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November Issue NOVEMBER 2001 MICROSOFT OFFICE X FIRST LOOK AT NEW FEATURES MAC OS X 10.1 • OFFICE X • DIGITAL CAMERAS • FILM SCANNERS • ILLUSTRATOR 10 • COLOUR MANAGEMENT 10 • COLOUR CAMERAS • FILM SCANNERS ILLUSTRATOR MAC OS X 10.1 • OFFICE DIGITAL MORE NEWS, MORE REVIEWS OS X 10.1 The real deal World’s best operating system • Digital cameras on test • Adobe Illustrator 10 preview • Expert Dreamweaver tips • Film scanners reviewed • Maya • Adobe InDesign 2 • Macworld Gamers’ Club read me first Simon Jary Hooray! A workable version editor-in-chief of Mac OS X is finally with us. But it’s been a long time coming… The wait of the world uch has been written about Apple’s almost getting the ultra-modern operating system to run laughably exhaustive and ultimately abortive Photoshop, XPress and Duke Nukem. We, the users, attempts to update its Mac operating system demanded it – and so must take some of the blame for the M during the 1990s. After several expensive long delay between Apple buying NeXT and actually shipping failures, Apple poured all its efforts into a do-or-die project X 10.1. Another massive hurdle for Tevanian’s team was called Copland. It died, and Apple had to buy a company making the Intel-based NeXT technologies run on PowerPC. called NeXT that had something at least approaching a We didn’t want to ditch our Macs for Pentium PCs, did we? usable and modern operating system. The delay hurt many of the early (high) hopes for the As you’ll read all over this issue, Apple now has a capable rejuvenated, modernized Apple. At the time of the NeXT successor to the Mac OS that has been a great friend to us buy, the Mac had a larger market share than Windows NT. since 1984 – if you count as a friend something that has “We’re going to go out the door next year with a product witnessed more crashes than Murray Walker. There have that may very well be a higher volume than Windows NT, been numerous updates (System 7, OS 8/9, etc), but no because we have the Mac market to sell it to,”Tevanian told dramatic rewriting of the old code in over 15 years. The first his interviewers back at the start of ’97. release of Aqua-hued Mac OS X provided that rewrite – but Asked whether Apple would soon surpass Microsoft, it missed too many features and ran far-too slow for most of Avie got a little too excited: “Absolutely. We’re already ahead us to contemplate ditching the aged, but at least familiar, of them. We have a product today. It just becomes execution platinum-coloured OS. Mac OS X 10.1 isn’t perfect, but it’s for us. We’ve got to take all these things, put them into the less imperfect for today’s world than even Mac OS 9.2.1. products, and get them out there for the users.” With Mac OS X 10.1, Apple at last has the holy grail that Avie wasn’t wrong. Apple would have the superior it bought NeXT for in the first place. Strangely, the news of product. It’s just that the taking, putting, and “getting them OS X 10.1 coincides with a rumour that its chief engineer, out there for users” took one hell of a lot longer than he, or Avie Tevanian, is to quit Apple. This made me re-read some anyone at Apple, expected. “We should old interviews that Avie gave just before joining Apple in It’s highly unlikely that Apple would have crushed have a fully February 1997 as senior vice president of software Microsoft even if OS X – with all its powerful and robust engineering, reporting directly to CEO Steve Jobs. At the Unix plumbing below the easy-to-use, attractive Aqua user- functioning time, he was vice president of engineering at NeXT, interface – had shipped within days of the NeXT buy-out. reporting directly to its then CEO… Steve Jobs. Apple has a long history of possessing the superior product, system that Tevanian first came to prominence at Carnegie Mellon but nearly as long a history of ending up in second place. customers University in Pittsburgh, where he was a principal designer Despite the good news that, after nearly five years of and engineer of the Mach operating system, upon which waiting (not including Copland), OS X 10.1 is here, we’re not can use and NeXTStep – and therefore Mac OS X – is based. So, Avie’s home yet. All those early adopters who have been working deploy in 12 been with the core of OS X since its very beginning. with OS X 10-10.0.4 since March, will have to wait a little Of course, Mac OS X is not just Tevanian’s work. There are longer before they get their hands on the latest version. As months time” scores of PhD-wielding software engineers working on the posts on Macworld’s online forum suggest, not many people – Mac OS X Unix-based operating system at any one time, but it’s are able to get their hands on the free update CDs from probably true that there’s no engineer more indispensable Apple resellers. They have to splash out another £15 creator, Avie to its intricate technologies than Avie. (handling and shipping costs, you understand) for a special Tevanian In an interview in January 1997 – just before Apple’s CD, and that could take a couple of weeks to reach them. acquisition of NeXT was completed – Tevanian said he More significantly, the full power of OS X won’t be (January, expected “a fully functioning system customers can use and realized until major Mac software apps are optimized for it. deploy” in 12 months time. Taking version X 10.1 as The number of optimized (‘Carbonized’) programs is ahem… 1997) something that customers can “use and deploy”, that 12 certainly growing, but without an OS X-native Photoshop or months stretched to an incredible 56! You don’t have to be a XPress, many Mac professionals will defer switching. The mathematical genius like Avie to call that “late”. wait goes on. Adobe may release a Carbonized Photoshop at Avie wished it could be even sooner: “Software projects January’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco. But the wait will are very difficult to get done sooner than you project. The be longer for Quark to pull its finger out, as the first version challenge is always to not have them take longer. We have a of XPress 5.0 will be for OS 9 and not OS X. good track record at NeXT at being close to our predictions. We’ve waited so long for this new version of the Mac OS I’m confident we can do it.” that a few more months shouldn’t upset us greatly. It will be It’s not really Avie’s fault. The biggest hurdle was the a shame if, having succeeded in his quest, Avie Tevanian level of backward compatibility with current Mac OS apps. really is to quit Apple, but his legacy will likely be with us for Many of those lost 44 months must have been spent the next 20 years… and then some after that… MW 6 Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 Join in the live IT debates on Macworld Online Forum (www.macworld.co.uk/forum). NOVEMBER 2001 Contents COVER STORIES PREVIEW! Office v. X 87 Mac OS X has its first killer app, with Microsoft updating its market-leading business, software suite. Macworld takes you on an executive tour of the new features and amazing new look. REVIEW! Mac OS X 10.1 80 It’s clean, mean and on the scene. Macworld reviews the faster, more stable, latest, ready-to-use version of Apple’s next-generation operating system. 93 Digital cameras 70 Illustrator 10 64 Film scanners 131 Missing Manual TEST CENTRE: Designers will adore MACWORLD LAB: Expert advice for Macworld picks the the latest version We compare seven Dreamweaver users. best high-resolution of Adobe’s pro drawing film scanners to digital cameras, from tool, now ready for Mac see which is best 3 to 5 megapixels. OS X, and looking great. for your varied needs. page 8 Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 7 CONTACT Editor-in-Chief Simon Jary [email protected] Deputy Editor David Fanning Macworld www.macworld.co.uk NOVEMBER 2001 Contents [email protected] News Editor Jonathan Evans [email protected] News Reporter Dominique Fidéle [email protected] NEWS HOW TO SECRETS REVIEWS Managing Editor Sean Ashcroft [email protected] Apple ships Mac OS X 10.1 Chief Sub-Editor Woody Phillips 22 [email protected] Microsoft shows off Office v. X 59 Art Editor James Walker Quark releases XPress 5 beta at [email protected] Art Director Mandie Johnson Seybold Power Mac G4 800DP OS X [email protected] Server 10.1 Adobe Illustrator 10 and Managing Editor/Online Gillian Thompson [email protected] InDesign 2.0 Deneba Canvas 8 Pro CD Editor Vic Lennard Corel Graphics Suite 10 KPT Effects US Editor Rick LePage FileMaker Developer 5.5 Palm PDAs Contributing editors David Pogue, Deke McClelland, OS X developers Myth III Macintosh Franklin Tessler, Bruce Fraser, 56 Maya 3.5 for Mac OS X Business News Secrets: Mac OS X Secrets: Print Christopher Breen, 139 14 3 59 HP Designjet 10ps Matthew Bath, Peter Cohen, Become a Mac super publishing Adam C Engst, Jim Heid, user by getting to the root Colour management 60 Commotion Pro 4.0 Andy Ihnatko, David Blatner.
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