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Sneak Preview: Apples’s Future Mac Plans - First Umax Clone Tests, Page 32 Y 1.9 9.96 Internet. << Tare Mo x Cyberdog, Pippin, Web Servers Netscape Navigator 2.0 Here at Last! Internet Reviews We Rate the Latest Products in here YOU work miracles ©1995 Microsoft Corporation. ll rights reserved. Microsoft Office, shown here, includes: Word, Microsoft Excel, the PowerPoint presentation graphics program and a workstation license for Microsoft Mail (server and software acquired separately) or StarNine Mail. Fer info. only: le the $0 United States and Canada, call (800) 531-6748. Qutside the U.S. and Canada, call your local Microsoft subsidiary or (2063 936-8661. TT/TDD custerrers call (800) 892-5234 in the U.S. er (905) 568-9681 in Canada. Microsoft and PowerPoint are registered trademarks and Whee oe you want to go today? isa trademark of Microsoft Corp. Power Mac is a trademark of Apple Computer, In. iT Oo DBD 22 Oo -@ In here You Your Power Mac™ And Microsoft® Office Become one. 2 Meas Co < <woHda.Se rT nes, You assemble your thoughts Effortlessly. You drag Words tables Charts graphics From one program And drop them Into another Instantly. You run an. Microsoft Excel calculations Asp mom In your Word document. You turn Make something. Your Word document Into a PowerPoint® Make anything. Presentation. Oost) a St Gow This is you. Working. OSM eS O16. You see everything Come together. Seamlessly. e F Migfo be Micresoft [wee 90 you want ro Go topayr] =znmon GIS ep TG e Macworid Features The Video Connection BY DEKE McCLELLAND Mac- world Lab te: n videocon- ferencing 5) quality tak tems and finds top leep pockets, 7.5.3 ships—all the details in Nows, page 34, 90 Home Office Blueprint BY JAMES A. MARTIN Practical advice on organizing and maintain- ul home office setup. 98 = Smart Input BY FRANKLIN N. TESSLER, M.D Macworld gives a hands-on look at 18 input devices to help you make the best decision. 108 Through the X Window BY MEL BECKMAN Can't afford expensive Unix workstations but still need access to critical appli- cations? X Window may be the solution for you. 2 May 1996 MACWORLD 32 33 THE MACINTOSH® AUTHORITY MAY News Apple's 1996 Product Plans 17 Faster, CD-equipped Power- Books, Performa towers. 23 Macworld Exclusive The New Clones Arrive Macworld Lab tests Umaxclones. 27 Motorola Gets the Go-Ahead PowerPC codeveloper joins the expanding ranks of clone makers. 244 SPECIAL REPORT Internet Essentials 1996 Opinion State of the Mac BY ADRIAN MELLO What de- velopers say about the Mac's future. The Desktop Critic sy DAVID POGUE Word 6.0— why new isn’t always improved. Viewpoint BY DENISE CARUSO First Amendment rights via encryption. REVIEWS, NEWS, AND MORE TO KEEP YOU ABREAST OF THE LATEST INTERNET DEVELOPMENTS 42 News A sneak peek at Cyberdog * Pippin sneak ¢ Apple bolsters its Internet servers * The new, incomplete Navigator, and more. 50 Reviews Netscape Navigator 2.0, Web browser * DragNet 1.03, Inter- net bookmark tool * Roaster DR1, Java programming environment * BitSurfr Pro, Courier I-modem, 3Com Impact, ISDN terminal adapters compared * NetPresenz 4.0, Internet ser 56 Top Ten Internet Books A guide to the best online books on the market. NetSmart BY MATTHEW HAWN Seek out the best Web search engines. 129 132 136 Secrets Temporary Insanity BY JOSEPH SCHORR ‘The invis- ible Temporary Items folder. Quick Tips BY LON POOLE and shortcuts. Media Optimize Graphics Files sy iM HEIO Controlled degra dation for a slim, trim disc. Tips, tricks, Publishing Workshop sy steve ROTH The fine art of scanning line art. Graphics Workshop BY CATHY ages Shattering effects without filters. Is it a torture device, or the latest ergonomic keyboard? See “Smart Input,” page 98. 139 143 149 12 Can Pippin become the next great entertain- ment system? The story in News, page 44. Buyers’ Tools Presentation Panels BY DAN LITTMAN Macworld Lab tests 14 LCD panels for crisp images and bold colors. Our results show image quality is up but usability—well, could use a little work. Consumer Advocate BY JAMES A. MARTIN. ‘Trip planning and vacation bargains online. Star Ratings Macworld’s ratings for hundreds of hardware and software prod- ucts ata glance. How to Contact Macworld S1DG May 16. Wtee 12. 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Far Microsoft text. 1. Microsoft and PivotTable are registered trademarks and Whe do you want to go today? is a trademark of Microsoft Corp. NODMESHN2SR DOM MZ24ROOrF map cox rc You are on Your Power Mac.” You open Microsoft® Excel 5.0a. You begin With a hunch. You begin At zero. z You want to slice And dice your numbers. You open a worksheet. You build a PivotTable® You type ‘Jan.’ To see them You use AutoFill From any perspective And the rest of the months You want. Are filled in for you. You see Automatically. Patterns form. You come You enter numbers. To understand. You click AutoFilter You get it. And the data you want to see Rises to the top So you can focus on What you need to focus on. Micresoftt 6 May masterJUggler T hrowing every font into the System folder slows down you and your Mac. You have to put up with long font menus, slow application launching, and a bloated System folder. Your Mac can only handle 128 font suitcases so if you have a large font library, you're also forced to quit all your open applications and drag fonts in and out of the System folder. Get a grip on your fonts. Restore speed, convenience and control with MasterJuggler! MasterJuggler upgrades your Mac’s font capabilities. It gives you access to your entire font library and you can store your fonts anywhere. You can even share fonts over a network. Font sets allow you to grou fonts by client, job, project, or any other category. You can open an close fonts or sets of fonts as you need them without quitting all your open spplicctions Using just the fonts you need makes your font menus shorter and your applications start noticeably faster. font: Experts Choose Masterduggler “[Since] the Mac doesn’t provide such font management luxuries... Trecommend MasterJuggler [over Symantec’s Suitcase]; it’s easier to use and has a much more up-to-date manual.” Jim Heid, Macworld Magi 5/95 “You should definitely consider MasterJuggler (unless, of course, your little secret is that you Jike juggling al ihose fonts yourself).” Tamis Nordling, Adobe Magazine 3195 “We recommend MasterJuggler, which matches the venerable Suitcase feature for feature (and beyond) and is much easier to use.” Aileen Abernathy, MacUser 8/95 Reliability & Compatibility That’s Unmatched Neti is fully compatible with all major desktop publishing and graphics software. And MasterJuggler is the only font manager compatible with System 7.5, QuickDraw GX and all Power Macs including the new PCI Macs. Grab a copy today and take control of your fonts! 1 Vit | 1 Eleventh Anniversary : td IH HEUTIUTY COMPANY — i / A wee ALSOFT| | 800-257-6381 Circle 140 on reader service card 1996 MACWORLD Macworld ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIOENT cur oreeating ovrice usiness wawacn Liss Buckingham sauce assistant Fos de Feminis Shelly Ginenthal UAPLOWEE LATIONS MANAGER Mas METWORK MANAGER Walter 1 TecHMICiaNs DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES cenlore Kim Dave Johnsor PROCRAMMIRVANALYST Frederic Desbos ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Ginger Von Wening CORPORATE BUSINESS MANAGER Christina W. Spence Pat Murphy Michelle Reyes ACCOUNTING/FACLUTIES MANAGER Middle East. FL SALVADOR: PC World Cento America: AALAND: tovenia, Tetovtha, MANGE: Dutrbutque, Gelder, Hesda- ieh Sunilord Onin, SWATPIO PC Wed Urugay. VENEZUELA id Nenesves; and vigtuasn: Pe. Word We've helped 56 million people accomplish things they never dreamed of. Weld like to thank them for helping us do the same. ‘Thank you. ‘Thank you for making Apple one of America’s most prosperous and successful companies. Were presently positioned at a notable one hundred twenty-three on the Fortune 500— ahead of companies like McDonalds, Federal Express and To) o name but a prominent few. ‘Thanks also for making us the third largest manufacturer of computers in the world, Last year, Apple sold more personal computers to more people than ever before, During the last quarter of 1995 alone, we shipped over 1.3 million Macintosh’ computers, generating $3.1 billion in revenues. Most important, thank you for your support. The kind of generous sup- port we've been receiving from customers like Brenda Clark, school principal in St.Petersburg, Florida: “We can't afford to invest in a company that doesn't have sta- bility, Stability is evident in every dealing I have with Apple. Its first class” The world’s favorite computer. Its the reason we can look so confidently to the future: 56 million people like you who fervently believe in the Macintosh way of working, learning and playing, Itswhy Apple is one of the most recognized and loved brands in the world, And why brand loyalty to Apple is the highest in the industry. In fact, a remarkable 90% of Macintosh owners buy Macintosh again when making a second purchase — the highest repurchase rate of any computer manufacturer, Apple ranks number one for reliability and service, as well, requir ing less customer support than any other computer. And today there are over 9,000 Macintosh software titles available for business, home, education and entertainment. Including 1600 native Power Macintosh" applications. No other computer shares this kind of popularity, Leadership in business, home and education. Of course, these aren't the only successes we plan to build on. Macintosh is the number one computer in education. The number one computer in publishing. And right now, you'll find Apple in more homes around the world than any other computer. We continue to set the standard in markets like engineering, multimedia and film, video and music production, where 63% of all digital authoring is done on the Macintosh. And we continue to define industry standards for the Internet, where over 20% of all Internet servers dare Apple and over 40% of all Internet siteswere created on the Mac* Making Macintosh the number one web authoring platform. Which also helps Wy Power Macintosh 7500 and 8500 received Byte magazine's 1995 Editor's Choice Award of Excellence. The power to accomplish more than ever. Its all because we continue to practice a philosophy most com- puter companies still haven't managed to grasp: that technology is useful only if it helps people bridge the gap between where they are and where they want to be. ‘To that end, we will always be committed to building computers that anticipate the way people work instead of forcing people to adapt to the way computers work. ‘To providing you with tools that make it easier to do everything you have to do. Yet give you the freedom to do things you never thought you could do before. The kinds of tools that are already carrying thou- sands of businesses into the future, Including ours. As Mary Lou Johnson, VP of Reservation Systems for Budget Rent a Car Corporation, puts it,“*7he increased speed and powerful net- working capabilities of our Power Macs are additional factors contributing fo improved productivity and time savings?” - Thanks, Mary Lou. 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It was the first unbiased test of the Windows 95 versus Mac OS versus OS/2 debate I’ve seen to date. What I've found to be more important than what comput- er (and OS) you use, however, is how you use it. I've got Macs, PCs, and Unix boxes. They all have a purpose and they all do what they do well. The argument over what's better, the Mac or Windows 95, is 4 moot point, It’s what works for you! Scory SLAYMAN via the Internet | FOUND THE ARTICLE “IS THE MAC Still the Easiest to Use?” thorough- ly enjoyable. The article’s single largest complaint about the Mac OS is its con- fusing use of the Chooser to set up and target printers, whereas Windows 95 receives compliments on its desktop printer icons. In reality, the Mac OS has had desktop printer icons and one-click printer selection since System 7 Pro introduced QuickDraw GX. If the oper- ating systems are to be compared feature by feature, itis only fair that all of the Mac OS features be included. Ross Moran via the Internet Quality Mac [P\ne sory “MACINTOSH IS. STILL Quality King” came as no surprise to me, a desk editor at a newspaper with 150,000 daily circulation—230,000 on Sunday—almost all of it produced on a Mac-based pagination system (News, Feb- ruary 1996). My office machine has been in use seven days a week, often 18 hours a day, for four years. Regular maintenance and a little TLC have kept it virtually trouble-free. Keep it up, Apple. Dow BaLpuF via the Internet READ WITH AMUSEMENT “MACIN- tosh Is Still Quality King.” I've been involved in the purchase of 15 Power- Book 540c's and six 5300c’s. Of the 540c’s, I've returned five due to defects. One 5300c was dead out of the box, and I'm sending another back to Apple as T write. I've worked on everything from Amigas to IBMs to clones to Macs, and I have never seen worse out-of-the-box quality than I have on the Macs I've purchased this last year. 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My 7100/80AV sys tem is centered around the Radi otPower AV compression board, and it runs flawlessly, even though both the store that sold me the components and reps from Radius tried to convince me to buy something else. My system is the result of three years’ worth of read- ing Macworld and following your articles T knew the system could be made to work because, in very large part, you folks showed me how to do it. RayMoND Kruse via the Internet Find Kind File TORR’ ind File command was great (Secrets, February 1996). I especially 20 May 1996 MACWORLD appreciated the tip about accessing the old (pre-System 7.5) Find command. Why? Well, in the old Find, you could search the kind attribute by the text that appears in the list view (for example, an Adobe Photoshop document). 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For example, within a couple of weeks of coming on board as president, CEO, and chairman of the board, Amelio announced his intention to spend at least half his time outside of Apple talking to customers. ‘That’ encouraging news—Apple’s former leaders tended to focus on their own tech- nology navels rather than figure out what customers care about most. In the context of his new duties, it’s clear that when Amelio talks about cus- tomers, he refers not only to Macintosh users but also to third-party developers By the time you read this, several leading Macintosh developers will have met with members of Apple’s top management at a “CEO summit.” Expect this meeting to be the first of many. Curiously, little attention was paid to developers during the fevered weeks lead- ing up to Amelio’s appointment. Industry analysts and the general press issued gloomy moment-by-moment reports from Apple's putative deathbed, sending waves of concern through the user and stockholder communities. Yet anyone who talked with third-party hardware and software developers for the Mac, as I did, heard a far more sanguine prognosis. I interviewed top execs at more than adozen highly successful Mac companies. All had served the market since near the time of the Mac’s inception. Some had even worked at Apple. I wanted to know two things from these veterans: Were they still excited and inspired by Macin- tosh technology, and what must Apple Computer do to earn their continued sup- port for the Mac platform? Embracing Innovation ‘There's no question that enthusia the technology remains strong. Adam Lavine, president and CEO of Specular, says, “The Mac is a great platform, It’s amazing and magic, With drag and drop, QuickTime, and QuickDraw 3D, you can run rings around an SGI system because the Mac provides quicker turnaround time on less-demanding t Developers appreciate the Mac’s accessible interface and simple elegance— two signature characteristics that have helped them earn a base of loyal users who actively embrace the new. Roy Mac- Donald, president and CEO of Connec- tix, says the Mac simply provides a better user experience. Furthermore, the Mac sm for community recognizes and supports superior quality from a small vendor, “A new company with an innovative product has a reasonable chance of success in the Mac market—not so on the PC side, ¢ it is much harder.” Mike McConnell, president and CEO of Visioneer, agrees. “We are doing a great business on the Mac. Just because Wintel has 90 percent market share, that doesn’t mean that it’s a good business for whe by Adrian Mello third parties, We think that twice as many peripherals sell per unit on the Mac as on the PC, And for innovative new products, it may be more like five to on available customers According to Larry Zulch, president of Dantz Development, “Windows does- n't have the internal robustness of the . We want to do quality products on Windows, but the shoddy architecture of the Wintel platform makes this extreme- ly difficult. You end up doing products that only have 80 percent of the value of a Mac equivalent. To add that extra 20 percent takes twice the work.” ‘aul McGraw, executive VP of APS, says providing for the Intel platform's mul- tiplicity is dicey: “The wide variety of CPU and card architectures in the market—the Wintel legac’ makes developing for and sup- porting that market difficult.” Plus, he adds, “the satisfaction of working in the Apple envi- ronment just isn’t there.” terms of Focus, Follow Through Many industry observers talk about the challenge of keeping developers associated with the Mace as if it were a matter of fighting religious apost: Developers will tell you they're just looking for an effective way to manage their businesses. They'll go where they can make money. Superior technology, a less diffuse marketplace, and a responsive cus- tomer base should make the Macintosh platform fertile soil for growing success- ful businesses. And yet, according to developers, something’s missing. All call on Apple to focus, follow through, and make hard choices about its own research and development. As Duane Schulz, president and CEO of Now Software, puts it, “If I were Gil Amelio, I would put up a banner continues MACWORLD May 1996 23 STATE OF THE MAC Diehl concu unaccountability as across De Anza Boulevard that says “The ‘Toga Party Is Over.” Graphsoft president Richard Diehl and Farallon president and CEO A Lefkof echo Schulz’s sentiments kea and evolving existing projects.” list of the ten most strategic technolo- “After introducing t gies,” Lefkof recommends. “Then list another 25 items that aren't strategic and to maintenanc cancel those projects... . That is the — of it,” agr kind of decisiveness that would come Apple. The company from a professional leader.” new and whizzy often led it to a “Engineers need to be managed,” and “You can’t give people a perk. 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It’s worth noting, though, that in early March Amelio announced that Apple would discontinue its Johnny- come-lately online service, eWorld. “Does the world really need another computer online service?” he asl Know Thyself Charlie Oppenheimer, another Apple ver, now vice president and a general manager at Global Village Communication, advis- es Apple to “determine what your brand stands for and execute that better than anyone else. The Apple brand is about ease of use and content creation.” Apple’s core strength rests in software innovation, so that’s where the company should focus. “Apple can’t define hardware standards,” says Connectix’s MacDonald, “but it is producing some of the best OS extensions out there, such as Open Doc, QuickTime, and QuickDraw 3D.” Mark Zimmer, chairman and CEO of Fractal Design, agrees: “You find a stan- dard first on the Mac and then it appears elsewhere six months later.” He believes Apple should play a key role in improv- ing the standards on the Net. “Browsers really seem chinky when you're accus- tomed to the Mac interface.” McConnell suggests Apple conceive of its research and development budget as the total of its own R&D budget plus those of its third-party developers. Hav- ing fewer irons in the fire will permit Apple to concentrate its efforts. Developers appreciate Apple technol- ogy and enjoy producing for the Mac com- munity. 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LLY not so hard to imagine ethe con- versation that took place in Microsoft's high-level board- room about two years ago. “Ladies and gentlemen,” be- gins somebody in a suit, “it’s time to upgrade the best-sell- ing Macintosh word proc sor, What features shall we add?” * complains a programmer. “Didn't we just Bo through this with Word for Windows? Suddenly everybody sits bolt upright. “Are you thinking what I'm thinking?” says the suit guy. Pandemonium. A ponytailed kid shouts: “Yeah! Let’s just hack the Win- dows version so it runs on the Mac!” The accounting rep: “Yeah, that'll be much less expensive than actually expend- ing thought or effort.” And so it was that Microsoft Word 6.0 was born: a gargantuan, 25-megabyte, strange-looking monstrosity that runs with the speed of an anesthetized slug. But you know about Word 6's lethar- gy and obesity. What gets me, though, is how many great Word 5 features Micro- soft took out. Seems to me that when you introduce a new version, you should add features, not eliminate them. Let us take a moment of silence to mourn the passing of the handy features of Word 5. May they rest in pie The Font Menu A Macintosh word processor without a Font menu? Isn’t that a fundamentally flawed concept, like a rock group without drums? In Word 6, if you decide to change the font, you’re supposed to aim the mouse at the microscopic triangle button on one of those irritating tool bars. Of course, if that tool bar isn’t on screen, and you don’t know the keystroke for opening it, you can’t change your typeface at all. Hope you like Helvetic: And speaking of fonts—Microsoft claims that excessive fonts and extensions are responsible for the program's slug- gishness. I love that! They're implying that Word’s slowness is our fault! So if fonts and extension how come Word 6's own installer dumps 16 of them into the System Folder? are so evil, Spaces in Menu Commands Ifyou confront the Customize dialog box, as you must if you want to change a stroke, you discover that all the menu commands are called things like Mai’ MergeEditSource. Ditto when you're work- ing with macros: no spaces. Hey, Micro- called the spacebar. Use it. Limitless Menu Customizing The Word 6 advertising would have you believe that its menus are as flexible as Silly Putty. But in some respects, Word 6's menus are /ess customizable than Word 5%. Atleast in Word 5 you could add any- thing toa menu. You could open the Pref erences dialog box, press $-option-plus, and click the Smart Quotes check box. Instantly, the Smart Quotes command would show up in the Tools menu. There- after, when you needed straight quota- tion marks (to indicate feet, inches, or degrees, for example), you could choose that command to switch off the automat- ic quote-curling feature. Other useful menu-addable commands: Background Repagination, Fractional Widths, Show Picture Placeholders, and so on. In Word 6, the only commands you can put in your menus are the ones that appear in its minuscule Commands dialog box—that endless scrolling list of Geneva 9-point type with no spaces between words. And guess what? Some of the most useful commands, like Smart Quotes and Frac- tional Widths, simply aren’t there. (Micro- soft cheerfully suggests you write a macro me purpose. Terrific.) to achieve the Redefine Style Command Style sheets are among hu- mankind's greatest inventions. They let you apply all kinds of fancy formatting—font, st size, color, paragraph spacing, and other stuff—to selected graphs with a single key- stroke. Better yet, to modify a style you just change any one paragraph; a single command —called Redefine From Selec- tion—applies that change to all the other paragraphs in that style. Cool! Well, it used to work that way. Microsofi’s engineers took that command out of Word . They've given us several longer, clunkier methods to do the same thing—but why? Select Style by Abbreviation In both Word 5 and 6, you can choose a style without ever taking your hands off the keyboard. In version 5, you just press $8-shift-S, type a few letters of the desired style’s name, and press return. Bingo—the selected paragraph takes on the new style. In Word 6, you can't type just the first few letters. You have to type out the entire continues MACWORLD May 1996 27 THE DESKTOP CRITIC | Efe betes) HeTaTAT<] Tae) mer: — — SESE Ae Sis TiiecreOEBED | and press return, Word starts find- SRA IECo Pe ing too many oc- currences, so you change your mind: x SEE SIciel UPS MeneC aS |GEEEI Fee o_o Jt ES Hise Seta EB “Maybe I'll look for love instead.” Now, in Word iI a 5, you could have just pressed the tab key to highlight the Find What The Once and Future Word shot (left) appeared in this column, bearing the caption “Word 15." name—“Subhead bold,” or whatever. Oth- erwis you only define a new style whose name is the abbreviation you typed. The Style menus of former Word 5 users are filled with accidentally generated styles: Su, Subh, Subhead Bo, and so on. Window-Splitting Intelligence If while typi e 50 you want to refer back to page 5, you can split your window. Once split, your window has two panes, each with its own scroll bar. In Word 5, when you then wnsplit the window by dou- In February 1994, a satirical screen ble-clicking the split bar, you were back on whichever page contained the cur- sor—perfect F This s) as been reversed in Word 6. Now, when you unsplit a win- dow, you're deposited on whichever page didn’t contain the cursor ical. In other words, you're forced to scroll manually all the way back to page 50. Tab to Search for Something Else Suppose you're looking for fun. You press 3¢-F, The Find box appears. You type fi Nine months later, Word 6 arrived (shown at right). Hey, Micro- soft—it was supposed to be a joke! A joke! box, then typed But that one’s gone from Word 6, too; to replace what's in the id What box, you’re forced to use the silly old mouse to high- light the entire box before you can your new search word. 7 Screen Test You remember Screen Test, don’t you? It was a fabulous secret screen saver in Word 5. 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Call 1-800-922-2585 for the nearest dealer or FastFax information, On the web, we're http://www.wacom.com. tected oi Mf tan cm AA Ate te Rac Cir Koi ws Bu 0 at APES a A td de ad Le a ema con CL lifes el Le kl ppty i ee come Circle 146 on reader service card THE DESKTOP CRITIC After Dark-type displays. The Microsoft No Fun Committee must have found it; Screen Test is gone. Customized Point Sizes Used to be that in the Character dialog box you could type any weird type size you wanted—I13-point, 30-point, 60- point, whatever. Then, by pressing 38-option-plus and clicking on what you had typed, you could add those sizes to your Font menu for future access. Of course, since there’s no Font menu anymore, you can’t specify any nonstan- dard point size in Word 6 without having to open and wait for the Font dialog box and type in the number—every time. The Left-handed Delete Key The placement of the delete key on the Mac keyboard is illogical. About 90 per- cent of usare right-handed; when editing, we use that hand to grab the mouse, click, the delete key, go back to the mouse, The mobile SoltBoard mosdel 20's Imagine the meeting where you all have the same vision, the same objectives, and the same notes. MicROFIELD 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. From personal to conference room sizes, wall or cubicle mount, table top, or mobile, there's a SoftBoard to fit your needs. 30 May 1996 MACWORLD For our brochure and information on all our SoftBoard models call today, 1-800-334-4922 MICROFIELD | | Microfield Graphics, inc 9825 SW Sunshine Court Beaverton, OR 97005 503-626-9393, Fax 503-641-9333 e-mail: sb_info@mfg,.com Circle 48 on reader service card and so on. Wouldn't it be nice to have a left-side delete key? You could then use both hands—click, delete, click, delete— and move along far faster. Well, in Word 5, you could assign the delete function to the escape or tilde key and cruise along with your dual delete keys. In Word 6, you can’t reassign the delete command at all. Free Page-Number Placement In Word Print Preview mode, you could actually drag the little page num- ber around on the miniature representa tion of your document’s pages, experi- menting with its placement by ey “Not boring enough,” the Microsoft focus groups must have said. So the noble programmers removed that drag-it- around feature, forcing you to specify where the page number goes by typing numbers into a dialog box. The Upshot T know Word 6 has its fans. I met both of them at Macworld Expo. I’m sure they'll fill my E-mail box, pointing out how I can use the MailMergeEditSource command, or whatever, to make a macro that simu- lates one of these omitted features, But actually, I'm concerned with Microsoft. In confirming the deletion of the nice touches described, I spoke to the incredibly pleasant Word 6 product man- ager. He admitted th: few thin, especially the infuriating Customize di log box—could have been done better. But he said that most of Microsoft's soft- ware sales are to big corporations, where it’s a high priority to have a program look identical on Mac and Windows. If Micro- soft’s logic is to be believed, the decision to make Word into a Windows program is good because it makes it OK to have Macs in corporate offices. Fine. But we chose the Mac precisely because it’s superior to Windows, and we'll miss the friendly customizability of the real industry standard, Word 5. The Word 6 product manager’s com- ment about my column topic: “Well, I hope you can find something nice to say about Word 6.” But of course—Word 6 has done wonders for RAM and hard-drive sales. m Contributing editor DAVID POGUE is the author of Macs for Dummies, fourth edition (IDG Books Worldwide, 1996), WordPerfect. He wrote this column in Supra ie _ has a better way to go. SUPRA. The high-performance modem with the right price. @ The choice is clear—Supra offers a lot more modem for your money. The new SupraExpress” 288 delivers all the performance you need to access the Internet, transfer large files and fax from your desktop—at a price you can afford. What's more, Supra offers dependable solutions designed exclusively for the Mac, superior engineering, and top-rated software. @ Included with all Supra modems, FAXcilitate fax software makes faxing quick and easy. 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The PowerPC Platform will also run Microsoft’s Window: Sun's Solaris Unix variant, and IBM's AIX Unix variant. (IBM effectively killed OS/2 for PowerPC, In the meantim . Apple is focusing its energy on a 32 May 1996 MACWORLD revamped PowerBook line that it hopes will reinstate the Mac notebook’s reputation as a leading-edge portable (after the ho-hum reaction to the PowerBook 5300 series). line of Performa and on a new tower systems, Apple would hot comment on its planned systems, but Macworld has obtained documents describ- ing them. Because the prod- ucts are in development, release schedules and feature sets may change. PowerBook Renaissance? Apple’s PowerBook plans for the year have several stages. First CD PowerBook First will come the moderately priced s Epic, that boasts a completely ign. Some Epic mod- els will be the first Power- Books with a built-in CD- ROM drive that can take code-named new di standard-size will not internal parts interchangeable with the aside from PC ays for storage devices batteries wi require a different shape. The PowerPC 603e-based Epics will replace the 68040-based PowerBook 190 series, but b ics will come with a color screen, Apple plans to keep the gray-scale The Epic © an} and use all E version of the PowerBook 190 (the 190es) available for al months after the Epic series’ introduction in July. 150MHz Design Beyond the Epics, another new Pow- erBook series, code-named Hooper, should debut at the end of this year or possibly early next year, Hooper will initially come in a 133MEz model with an external 150MHz models are likely to appear later. As is true for pre- vious PowerPC PowerBooks, the Hooper series will use the PowerPC 603¢ CPU. Hooper has a completely motherboard ever- new design, continues on page 41 Motorola Signs Mac 0S License TARGETS ENTERPRISE MARKET, CHINA by Charles Piller pple Computer has licensed the Macin- tosh Operating Sys- tem to the Motorola Computer Group, the computer-system maker for Motorol: Motorola's license, announced February 19, also includes the current Macintosh hardware platform, though Motorola declined to state if it would offer Mac ba ware design. The license cov- ers System 7.5.X (including all local-language versions) and Apple’ next major sy release (code-named Cop- land). The agreement con- tains no restrictions on mar- models, or geographic regions, according to Apple and Motorola. Motorola—codeveloper clones based on today’s hard- of the PowerPC chip family and the forthcoming Power- PC Platform (also known the Common Hardware Re! erence Platform, or CHIRP)— is the first Macintosh OS licensee with authority to sub- license the Mac OS to other manufacturers. These manu- facturers could: then differ- entiate their products without having to get permission from Apple. ‘This arrangement dif- fers from previously an- nounced licenses, which allow clone makers to supp! tems or system boards to other vendors, but only for resale without modification, Motorola’s arrangement represents the beginning of a broad licensing — program based on CHRP, says Apple CEO Gilbert Amelio. “This is significant step because it makes the whole process more flexible and allows us to move ahead more quickly,” Amelio says, emphasizing Apple’ cur- rent commitment to open OS licensing based on CHRP. Apple's original OS licens- ing strategy, announced in late 1994, was also based on the idea of open and broad liven ing. But the company shifted gears—fearful of competitive pressures that could erode its bottom line and daunted by the logistical difficulties of supporting many licensees on today’s proprietary Mac hard- ware design. ‘Thus Motorola joins a group of only four licensees—Power ~Comput- ing, Umax, DayStar Digital, and Pioneer. And although Motorola is a major chip maker and a telecommunica- tions giant, it is not a signifi- cant player in the PC market, in which Apple will ultimately need to increase the Mac OS share significantly: By licensing the Mac OS now, Motorola hopes to get a jump on as-yet-unknown com- petitors selling the Mac OS, but it did not announce any timelines for product release However, Joe Guglielmi, gen- eral manager of Motorola Computer Group, indicates that his company would not ship any CHRP systems until all the OS’ supported by the platform—including the Mac OS, Solaris, and Windows NT—were up and running. Guglielmi says Motorola will emphasize “best-of- systems and motherboards for its Mac OS-based offerings, a posture that seems to place it in direct competition with Apple, which recently an- nounced imilar strategy. But Guglielmi says that Mo- torola will primarily target two of Apple’ historic weak —the enterprise market and Chit “We're almost exclusively focused on the enterprise, and we have no plans to put Motorola-brand- ed products into the retail channel.” Guglielmi adds that Mac laptops will not be among the initial offerings. Umax Clone Speeds to Top of Mac Pack FIRST LOOK AT SUPERMAC PROTOTYPE by Charles Piller ests by Macworld Lab of the first’ clone from Umax Computer (408/327-4900, info supermac.com) suggest that the Mac market will soon have a formidable new com- petitor, ‘The company’s type placed ahead of compet- ing products (see the bench- mark, “Umax Clone: ‘The Fastest Mac, for Now”). Umax acquired the Radius Mac- clone business in January and expects to release its first Mac under the SuperMae label this spring. Judging from the continues proto- Umax Clone: The Fastest Mac, for Now With a third major player in the Mac clone market, Mac buyers may begin seeing competition based on speed. For example, Power Computing beats Apple in single processor PowerPC 601-based systems, while Apple beats Powrer Computing in 604- based systems. But the new kid on the block. Umax, so far beats them both, in both categories. For details on Macworld Lab's system testing, see “The Best Mac for the Job," February 1996 —Macworld Lab testing supervised by Mark Hurlow ME Best result in test. Longer bars are better. Results are times as fast asa ‘Centris 650 (Centris 650 = 1.0). Umax 150MH? SuperMac prototype $5.1 Power Computing PowerWave 604/150 $s 4.9 ‘Apple Power Macintosh 9500/132 Power Computing PowerWave 664/132 $i — 4,5 Power Computing PowerCurve 601/120" ——— Apple Power Macintosh 7500/100° =m ‘Overall Score CPU-Intensive 9 47 *With optional 256K cache, FPU-Intensive —_Disk-Intensive — ———— re mu 69 ————_ and 55 55 2. 2. 2 2. 1 2 MACWORLD May 1996 33 machine’ speed and its expect- ed retail price of about $4000, the clone should compete well against similar offerings at the top of the Apple and Power Computing product lines. The Umax machine fi tures the 150MHz PowerPC 604 processor—currently the test on the Mac market. ‘The machine will include slots for two CPUs, but Umax does not expect to ship its multi- ssor software or make cond CPU card available until sometime after the base product ships. Peter Mehring, dent and general manager of Umax, says that the company expects to satisfy the low end of the multi- processor market—users who, want some speed improve- ments, but who only want to spend about $1000 above the base price, rather than paying $15,000 to $20,000 for Day- Star Digital’ four-processor workstations. The machine showed superb compatibility with a wide range of Mac appli tions and peripheral devices. It may have achieved its slight speed superiority over the Power Computing Power- Wave 604/150 by exploiting memory interleaving. The Umax clone will ship with 16MB of RAM (upgrad- able to 1GB), a 512K cache, 4x CD-ROM drive, six expan- sion bays, and six PCL expan- sion slots. Umax also plans to offer Ultra SCSI drives and, eventually, a combination 100- Mbps Ethernet and) Ultra SCSLI/O card as options. Umax should re a more modest business system, in the $2500 price range, shortly after it ships the initial unit, then follow this summer: with a consumer model for about $1600, Mehring that ‘Taiwan-based Umax will he able to live with the low margins these prices imply by exploiting its low-cost manu- facturing capacity in Asia. 34 May 1996 MACWORLD | News Toss Those System 7.5 Patches VERSION 7.5.3 BRINGS TOGETHER FIXES by Galen Gruman onfused by all the Sys- tem 7.5 patches? You' not alone. Apple has now issued System 3, an update to the Mae OS that consolidates the various patches and model- specific versions from the past year into one general rele: that works on all Maes. ‘The free update is a able from Apple's Web site (http://www .info.apple.com). You can also get a CD copy for $13 from Apple’s sales group (800/293-6617, ext. 984). Macs that ship this spring will come with 7.5.3, and the retail System 7.5 package in stores will be updated this spring as well. One of the biggest changes in System 7.5.3 is the inclusion of Open ‘Transport L.1, a bug-fixed version of Apple's new networking archi- tecture. Open ‘Transport works on all Macs using the 68030, 68040, and PowerPC CPUs. Users of 68000 and 68020 Macs continue to rely on the old networking archi~ tecture—the installer know which of the two networking architectures to install. Among the fixes in Open ‘Transport 1.1 is compatibility with 100-Mbps Ethernet, redial support, broader com- patibility with SLIP and PPP options, better performance on servers, and the repair of a bug that prevented Apple Remote Access users from printing to local printers whe connected to an ARA server. Apple is also including the developers’ release of Open- Doc, its systemwide plug-in architecture. This should be- gin to establish OpenDoe « standard system component so developers can start offer- ing OpenDoc-hased tools. Apple says more of Sys- tem 7.5.3 is PowerPC native, which should boost perfor- mance in some tasks, Users of Microsoft software will find that Word 6.0 and Excel 5,0 load faster, thanks to changes in System 7.5.3'5 virtual-mem- ory manager to get around flaws in Microsoft's code. One thing you won't in System 7.5.3 is PC change support for Windov 95's long (250-character) file names. You'll continue to see the truncated DOS names (like DOCUMENT.DOC). Now Showing: Phrase Macro NOW UTILITIES 6.0 ADDS AUTOMATIC TYPING, ICON BARS, SHORTCUTS by Howard Baldwin evotees of the share- ware utility ‘TypelttMe, which — automatically generates — frequently typed phrases, might want to check out a similar capability called Auto'lype in Now Software's (503/274- 2800, info@newsoft.com) Now Utilities 6.0. The new version, scheduled to ship by April, also adds components called ‘Fabs and Shortcuts. With AutoType, you can set up macros for commonly used phrases (such as Internet E-mail signatures), or you can Ict the software track what you type and identify phrases you use on a regular basis Tabs screen real estate by creating a bar av the bottom of the screen; you can applications or files to rectangles in this bar, so you can easily launch or reopen them. Shortcuts simplifies the Duplicate, Delete, and Make Alias commands for files and folders. reduce [industry] Right-Hand Man Follows Amelio NEW APPLE CEO ALSO HIRES A NEW TREASURER by Cameron Crotty ilbert Amelio, chair- man and CEO. of Apple Computer, hi hired George Scalise tw be cutive vice president and chief administr: tive officer of Apple, effecti March 11. Scalise served under Amelio at various positions for just under five years while the two were at National Semicon- ductor. Amelio also hired Fred Anderson as Apple’ new chief financial officer. Scalise An Apple spok person said Scalise’s pre ise duties had not been fully defined at press time, but that his responsibilities would be similar to those that he had at National Semi. In his most recent post, executive vice president and chief adminis- trative officer, Scalise man- aged human resources, corpo- rate services, legal affairs, business development (in- cluding licensing and_ alli- ances), intellectual property, strategic planning, industry affairs (including government relations), and investment planning. In short, according to a National Semi spokespe son, Scalise handled nearly everything ‘that direct, day-to-~ s “not the y running of Fa the compa: Scalise is “someone that Gil [Amelio] felt comfortable working with,” and who could serve asa “right-hand man” to Apple’s top executive, says Greg Sheppard, an analyst who follows the semicon- ductor industry for Data- quest. Sheppard emphasized Scalise’s credentials a strategic thinker. Given Scalise’s record in the semiconductor industry, he may also provide Apple with some much-needed ne- gotiating talent as the compa- ny continues to try and collect allies in the battle to create a Mac-clone market. Anderson Apple's new CFO, Fred Anderson, a reputation for helping com- panies get a handle on their inventory and financial prob- lems. Before joining Apple, Anderson had been CFO of the payroll-processing giant Automatic Data Processing. He previously helped restruc- ture MAT Systems, a comput- er systems company. appointment, Amelio. s “He has a very impr track record for manag assets, financial growth, and restructuring activities.” nderson replaces Joseph Graziano, who left Apple in Oc- tober 1995 after a fallout with former Apple CEO Michael Spindler; Graziano had been urging that Apple merge with or be acquired by IBM. Scitex Moves to Multimedia HAS STRONG DATABASE SUPPORT BUT LIMITED ANIMATION ABILITIES by James A. Martin ontinuing its attempts to diversify beyond its high-end image-work- station business, Scitex (617/275-5150) plans to release in May an object-orient- ed multimedia-authoring pro- gram for a street price under $1000. The multimedia-author- ing market has grown hotly competitive in recent months, Scitex’s ClickWorks lets you choreo- graph events on a timeline; do logical scripting; and set attributes such as text styles, colors, and blends. with the release of mTropolis’s mFactory and planned releases of Macromedia Director 5 and QuarkImmedia. ClickWorks Preview ‘The ClickWorks, will with strong database ties, the company ClickWorks’ support of ‘osoft’s. ODBC. protocols should let you easily ODBC-compliant databases into a ClickWorks presentation. A retailer could atalog in ClickWorks for its Web site, for instance, letting users gain up-to-the- minute product information online from a linked database. continues The Web Presses On scitex america (617/ 275-5150) brings new meaning to the term web press with its Scitex Internet System 10, designed to let pub- lishers transmit large graphics and page-layout files to prepress vendors via the World Wide Web. For $39,000, you get an Apple Internet Server 9150, complete system setup and maintenance, on-site training, a Web site, the necessary communica- tions and routing hardware, a dedicated 56-Kbps telephone line, and Scitex’s Net- Dog software When your files are ready for output, drag and drop them into NetDog envelopes; the software automatically generates HTML thumbnails of the files and posts the thumbnails on your Web site. Using a password, your prepress vendor can retrieve your original files separately or in batch mode by clicking on the appropriate Web- page thumbnails, The files are then transferred over the 56K line. The Internet System 10 is also for companies that want to make content such as software utilities avail- able to Web surfers for downloading. Fast Photos for Fewer Bucks cigitai cameras aren't exactly famous for their low prices—some models cost as much as a luxury Lexus. But there's good news at last: the Epson America (310/782-0770) Pho- toPC is expected to be the first digital camera for the Mac with a street price of $500 (the list price is $589). The Pho- toPC, due to ship in May, captures 24- bit color images at two settings—high resolution (640 by 480 pixels) or standard (320 by 240 pixels)—and stores up to 16 high-res images in 1MB of flash memory. Storm Software's EasyPhoto image-man- agement software is included VideoVision Boards the PCI Bus kadius (408/541-6100, support@radius.com) has announced a PCI bus version of its venerable VideoVision digital-video card. VideoVision Studio PCI, expected to be available in March for $3500 to $4000 (pricing wasn't final at press time), promises all the features of its NuBus sibling along with a few extras: faster video capture and display; 16-bit, 48kHz audio that's completely synced to — encoder-decoder for enhanced image quality. Radius also cut prices up to 38 percent on its NuBus VideoVision Stu- dio and Telecast products MACWORLD May 1996 35 video clock rates; and an improved = ‘JickWorks’ open archi tecture lets third-party devel- opers add extensions, such asa Scites plug-in that translates text into voice narration. The also offers text-edit- ing and design tools, such as copyfitting within objects and the er Unlike Macromedia Diree- tor and other authoring pro- grams with robust animation tools, ClickWorks supports only box animation—the abili- ty to cause an object to move tion of antialiased text. ross the screen, Broadened Product Line ‘lick Works is the latest in a series of products and services under development that fall Scitex’s traditional business. outside image-workstation | News Just recently, Scitex announe- ed the Scitex Internet System 10, which lets publishers trans- mit files to their prepress houses via Web pages (see “Media Watch,” in this see~ tion). At the same time, Sci- tex’s proprietary workstations are experiencing heated competition from non- proprietary, high-end. ima editing sys ich as Live Picture’s Live Picture Net- work (see “Live Picture’s Network Version Debut,” in this section). Scitex’s recent change in image-editing fe ems product direction could be seen as an effort to make the company less dependent on a core technology whose domi- nance is steadily’ diminishing, A Truly Portable Projector Do you reach for a back brace or luggage cart when you take your presentation on the road? Try this on for size: Light- Ware's (503/641-7873) $6500 Viewpoint LCD projector. At just 9.4 pounds and with a dainty 12-by-9-inch footprint, the Viewpoint sets up in a flash—just pop up the lens, plug the projector into a Mac or PC, and go. You don't even have to dim the lights; the Viewpoint worked fine for me in a room in which it was bright enough to read without straining Remote-control extras like an on-screen pointer and cur- tain feature, plus zoom and freeze-frame, are a welcome touch. The Viewpoint’s price is right, and the light weight is heavenly.—sUZANNE COURTEAU 36 May 1996 MACWORLD storage Ultra SCSI Arrives THE TRANSITION BEGINS TO NEW DRIVES AND NEW ADAPTERS by Howard Baldwin tand back: a deluge of new SCSI choices is starting to flow: into the marl passing increases in speed on one hand and m mum distance between de- vices on the other, New Ultra SCSI adapters and drives are now available that cl: double data today’s SC wo doubled rates in SCSI chips, you can get a potential burst rate of up to 80 MBps on Fast-and-Wide SCSI devices and of up to 40 MBps on Fast SCST devices. Two Flavors Ultra SCSI adapters will come in two fl vors—a single-channel type for attaching up to 15 devices, and a multichannel type for attaching up to 30 devices. ‘The adapter vendors are split on. pricing strategies: some, like Adaptec (408/945-9600) and QLogic (714/438-2200), plan to offer new Ultra SCSI adapters at the same pri their current adapters (start- ing at around $250, with top- of-the-line cards — costing about $500); other vendors, such as Atto (716/691-1999), MicroNet ‘Technology (714/ 453-6100), and FWB (415/ 325-4392), expect Ultra SCST adapters to cost from $50 to 100 more initially, with the price difference eventually disappearing. Multichannel adapters will start at about $550, with top-of-the-line cards costing about $1200. According to vendors, encom- im to clock L Ultra SCSI drives will a cost about the same as cu drives, won't get the speed boost without a compatible Ultr adapt- er. (Phe Ultr