When 3dfx announced the Voodoo3, shortly after their acquisition of board manufacturer STB, the company also announced that they would begin to make their own cards instead of licensing the technology to others. This is when the company also began to support the Mac for the first time with an extended series of beta drivers…
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Mac Architecture Site On The Move
Architosh, the only site examing architecture and CAD from a Macintosh perspective, is on the move. After having problems with their prior hosting company, Los Angeles’ Reprahduce.com, the site is currently negotiating to switch providers in hope of continuing to serve the Mac community. According to Architosh: BritasMedia, the publisher of the Architosh.com Web site…
But I Digress... - The Mac Is The Smartest OS? Not For Everyone
The Mac Is The Smartest OS? Not For Everyone November 10th, 2000 Two weeks ago, we looked together at the Mac OS and briefly, the theories of Howard Gardner, Professor of Education at Harvard University. Today, I am going to flesh out those original thoughts, and present you with an entirely different way of looking…
Why Are Apple's Laptops A Year Behind Dell's?
"What? Pitiful? XGA resolution of 1024×768? Are you crazy?" Yes, thatis just what I mean. In case you havenit noticed, Dell and IBM have had laptops with much higher screen resolution for a couple of years. 1280×1024. 1400×1100. And finally, this fall, one of the mythic milestones was passed. Dell introduced a laptop whose 15-inch…
iBrotha - Wanna appreciate your Mac? Try using a PC
Wanna appreciate your Mac? Try using a PC November 6th, 2000 If you want to know what water is, don’t ask a fish. Chinese proverb For the last few months, I’ve been settling into a new job. Also, for the last two months, I’ve been playing with OS X Public Beta. There’s a…
Fuzzy Logic - The Usefulness Of Net Speed & How To Get It For The Mac
The Usefulness Of Net Speed & How To Get It For The Mac November 1st, 2000 "Broadband" Internet is slowly spreading over the world, taking root in the urban areas first. Actually Steve Jobs expresses the opinion that it makes more sense to just call it "fast Internet," since to most folks "broadband" makes as…
The Mac Observer: On The Flip Side - Group Thinking & The Macintosh Explained
Group Thinking & The Macintosh Explained October 31st, 2000 To be a Mac user, you have to think differently. We have to go past the usual "I stick with what I know" barrier and adventure into the unknown. No matter what we say about Mac users, we all know one thing: we like something other…
[Review] Dual Processor Power Mac G4: The Multiprocessing G4 Reviewed
Introduction The unit came with two 450 MHz PowerPC processors, 128 MB RAM, DVD-ROM, a 20 GB hard disk drive, an internal Zip drive, a SCSI adapter card, gigabit Ethernet, 16 MB ATI Rage 128 video card and Mac OS 9.0.4, without modem. It has 2 USB ports, 2 FireWire ports, Apple Display Connector, power,…
Star Trek Voyager Elite Force For Mac Reaches Final Candidate Status
Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, just to recap, is a first person shooter set in the franchise of the Star Trek universe. It utilizes the well known and well liked Quake III engine and is being described as one of the best games to come out since Halflife. High praise, but we will have to…
But I Digress... - The Hip Factor: The Mac's Shift From Cool To Hip
The Hip Factor: The Mac’s Shift From Cool To Hip September 29th, 2000 If you read this month’s Macworld, and this month’s MacAddict, you aren’t likely to notice more than the usual distinctions between the two unless you look really closely at the magazines. Sure, Macworld and MacAddict differ wildly as publications, but there’s always…
The Ongoing Conflict: iMac Budget, Power Mac Taste
The most obvious problem is its built-in monitor. Yes, 15" isnit a bad size. But monitor prices have been dropping steadily, and many consumers now want a larger 17" or even 19" screen. While the iMac does offer video-out, you are still stuck buying a 15" monitor, and you canit use multiple monitors to display…
An iMac Supercomputer Cluster You Can Carry Home
According to The Register: Terra Soft, the company behind the Yellow Dog and Black Lab Linux PowerPC distros has released a supercomputer cluster based on Appleis iMac. Theyire teaming up with Marathon Computers of Nashville Tennessee, who have been building Apple PowerPC-based racks for several years. […] And it makes perfect sense. The Power chipis…
Aladdin Gets Serious About Mac Stock Tickers With PowerTicker 2.0
Aladdin Systems has released an update to PowerTicker, bringing the desktop stock ticker to version 2.0. The new version includes a host of new features and enhancements, and is a serious upgrade. According to Aladdin Systems: PowerTicker 2.0 Introduces Portfolio Management, Customizable E-mail Based Alerts, And Includes Automatically Updated Stock, Mutual Fund, Index, And Currency…
Apple Adds New David Pogue Article To Macintosh Product Guide
A quick note to let you know weive just published the September installment of David Pogueis "Mastering Your Mac" in the Macintosh Products Guide. This month, David, along with Dave Reynolds and Jim Elferdink, provides a ton of great information for getting the most out of AppleWorks 6 style-sheets. You can find more information on…
The Mac Observer: On The Flip Side - G4 Multiprocessing Lesson For The Masses
G4 Multiprocessing Lesson For The Masses August 22nd, 2000 Ever since the dual processor G4 came out at MACWORLD Expo in New York in July, a debate has raged over Internet sites about the real power that the G4 actually has to offer. Some say that the extra power of the new machine is ridiculously…
MP G4/500's And G4 Cube's Starting To Show Up (Updated 2:30 PM)
Elite Computers & Software, an Apple Specialist located directly across the street from Apple Headquarters, announces receiving it?s first shipment of the new G4 500DP Towers! “All back orders have been filled and Elite Computers now has lots of G4 500DP Towers In Stock and Available for Immediate Delivery”, said Thomas Armes, president of Elite…
The Mac Observer Talks To Xtrem About MacThrust And 1.2 GHz PowerMacs
1st things first Xtrem will be releasing a product in the next two weeks called MacThrust. MacThrust is an overclocking device that will allow owners of Blue & White G3s as well as PowerMac G4s to increase the speed of their Macs up to 35%. Xtrem did not give us specific information on which systems…
The Back Page - How I Came To Use A Mac: A Tribute To Kinko's
The time is 1991. I was managing a pizza delivery store whose name (Domino’s) I won’t mention. Oops, I mentioned it. I had just taken over this store and was very excited about building sales. This unit was in a sorry state when I took over, and the key to building sales is marketing of…
Amazing Mac Art Tool Available
The new control surface is based on a fiber optic technology originally developed with funding from the Space Agency. The controller is a ismart fabrici device which senses the location and pressure of multiple fingers or styluses simultaneously, much like human skin. With the Studio Artist driver support, the controller captures intuitive gestures made by…
Microsoft Chooses Mac Group To Develop Office 2001 Icons
As was demonstrated this morning in Steve Jobsi keynote address at MacWorld, New York, Microsoft formally announced the newest version of its popular Office suite of applications – Office 2001. The Iconfactory is pleased to announce it worked closely with the Office team at Microsoft to update and revise the over 300 user interface and…
Xircom Announces PortStation for Mac (with Pictures)
We had a chance to stop by the Xircom booth and check out some of the slick USB expansion products they have to offer. Although the stackable 4 and 7 port USB hubs in multiple colors caught our eye, what caught our attention was the upcoming PortStation product. This is a modular expansion product which…
Apple Legal Cracks Down On MacCards
A Mac-centric electronic greeting card site, MacCards, was forced by Apple to shut down earlier this year. This came on the heels of Apple launching iTools, which includes an e-card service. Although the MacCards site was Mac friendly, they were forced to close. An attempt by MacCards creator Simon Jones to launch a new greeting…
But I Digress... - How To Get Into The Apple Party And Other MACWORLD Tips
How To Get Into The Apple Party And Other MACWORLD Tips July 13th, 2000 Next month, I’ll take some time to let you all (or perhaps I should write y’all, as I do live far south of the Mason-Dixon line.) on how this works. For now, though, it is, most definitely, MACWORLD time, and that…
The Mac Observer: The Apple Trader - The Deplorable State Of Mac Web Journalism
The Deplorable State Of Mac Web Journalism June 26th, 2000 Perhaps if you SAW a copy of the [PhotoShop 6] beta you’d believe all of these things [features reported on in a leaked Adobe PhotoShop spec sheet]. Normally, I don’t believe them, however, in this case, all of the things described are in the beta.…
