Macworld SNAP! AFFORDABLE QUALITY DIGITAL CAMERAS JUNE 2001 MAC UPGRADE GUIDE • MAC OS X TESTS • WEB-SITE PROTOTYPES • LIGHTING iMOVIE AWARDS PROTOTYPES MAC UPGRADE GUIDE • OS X TESTS WEB-SITE MORE NEWS, MORE REVIEWS Mac revival Old Macs, new tricks: Easy upgrade guide Mac OS X Speed and compatibility tests Test drive your Web site How to create a simple prototype Lights! Camcorder! Expert tips on lighting your iMovies read me first JUNE 2001 Contents Simon Jary All that money in the bank is worthless if COVER STORIES editor-in-chief Apple doesn’t start spending big on its hardware and software partners. The billion dollar drain pple is a very rich company. Not as rich as announced during July’s Macworld Expo in New York. Microsoft, but very well-to-do all the same. It But, for now, there are so few optimized programs that Old Mac, new tricks loves to boast of its $4 billion bank balance OS X doesn’t make a compelling upgrade. 86 A more than David Ginola goes on about his fine This gets worrying later this summer when Apple In the first installment of our new follicles. That’s more than $1 for every floating-point ships all its Macs with OS X as the default operating series, read how to assess an older operation a G4 can achieve per second. We put all that system. What if this avalanche turns out to be a slight Mac’s capabilities and fix it up dosh in its coffers, so it’s reassuring that Apple hasn’t frost? Mac OS X, and effectively all new Macs, will run without spending a lot of money. frittered it all away on Newtons, Pippins and Cubes. slower and connect to a lot less peripherals than even Apple’s $4bn in cash and short-term investments at Windows 95, let alone Win 98 or the forthcoming Win least proves the company has legs as long as Jerry Hall. XP. Apple needs Carbonized software like a baby needs Apple used to have yet more digital dough. Even under nappies – without them it’s sat in a big mess. the cost-cutting stewardship of Gil Amelio (Apple CEO, So Apple must splash its Mac mazuma on ensuring 1996-97), Apple lost $1.6bn. Under returning co- that all major apps are optimized to run efficiently on founder Steve Jobs, Apple started to recoup its losses OS X. It must send an army of X softies out to Adobe, with a series of nine-figure profits. Now that it’s saved, Macromedia, Quark, Microsoft, Steinberg, Connectix, it’s time for Apple to Spend! Spend! Spend! Extensis, MacSoft, Aspyr, Corel, Media 100, Symantec, Apple can do a lot with its banked billions. It has et al. Another legion of X hard men must be immedi- already bought a company called PowerSchool ($62m), ately dispatched to HP, Epson, ATI, Nvidia, Wacom, to re-invigorate its dwindling education sales. Apple is Hermstedt, Palm, Agfa, Canon, Xerox, LaCie, Iomega, also advertising more now than ever before, with iMac, and Sony, etc. PowerBook and iTunes ads cropping up on the telly Apple must reinforce these OS X foot soldiers if any between commercials for Charmin Ultra and Deflatine. company drags its feet on releasing optimized versions Research and development budgets could be of its products. It’s essential that Apple prioritizes this Are you ready for bumped up, to follow-on from the company’s many X-engineer invasion whatever the cost – even if its cash 79 Mac OS X? industrial-design triumphs, and Mac OS X, iMovie, etc. reserves slip well below the billion mark. A poorly And Apple is reportedly looking at bricks as well as supported OS X is a severely wounded Macintosh, and Mac OS X has shipped at last, clicks, with planned investments in high-street shops an injured Mac is a short-fuse time bomb ticking under but are you ready to make supplementing the online Apple Store. Apple’s long-term prospects. the change? Macworld Lab Mac prices could be cut to increase volumes and The reports that I get from third-party developers is and Henry Bortman examine boost market share. On top of this, Apple could start that Apple is hardly stretching helpful hands to its key your options – and the “Now that giving away Mac kit to desperate schools to lure today’s developers when it comes to aiding the Carbonization consequences of making kiddies away from the bland world of Windows. process. Apple is in danger of doing a Lennox Lewis. the move now. Apple’s saved, But Apple should first spend the biggest chunk of Sending Xperts to a dozen major developers is not it’s time for its silicon spondulicks on helping its partners optimize going to cost much more than a few million dollars. their programs and peripheral drivers for Mac OS X. Even $100m is not going to trouble Apple’s bank man- the company As Macworld has pointed out every issue for about ager if it means the company can move ahead with its to Spend! the last 48 months, OS X is the future of the Macintosh. bold new operating-system strategy. That $4bn won’t Apple is betting the farm on its next-generation oper- last long if no one but the early adopters is upgrading Spend! ating system – built on tough Unix foundations and from OS 8 and 9, or buying new Macs because OS X Spend!” topped off with a candy-coloured Aqua user interface. looks like a white elephant. OS X achieved $19 million As we point out on page 79, Mac OS X is great… in sales just one week after its March 24 launch. All of when you’re using software that has been specially this X brass must be ploughed back into a Carbonizing optimized (Carbonized). Despite totally ignoring the Jihad of Biblical proportions, or all that lovely lolly will aged code of Mac OS 9, X is clever enough to handle be lost. non-optimized applications under Classic emulation. All Apple’s effort on developing Mac OS X will be However, as with all emulation (Windows on the Mac wasted if the software developers don’t jump onboard via Virtual PC, for example), this is often slower than sharpish. It’s not up to the likes of Adobe and Quark to Chinese diplomacy. Also, non-Carbonized programs ensure that the Mac survives – these companies can sit 64 137 93 don’t benefit from OS X’s best new features: protected back and watch a migration to Windows if they wish. memory, pre-emptive multitasking, etc. It’s up to Apple, and I’d be a lot happier if it had less Digital cameras Missing Manual Web design Apple has promised an “avalanche” of Carbonized cash in the bank and more of its customers enjoying applications this summer – most of them presumably the many benefits of Mac OS X. MW Two-megapixel cameras tested How to light your Avoid live disasters GOLD VISION OF DIGITAL DOLLAR COURTESY and rated. iMovies. by using a prototype. page 6 4 Macworld JUNE 2001 Read more Macworld opinions online (www.macworld.co.uk), and join in the debate. Macworld JUNE 2001 5 CONTACT Editor-in-Chief Simon Jary [email protected] Deputy Editor David Fanning Macworld www.macworld.co.uk JUNE 2001 Contents [email protected] News Editor Jonathan Evans [email protected] News Reporter Dominique Fidéle [email protected] NEWS CREATE REVIEWS Managing Editor Sean Ashcroft [email protected] Chief Sub-Editor Woody Phillips New Apple products [email protected] 20 Landmark for ‘saviour’ iMac Art Editor James Walker [email protected] 667MHz G4 scrapped Macromedia’s Art Director Mandie Johnson X plans 3D Web speed boost OS X [email protected] updater developer fillip X file-buster 52 Managing Editor/Online Gillian Thompson Publishing’s sight of future Quark [email protected] 52-57 Adobe After Effects 5.0; CD Editor Vic Lennard previews XPress 5.0 Broadcast is hot Adobe Acrobat 5.0; US Editor Andrew Gore news Media 100’s product flurry Contributing editors David Pogue, Deke McClelland, Firmware RAM-crash peril Memory USB Microscope Franklin Tessler, Bruce Fraser, price flux Softline inks games deal 58 OmniWeb; Christopher Breen, Apple rides PC storm Create: web Q&A Matthew Bath, Peter Cohen, 141 14 5 Sherston’s Literacy Bank Adam C Engst, Jim Heid. 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