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THE BEST SHAREWARE EVER ALL HERE MACWORLD MORE NEWS, MORE REVIEWS FEBRUARY 1999 FEBRUARY POWERBOOK SURVIVAL GUIDE • COLOUR LASERS • KPT GUIDE • COLOUR SURVIVAL POWERBOOK 5 PREMIERE 5.1 • GRAPHIC ACCELERATORS• Macworldwww.macworld.co.uk WIN RoadRoad warriorwarrior A TOP G3 Essential PORTABLE survival guide Colour lasers Kai’s Power Tools 5 Graphics accelerators Premiere 5.1 expert tips FEBRUARY 1999 £4.99 news cover feature: Road warrior contents February 1999 I in-depth stories I incisiveness I exclusive tests racle and Sun Microsystems have Macworld 16–17 New Macs at test centre O announced a major 62 PowerBook Internet computing software read me first tie-up, involving the pair cross- Macworld 79 Colour lasers licensing each other’s software Simon Jary, editor-in-chief Forget monochrome.Today’s lasers can tackle most to form a united front against survival guide rival Microsoft.The companies Expo 99 jobs in glorious colour. Read our Test Centre advice described the arrangement as – it’s all down in black-&-white. “an industry shaping software 18 G3 card problems deal.” Remember when Apple used to be at the forefront of every 19 3D Vidi drops out computer-industry-shaping deal? Apple’s G3 Oracle’s database will work with 21 Preview: Palm MacPac 2.0 Sun’s Solaris OS – the plan being PowerBooks to create a new type of computer 22 Adobe After Effects 4.0 solely dedicated to running databases and thereby avoiding 24–25 Comdex are the business. the use of any Microsoft operating system. It’s no rival to Mac or Windows in the focused content-creation 26 SNEAK PEEK: Amorphium or more general-purpose markets, but it would hit Microsoft’s But don’t take it Windows NT/SQL server plans pretty hard. 28 Problems with mice This strategy ties directly into Oracle’s “Raw Iron” initiative that on the road involves bundling the Internet-based Oracle8i with a streamlined OS. Feature Raw Iron systems should be easier to set up and cheaper to maintain 30 Adobe K2 than servers running a full-blown OS like Windows NT. And Oracle is without reading also close to finalizing Raw Iron deals with Intel, Compaq and HP. Bill Gates cannot be happy. David Pogue’s top 73 Essential shareware The two top executives involved in the deal are Oracle’s larger-than- product news Macworld’s favourite cheap and even life Larry Ellison, and Sun’s boyish Scott McNealy. Each has strong links with Apple – both Larry (the richest man in California) and Scott have free software gets a roll-call. And it’s all been close to wresting control of the company on several occasions. I what’s new and what’s hot tips, and Macworld’s on this month’s CD! Wall Street rumour has it that Larry’s attempt to buy Apple a couple of years back was all a ruse to install his pal Steve Jobs and jettison the 35 - 38 The latest hardware and software guide to the niftiest ineffectual Apple CEO Gil Amelio. After Apple had contemplated buy- ing Sun in the late 80s and again in 1990, the tables were turned when Scott (Mc) nearly merged Sun with Apple in 1995.The idea was for Sun portable extras. – which had just released its network-computing language, Java – to meld its cutting-edge online technologies to the mass-market appeal of Apple, which was seriously behind Microsoft in its Internet strategy. The deal seemed a great one. Apple had the Macintosh for lower- reviews end computers. Sun had the Solaris operating system for the high-end. Competition Culturally, the two companies clicked.Together, they could steam into I Macworld has it covered media secrets winwin Microsoft while it was still turning round its own Internet strategy. Top 19-inch What happened? Apple made Gil Amelio CEO, and he sunk the deal. 46 DREAMWEAVER 2.0 87 create motion 101 secrets And that was exactly when Apple’s fortunes went into a nose dive. flat-faced Mitsubishi monitor Four hard, long years ago, Scott McNealy would have provided 47 Apple with the kind of dynamic leadership that the company is 47 Kai‘s Power Tools 5 Mastering Premiere Play it again, PRAM go to page 105 Expert tips on Adobe’s now experiencing under Steve Jobs. Instead, a fantastic opportunity 48 Vpower PM4400 G3/240 Keep your Mac’s had been missed. video-editing powerhouse. 49 Xenofex Photoshop plug-ins parameters in good (By the way: Scott isn’t the top dog at Sun.That honour goes to working order. 8 How to contact Macworld Network, the company’s 27-inch tall Greater Swiss Mountain Dog.) 50 ix3D Mac Rocket; ix3D Pro Rez; Who’s who and how to get in touch Everyone targets their sights on William (Bill) H. Gates III, who was once best-known as the world’s richest man but is rapidly seeing his Vision3D Pro II Lite 91 create sound 102-103 q&a 124 Reader Offers reputation turn to mud. If Californians did panto, Gates would get 51 USB: Iomega Zip 100 more hiss than Steve’s old Beatles’ records. Sound investment Your questions answered Discounted books and Apple goodies In Apple’s heyday, Jobs would order Gates into his Cupertino office 51 BBEdit 5.0 QuickTime 3’s Musical Tips, tricks and shortcuts. and bark orders at the bespectacled billionaire in waiting. Remember, instrument set hits a Macworld subscriptions in 1984, Apple’s annual sales were 15 times those of lowly Microsoft. 52 MacLinkPlus Deluxe But, with Steve gone from 1985 to 1997, Bill rapidly became king high note Unbelievable value! Keep a free copy of 53 Conversion Plus 4.5; of the hill, and it was his turn to hold Apple in the palm of his hand. Poser 2 or Bryce 2 when you subscribe! A year after Steve returned to Apple, Bill is facing his sternest MacOpener 4.0 opinions (See pull-out card opposite page 98) challenges yet.The feds threaten to break his company into pieces. The addition of Netscape’s Netcenter to AOL’s 70 per cent Web 54 ElectricImage 2.8 I we lead, others follow 126 Career Moves dominance will hurt Bill’s plan to establish Microsoft Network as the 56 ReBirth RB-338 2.0 core Web business portal. And now, Sun, the most powerful partner 41 first contact Job vacancies. New Year, new job? in the AOL/Netscape deal, has teamed up with Ellison, Bill Gates’ loudest opponent and a member of Apple’s board of directors to boot. 56 Extensis Portfolio 4.0 Listen up! It’s MP3 Why isn’t Apple involved in this ambitious plan? Wait, it may 59 Creation Station Pro 127 Macworld Shopping This month’s 43 prochak still be… Although, the new Raw Iron network computers (NCs) are Consumer advice and mail-order ads likely to be powered by Sun’s Solaris, Oracle has stated that it is also 59 PageSentry 2.5 We’re all doomed! (again) cover disc considering Apple’s Mac OS X microkernel, which should offer such 45 desktop critic 107 Star Ratings Buyers’ Guide benefits as fast I/O, pre-emptive multi-tasking, and protective memory. 51 page 11 The NC ‘revolution’,melding PC and Internet technologies, might iMac simplicity itself Mac system advice; Macintouch advice have gone off the boil in 1998, but the Raw Iron deal should re-ignite 178 worlock the plans in 1999.With relations strained between Apple and Microsoft again (see News, December 1998), and the bonds between Larry, Scott Apple Expo (again) Plus a year’s review and top tips and Steve, don’t be too surprised if this is the year that Apple really takes its foot off the brakes and launches a new attack on Windows COVER PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE LAYE PHOTOGRAPHY COVER that this time might actually bite. 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