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How Each Mac Stacks Up BY MACWORLD LAB STAFF Expanded, real-world benchmark data on each perfect system. Is the Mac Still the Easiest to Use? BY HOWARD BALDWIN Weall know what they say, but is Win- dows 95 really as easy to use as a N some in-depth usability testing to find out. We roll up our sleeves for The Publishing Face-Off BY OLAV MARTIN KVERN steve RoTH Desktop publish- ing has long been the cornerstone of Mac superiority. Is the Mac still the reigning king of DTP, or is it time to hand the crown over to Windows AND A wealth of support for Apple's Colorsyne 2.0 color-management software in News, page 45. 4 February 1996 MACWORLD 38 41 46 47 48 THE MACINTOSH® News Macintosh Quality #1 Why today’s computer users Apple number one, rate Internet Watch Better sound with RealAudio 2.0 ¢ NetCruiser for Mac, and more. More PowerBook Woes Factory fire and circuitry problems continue to plague the 5300's. Systems Watch Copland, OpenDoe move closer to reality AUTHORITY FEBRUARY 1996 Opinion 27 State of the Mac BY ADRIAN MELLO new look. 33 The Desktop Critic BY DAVID POGUE love, happin line overseas. 268 Viewpoint BY CARYN JAMES new villain. Macworld’s Finding s, and a good phone Hollywood's 139 145 151 154 162 Secrets Secrets of the Find File Command BY JOSEPH SCHORR A smor- gasbord of Find File features puts your Mac to work for you. Quick Tips BY LON POOLE and shortcuts. Tips, tricks, NetSmart ay MATT Clickand wait, click and wait—the culprits behind online del Media Media BY JIM HEID W HAWN What's in store for video, audio, and interactive production, Publishing Workshop BY DAVID BLATNER Thetaoof resolution. Graphics Workshop By CATHY aBes Howtorender realistic terrains with KPT Bryce. @IDG 165 169 Is the Mac still the best DTP platform? Our experts debate, page 124. Buyers’ Tools Full-Size Color Displays ey PETER m sto.cer Our panel of experts judge 13 nwo-page monitors for brightness, contrast, and color to separate the perfor- mance winners from the pack. Consumer Advocate sy Tom NeGaiINo Up close and personal with user groups, and the services that can save you money and hassles. Star Ratings Macworld’s ratings for hundreds of hardware and software products at aglance. ‘A machine we love even more than the Power ‘Mac 7500—the PowerWave 604, reviewed and tested, page 54. ON THE COVER Photo by Pad Franz-Moore 56 57 58 61 65 71 73 74 78 81 81 85 85 92 95 MACWORLD Reviews **KK/7.6 PowerWave 604/120; **KK/7.6 PowerWave 604/132; ***K/7.7 PowerWave 604/150 NuBus/PCI clone systems ***%/8.9 Speed Doubler 1.0.2 Operating system enhancement ****/8.3 Kai's PowerTools 3.0 Photoshop plug-ins **#/5.9 PowerBook 5300c Portable computer ***/6.7 WordPerfect 3.5 Word processor **wK/B.6 PressView 21 SR Professional-quality display kx */8.3 Quicken Deluxe 6 Personal financial and investment software &e*/8.0 Claris impact 2.0 Business-graphics software **%/6.0 Desktop GlidePoint; kw */7.0 QuePoint Il; **/43 TouchPad Input devices ***K/7.3 DrawTools 1.0 Graphics extensions collection *KKKIT7.2 QX-Tools 1.0 Quark XTension collection ****/8.1 Macromedia FreeHand 5.5 Draw program **/5.4 HP CopyJetM Color copier and ink-jet printer */1.5 Chagall 2.0.2 Painting and image-editing application ***/62 At Ease 3.0 Desktop alternative KKK/8.3 StatView 4.5 Statistics and graphing package kKK/7.A SPSS 6.1 Statistical software ***/69 Boris Effects 1.01 Video-effects plug-in ***/5.0 Tracer 1.0 Autotracing software *kx/54 SCSI PowerPlug Il Aid for swapping SCSI devices **x#/8.4 SCSI Director Pro 4.0 Formatting and testing utility ***/6.9 Quicken Family Lawyer 6.0b Personal legal software *KHK/TS Igor Pro2.0.4 Scientific graphing system *&***/7.0 Tools Plus 2.6 Programmers’ tool kit %#KK/8.0 LS FORTRAN 1.1 Compiler program February 1996 5 Allpeves take ‘Adobe PostScript MICROLASER 600 UNDER $900 ipm, PostScript, sIDOS/Mac compatible ie : UNDER $1.300 600 dpi, 8 PostScript Windows/DOS/Mac - compatible MICROLASER POWERPRO/12 UNDER $1,550 600 dpi, 12 ppm, PostScript, Windows/DOS/Mac compatible MICROLAS POWERPRO/I2 UNbER $1,550 600 dpi 12 ppm Windows/L compatible Adobe PostScript e emulation 500-sheet paper capacity Pro Network option ROLASER PRO/8 UNDER $1,300 600 dpi 8 ppm Windows/DOS/W compatible Adobe PostScript PCL5e emulation 500-sheet paper capacity twork option INTRODUCING THE TI MICROLASER™ PRO SERIES. STARTING AT UNDER $1,300. Heavy duty printers that work with uncompromising performance are quite noteworthy. Those that pay for themselves are quite extraordinary. And to appreciate the new TI microLaser Pro Series, start by looking at the obvious, the price. Then, consider what many overlook, cost of operation. TI understands that over the lifetime of your printer, these costs can run into the thousands. That’s why they designed a unique two-piece toner cartridge and imaging unit. So when one runs out, you won't have to replace both. Combine that with the consumables’ built-in capacity for longer life, and the savings can literally pay for the cost of your printer.* But perhaps most extraordinary — features like Windows'/DOS/Mac* compatibility (PostScript’ and PCL”5e emulation) and greater paper tray capacity (500 sheets) come standard on TI’s Pro Series. So why settle for the ordinary? Simply call 1-800-TI-TEXAS. 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You can’t be unbiased and you cer- tainly can’t be objective, so be fair— let's see what the great Guy can really do. Give Guy the space to tell it like iti Rowert Stark OF via America Online \ OU'RE KIDDING, YOU RE! {ED me with a lawyer? Guy Kawasaki via eWorld Copland Letdown Wins ‘THIS, MY POWERBOOK 520 with PowerPC upgrade won't run Copland? I refer to “Apple Hedges Its OS Bets” (News, November 1995), in which you state “Apple has also decided not to make Copland run on 680X0 Macs, with or without PowerPC upgrade cards.” can’t believe Apple is going to do this to all of us that bought the 500-series PowerBooks. When I bought my Power- Book I expected to upgrade with the PPC card and have a computer that would last Lellers Id A 94107 ay, & a few years. What I will have is a com- puter with a “user-interface replacement. Woo hoo, that’s what I really want—that, and a swift kick in the head! [ hope this is all a false report and Apple isn’t going to leave us out in the cold. Davin RUseR via the luternet I hope you bave a good winter coat, Dave-—Ed. \ PPLE, PUTS ME ON THE BRINK OF « \ outrage, and I suspect a whole bunch of other PowerBook 500-series owners feel the same way. I bought my 520 with the expectation that I could upgrade it to a PowerPC—not because I wanted to be hip, but because I wanted a fast, reliable, mobile Mac. Now Apple is telling us that Copland, the forthcoming OS that’s sup- posed to make the PowerPC sound a fan- fare for the common man, isn’t going to work on 680X0 machines. If Copland isn’t compatible with the PowerBook 500 series when it’s finally released next year, then it will be bad news indeed. Davip Hurtaut via the Internet A PPLE ANNOUNCED THAT COPLAND. « \won't run on machines with Power- PC upgrade cards. Only true-blue Power- PC motherboards need apply. I've got my Quadra box here with the big, blue “Ready for PowerPC” sticker on its side. 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That is why T subscribe to arch se, please provide appro- s when you mention some- is available on the Internet. Ker? priate URL: thing tha Liewer Portable? Like a Console TV [o= PH SCHORR’S REVIEW OF APPLE'S +) excellent new portable printer, the Apple Color StyleWriter 2200, fails to nificant shortcomings of mention two this otherwise highly desirable printer (November 1995). First this portable printer with a 60Hz power supply, severely limiting its use to the United States and Canada. The norm elsewhere is 240 volts and 50Hz. When I discussed this shortcoming at Macworld Expo with an Apple rep, he assured me that an optional universal nd foremost, Apple is shippii 120-volt AC, power supply was available, but I have been unable to locate a dealer who sells this alleged option. Second, unlike its big brother, the StyleWriter 2400, this printer does not have AppleTalk: error since many potential bu This is anothe vers of this small printer already have a desktop print- er and therefore lack only two essential capabilities: portability and color. If the 2200 offered AppleTalk, this category of buyer could justify buyi the dual basis of adding color to desktop printing capabilities and having portable printer on the road. the printer on I] the more onerous since the 2200's principal competitor, the HP DeskWriter 320/ 340, includes both a universal power sup- ply and AppleTalk ‘These two shortcomings are Bina MCKELYY More on Ethics }YHANK YOU, ADRIAN MELLO, FOR clarifying Macworld’s position on the separation of church and state (editorial and advertising) (State of the Mac, Novem- ber 1995). It is nice to see that some busi- nesses still place ethics before profi ‘This is especially important in the new medium, the Internet. You have opted to provide your service to your readers at no depending only on advertising revenues to fund your site. First, I appreciate the free up-to-the- minute information on Mac products and Mac news. Second, I appreciate the difficult position free access might put Macworld in, in terms of being beholden to the almighty ad dollar to sustain the project. All I can say is hold you cost to them, therefor round You have a fabulous product, both in print and in pixel. MARTIN Timusk via the Internet DRIAN MELLO'S: Rights” should be ADER’S BILL OF -mailed to a few popular weekly and monthly publications I see on the newsstand all the time. Their ethics went out the window a long time ago. Good journalism on any subject is only s good as the journalist. ‘The same can be said for the publisher. But then we the people have the power to cancel sub- scriptions and go for an honest magazine. 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Guy has made no secret about his software investments. He has been visit- ing user groups hawking Emailer for at least the last eight months, and someone now decides there is a conflict? L would take a change lik value, but Adrian Mello’s col- umn made me think otherwise. I'v always read Wise Guy to see which direc- tion the Mac was, or should be, taking. I annot ever recall seeing a product review in Guy's column, nor have I seen any con- flict of interest. I always viewed his busi ness pursuits as lending credibility to his opinions. Guy’s sole goal seemed to be to tell us when the Mac had no clothes. James M. Bhereus via eWorld Resolution Resolution AM LOOKING FOR A DEFINITIVE planation of laser printer resolution, When I look at “Color Printers Mean Business” (September 1995), there are sis companies that claim 600-dpi or better resolution, but when I check the table, I find resolutions of 600 by 300, 600 by 600, and one 1200 by 300. In my mind, only the Apple and QMS color lasers have true 600 dpi (600 by 600). Am Ton the right track, or is 600 by 300 dpi as good as 600 by 600 dpi? What benefit, if any, does the Xerox have at 1200 by 300? I'd also like to get more information on the vertical versus horizontal dpi numbers and how they do or don’t affect the final output. Bruce JOUNSON via the Internet For the down and dirty on resalution, see Mac- world’s new column, Publishing Workshop, in the Media section of this issive—Ed. World Wide Web, Easy as Pie UST WAN'T ‘TO SAY THAT THE ARTICLE ) “Build Your Own Home Page” easily got me on the World Wide Web (No- vember 1995). I was having problems dis playing my images in a Web Weaver Eidi tor. Mel Beckman’s suggestion about getting a GIF converter solved that prob- lem, And his instructions to upload the image and HTML files to the Unix si 22 February 1996 MACWORLD tem were straightforward. It’s really sy getting set up on the WWW! 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With this issue, we launch Macworld version 12.X. Upgrading is a tightwire act: the trick is to introduce improvements without de- stabilizing users’ comfort with the pre ous version. “Change is good and neces- ry,” we told ourselves, while worrying in the very next breath, “People hate change.” We saw no call for dramatic change, but in response to readers’ requests, we undertook a number of substantial improvements. Here’s a quick tour. One of Macworld’: key goals is to keep you abreast of today’s developments in computing technology so you can prepare for tomorrow. We used to run news sto- ries in various sections of the magazine; now you'll find all the news at the front of the magazine—your first stop for the latest on new products and emerging trends in technology. Not only is this arrangement more convenient for read- ers, but it also permits us to more than double the amount of news we bri More Macworld Ratings Readers rely on Macworld’s product reviews to help them make difficult buy- ing decisions. We've always covered more Mac products than any other publication, and our reviews are renowned for their accuracy and fairness. Now we're adding even more information to help guide you through the thicket of new Macintosh products by more than doubling the num- ber of products rated in every issue, incor- porating a consistent rating scheme FIND OUT WHAT THE LATEST UPGRADE HOLDS throughout all reviews, product round- ups, and Buyers’ Tools. We're even show- ing ratings in the table of contents so you can take in an issue’s worth of reviews at a glance. The five-star rating system still pro- vides a general measure of a product's worth, but we've added a numerical score for greater precision. We evaluate seven factors—feature set, design implementa- tion, performance, reliability, ease of usi innovation, and value—to arrive at the rating. Five stars and a score from 9.0 to 10.0 means we think a product is out- standing; four stars and 7.0 to 8.9 points means it’s very good; three stars and 5.0 to 6.9 means it’s good; two stars and 3.0 to 4.9 indicates a flawed product; and one star and a score of 2.9 or lower denotes an unacceptable product. Product comparison tables now call out ratings in bright red for every product in the article, as well as indicating those that receive the Macworld Editors’ Choice award. You'll still find a summary of our conclusions in the Editors’ Choice box, which singles our noteworthy products and shows the type of use for which they are best suited. IN STORE Honing Buyers’ Tools We've beefed up our Buyers’ Tools section to make it more useful. Itnow opens each month with a comprehensive look at a single product area—two-page monitors, gigabyte hard drives, and so on—provid- ing Macworld Lab results, key purchase criteria, ratings, and Editors’ Choice d ignations. You'll get expert buying advice and see how each product stacks up against the rest. Macworld was one of the first com- puter magazines to devote a column to consumer issues. Now check out our ex- panded Consumer Advocate department. Each month it focuses on a specific issue such as buying computers by mail order, finding a reputable repair service, tips for traveling with a Mac, and re- cycling your old Mac. A spe- cial section of consumer let- ters from our readers follow: along with Bugs and Turkey’ warning you about product bugs and design flaws; Street- wise Shopper, a selection of special bargains; and Service Heroes, where we take note of vendors offering exceptionally good service. Finally, we’ve enhanced Star Ratings, the ultimate buy- ers’ reference tool, by adding the issue date and page num- ber of the original product review to make it easier to find. We've also incorporated Editors’ Choice selections in- to Star Ratings so you can see how prod- ucts fared in head-to-head comparisons. Telling Secrets This issue marks the debut of Secrets— the first of two major new sections in Macworld that take a solutions-oriented approach to computing, giving Macintosh users the technical know-how to get the most from their systems. Each month, continues MACWORLD February 1996 27 STATE OF THE MAC contributing editor Joseph Schorr will expanding online universe. NetSmart show you little-known Macintosh tricks tackles the issues Net surfers face, from and techniques. Can’t get enough of a the mysteries of bandwidth to managing good thing? Macworld’s longest-standing — multiple E-mail boxes. NetSmart also column, Quick Tips, from Macvorld’s points you to noteworthy Web sites and longest-standing contributing editor, Lon downloadable shareware. Poole, continues to provide workarounds, hints, and hidden features. Why mess Converging Media with success? The convergence of digital media has Last in the Secrets section is NetSmart, truly come of age, a transformation Mac- a new column to help you master the — world heralds with its new Media section. ABourd model 203 Imagine the meeting where you all have the same vision, the same objectives, and the same notes. wicroritio SoftBoard only looks and feels like an ordinary whiteboard, Whatever you create on a SoftBoard® appears instantly on your Macintosh® or Windows®-based PC. Once it's there, you can save it, print it, cut and paste it, e-mail it, fax it, even network it to multiple sites. 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We've revamped it a bit to offer a more hands- on approach, making it easier for you to apply the techniques you read about. The Year of the Platform The two new sections, § and Media, both came about as a result of our efforts to view our readers’ computing activity as a whole, not just as a bunch of individual programs and hardware components. More than other computer users, Macin- tosh users have a relationship with their computers that is greater than the sum of s. In keeping with this philosophy, with this issue Macworld also launches a yearlong project to explore Mac systems as overall solutions for key jobs. We begin with three in-depth fea tures. In “The Best Mac for the Job,” Galen Gruman describes six types of computing work and picks the best Mac model, along with the best combination of peripherals, to accomplish the appoint- ed task. The other two features probe the Mac’s effectiveness in two of its tradition- al areas of strength—publishing and ease of use. How does the Mac hold up in these areas when pitted against Windows 95? (See “The Publishing Face-Off,” by Steve Roth and Olav Martin Kvern, and “Ts the Mac Still the Easiest to Use?” by Howard Baldwin.) Stay tuned. As the year unfolds we will help you discover the best combination of products and setups for a variety of purposes. Well, there you have it—the latest version of Macworld. 1 think you'll find we've kept the best of the previous version and made some major improvements. Please write and let me know what you think. After all, it’s never too early to begin thinking about our next major upgrade, and the first step is to listen to our customers. m You know the score: No one pays you to experiment. Finding time to create the next masterpiece is well-nigh impossible. Here's something that will fire up your synapses. It’s the new Kai's Power Tools. It takes Adobe Photoshop to a completely new level. And your creativity will soar with it. 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Circle 198 on reader service card What | Did on My Honeymoon IN WHICH THE POWERBOOK CONQUERS FOREIGN PHONES . HERE WAS ONLY ONE. problem with my plan to take an honeymoon overseas: T extended Was supposed to write book and several col- umns during that time. When my fiancée sug- gested I bring my Pow- erBook on the trip, | knew right away | was marrying the right woman. We planned to visit Thailand and Indonesia—not exactly high-tech heaven. Would T be able to get power? Neither the wall plugs nor the voltage overseas match those of the United States. And how would [ turn in my work? 1 nor- mally transmit my stuff by E-mail. Could I get online in Asia’s less developed countries? ruth be told, though, | mused on these matters for mere moments. After all, isn’t this the Mac? Isn’t this the age of global telecommunications? For power, I'd get one of those solar-panel Power- Book chargers—Asia certainly has no shortage of sunlight. For E-mail, I'd use an online service. For electrical and tele- phone jacks, I figured Radio Shack would have whatever adapters I needed. With a smile of confidence, I called the travel agent about our honeymoon. “Book it,” I said. Gearing Up But I should have kept worrying, Ameri- ca Online, for starters, is still only Amer- ica Online; likewise, eWorld is really only eUSA. And while CompuServe claims to have phone access numbers in Thai- land and Indonesia, | was warned that T wouldn't be able to use any of those easi- fied front-end programs like CIM or Navigator. I'd have to get by with an all- text terminal program like Zterm. ‘The next step was buying the solar panels ($429; Keep It Simple Systems, 406/442-3434). Wouldn’t you know it; they're available for every PowerBook model except mine—the Duo. Disap- The Desktop Critic pointed, I bought two spare batteries and hoped for the best. Fortunately, a call to Apple revealed that a PowerBook automatically converts 220V overseas power to the 110V cur- rent it expects. Neat! I needed only an adapter for the Duo’s power cord (to make it fit the two-round-prong Asian wall jacks). Radio Shack was happy to sell me one ($7.95 for four adapters, item number 273-1405). ‘Then I started to have nightmares of lien phone systems with weirdly shaped jacks. How would T connect my modem? I went straight to the source: Compu- rve's Pacific Rim forum (go pacforum), which was craw! ling with knowledgeable Unfortunately, they weren't travelers. e tly bubbling with enthusiasm. “I don't mean to discourage you, but T bat about 50 percent overseas with my PowerBook,” wrote one guy. “Overseas phone systems are often primitive and dirty wrote another. “Getting married is easier than making a modem call overseas,” wrote a third. “Have a nice honeymoon? But there was no turning back. I asked for suggestions. Helpful Guy 1 said I should { alligator clips. Once overseas, I was to ck a screwdriver and some by David Pogue SORT OF dismantle the wall jack, connect the clips to the proper terminals, and run a cable to the laptop. Of course, if it turned out to be a digital line, I'd fry my modem. Helpful Guy 2 proposed that I buy a WorldPak, a set of 37 adapters for every kind of phone jack in the world. Only $495 (Mage 805/568-5400; also old separately). But he, too, warned that a digital line would nuke my mo- Helpful Guy 3 proposed an acoustic coupler, the modern-day descendant of those big old boxes into which you'd place your telephone handset. ‘The modems’ squeals are transmitted audibly through the earpiece and mouthpiece. An acoustic coupler, this guy said, would eliminate all the hassle of adapters and wall plates. In a pinch, it would even work on a pay phone. I called TeleAdapt (408/370- 5105), a company that does noth- ing all day but solve modem-con- necting problems like mine. The phone rep assured me that the coupler would work; I ordered ‘one ($150). The TeleAdapt guy also said some Asian hotels actually have ‘ks, which would be coupler. To avoid the smoked- modem problem, he suggested a Modem Saver, a plastic ther- mometer-like gadget (Tele- Adapt, $30). You insert it into the mystery phone jack, and three little lights indicate the jack’s danger potential. Tbought one, got married, and left for the honeymoon. One Night in Bangkok After a 14-hour flight, we stayed ov night in Bangkok—lo and behold, the one city in Thailand where CompuServe has a phone number. First, power: with fevered anticipation, I attached the Radio MACWORLD February 1996 33 THE DESKTOP CRITIC Shack adapter to my Duo’s power cord. When I plugged it into a hotel-room out- let, a bright blue spark popped out of the socket, scaring me to death, Nonetheless, the Duo now had juice. Now I tried my Modem snapped it into the hotel’s U. phone jack; two of its little bulbs lit up. My Modem Saver manual said that these indicators meant, “Polarity reversed— proceed with caution.” Handling the PowerBook as cautiously as possible, I gulped and proceeded. ‘The Mac dialed beautifully. I had to type a bunch of ridiculous code to con- nect, and top speed was 2400 bps, but I didn’t care; I was online. I read my E-mail from halfway around the planet. Screen Tests The next day, our backpacky tour group boarded a minivan—the first ride of many that were ideal for getting work done. But after an hour of typing, I stopped and stared at the screen. There, slashing across the entire display, was a one- pixel-high, horizontal white line. No amount of fiddling with the screen con- trols got rid of it. As I watched, two more lines of my screen blinked white, too. Maybe it was the heat and humidity; maybe the Mac was homesick. But by the end of the day, there were seven thin white lines striping my screen. I had to make sure that my typing fell between the prob- lem areas—and hope that the screen wouldn’t go completely blank before I could finish my chapters. Moreover, after two weeks of sleeping in bamboo bungalows, I hadn’t once encountered an electrical outlet. When all three batteries ran out of juice, the Duo went dark. I carried the crippled machine in my luggage for five days—dead weight. Hello, Bali Indonesia is actually 17,000 islands scat- tered across 3000 miles of ocean. Our first stop, the breathtaking island of Bali, had electricity—battery juice!—but Compu- Serve’s sole access number was on Java, a long-distance call away. This was serious; my deadlines were fast approaching, and my screen was fast disappearing. Few Indonesians have telephones. Instead, everybody goes to local Telkom centers—24-hour convenience stores marched over there, ready to transmit. I figured that my compressed file would take only a few minutes to send. These phones were hardwired to the wall—I could forget about a direct con- nection to the Duo. It was now time to whip out my acoustic coupler. What a weird-looking gadget: it resembles a phone receiver with black rubber suction cups instead of ear- and mouthpieces. As directed, I squished these cups against the receiver. wrapped the Velcro strip tight- ly around the two instruments, holding them together as though they were mat- ing. I ran the curly cable to the Duo. The whole assembly dangled from the phone, looking very low-tech and silly. The other customers stared at me as though I'd grown antlers. I smiled and dialed. It didn’t work. For some reason, the pay phone couldn't hear the dialing tones made by the coupler. I tried 15 times. I even tried dialing the phone with my fin- ger, then slapping the receiver to the cou- pler just as CompuServe’s modem started to squeal—still, no success. 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But because the phone lines were so busy and so staticky, the file took forever to transmit. Zterm’s little progress win- dow said, “Efficiency: 4%.” Four percent? That explained Zterm’s other dishearten- ing little comment; “Time remaining: 175 minutes.” For the next three hours, | sat there and stared miserably at the progress bar inching its way across the screen. Shortly after midnight, the screen said, “93% complete.” And then it said, “Time remaining: 13 minutes.” And then it said, “NO CARRIER.” T gaped in horror. Some pop of static had disconnected me; the entire call had been wasted. It was all I could do not to hurl the Duo into the nearby jungle. 1 bad to turn in this file tonight, no matter what the cost. I stormed back to the hotel. Lightning flashed. I hooked up the acoustic coupler to the front-d phone. Five times I tried to connect, unsuccessfully, as the late-night desk clerks joked and pointed. Then I remembered: this was an acoustic coupler. Hadn't the man that sounds in the room could actually introduce errors into the signal? I asked the desk clerks for momentary silence— and got into CompuServe. Istarted the file transfer. On the small patch of my screen that wasn’t dead, I read, to my amazement, “Efficiency: 48%.” I had never considered that, so late at night, the phone lines would be so much clearer, and my data would travel so much faster. In less than 14 minutes, the file transfer was complete. said The Upshot Ilearned a few things on my honeymoon. Next time I dial up an online service in the USA, I'll marvel at its speed and re- liability. Next time [ hear the term global village, Vl giggle. And next time T go on a honeymoon, I'll go to Niagara Falls. m Contributing editor DAVID POGUE coauthored Macworld M aD honeymoon. His & Power Mac Secrets, third edit Books Worldwide, 1996), in part, on his Duo's screen inexplicably re ered after the trip; today, only three white lines remain. 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But despite a few isolated problems (how- ever spectacular) with explod- ing batteries and defective CPUs, the talk is just that— talk. The Ma the cream of the crop when it comes to quality. In fact, Hewlett-Pa indus cintosh remains and the Apple d= lead ry in overall customer satisfaction, according to the “1995 Desktop Personal Computer End-User Satisfac- tion Study” conducted by the market research firm J. D. Power & Associates. Apple and HP tied for first, beating out PC giants like Dell, Com- paq, IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Gateway 2000, These results are espec ly significant because reliabil- ity (trouble-free operation, ruggedness, frequency of re- pair, and condition on receipt) and 38 February 1996 was the single most important factor in determining over- all satisfaction, responsible for 20 percent of each com- pany’ score. Furthermore, when J. D. Power asked Apple users specifically about repair problems, Apple scored as well as, or better than, the stry average echnicians in the field confirm the J. D. Power Apple's] quality, to has results. us as a service compan held. strong,” Collins, a field manager who works on both PCs and Macs says Vincent MACWORLD for PC Repair Center, based in Fremont, — California. “They've come out with some quickly problems, but they gotten rid of them.” Industry analysts agree. “My impression of Apple is that they are probably much better at their quality control and have much lower DOA {dead-on-arrival] and returns than other manu- facturers,” says Pieter Hart- machines sook, editor of The Hartsook Letter, a Macintosh research newsletter. Hartsook singles out Packard Bell, a popular PC maker not included in the survey, as a company that was plagued last year with DOA PCs, “The return rates for that kind of problem were between 10 and 20 percent,” he says. “Apple's is down below 1 percent.” (Packard Bell did not respond to calls king comment; Apple and other PC comy to disclose figures on returns, nies refused defects, and repairs; and some retailers and distributors re- fused to comment.) Why the Black Eye for Apple? More than anything else, Apple's troubles—oy recent hardware rheating lith um-ion (Lilon) batteries in the new PowerBooks, and, in some Performas, PowerPC 603 CPUs that made calcula tion remarkable string of extrem ly well-publiciz bad luck, According to indus- try experts, such problems can erro} appear to be a ed instances of happen to any company, par- ticularly when it gets compo- nents from outside suppli For exploding Lilon batteries that xample, the two forced a recall of the Power- Book 5300 series were made by Sony Electronic has several years’ experience with “Apple Recalls PowerBook 5300 Series,” News, December 1995), Sony and Apple execu- tives are still baffled by the battery problem. “We have never had a problem like th which such batteries (see s before with any of our other laptop customers,” including Compaq and Dell, says Sony spokesman Manny Vara. Most of Sony’s products are com- posed entirely of Sony-made components, “so we have maybe a little more control over the quality.” Meanwhile, the defective PowerPC 603 CPUs found in about 500 Performa 5200 and 6200 computers were from Motorola, which makes all the 603% and some of the 604 used in various Power Mae models (IBM makes the 601 as well the 604). “That's unusual for Motorola, which employs a six signal process for quality,” says G. son, ruarantecing Dan Hutche- VLSI president of continue! Designing for the Web A REPORT FROM THE TRENCHES: WHAT TECHNIQUES WORK by Cathy Abes ith the World Wide Web be- coming a main- stream phenome- non, graphic artists and designers have been ven- turing into this new medium in greater numbers—creating Web pages and sites for them- selves and for commercial clients. What does it take to become a successful Web Must you learn a whole new way of working, or can you leve skills? Is learning HTML, the language of the Web, essential for today’s and tomorrow's designers? Or will the new generation of authoring tools soon make HTML obsolete? Tt depends on what you want to do—and who you ask. Like many Web design- ers, Erie Baker of Erie Baker Design starts his images in a draw program (he uses Adobe Ilustrator) and bring into Adobe Photoshop, wher he designs the page, making s smnall as designe! age your existing s them each ima E Bre £49 SmallWorld Media Group's Web site features easy-to-navigate pages and colorful, high-contrast images that require no scrolling and can be viewed on small monitors. possible by switching to Indexed Color mode, which colors in his palette. Current- ly redesigning the Electronic Newsstand’s site (http://www .eNews.com) and creating a site for The Sawtooth Wolf Family, a book by photographer Bill Dutcher, Baker envisions many traditional print jobs turning into Web project InfraRed = Communica- tions’ Sasha Magee helped design Macromedia's. Web site (http://www.macromedia com) using Macromedia's new ShockWave technology, which let him create small, fast-loading animations that he could integrate directly into the page. He creates Web graphics ly with Mac- prima reeHand and Pho- toshop, using Equilibrium romedia echnologies’ DeBabelizer to reduce colors and file sizes and to convert documents to GIFs, one of the Web's graph- ics formats. Although Magee thinks the next generation of Web design and authoring tools may be powerful enough for basic tasks, like defining levels of headings and wrapping text around images, he’s not so sure about complex jobs, like laying out tables and splitting pages into different windows (frames), Like most Web de- signers Macworld spoke with, he found HTML. useful and easy to learn, especially since rning is interactiv change existing code the effect right away. Dennis Orlando's Web- design firm, Small\World Media Group (http://www -180079world.com), put its site tly reduces the number of online in November. Orlando brings his FreeHand files (ones originally done for print output as well as new Web- specific images) into Photo- shop for resizing, scaling, type manipulation, and online preparation. A veteran Fractal Design Painter user, Orlando is impressed with Painter 4's ability to automate the HTML tagging process. Not only does the new version let you ¢ image maps from float- ing selections, but it gives you the flexibility to chan mind. Previously, changed an image’s clickable cr areas you had to re-create its image maps, but Painter 4 automatically redefines the map as you make changes. The two most important considerations for Web de- sign, says Orlando, are speed and color, Images should be small and simple, so. they'll draw quickly and you won't have to seroil to see them. He images as 24-bit JPEG files so. the sav lower bit depths (most Inter- net users’ monitors. display only 256 colors)—even in 24 bit, the images draw quickly. And since most Web images are viewed only on screen, their resolution shouldn't be higher than 72 to 75. pixels per inch. If he expects an continues IN THE NEWS Live Audio on the 41 ColorSync Comes of Ag 45 Digital Video Goes PCI 46 The PowerBook Plagu 47 Copland Sees the Light image to be downloaded, Orlando links a high-res ver- sion to the low-res one. Of the Web's two common graphics formats, JPEG and GIF, Orlando prefers JPEG because of its higher com- pression, better image quality, and smaller file sizes. Ron Meckler of Re: De- sign, who designed Pantone’s Web site (http://www.pantone .com) as well the literary and film areas of the Delphi site (http://www.delphi.com), uses Ilustrator, QuarkXPress, and Photoshop to create his Web pages. He also uses a plug-in called GI i which exports Photoshop files in interlaced Virginia ‘lech professor Andrew burg //www.bev.net/), which has provided Internet access to | Hews the town of Blacksburg for the past two years. Like Orlando, he expects to rely heavily on Painter 4 Web- design capabilities. Multimedia and Web designer Andrew Soderberg of Studios (http://www.toucanstudios.com), who w Adobe PageMill beta te: sn’t think learning HTML is. essential. him lay out objects ges much fast- er than typing HTML code, and he finds it powerful enough to handle about 80 percent of the work involved in a project. In fact, Soder- berg thinks Adobe Acrobat’s PDF format come the standard developer oucan versatile may soon b layout la If and when that happens, learning HTML will no long- er be an is guage of the Web, The Windows 95 Waiting Game MAC CONNECTIVITY OPTIONS ONLY NOW ARRIVING by Galen Gruman ertainly no one who uses a computer didn’t know about Windows. 95 long before it shipped. But think it w cret, based on the lack of connectivity options to connect Macs and Windows 95 PCs, three months after Windows 95 shipped and more than two years after it was announced. For many people, the lack of connectivity options is you'd sed more than an inconvenienc S PC-to-Mac_ connec- tivity options that worked Are Clones Really Cheaper? 3 PowerWave 604/120 The initial promise of Mac clones was a lower price for the same great Apple technology. With two clone makers (Power Computing and Radius) now shipping systems in volume, has the promise been met? In a nutshell, yes. Macworld compared the street prices of complete Mac systems (in- cluding 16MB of RAM, a 15-inch color monitor, an extended keyboard, @1GB hard drive, and a 256K cache card) and found that Power Computing and Radius both offer cheaper prices than Apple—significantly cheaper, in fact. Power Computing charges about 15 percent less than Apple for a 100MHz PowerPC 601-based system (the Power 100 versus the Power Mac 7500/100) and about 25 percent less for a 120MHz 604-based system (the PowerWave 604/120 versus the Power Mac 8500/120). Apple does offer extra video-input/output technologies in its 8500, which accounts for some of the extra cost, Radius's 81/110 is about 10 percent cheaper than a Power Mac 7500/100, and a tad faster (110MHz versus 100MHz, although this slight speedup is not noticeable in most tasks). GALEN GRUMAN 40 February 1996 $3000 Overall performance ratings are times as fast as a Centris 650. MACWORLD $6000 under Windows 3.1 do not function under Windows 95. Unfortunately, you shouldn't expect a lot of options to be in place anytime soon. Here’s the status of the major options. Disk Excha