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Other software developers are rushing to announce teve Jobs’ keynote speech at the publishing industry’s bi-annual Velocity Engine support, so the outlook is far-better for AltiVec than bumper bash has been hailed as one of the greats, with the unveiling it turned out to be for MMX. S of the Power Mac G4 and other Apple goodies, such as the blockbuster The Mac can already claim Spinning-Jenny status as the apparatus behind Cinema Display (page 18). Inevitably, the word revolution was tossed about a genuinely new way of working, as well as being a major driving force of in the hope that it would stick to at least one of the many announcements. something new to do, PC desktop publishing. But the Velocity Engine allows Seybold Boston would have been a more apt venue for this G4 revolution. us only to do the same old things faster. I’m not knocking it. It’s just not Had it been Apple Expo/Paris, they’d have struck up the Marseillaise and revolutionary. Even the G4’s potential to dovetail with next year’s Mac OS X stormed the Bastille. Such were the levels of mob hysteria at Seybold that – enabling true Mac multiprocessing – is an increase in grunt rather than Steve would have been justified in decapitating a blue-&-white G3, and an all-new front. holding its wire-shredded G3 chip aloft to the silicon-hungry rebels. I certainly don’t want to discourage people from going out and buying G4 APPLE’S NEW POWER MAC G4 GOES LIKE The new Macs feature the fourth generation of PowerPC processors. Power Macs – especially my own IT manager… Extra oomph on the desktop is Obviously, a G4 is faster than a G3 even running at the same number going to tickle a lot of Mac pros. But it’s the software second and the 500MHz A ROCKET – THE 500MHZ G4 IS THREE of megahertz. But a little extra speed does not a revolution make. Perhaps G4 some way back in third, when it comes to personal and professional 16 to match its black-&-white case, there’s a Guinness-like strength in doubling: productivity. If the Velocity Engine is nothing without optimized software, a possible 2MB of backside cache, and memory bandwidth times two, too. then the optimized software is just a CD in a box without your creativity. TIMES FASTER THAN A 600MHZ PENTIUM III PC, Max RAM jumps 50 per cent, so memory-intensive applications – show me A few hundred pounds spent on professional training, and another squeeze one that isn’t – will liven up no end. Even Sawtooth’s USB doubles up – with of the wallet to update your primary programs will pack more punch to your AND INCLUDES A SOME VERY NEAT NEW each USB port boasting its own controller, allowing for two independent productivity than any number of AltiVec instructions or expansion of RAM- 12Mbps data connections. Double is twice as good, but it doesn’t make for cache bandwidth.That said, a certificate on the wall and a fancy box on the a new performance paradigm. shelves is never going to look as good as a Graphite G4 with Cinema Display… FEATURES. IT LOOKS COOL, TOO. The real shift in power comes from some neat engineering by G4 maker The true spark of revolution ignited during Steve’s Seybold speech had Motorola.We’ve been waiting for AltiVec – a sort of silicon spinach that pumps nothing to do with the Velocity Engine’s va-va-voom or Sawtooth’s double up certain graphics operations – for over a year, now. And AltiVec courses bubble ingredients.The real deal is still AirPort, Apple’s wonderful wireless through the G4’s DigitalDNA. Armed with its sexy new “Velocity Engine” technology that promises to rid our homes and offices of network piping and brand name, Apple says AltiVec is “revolutionary”. Vive Velocity! Top Marx! phone cables. As part of the iBook (see Macworld, September 1999), AirPort Creatives of the world unite, and make over! PowerPC to the People! looked like fun. Now it’s a part of the professional Power Mac armoury and But the Velocity Engine is more New Labour than New Lenin. Remember soon to support 50 users per hub, AirPort looks like the business. when Intel pepped up its Pentium with 57 extra MMX instructions. A similar The Power Mac G4 is a stunner. But AirPort is the killer. 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