e d REVIEWED: OS 9.1, iTUNES, NEW POWER MACS i s n i Macworld o c s i MORE NEWS, MORE REVIEWS EPO!c n MARCH 2001 a r F n a S F m ul ro l details f POWERBOOK G4 • EXPO – OS X; NEW POWER MACS; OS 9.1, iTUNES, iDVD • 17/19 SCREENS PREMIERE 6.0 Macworldwww.macworld.co.uk Sex power& Inside Apple’s Titanium PowerBook G4 Get personal 20 ways to customize your Mac 17-19-inch screens We test the best mid-size monitors Mac OS X refined Adobe Premiere 6.0 Reviewed and rated read me first Simon Jary Are you ready to trust the Mac as editor-in-chief the very centre of your existence? Steve’s digital hub test n January, Apple CEO Steve Jobs electrified the 6 You think Bill Gates is… Macworld Expo crowds with his vision of the “third (a) The devil himself, who robbed our Apple of its innovative great age of the personal computer”. This new era graphical user interface to create the evil Windows empire; I is based around the convergence of digital devices (b) A bit dodgy in his business dealings, but also – cameras, PDAs, mobile phones, e-books, camcorders the man who bought us Office 2001 on the Mac; … and, probably, those smart-fridges that we’re always (c) The former bass player in the Rolling Stones. being told will control our lives in the next couple of 7 It’s bedtime. You’ve poured yourself a Horlicks, and are years, but still allow milk to go rancid a few days after ready to settle down with a good book. You… its sell-by date. (a) Download the e-book version of Alan Deutschman’s Jobs called all this computer-device convergence The Second Coming of Steve Jobs from Amazon.com, our “digital lifestyle” (see pages 18-19). I’m sure we’d all and turn up the brightness on your Titanium PowerBook G4; benefit from moving in the digital direction that Steve (b) Pick up that 900-page Photoshop 6.0 Bible, and, not for the suggests. But first, it would be useful to see exactly first time, try to understand the Gradient Options palette in where we stand on this path to digital deliverance. relation to transparency masks; Try answering these ten simple questions, and clock (c) Pick up the crumpled remains of the Sunday Times Culture up your scores at the end to see if you’re on track for section that weren’t used to line the cat’s litter tray several “Is your idea hailing your Mac as the “hub” of your very existence. days earlier. 8 Your idea of fun is… of fun a 1 Your music collection is… (a) Installing the SuSe Linux operating system on one partition network game (a) Thousands of MP3 files organized by Apple’s iTunes; of your Power Mac’s RAID drive, so you can performance- (b) Discs stacked alphabetically in a wireframed Philippe benchmark it against the latest beta version of Mac OS X of Quake III Starck CD stand from Habitat; that you downloaded from hotlinesw.com; in which you (c) A pile of vinyl records lent against your bedroom wall. (b) A network game of Quake III in which you corner your boss, 2 When you show off your holiday snaps to friends and and let him have it with your fully loaded Hyperblaster; corner your relatives, you… (c) Lily Savage’s Blankety Blank. boss, and let (a) Direct them to your Apple iTools Web site; 9 You think the ‘X’ in Mac OS X is pronounced… (b) Send them a batch of prints from your colour inkjet; (a) Unix; him have it (c) Pass around a bulging leatherette photo album for friends (b) Ten; with your and relatives to add their tea-stained fingerprints to prized (c) X, of course! pic of yourself standing next to ITN’s Trevor McDonald at 10 When you heard about Apple’s PowerBook G4, you… fully loaded the taxi rank. (a) Wondered whether Apple’s titanium has a hexagonal close- 3 It’s your best friend’s wedding day, so you… packed crystal structure or a body-centered cubic structure; Hyperblaster?” (a) Offer to capture the big day on your FireWire camcorder, (b) Thought about selling your car to buy one; edit in Final Cut Pro or Premiere, and output the results (c) Thought “Wow… a metal with a ‘tit’ in it!” to DVD via Apple’s iDVD and new DVD-R SuperDrive; Or, you use Windows. Windows. use you Or, (b) Video the events, edit in iMovie 2, and output to video tape; MW (c) Noiselessly mouth the words of all the hymns, then rush off hidden. were holidays skiing Turner’s Anthea of to the champagne reception to get as many bubbles down Pictures” “EXCLUSIVE the where understand you of , and couldn’t for the life the for couldn’t and , Hello of issue latest the as your parched throat as possible before the crowd of aunts w Macworld of copy this thought ou Y s: (c) and uncles get near the bar. Mostly arbonized version of The Sims is released. is Sims The of version arbonized 4 It’s your turn to arrange the football-club social, you… C (a) Beam Vindigo-based pub contact details from your a as soon as X OS Mac installing to forward looking eports on dot-com business failures, and are really are and failures, business dot-com on eports Palm V that link to the Web site you created specially r for the event, including maps in PDF form; news understand You Dummy. no you’re and home, ou’ve got a Mac at work and at and work at Mac a got ou’ve Y s: (b) (b) Send a jokey email to all involved; Mostly (c) Phone Trev, and tell him to let the others know that, mode. Sleep enter to chance the gets rarely Display yet again, it’ll be at The Slug and Lettuce in Islington. Cinema your and cards, Christmas you sends 5 You think Steve Jobs is… supplier electricity Your devices. digital indispensable (a) God; your all via life your micro-managing and directing (b) A better advert for Levi’s than for Gillette; apartment, loft ADSL-enabled your of middle the in ou are Steve Jobs, and your Mac sits Mac your and Jobs, Steve are ou Y s: (a) (c) That nasty EastEnders actor who’s played Mostly by Martin Kemp from Spandau Ballet. 4 Macworld MARCH 2001 MARCH 2001 Contents COVER STORIES 76 New Apple products An in-depth guide to Apple’s latest products – from the sleek-&-sexy PowerBook G4 to the free-&-easy iTunes. Also, the 466MHz and 533MHz Power Mac G4s tested. 85 iTunes Apple’s free iTunes adds extra value to revamped hardware. 93 Mac OS 9.1 OS 9, 9.1 features plenty of behind-the- scenes improve- ments. 87 Your Mac your way 50 26-27 131 Customize your Mac and Premiere 6.0 Mac OS X 17-19-inch applications Adobe’s upgraded refined monitors for a personal digital-video editor Apple has returned Mid-sized monitors experience. has a host of new old system favourites tested and rated for Web features. to OS X. the space conscious. page 6 Macworld MARCH 2001 5 CONTACT Macworld www.macworld.co.uk MARCH 2001 Contents Editor-in-Chief Simon Jary [email protected] Deputy Editor David Fanning [email protected] NEWS CREATE REVIEWS News Editor Jonathan Evans [email protected] News Reporter Dominique Fidéle Mac ‘hub of digital future’ [email protected] 18 New DVD iMacs rumoured Managing Editor Sean Ashcroft 50 [email protected] iDVD and iTunes wow Expo Chief Sub-Editor Woody Phillips Carbonized Dreamweaver readied [email protected] Mac OS X revamp a hit at Expo Editorial Co-ordinator Seth Havens Apple storms UK education-show [email protected] Mac inventor Art Editor James Walker savages OS X [email protected] Expo bonanza Art Director Mandie Johnson 50-52 Adobe Premiere 6.0 [email protected] for games fans Q&A Create: Print Managing Editor/Online Gillian Thompson Sales-slump 93 139 54-55 Mac OS 9.1 [email protected] hits Apple Shutdown from a Pro Customizing fonts with Assistant Online Editor Vittoria Momento Keyboard and CD burning. 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