAW 800)
Apple Power Mac G4/dual-1GH2 (previous)
Apple iMac G4/1GHz (17 inch)
‘Apple iMac G4/B00MHe (17 inch)
1GHZ AND DUAL-1.25GHZ
POWER MAC G4S__
New Ports and Low Prices Distinguish Latest Power Macs
The Innovation
These are the first Power Macs
to bear a FireWire 800 port—
a port that Apple says can sup-
port data rates as high as 800
Mbps. In our limited tests, these
ports provided little advantage
over the two “old-style” Fire-
Wire 400 ports also found on
these Power Macs.
Peripherals that take advantage
of FireWire 800% capabilities were
not available when we tested, so
we linked the Macs via their Fire-
Wire 800 ports, employing Fire-
Wire Target Disk Mode, and we
transferred files from one Mac to
the other. It took 1 minute and 26
seconds to copy a file of just over
a gigabyte via the FireWire 800
connection. That same file took
just 6 seconds longer to copy with
a FireWire 400 link.
This line of Power Macs is
also the first to include AirPort
Extreme, which uses the not-
yet-ratified 802.11g wireless-
networking standard. Its
usefulness was immediately
Adobe
Speedmark 3.2 Photoshop 7.0.1
vena scone Sure
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46
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USB ports
FireWire 400 ports
FireWire 800 port
Audio-out port
56-Kbps modem
clear. We established a computer-
to-computer AirPort Extreme
network to copy a 400MB file
between the two new Power
Macs. That task finished in 2
minutes and 46 seconds. The
same file moved across an older,
802.11b AirPort network in 10
minutes and 18 seconds. How-
ever, you'll only see this speed
jump in local file transfers, not in
Internet connections.
These Power Macs are Blue-
tooth ready—providing space
on the motherboard for an
internal Bluetooth wireless-
networking module. Because
our mostly stock systems (our
dual-1.25GHz model was
prebuilt with a SuperDrive
rather than the DVD/CD-RW
Combo drive—a $200 build-to-
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this option, we were unable to
test Bluetooth performance.
The Status Quo
Aside from these additions, the
new Power Macs differ only
slightly from the generation
before them (see “Apple's New
Dual-G4 Macs,” November
2002). For example, they bear
the same AGP 4x graphics slot.
(The 1GHz model has an Nvidia
GeForce4 MX, whereas the
dual-1,.25GHz Power Mac con-
tains the ATI Radeon 9000 Pro.)
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Speedmark 3,2 scores are relative to those of a 7O0MHz eMac, which is assigned a score of 100. Photoshop, iMovie, iTunes, and Cinema 4D XL scores are in minutes:seconds. Quake Il scores are in frames pet
second, We tested each system with Mac 0S X 10.2.3 installed and 256MB of RAM. We set displays to 1,024-by-768-pixel resolution and 24-bit color. For the Photoshop Suite tes, the systems are upgraded to
512MB of RAM; the suite isa set of ten scripted tasks using a SOMB file. Photoshop's memory was set to 100 percent and History was set to Minimum. We tested MP3 encoding with an audio-CD track that was
9 minutes and 25 seconds long, converting it from the hard drive using Tunes’ Better Quality setting. We tested Quake il at a resolution of 1,024 by 768 pixels with Graphics set to High Quality. For more infor-
‘mation on Speedmark 3.2, visit www. macworld com/speedmark —wACWORLD US TESTING BY JAMES GALBRATW AND IFFY, MUSTEAD
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The 1GHz model holds a
single PowerPC G4 processor
rather than the two 867MHz G4
processors in the previous gener-
ation’s entry-level Power Mac,
butit contains the same 133MHz
system bus, 256MB of PC2100
(266MHz) DDR SDRAM,
60GB Ultra ATA hard drive, and
Combo drive found in the dual-
867MHz Power Mac G4.
"The stock configuration of the
dual-1.25GHz Power Mac G4—
which is now the middle of the
line—strips away some of the fea-
tures found in the former lineup’s
dual-1.25GHz Power Mac G4
(mirrored drive door). The new
model carries IMB of L3 cache
per chip, rather than the earlier
model’s 2MB; 256MB of PC2700
(333MHz) DDR SDRAM, com-
pared with 512MB; a Combo
drive, instead of a SuperDrive;
and an 80GB hard drive, instead
of a 120GB drive. Both dual-
1.25GHz Power Macs have the
same 167MHz system bus.
Unlike their predecessors,
neither of these Power Macs
boots into Mac OS 9.
The Speed
‘The Speedmark test suite showed
the new dual-1,25GHz Power
Mac to be 18 percent faster
than the single-processor 1GHz.
model. The same dual-1.25GHz.
Power Mac was a little more than
10 percent faster than the older
dual-1GHz model and, because it
has only IMB of L3 cache per
chip, slightly less than 3 percent
slower than the older dual-
1.25GHz model (see benchmark
chart, page 36, for details).
When we tested the Macs with
applications that take advantage
of dual processors, the difference
between these two new Power
Macs became much clearer.
Compared with the 1GHz
model, the dual-1.25GHz model
pumped out 50.5 more frames
per second in Quake Il, com-
pleted our Photoshop 7.0.1 test
suite 38 percent faster, rendered
a Cinema 4D XL scene in less
than half the time, and encoded
our iTunes 3 MP3 test file about
37 percent more briskly. We per-
formed the same tests using the
new and older dual-1.25GHz |
Power Mac G4s, and the results |
were virtually indistinguishable.
We performed one addi-
tional—and wholly subjective— |
test. Macworld editors who had |
experience with the first mir- |
rored-drive-door Power Macs |
listened to these new computers.
Although the new Power Macs
produce a low-frequency hum,
that hum is significantly quieter
than the racket that earned the
previous Power Macs unflattering
sobriquets such as “hair dryer” |
and “wind tunnel.” |
Macworld’s Buying Advice
These are both fine machines
that perform very well and |
include innovative features. |
However, in an economic cli- |
mate where price is paramount,
we are even more impressed that
these attributes come at such an
attractive price.
1GHZ POWER MACG4
RATING: $968
PROS: Attractively priced; good per-
formance; supports new Apple tech-
nologies; reasonably quiet.
CONS: Only 1MB of L3 cache,
PRICE: $1,499
OS COMPATIBILITY: Mac OS X
COMPANY: Apple Computer,
800/692-7753, wwew.apple.com
DUAL-1.25GHZ POWER MAC G4
RATING: $995!
PROS: Excellent value; very good
performance; supports new Apple
technologies; reasonably quiet.
CONS: Only 1MB of L3 cache
per chip.
PRICE: $1,999
OS COMPATIBILITY: Mac OS X
COMPANY: Apple Computer,
‘800/692-7753, wew.apple.com
GHZ iMAC G4, 17-INCH
Improvements Provide Pro-Level Power at a Non-Pro Price
BY JASON SNELL _
‘The iMac G4 just keeps
getting better—the latest
addition to the iMac G4
line is a $1,799 model thar
is armed with several wel-
come new features.
‘There are now just .
two iMac models.
At the low end is
the $1,299, 15-inch,
800MHz iMac. At the high end
is this model, which sports a
wide, bright, 17-inch screen with
a maximum resolution of 1,440
by 900 pixels.
The 17-inch display seems
remarkably large, although it
appears to be almost weightless.
But the improvements to this
model are largely inside. The
most obvious boost is to its G4
processor, which runs at 1GHz.
This iMac also has a 133MHz
system bus (an improvement
on the 15-inch model's 1]OOMHz
bus). Memory is even f
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