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Surprise! Microsoft Backs Apple, page 26 Ne Next Generation Ar rues INTRODUCING THE POWERTOWER™ PRO G3 275 Upgradeable 275 MHz PowerPC” 150 Processor IMB 275 MHz Level 2 Backside Cache C4MB RAM (1GB Max) 268 1200 RPM Ultra Wide SCS1 Hard Drive or 4GB 5400 RPM 24x CD-ROM Drive 36-mo, business §MB Twin Turbo 128-bit Graphics Accelerator ee ea Ultra SCSI up to 40MB/see 6 PCI Slots POWERTOWER PRO G3 SYSTEMS 4 Drive Bays Starting a $9695 $2500 in Bundled Software: Mac” 0S 8 and Macromedia” Director™ $.0 Extended Keyboard and Mouse Tower Enclosure THE NEW POWERCENTER” PRO 240 2595 mcm Séemo, business IMB Level 2 Cache Tease $96/mo. 32MB RAM (SI2MB Max) (Display not included) 268 5400 RPM Uitra Narrow SCSI Hard Drive 16x CD-ROM Drive OMB Video DRAM (4MB Max) 43D Video Hardware Accelerator Built In Ultra SCSI up to 20MB/see $1000 in Bundled Software: Mac” 0S 8 Extended Keyboard and Mouse Low-Profile Enclosure tere (0006 The high end for the rest of us. The new PowerCenter” Pro 240 comes locked and loaded with the new PowerPC 604e 240 MHz processor. Winner of the MacWEEK § Diamond Award, the PowerCenter Pro has “redefined the midrange.” il POWERTOWER” PRO 250 CORE “bdcunes NEW LOW PRICE! 2cp ssa0 mpm uitra Narrow S¢S! Hard Drive hme, business Iease $111/mo, 16x CD-ROM Drive IMB Level 2 Cache ‘Twin Turbo 64-bit Graphics Accelerator with 2MB VRAM Fast SCSI up to 10MB/see $2500 in Bundled Software: Mac” 0S 8 and Macromedia” Director™ 5.0 Extended Keyboard and Mouse Tower Enclosure iiity sasas paw ORDER DIRECT 800-487-0621 ORC Major Accounts, Education and Government Customers Call 800-952-923: 2400 South IH 35 Round Rock, TX 78681 Telephone §12-388-6868 Fal (©1997 Power Computing Corporation. Alrights reserved July 1997. Apple, Macintosh and Mac ‘under license from Apple Computer, Inc. The Mac OS logo is registered in the United States ‘PowerTower, PowerCenter, PowerBase and Powertron are trademarks of Power Computing Cot ‘Machines Corp. and is used under cense. Al other brand and/or product names are the props and specifications are vald in the U.S. onty and are subject to change without natioe. The first and fastest G3 PowerPC 750 Mac OS system on Earth. The PowerTower Pro G3 275 is 70% faster than anything you’ve ever seen, touched or heard of. Accessing Cache at an incredible 275 MHz — faster than any Mac’ 0S system on the market — PowerTower Pro is the most expandable Mac system in the world. “The PowerTower Pro G3 earns the title of fastest Mac ever — by a long shot.” -Macworld, September 1997 POWERTRON® 24” DISPLAY 3499 New...the world’s largest desktop display. 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Circle 151 on reader service card é zz re a | & Features 84 Upstart Macs BY TOVA FLIEGEL Speed r ords shatter as Macworld Lab tests a new generation of Ma the first CHRP systems, the first PowerPC 750 systems, and the first 350MHz Mac. oc = TOBER 4927 94 Best Mac Web Sites BY HOWARD BALDWIN Mac- world’s road map to the Web sites—technology, support, share- ware, and shopping—every Mac owner should know about. Expert Guide Commotion video-painting 100 Connect with ISDN software helps the Mac play a BY MEL BECKMAN Get the bigger role in film production, page 28, telephony features you want and the speed you crave with ISDN. Macworld’s expert guide shows you how. Umax rolls out the industry's first system with in-line cache, the home- office SuperMac C600x, page 46. Need a second printer? The Alps ‘Masterpiece MD-2300 produces photographic-quality output for under $1000, page 52. 2 October 1997 MACWORLD 26 28 32 38 : ee | News Jobs in the Driver's Seat Recent events at Apple leave little doubt as to who’s in control. Sneak Peek QuarkXPress 4.0 Quark’s first major upgrade in four years adds drawing tools, character styles, and book-pro- duction features, but not much more. Sneak Peek ClarisWorks 5.0 Claris adds tool bars and Web links to an otherwise modest upgrade. ‘Macworld Expo Best of Show Awards ‘The competition was fierce, but Macworld’s editors managed to pick the hottest new products introduced at Macworld Expo in Boston. Find File features and shortcuts, page 107. Opinion 17 Letters 23 = State of the Mac BY ADRIAN MELLO Is Steve Jobs good for Apple? 71 190 The Desktop Critic BY DAVID poGue Warez trading posts. 12 How to Contact Macworld 81 115 New color lasers offer lower prices and easier maintenance, page 42. 118 107 The Thrill of the Hunt 120 ey Josepn scHorr Digging around the desktop with Find File, 111 Quick Tips BY LON POOLE and shortcuts. Tips, tr ON THE COVER Photograph by Kevin Candland A host of inexpensive new video- conferencing cameras hit the market, page 30. Buyers’ Tools Star Ratings Macworld’s ratings for hundreds of hardware and software prod- ucts at a glance. Mac Superguide Macworld’s guide to every Mac system and clone on the market, lab tested and Star Rated. Media Improving Your Web Typography, Part Two sy Jim Heo Sorting through a wealth of design options. Publishing Workshop BY DAVID BLATNER Mastering QuarkXPress master pages. Graphics Workshop BY CATHY ABES objects to 3-D art. 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PowerPrint — the simple solution for anyone who needs to connect a Mac to a PC — printer < ey we F SA AAA vue owav ce —— Lb iti BR iehet 4664 Lougheed Highway, Suite 188, Burnaby, BC, Cana‘ FAX: 604.473.3695 e-mail info@infowavenet web: w /SC 687 PH. 604,473 3600 fowave.net ~ pawerPriat Call us: 800-865-5503 Visit: www.infowave.net Circle 32 on reader service card ———— JF NEUMANN. a Leilers Nuts about Newton Wasa READING THE REVIEW OF Apple’s MessagePad 2000, I had to wonder if Macworld was nuts (Reviews, July 1997). It’s fairly plain to any regular user of the MP 2000 that the review—although factually accurate—misconstrues the market and functionality the device was designed to address. This is a serious computer designed to meet the needs of doctors, lawyers, researchers, engineers, multimedia producers, and similar mobile professionals. You criticize the size of the MP 2000, failing to notice that it fits perfectly in a doctor’s lab coat or a Day-Timer-style case. In your criticism of the new Inter- Connect port, you miss its versatility and performance, which open the door to audio input/output, for example. Most questionable, however, is the price comparison of the MP 2000 to a Pentium notebook. Show me the color 8MB/700MB Pentium notebook that goes for days between charges, rests unobtrusively in the palm of my hand, recognizes my handwriting, powers on instantly, is optimized for truly mobile communications, and sells for $1099, and T'll reconsider this nutty review. Topp WiLson Somerville, Massachusetts People love their Newtons. It’s been a long time since we've seen such positive remarks about an Apple product. Your letter made me want to rush out and buy a Newton. Of course, $1100 isn’t pocket change, as our reviewer, Cameron Crotty, pointed out. Crotty also adds, “No com- puter can do what the Newton MessagePad 2000 does—it exists in a class by itself. But while that has a nice ring to it, just remem ber that it's an awfully expensive class. I really liked the MessagePad 2000, I just couldn't imagine paying nearly $1100 for it.”"—Ed. Control Strip under Control ALSO WONDERED WHERE THE CON- trol Strip was, and why I didn’t have it since I updated from System 7.5.3 to 7.5.5 (Letters, July 1997). You can’t cus- tom install something that isn’t included on the master system software CD- ROM. I asked around a lot and finally got the answer. The Control Strip control panel came bundled only on certain Power Macintosh and Performa series computers. How- ever, you can install the Control Strip software by installing Apple’s Display Software (version 2.0.2). This can be downloaded from Apple’s software li- brary, swupdates.info.apple.com; click on Macintosh, then on Display-Peripheral. CarL A. SWEDBERG Issaquah, Washington Comparing Apples and Oranges? OUR COMPARISON OF THE TOP-OF- the-line Macs and PCs is infuriating (“The Mac Wins the Race,” July 1997). Irs not that I like PCs—I don’t—but I feel the article needlessly gave up some points. for the Macs by stressing that the Macs are more expensive. You should instead focus on value, showing that while the Macs reviewed are more expensive, Macs get more per- formance per dollar. Or you should have tested less expensive versions of the PowerCenter Pros to show that they still whip the PCs’ butts. Saying that Macs are faster is great, but the message is greatly diminished when you leave am- munition on the table for the other side to use. I can already hear my Windows- using colleagues saying, “Yeah, but like he said, Macs are still more expensive.” A little more careful selection and there wouldn’t have been any “but” for PC users to throw at Mac owners. Tar Morris Austin, Texas T THE END OF YOUR STORY YOU stated that the Mac and clones are still more expensive, and there are two things T have to say about this. First, in the June 1997 issue of PC World, Apple rates among the top three computer manufacturers in product re- liability. That must be worth a penny or two. Second, have you ever tried to set up a Windows 95 printer, scanner, or any- thing else that’s not standard on the computer? Setting up a Windows ma- chine just takes time, even for experienced users. If time is money, the cost dif- ference between Macs and Windows continues www.macworld.com October 1997 17 4 lu => oe ku n o [4 o. - = <x = 4 s) eal E-mail server. With the QuickMail” Pro Server you can use any POPS E-mail client: QuickMail Pro, Eudora, Emailer or a combination. Plus, get high-end features like built-i in Listservs and auto responders. 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CESotwar, c anid QuickMal are traderarks of CE Sta ‘egistered trademarks of hei espectve olds CE SOFTWARE Circle 170 on reader service card 18 October 1997 MACWORLD LETTERS co ON © The ForeFront Group's Web address is www-ffg.com (Quick Tips, July 1997). Tasa Graphic Arts’ Web addre www.swep.com/~tasa/ (“Back-to- School Guide,” August 1997). The trackball on Kensington Micro- ware’ Orbit Trackball can be removed for cleaning or replacement (Re- views, August 1997). Although the price of Insider Soft- ware'’s Font Box 2.1 hasn't changed (the Standard Edition is $79.95), a Personal Edition, which analyzes only 250 fonts, is now available for $29.95 (Reviews, August 1997). is machines becomes enormous, with the Mac winning hands down. Tam not knocking PCs, because both platforms offer advantages. The Mac is simply a superior machine, especially in the plug-and-play and ease-of-use are- nas. We want a platform that is easy to use, is easy to train on, and doesn’t need a lot of tweaking to operate properly. Keep up the good work. Don’t be afraid to compare more Windows prod- ucts with Mac products. It helps me do my job better and be more informed. JERRY AXTELL Macon, Georgia AM NOT SOME. RADICAL WINTEL USER. I currently use a Power Macintosh 9500/180 MP, recommend Mac Internet servers, and own a Sony PC. The Sony does not belong in the company of most of these machines. Sony is building a computer directed squarely at the home market. It’s not a speed machine, and Sony does not promote it as such. T know that articles must be prepared in advance, but the arrival of the Pentium II in May 1997 cannot be ignored. Dell and Compaq are now shipping 266MHz Pentium I-based computers for under $3000. Even without the Pentium II, the PC should at least have been tested with a SCSI drive. You cannot include a $10,000 ma- chine like the DayStar and fail to in- clude dual-processor Pentium Pro ma- chines. If you had chosen Intel-based machines that cost the same as the Macs, I think your test results would have been different. Apple is better for the same reason a Mercedes-Benz is better than a Ford. It’s just plain more fun to drive and a greater pleasure to own. No one is going to buy an Apple computer because it is a little faster this month, when we all know this will go back and forth between Intel and Motorola forever. Speed does not sell computers. Frep KruGuorr New York, New York With the exception of the subjective video testing, we limited ourselves to objective, quantifiable test results from which to draw our conclusions, The concepts of value and usability, while important, weren't part of this story's equation. And while Macintosh users may not want to admit it, there are PC users who believe in the value and usabil- ity of their machines too, As for what we did and didn’t test, we didn’t test any Intel multiprocessing machines because these are Windows NT-based systems that run specialized software with no Mac equiv- alent. Unlike the Mac multiprocessors, they are signed as servers, not for an individual user's desk. While such a test would have evened out the cost factor; there's really no way to compare these machines in performance because of the differ- ences in functionality. é received the prototype Pentium II from Link late in the testing process, so we were able to incorporate it into the benchmark but not in much of the other testing. And you're right that the Sony system is a solid PC, but not the fastest. However, by com- paring the Sony's performance with that of other PCs (PC World, June 1997), we can tell that the Mac still would have outperformed faster PCs. The difference between the Mac and the Sony is greater than the difference between the Sony and other PCs. Also, see “275MHz Mac Powerhouse” (September 1997) for the performance of the new G3 Macintosh. This machine runs about 50 percent faster than the fastest Mac we tested against the PCs. If there was still a question about which platform is faster, there certainly isn't now.—Ed. The Power of 17-Inch Monitors AM A GRAPHIC DESIGNER AND I'M I ready to buy a new computer for home use. I have been very impressed with your opinions on the Power Computing clones. Since am thinking of getting the PowerCenter Pro bundle, I was excited continues The World's First Do-It-Yourself Ad. Rather than try and sell you on je Canvas 5, we invite you to sell yourself with a 30 day free trial offer. nly one person knows | what you want in a graphics program: you. ° So go on — try Canvas 5 (fully functional, not some weenie sampler) for 30 days, free. If you like, you buy. 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The views expressed hevein are the views of the endorser and are not the views of, and do nat constitute an endorsement by, any person or firm for whom the eadorser has provided services. BECAUSE IT’S YOUR STUFF.” LETTERS to see the article on 17-inch monitors in the July issue (“17-Inch Screen Stars”). I was disappointed that you left Power Computing’s 17-inch monitor out of the article when you have been recommend- ing that system so highly. Curis Manan Seattle, Washington The monitor that Power Computing offers is available only to purchasers of new systems. It is not available to the general public, or even to peo- ple who bought Power Computing systems earli- er without a monitor. We did not review it because the vast majority of our readers would not be able to buy it. We will consider reviewing it as part of a Power Computing system bundle in the future.—Ed. Emailer Edification OUR REVIEW OF CLARIS EMAILER 2.0 Yi July 1997) neglected to mention one very serious shortcoming of the program: by default it cannot display long e-mail messages over a certain length in its browser, and instead saves them to your downloads folder. You must then use a second application (not Simple’Text, which cannot display messages greater than 32K) to view the message. Emailer is thus unsuitable for reading large mes- sages such as most mailing-list digests. Joun Woo York, } 7» York The text limit for a single message in Emailer 2.0 is 64K of plain text, which is fairly long, so I don't think of the limit as a shortcoming. In ‘fact, this is an increase from the previous 32K limit. I get hundreds of messages a week, includ- ing many mailing-list digests, but I probably get only a few that are too long and end up as enclo- sures. For those messages that are too long, you can write an AppleScript to automatically open the enclosure in a program like ClarisWorks. —Tom Negrino How to Make a Mac Thrive JUST READ “MACS CAN THRIVE IN AN [xt World” (News, July 1997). I have seen related articles before—they all say what can be done—but I have never seen an article on exactly how to connect a Mac to a PC, I can’t seem to get an answer to two basic questions. First, with a Power Mac 6100/60 (running System 7.5.5) on the same desk as a Windows NT machine, what are the exact software and hardware combinations needed to allow file sharing—from the most basic to more complex? What are the cost/capability trade-offs of various options? This may seem like a dumb question, but all I get for answers from dealers is what a specific product can do. From techies all I get is complex talk on what is possible to try. Second, how do you handle file shar- ing with PCs over a network? Most net- working people really understand either the PC or the Mac side—not both. Is this something I can handle on my own? RONALD S. Lemos West Covina, California Network data exchange between computers bas revo components: the physical network itself and the network protocol used to exchange informa tion. The most popular physical network is Ethernet. You can easily set up an Ethernet net- work between a Mac and a PC (“Connect Your Workgroup,” August 1997). The Macintosh and Windows worlds have their own proprietary protocols, so one of the ‘machines is going to have to speak the language of the other. You can make your Mac speak Windows? networking language (IPX) using a product such as Thursby Software Systems’ Dave (Re- views, May 1997), which makes the Mac look like a Windows machine to other users on a Windows network, Alternatively, you can make a PC look like a Mac running AppleTalk using a product such as Miramar Systems’ PC Macl.AN (Reviews, November 1996). There are other, more costly and comple alternatives. You could use a Windows emulator on your Mac and gain all of Window working functionality. Or you could run TCPAP on all your machines using Unix Net- work File Sharing (NFS) for data exchange. Only you can decide if the increased cost and com- plexity are worth the additional capabilities you get-—Mel Beckman mm net- Letters should bi ond St., San Fra 0766; or electronicall Macworld), AppleLink (Macworld), or via the Inter- net (letters@macworld.com). Include return address and daytime phone number. Due to the high volume of mail received, we can’t respond personally to each letter. We reserve the right to editall letters. All pub- lished letters become the property of Macworld. www.macworld.com October 1997 24 4-inch, 1 gig Jaz cartridges for as low as $89.95." 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Steve Job's Dynasty State of the Mac by Adrian Mello IS A GOOD CHOICE FOR CHAIRMAN AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR APPLE IE YOU READ eve Jobs may een named Ap- new chairman. I ¢ know for a fact c this will happen, at-as I write this in ate July, rumors of Jobs's ascension are swaant and the idea has a distinet logic. In any case, I’m going to go out on a limb and base this column on that assumption. Even if he doesn’t take an official role, Jobs now appears to be the prime force behind the company’s direction. His influence is evident in many important decisions, and Apple executives appear nearly jubilant about his increased in- volvement. Naturally, questions arise about whether his increasing influence is good for the Macintosh and where it may lead. I am strongly in favor of Jobs's taking the chairman’ role. Although I'm concerned about how he will handle issues such as licensing the Mac OS, I think the potential for good far outweighs the bad. Here’s why. Bold Thought and Acti, Jobs has the charisma and vision to inspire Apple’s employees, customers, and devel- opers. If Apple employees are going to fight out the tough road to recovery, they need a leader they can believe in. Jobs has the energy and ability to focus a company so that it pursues a single-minded course of action. And after years of beleaguer- ment, customers and developers need to feel there is a light at the end of the tun- nel. Since Apple’s troubles began, no one has painted a compelling picture of the Mac’s potential for success. Jobs also has the personality and instincts to deal with the almost over- whelming media exposure Apple receives. In the face of falling market share and poor financial results, Apple's recent lead- ers have been like deer caught in the headlights. The result has been an on- going black cloud over the Mac market, which has depressed sales. Here's the most important point: Jobs is capable of bold thought and action, Apple needs a leader with unconvention- al vision who can play outside the rules. Apple can’t be conservative, but must go for the long bomb to differentiate itself and grow. The last major move Apple made (apart from the Next acquisition) was the shift to PowerPC—arguably at a time when processors no longer provided significant product differentiation. What Happens Next? Some fear that Steve Jobs might under- mine or abandon Apple’s licensing pro- gram. At the World Wide Developers Conference in May, he said that Apple should license nearly everything but it must get a fair price. As I write, Mac OS 8 is released but licenses for it are un- signed. It makes me wonder if they ever will be signed. Jobs may advocate building Intel- based Macs. It’s rumored that he has already approached Advanced Micro Devices to discuss using its Intel-compat- ible processors (which some might view as heresy). Jobs is hardware agnostic. He doesn’t spend much time talking about hardware and he seems focused on enabling applications through software: technology. Next gave up hardware some time back, and its progeny—the Yellow Box—runs on both Macs and PCs. Jobs may be not only hardware ag- nostic, but also OS agnostic, at least for the part of the OS that is closest to the hardware and handles most basic opera- tions and tasks, Jobs seems much more interested in those aspects of the operat- ing environment that touck users and developers directly Jobs emphasizes the Internet and he may believe that thi real growth opportunity cen ters on applying Web tech nologies to solve customers problems. Jobs may promote mor direct marketing of the Mac intosh. Direct sales have lor represented the bulk of th market, and this methc would allow Apple to redu its costs so it could becor more competitive. Pow Computing has proven t effectiveness of selling M systems directly to custome In fact, there is a distir possibility of a merger t tween Apple and Power Computing. Jc could use Power Computing’s brands set apart Apple’s direct-marketing effc and to make a foray into Intel-based P! Besides, Joel Kocher, Power Computir president, would be a great choice Apple’s next CEO. But I’ve already gx out far enough on a limb. Stay tuned and tell me what you th will happen, at mello@macworld.com it hasn’t already happened!). And k an eye on Macworld Online (wz macworld.com) for up-to-the-minute c erage of changes at Apple. m www.macworld.com October 1997 22 6C1v’s one of the most important applications created for the Mac in the last five years.?? - Guy Kawasaki, Apple Fellow & Chief Evangelist Computer Retail Week 6/17/97 QWhat’s most compelling (about Virtual PC) is its price, ease of use and high degree of compatibility. 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THE KEY TO RUNNING PC SOFTWARE ON YOUR MAC Mac WEEK Circle 192 on reader service card OCTOBER 199-7 Apple Forges Alliance with Microsoft MICROSOFT DEAL, NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS ANNOUNCED AT EXPO by Stephen Beale MAE he scene was eerily rem- BJ iniscent of the famous 1984 commercial that launched the Macin- BE tosh: hundreds of pe ple sitting in neat rows, their attention focused on the chair- man addressing them from a huge video screen, But this was no TV spot; it was Macworld Expo. The man on the screen s Bill Gates, and this time there was no hammer-wield- ing woman rushing forward to disrupt the proceedings. Apple still lacks a perma- nent CEO, and the thorny issue of Mac OS licensing is unresolved. But under the leadership of de facto chief executive Steve Jobs, Apple now has a new relationship with longtime nemesis Micro- soft, as well as a revamped board of directors. “We have to let go of the notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose,” Jobs said during his August 6 Mac- world Expo keynote, adding, “The competition between 26 October 1997 Apple and Microsoft is over as. far as I’m concerned.” The new alliance has the following components: * Microsoft will buy $150 million in Apple stock and not sell it for at least three years. *The companies have given each other a “perpetual cross-license” for their exist- ing patents, allowing both to develop new products without fear of lawsuits over alleged MACWORLD Disconunued Operations patent infringements. Microsoft’s Internet Ex- plorer will be the default Web browser for the Mac OS, but Apple will also ship other browsers with the system. * The two companies will work to ensure compatibility between their Java virtual machines. Apple will support Microsoft's extensions to Java as well as Sun Microsystems? 100% Pure Java. ALAN mazzeTT! soft has made a ar commitment to Microsoft Office. Over that time, Macintosh users will see the same number of major upgrades as Windows users. Speaking through a satellite connection, Gates said that Microsoft Office 98 for the Mac will ship by 1998. He added that, in some ways, the Mac version will “be more advanced than what’s on the Windows platform.” A New Board Jobs, who has essentially been running Apple without an official title since Gil Amelio’s resignation as CEO, announced that he has joined a revamped board of directors that now includes experienced hardware and software industry veterans, Also named were Larry Elli- son, CEO of Oracle; Jerry former chief financial officer of IBM and Chrysh and Bill Campbell, CEO of Intuit and former head of Claris. Du Pont chairman Edward Woolard and Hughes International president Gareth Chang remain from the previ- ous board. Gone is longtime director and former Apple chairman A. C, Markkula, an Apple cofounder. The Jobs Saga announcements bizarre two wel during which Jobs denied widespread rumors that he was about to be named Apple chairman. In a memo to employees at Pixar, Jobs's computer animation company, he said that he had been offered the CEO and chairman positions and had turned them both down, It was also a time when Apple’s testy relationship with its Mac OS licensees nearly became open warfare (see “Mac OS 8 Ships with No License Deal,” in this section). New Directions In his keynote, Jobs said that Apple will focus more attention on the education and content- creation markets. The com- pany will also work more closely with major developers, such as Adobe Systems, on comarketing deals and efforts to make key applications run better on the Mac. Apple is shifting public emphasis from Rhapsody, its next-generation operating tem, to the Mac OS, so people don’t think Apple has abandoned the Mae OS. (Jobs The Expo capped a didn’t even mention Rhap- sody in his keynote speech.) Sales of Mac OS 8 have shot through the roof, Jobs said, with 1.2 million copies sold less than two weeks after its July 26 release. Although it not announced at Expo, sources close to Apple say that Jobs has been working with Apple engineers to develop a low- cost network computer (NC) that could ship as soon as Christmas. Ellison, now on Ap- ple’s board after considering a takeover bid earlier this year, has been a big NC advocate. Another likely change is an aggressive move into direct sales of Mac systems, a la Power Computing. ‘The Mac market has shifted largely to catalogs f was nd other forms of direct’ marketing, but until now, Apple has not aggres- sively pursued direct sales. Good or Bad? Jobs's recent involvement with Apple has generated much excitement among users dors, and Apple employees, nd he has filled the leader- ship void left by Amelio’s departure. However, in_ his opposition to Mac OS licens- ing, Jobs has seriously dam- aged Apple’s relationship with its licensees, and his looming presence complicates the search for a strong CEO. Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and other industry veterans may be on board, but it remains to be seen whether these latest changes can help stop Apple’s slide into obscurity. y ven= BEST of SHO Macworld Kpo in Boston Epson's $12,999 PowerLite 7000 offers 1024-by-768-pixel resolutio! Projectors Offer Higher Resolutions TRADE-OFFS ARE DIMMER PICTURE, MORE WEIGHT by Andrea Dudrow ith notebook com- puters promising higher screen reso- lutions, some ven- dors of LCD pro- jectors are racing to keep up with the burgeoning ranks of mobile presenters by offering 1024-by-768-pixel resolution. But that sharper picture usually comes at the expense of brightness or portability. That’s because most 1024-by-768- pixel projectors use three LCD panels, compared with one typ- ically found in 640-by-480- pixel and 800-by-600-pixel models, and the additional pan- els make it harder to force light from the projector. Larger LCD panels can boost bright- ness but require a heavier ca A projector's brightness is measured in lumens: for small to medium-size rooms, 400 to 600 lumens is adequate. Con- trast ratio determines picture clarity; all rank at or above the accepted range of 10:1. High Res at a Price You will soon be seeing 1024-by- 768-pixel projectors from Epson (310/ 782-0770, www.epson om), InFocus (503/ 685-8888, www infocus.com), Mit- subishi (714/220- 2500, wwa.muitsubishi- display.com), NEC Technologies (630/ 775-7900, www.nec .com), and Sharp n, (201/529-8200, waz .sharp-usa.com). Epson's $12,999 14.5- pound PowerLite 7000 con- nects directly to your Mac and offers 400 lumens of brightn with a 300:1 contrast ratio. InFocus’s $11,999 12-pound LitePro 730 has a Mac-com- patible input port and offers the same brightness plus full- motion video. Sharp’s $12,995 600- lumen XG-E3000U includes a Mac adapter, but at 30.8 pounds it’s almost twice as heavy as many bright 1024-by-768-pixel models. Mitsubishi’s $11,995 LVP- X100 has the same brightni in a 20-pound case; you can save your presentation on a flash-memory PC Card and play it directly from the projec- tor. A Mac adapter is included. Also $11,995 is NEC’ 15.9- pound 450-limen MultiSyne MT1000, which plugs directly into your Mac. Brighter Picture, Fewer Pixels Ifhigh resolution isn’t your top priority, consider one of the more portable 800-by-600- pixel projectors from ASK LCD (201/896-8888, www.ask .no), NEC, Philips (770/821- 2400, www. philipsled.com), Po- laroid, and Sharp. These mod- els usually produce brighter images than their 1024-by- 768-pixel cousi ASK LCD is updating its 800-by-600-pixel_ Impression 8300 using Texas Instruments’ DLP (Digital Light Process- ing) technology (see “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall,” News, continues www.macworld.com October 1997 27 28 | Hews QuarkXPress Makes Moderate Leap BY GALEN GRUMAN Coming nearly four years after the last major upgrade, QuarkxPress 4.0 is not the radical revision you might expect of the top page-layout program. But with version 4.0, Quark (303/ 894-8888, www.quark.com) does target several areas for signif- icant new functionality. Graphics-Friendly A slew of Bézier drawing tools let you create moderately complex illustrations within QuarkXPress. Better, you can create text and picture boxes with Bézier tools; these boxes let you mask imported images and set up "columns" of type with unusual shapes. You can also convert single lines of text into picture boxes, so you can use text as an image mask or an easily editable Bézier shape. The artistically inclined will also love the new clipping-path features. The program can use a TIFF image's alpha channel or clipping path to generate a clipping path within a Quark document, letting you create form-hugging text wraps around images. If your graphic doesn't include such an outline, QuarkXPress can create its own clipping path by masking out all white areas in the image—a neat trick, And however you got a clipping path for that image, QuarkxPress lets you edit it. More Styles Perhaps the most useful changes are the new character styles capability—which lets you assign for- matting to pieces of text, not just to whole paragraphs—and the inclusion of the formerly separate QuarkPrint plug-in, which lets you manage your print jobs more easily. However, | wish that creating character styles was a little easier. But | simply adore the new Append feature that lets you selectively append style sheets, colors, hyphenation settings, booklists, dashes, and stripes from other QuarkXPress documents—what a great idea! Quirks in QuarkXPress | did find some oddities in the beta | tested, although these may be resolved in the final ver- sion, due out this fall for $895. One is that you lose most image controls on imported bitmapped images if 32-bit preview is selected; at lower preview resolutions, all controls are available. Another is the lack of support for Mac OS 8's contextual menus, a feature the Windows version includes. All in all, QuarkXPress 4.0 is a strong upgrade, despite the fact that the layout features, typography tools, and basic organization remain largely untouched. The new features are well designed, and every QuarkXPress user will find many of them appealing. QuarkXPress 4.0 lets you import or create clipping paths for graphics. October 1997 MACWORLD March 1996), which the com- pany claims won't sacrifice brightness or portability. Ex- pected to cost $8995, it offers 600 lumens of brightness and will ship with a Mac adapter. ASK LCD’ $9495 Impression A4 includes a Mac cable and features 500 lumens in an 11- pound package. Sharp's $8995 600-lumen XG-E1200U weighs 30.8 pounds and comes with a Mac adapter. At 21 pounds, Po- laroid’s (617/386-2000, waw .polaroid.com) $6995 600-lumen Polaview 211 weighs almost twice as much as its predeces- sor, the Polaview 10. Polaroid will supply a Mac cable if you ask for one. For $8495 you can get NEC Technologies’ 15-pound MultiSyne MT810, which stores up to eight images, puts out 550 ANSI lumens, and doesn’t require an adapter. Philips’s ProScreen 4000 and ProScreen 4100 both ship with Mac adapters, weigh 17.5 pounds, and use a UHP (Ultra High Performance) lamp, de- signed to minimize brightness loss over time. The $6695 300-lumen ProScreen 4100 offers 800-by- 600-pixel resolution, while the $5500 350-lumen ProScreen 4000 features 640-by-480-pixel resolution. Not Too Bright, but Light With Lightware’s (503/641- 7873, www.lightware.com) and ‘Telex Communications’ (612/ 884-4051, www.teler.com) new releases, you trade brightness for lightness. Lightware’s 9.45- pound MVP800 features 800- by-600-pixel resolution, a rela- tively dim 275 ANSI lumens, and a pop-up lens for $6995. If your Mac doesn’t have a VGA video port, you'll need to buy an adapter. Telex’s $5995 800- by-600-pixel Firefly P350 puts out 250 to 300 ANSI lumens in a 9-pound case that collaps- es to 2.7 inches when not in use. The package includes a Mac adapter. Commotion on the Desktop SPECIAL-EFFECTS SOFTWARE BRINGS IMAGE EDITING TO FILM AND VIDEO by Stephen Beale he Macintosh could soon be playing a more prominent role in film and television produc- tion thanks to Commo- tion, a new video-painting pro- gram created by a visual-effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Scott Squires developed oftware over the past six y for his own work at the renowned special-effects house and has established a company called Puffin Designs (415/ 331-4560, www.puffindesigns com) to market the package. Don't Do This at Home Scheduled to ship in August for $2495, Commotion aims squarely at film and video pro- fessionals. It has most of the features you'd expect in a sophisticated image-editing program, but rather than being oriented toward still images, it is designed for use with video or film clips. 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OUR FREE CD “Tr’s TIME TO TRY ADOBE PAGEMAKER” HAS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO GET STARTED. For your own copy, just call 800 422-3623. Youll like what you see. ANI Adobe http://www.adobe.com 30 October 1997 the Quantel Video Paintbox, that carry six-figure price tags. Adobe Photoshop users who run Commotion will find themselves in familiar territo- ry. The program includes painting and selection tools, alpha-channel compositing functions, and a basic set of image filters. But it imple- ments these features within a multiple-frame environment. You can import QuickTime movies or numbered PICT files and apply the effects to a selected range of frames. The uncompressed film or video clips are loaded into a play- back window, letting you pre- view the effects in real time as you create them, Super Clones One unique feature is the Super Clone brush, which lets you clone images among multiple frames. As you work on a frame, you can invoke an onion-skinning feature that lets you see faded versions of preceding frames. Rotosplit ing functions let you king effec among multiple frames. Com- motion also includes a wire- removal function, essentially a line tool that erases. Within Hollywood, Unix and Windows NT continue to be the platforms of choice for high-end 3-D_ graphics work, But Commotion dem- onstrates that the Mac still has an important role to play among the creative profes- sionals who transform a direc- tor’s imagination into cine- matic reality. ‘Commotion’s Super Clone feature lets you replicate images across multiple frames. MACWORLD [ News More Cameras on Parade NIKON, OLYMPUS, AND EPSON ANNOUNCE THEIR LATEST MODELS by Stephen Beale he onslaught of new digital cameras contin- ues with recently an- nounced consumer models from Olympus America (516/844-5000, www .olympus.com), Epson (310/782- 0770, www.epson.com), and Nikon (516/547-4200, wv -nikonusa.com). ‘Two from Olympus Olym- pus has introduced the D-220L and D-320L, succes- sors to the D-200L and D-300L, respectively. Both cameras feature smaller de- signs than their predecessors’, along with removable media and a video-output port that lets you view images on a TV. Images are stored on Solid State Floppy Disk Cards (SSFDCs); a 2MB card is included in the package. The $499 D-220L features a maxi- mum resolution of 640 by 480 pixels, while the $699 D-320L, offers 1024 by 768 pixels. Both Olympus cameras can print directly to the com- pany’ new $399 P-300 dye- sublimation printer, which produces 300-dpi continuous- tone prints on 4-by-5!4-inch paper. The cameras are sched- uled to ship in September; the printer, in October. Going for the Pixels Ep- son's $799 PhotoPC 600 fea- tures 1024-by-768-pixel reso- : Mitsubishi Scanner Does Double Duty It may look like a scanner, but it's also a mass-storage device. Aimed at document-archiving applications, the SS600 from Mitsubishi Chemical America (408/954-8484, www .mitsubishi-infostorage.com) incorporates a 300-by-600- dpi flatbed scanner along with your choice of a 640MB magneto-optical or 2x/6x CD-Recordable drive. The scan- ner offers 24-bit-color image capture and scans up to 20 pages per minute. The $2500 price includes a 50-page auto- matic document feeder.—sTEPHEN BEALE lution, with a digital zoom fea- ture that captures enlarged images at 640 by 480 pixels. Images can be stored on SSFDC media and download- ed through a serial port. A video-output port lets you display images on a TV, and you can upload presenta- tions to be played directly from the camera. Annotate Your Pix Nikon's CoolPix 300 Personal Imaging Assistant features a touch- screen LCD and stylus, allow- ing you to superimpose hand- written notes on an image. You can also use a built-in micro- phone to add up to 17 minutes of voice annotations. The $699 camera offers 640-by-480-pixel resolution and can capture live video at 30 frames per second. networking An Eye for Your Macintosh CHEAP CAMERAS FOR VIDEOCONFERENCING HIT THE MAC MARKET by Keith Mitchell ome see videoconfer- encing as a great wa to hold business m ings without the has: sle of travel. Other just want to show relatives back home the new sweater they bought. Whether your interest is business or plea- sure, a host of new inexpen- sive videoconferencing cam- eras have hit the market. Video on the Go Howard Enterprises (805/383-7444, www.howent.com) and irez (612/ 939-9299, www.irez.com) have announced cameras designed specifically for laptop comput- ers. 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A bundle that adds Claris Home Page Lite, Netscape Navigator, business tem- plates, and clip-art images, Office will be the official retail prod- uct. Not available separately except as an upgrade, ClarisWorks 5 offers only two significant new features—button bars and doc- ument links—but includes numerous minor enhancements. Buttons and Links Replacing the Shortcuts palette, the button bar lets you quickly execute commands relevant to Whatever environment you're in. Customization options include specifying the bar's placement (top, right, left, bottom, or float- ing), adding and removing buttons, creating your own bars, and designing and assigning macros to buttons, Regardless of which bar is currently displayed, you can switch from one bar to anoth- er using a drop-down menu. Power users will appreciate the ability to create three types of links in Office documents: menu-accessible bookmarks, document links (clickable text or graphics that move you to a bookmark in the same document or that open another docu- ment), and URL links to Web sites. You can create links from selected text, an object, a paint image, spreadsheet cells, or doc- ument frames, Using links, you could make a live table of con- tents for a report or enable readers of a memo to jump to relat- ed information on the Web, for example. ‘Multimedia and Graphics Other useful—but undra~ matic—additions include password protection for documents; context-sensitive help for dialog boxes; the ability to drag and drop text and objects between documents, programs, and the desktop; named, as opposed to numbered, cell ranges in spread- sheets; an integrated equation editor; better alignment of objects embedded in word processed text; a multimedia database field type; a texture palette; a ClarisWorks Assistant for designing busi- ness cards; and an Open Scripts Folder menu for easy access to ClarisWorks-related AppleScripts. ‘Owners of previous versions can upgrade to Claris- Works 5.0 alone for $49; to get the add-ons you'll have to buy the Office bundle for $99 and apply for a $30 rebate. Although ClarisWorks 5 is a solid, well- lah designed program, its 2 tess upgrade value is ques- tionable. Serious Inter- net users will probably find it worthwhile, but the add-ons and minor Boe eM You can customize ClarisWorks’ ‘enhancements may not built-in button bars or create yourown —_be enough to entice the by adding and removing buttons. typical user. October 1997 MACWORLD onto the open screen of a Pow- erBook. It features a built-in microphone, a zoom lens, automatic white balance, and manual and automatic focus. The $349 Kritter, from irez, was developed for the PowerBook 2400 and 3400. It uses a technology called ZoomedVideo—available through an included PC Card —to send images directly to the laptop’ video buffer, by- passing the system bus to speed performance. It is bundled with Kai’s PowerGoo, Kai's Photo Soap, and videoconfer- encing software. For the Desktop Toshiba (714/583-3000, www.toshiba .com/pecam/) and. Panasonic (201/348-7000, www.panasonic .com/alive/) both offer video- conferencing cameras that work with desktop computers in addition to laptops. Panasonic's EggCam is bundled with CUSeeMe software. ‘Toshiba’s $139 IK-MM1 can capture video at 30 frames per second with 512-by-492- pixel resolution. Compatible with most videoconferencing boards and software, it can be used for videoconferencing, video e-mail, and video capture for Web pages. Panasonic's $129 EggCam was designed for video e-mail on Windows, but can also be used as a videoconferencing camera for the Mac. It is bun- dled with CUSeeMe software and produces images at 542- by-496-pixel resolution. Apple Gets Enterprise Boost from CA COMPANIES ANNOUNCE JASMINE INTEGRATION by Stephen Beale omputer Associates (516/342-5224, www cai.com), a major de- veloper of corporate data-management and enterprise computing software, has given Apple a boost on two fronts by announcing that it will integrate Jasmine, its new object-oriented database pack- age, with Rhapsody, Apple’s next-generation OS. The move represents an endorsement of Rhapsody by a large software vendor and could enhance Apple’s presence in the enter- prise computing market. Corporate Multimedia Jas- mine is an object-oriented database package that in- cludes multimedia authoring tools, allowing programmers to create media-rich applications for corporate networks. Under the agreement, the companies will ensure that applications created with Jas- mine will run in all software environments supported by the Rhapsody Yellow Box, includ- ing the Mac OS, Windows, and Rhapsody itself. Programmers will also be able to use the object-oriented authoring tools in the Yellow Box to create applications that interact with Jasmine databases. The Yellow Box is the portion of Rhapsody that will include such features as preemptive multitasking and protected memory. For Apple to reap the full benefits of the deal, Jasmine will have to succeed in the cor- continues Don't be concerned about the resolution, size, horizontality and color correction and mode. Just import images in the Quark image box from a Photo CD disk or from a raw scan. Position them however you want using QuarkXPress's tools. For each, send orders with the processing options to the IPM. | import my pictures in my QuarkXPress document's image boxes | position them using the XPress tools and | select processing options using the binuscan Xtension Color Correction 0 Separation TIFF, EPS JPEG or Photo CD ImagePac; RGB, YC, grayscale or CMYK. This image was scanned from a 35 mm original in RGB raw mode at 100% size on a PowerLook 2000 flatbed scanner at its optical resolution of 1000 dpi. The client XTension writes the “order list” then sends it to the IPM for processing, It includes the values entered in the QuarkXPress “measurement bar” plus the processing and output options set in the XTension’s user interface. ° A catalog with hundreds of images that may require several people a week's worth of work can be processed and ready to output in just a few hours. Processing can take place overnight, even on a low-end desktop computer, with little RAM. After processing, the new recalculated images are re-imported in the desired color mode with the right amount of pixels... automatically Each processing algorythm uses state-of-the-art technology. Even when the IPM is used only to resize images previously color corrected and separated, the screen preview is recalculated with colors and a sharpness that are truly impressive. No more surprises on the color proof! ve | m On the Internet: http://www.binuscan.com e-mail: info@binuscan.com binuscan Inc. 505 Sth Avenue - New York, NY. 10017 Tel: (800) 881-2352 - Fax: (212) 681-0603 ree demo disk and receive a ‘Quark and QuartnPress ar reitred ademas of Quark, be Client/Server Applications for complete digital image management Mac OS & Windows 3.11, 95 & NT THE SERVER APPLICATION “binuscan IPM" (Image Processing Machine) ‘works in the background, using the processor ‘only when i’ free. It recalculates a new image based on the original and a lst of orders gene- fated by a client application. This “order list” contains all the user's output preferences, including (but not limited to) CMYK separation specs, automatic color correction instructions, ‘and sharpening levels, as well as any other modifications made to the image (crop, flip, fotate, resize, etc.) by the client application, binuscan achieves an impressive high and ‘consistent quality every time because the IPM bases its processing algorithms on an indivi- dual histogram analysis of every image. THE CLIENT APPLICATION Many client applications can be used to gene- rate “order lis” text files and save them into the IPM's "TO DO" folder for processing, binuscan's ‘open architecture allows third party developers to write custom client applications. The binus- ‘can ColorPro® package includes the binuscan IPM plus client applications to acquire images from scanners or Photo CDs and binuscan Job- Manager? (a Quark XTension) which works as described to the left. THE PERSONAL TOUCH binuscan ColorCorrect is a utlty included with >M which allows you to create ghost or “sepia effects” and harmonize the images on your page. This utlity will perform color adjustments to processed images by wri- ting PostScript functions to the image fle Modifications are writen then updated in your page layout in seconds, no matter how large the files are, Every modification can be reverted with the same ease and in the same manner. Circle 6 on reader service card a spectal version of binuscan {s bundled with all UMAX high-end scanners and Is freely available for every 1<-- Pro Master Photo CO epeSah porate market, an outcome that is not assured. Jasmine targets large data-management appli- cations currently handled by relational databases, and corpo- rations tend to be cautious when making technology tran- sitions in such mission-critical areas. However, Jasmine’s media-authoring and_object- oriented programming capabil- ities will likely be strong attrac- tions for corporate customers who want to move multimedia content over their networks. Unicenter Unified The companies also announced that they will integrate the Mac OS. and Rhapsody with Computer Associates’ Unicenter TNG, an enterprise computing infra- structure that allows adminis- trators to manage networks, applications, and databases within a single framework. By year’s end, Computer Associates plans to release software that permits Unicen- ter TNG to monitor CPU usage, drive failures, and other conditions of Mac systems connected to corporate net- works. Apple plans to offer software that will allow Macin- tosh users to control Unicen- ter TNG’s system-administra- tion functions through a Web- browser interface. Newer's MaxPowr Pro CPU upgrade will offer speeds up to 275MHz. Newer CPU Card Sports PowerPC 750 MAXPOWR PRO BOOSTS MAC PERFORMANCE by Howard Baldwin s the new PowerPC 750 CPU comes to market with its zip- py backside cache, Newer Technology (316/943-0222, www.newertech .com) plans to ship upgrade cards for the Power Macin- tosh 7300, 7500, and other CPU-upgradable models. Newer plans to ship its MaxPowr Pro CPU upgrades in late August at 250MHz and 266MHz speeds with either 512K or IMB of backside cache. Macworld Lab tests on a prototype 270MHz version showed that the up- grade pushes the Power Mac 7500 and 7300 past any current 604e system (see below). Pric- ing has not been determined. Newer also announced its Nupowr 500/183c PowerPC upgrade card for PowerBook 500 computers, which re- places the 681.C040 processor originally used in the Power- Books. It uses the low-voltage 183MHz PowerPC 603ev processor, and sports 128K of external cache. Also included is a Control Panel that lets you turn off the cache with- out rebooting the system, for maximum battery life. The 500/183c will be available without RAM for $850 or with 16MB of RAM for $1063. The 16MB version hangs over into the internal modem space. Mac 0S 8 Ships with No License Deal A SLAP IN THE FACE TO MAC OS LICENSEES by Stephen Beale n July 26, Apple reached a long-elusive milestone: it finally shipped a major up- grade to the Macin- tosh Operating System. Mac OS 8 may be modest com- pared with the forthcoming Rhapsody—or the defunct Copland—but as Apple soft- ware chief Avie Tevanian proudly observed, “We shipped it on time, with the features we promised, and with very high quality.” Unfortunately, July 26 was also an ominous mile- stone for Mac OS licensing. Because the day passed with no new licensing agreement in place, Power Computing, Umax Computer, Motorola, continues ERUII|~MaxPowr Pro Reenergizes Older PCI Machines Based on the superfast PowerPC 750 (also called G3) CPU, Newer Technology's MaxPowr Pro 270 propelled the Power Mac 7500 and 7300 past any current 604e-based Mac. This prototype 270MHz card had only a 512K Level 2 backside cache. Newer will initially ship 250MHz and 266MHz versions. lm Best overall performance. Longer bars are better. Bold indicates best result in test. » New product. An Apple Power Macintosh 7100/80 has a SpeedMark score of 1.0. 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The practical impact was limited because _ licensees could still buy retail copies of Mac OS 8 for inclusion with their systems, but Apple’s relationship with its Mac OS licensees has reached a new low. This became apparent at the early August Macworld Expo in Boston, as Power Computing, fearing that Apple may try to eliminate the licensing program, tried unsuccessfully to foster a mass protest of the company’s licensing policies. Close, But. . . Shortly before Gil Amelio’s July 9 res- ignation as CEO, Apple and the licensees appeared close to a new licensing deal. A tentative agreement, dated June 18, was included in legal documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with Power Computing’s forthcoming initial public stock offering. The proposed agreement represented a compromise on several points: * Apple would allow OS licensees to offer PowerBook clones, first through exten- sions to the Mac OS, and later through a Common Hard- ware Reference Platform (CHRP) specification for notebook computers. «Licensees would pay royalties for each Mac OS system on a sliding scale, with the most powerful systems commanding higher royalties than more modest configura- Licensees would pay r royalties for markets in which Apple has not been successful. The exact fees were unspecified, but the San Jose Mercury News reported in July that the maximum royal- ty for a single-CPU system would be $200. * Apple would require li- censees to submit CHRP sys- tems for technical evaluation and Mac OS certification. 36 October 1997 [ Mews Licensees would submit sealed systems to prevent Apple engineers from learning about any hardware innovations inside. Certification would be based on a standard test suite. Apple said it will routinely complete the technical evalua- tion within two business days, and OS certification within five business days, The licensees have said that Apple’ current certification system thwarts their ability to innovate and is sometimes used to delay competing products (see “Pos- sible Hope in Licensing Fra- cas,” News, September 1997). Apple will not publicly discuss the negotiations or the reasons for the delays in reaching an agreement, But Apple executives have said that licensees are taking busi- ness away from Apple without expanding the Mac market. At the July 22 press con- ference announcing the re- lease of Mac OS 8, Apple marketing chief Guerrino De Luca said that the company hoped to have a completed agreement “as soon as possi- ble.” Previously, De Luca had said he expected a deal by the time Mac OS 8 shipped. Expo Ruckus The conflict over licensing nearly reached the boiling point at Macworld Expo. As attendees walked into the opening keynote fea- turing Steve Jobs, Power Computing employees passed out “Freedom of Choice” signs, hoping that the audi- ence would launch a protest if Jobs openly attacked the licensees. Jobs—who has been functioning as Apple's de facto CEO—did not mention Printer Puts Color Photos on Laser Paper New from Alps Electric (408/432-6000, www.alpsusa.com) is the $389 MD-1000, the latest in a line of color printers using the company’s MicroDry inks. The MD-1000 lets you produce color photographs at 600 dpi on paper stocks designed for laser printers. It will also print on transparen- cies, greeting cards, T-shirt transfers, and backprint film, The Mac version uses a SCSI interface and is bundled with Adobe Systems’ PhotoDeluxe image-editing software. In addition to standard color inks, you can use metallic inks and a new white ink for printing on colored papers. Standard inks cost $7 per cartridge; metallic and white inks cost $10 per cartridge.—sTEPHEN BEALE MACWORLD BREAKING NEW FOR THE LATEST COVERAGE OF THE CHANGES AT APPLE COMPUTER, SEE MACWORLD DAILY, AT WWW.MACWORLD COM/DAILY/. licensing, but was clearly referring to the licensees when he characterized some of Apple’s business partner- ships as “destructive.” Power Computing and the other licensees fear that Apple has quietly decided to stop certi~ fying new systems and render their contracts unusable. Later, during a keynote session highlighting new Mac systems, Power Computing president and COO Joel Kocher lambasted Apple for its failure to compl position on an open platform,” he said. However, the angry tone of his remarks alienated some attendees. Representatives from Umax and Motorola who were also on the panel took a more pos- itive approach, touting the benefits of their systems rather than attacking Apple. 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