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IF YOU OWN A DESK BOUND MAC, chances are you've cast an envious glance at someone using a laptop--perhaps a strange reading e-mail on his Power Book while drinking a […]

The Mac Isn't Just a Digital Hub. It's a Creative Hub, Too. CREATIVITY: MORE THAN something that can define our place in the world and sometimes even outlive us, it's […]

MP3 Player Doubles As Disk Drive but Lacks Good Software THE IDEA IS CLEVER: a portable audio player that uses inexpensive magnetic media and doubles as a USB disk drive. […]

Palm m505, Handspring Visor Prism Battle for Supremacy Once you use a color palmtop, you'll wonder how you ever got by without one. Sure, most Palm OS productivity applications don't […]

An Icon of a Different Color Illustrates Our Commitment to Mac OS X THE MOUSE RATING IS, IN a very real sense, what Macworld is all about. It's the distillation […]

Consumer Portables Break Barriers in Price, Features, Excitement Building an exciting new notebook computer when price is not a concern is one thing. Building an exciting new notebook computer when […]

APPLE SACRIFICES SIZE, Not Strength, with Latest Portable Update THE TITANIUM POWERBOOK G4 has been a big hit for Apple--in just four months, the company has sold more than 115,000 […]

Apple's Portables Succeed Because They're Fun to Drive THE OTHER DAY, I LEARNED that Fahrvergniigen-the clever-sounding German slogan that Volkswagen has been using for years-is a real word, not just […]

GET READY: MAC OS X IS THE START OF SOMETHING BIG 'When looking at this new operating system, you must look beyond the interface. Yes, it's new, it's different, maybe […]

MACWORLD LAB PUTS THE NEWEST, SLEEKEST POWERBOOK TO THE TEST To determine whether you are a PowerBook fanatic, take the Gore test: If a genie were to grant you three […]

HOW OPINIONATED MAC USERS ARE MAKING MACWORLD BETTER Mac users are described alternately as mindless zealots and as nitpicky whiners, often by the same critics. What these critics fail to […]

IN THE TRANSITION TO MAC OS X, NOVICES WILL LEAD THE WAY We in the computer industry like to plan for the future by consulting the history books--not only because […]

IT'S GREAT TO SEE APPLE NOT JUST THINKING DIFFERENT BUT THINKING BETTER The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Brian Eno's 801 […]

A SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF ONE MAN'S FAVORITE PRODUCTS Sometime on the evening of January 8, 2001, Macworld will reveal the names of the 30 best Macintosh products of the year, […]

USE YOUR CREATIVE SPIRIT TO GIVE SOMETHING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY It's cold. But that's OK, because the constant patter of rain on my Bondi Blue poncho keeps my mind […]

Apple Delivers Solid Value and Style in New Portables There are many things I could have imagined saying about Apple's new low-cost portables: surprisingly fast, feature-rich, great value, attractive design. […]

Apple's Pearl of Great Price If you agree with the following three statements, the Power Mac G4 Cube is right for you: I don't need to add PCI cards to […]

MAC OS X's ARRIVAL IS OUR OPPORTUNITY TO SHAPE THE FUTURE OF THE MAC PLATFORM This is a historic moment. For the first time, Mac users have a chance to […]

A Host of New Features Makes This Digital Video Editor Ready for Prime Time There's an axiom in Hollywood: Whether it's a copy of a video tape, a film transfer, […]

Apple's New Optical Mouse Is a Work of Art Carved in Lucite Long-suffering mouse users. Rejoice--Apple's round mouse has breathed its last. Born as part of the original iMac's revolutionary […]

AT LAST -- APPLE DELIVERS A POWER MAC FOR THE MAC MIDDLE CLASS A major perk of my job is reserved front-row seating at the Macworld Expo keynote. There was […]

The plastic, cube-shaped device may look spartan, and it may be no bigger than a tissue box. But hidden beneath the Power Mac G4 Cube's deceptively simple design is a […]

The Mac has changed, and so has Macworld. Come take a look around. Steve Jobs unveiled the squat little box that used black-and-white pictures as its command-line interface in 1984. […]

THE MAC WORLD IS CHANGING, AND SO IS MACWORLD. AND THAT'S Notice anything different this month? Now, I realize that change can be a little disconcerting, and we all know […]

SPEEDMARK'S REBIRTH HERALDS THE RETURN OF MEANINGFUL MAC BENCHMARKS DEAR COLIN: Read your note re: the status of Macworld benchmarks. Frankly, I've been a bit reluctant to respond because, as […]

INTEL PUSHES USB FOR HIGH-SPEED CONSUMER PERIPHERALS Politics and technology shouldn't mix--but in Silicon Valley, they often do. Take Intel's quest to establish its own standard for plug-and-play peripheral connectivity. […]

TODAY'S HANDHELD GADGETS MAY GIVE US THAT 007 FEELING--BUT WHERE'S APPLE? DO YOU EXPECT ME TO talk?' asks James Bond as he's strapped on a table, staring down a laser-beam […]

MILD-MANNERED UPDATE, OR SUPER-POWERBOOK? A POWERBOOK IS MORE THAN A computer. It's a loyal companion, an indispensable assistant, a home entertainment system, and a gateway to the world. The mobility […]

Speak Easy SURE, YOU CAN TALK TO YOUR MAC--BUT WHO KNOWS IF IT WILL UNDERSTAND YOU? ON A FINE SUNNY DAY, A man sits down at his computer and goes […]

A NETWORKED HOME ISN'T JUST FOR SHOW--IT CAN HELP YOU GET REAL WORK DONE WE HERE AT MAC-world have a theory. When it comes time for Apple to introduce a […]

GIVING NOVICES PRO VIDEO POWER DOESN'T MEAN THEY'LL ALSO HAVE PRO VIDEO TECHNIQUE RUN TITLE, FADE TO Scene One. I'm in a restaurant, eating dinner with two friends. They're both […]

THE COMPUTER IS NO LONGER THE BOTTLENECK. WE ARE. SUNDAY 5 P.M.; MONTEREY, California. One of the most scenic places on earth, and it's unlikely I'll get a minute to […]

BIG, HEAVY PORTABLE OFFERS LOTS OF STYLE BUT LIMITED SUBSTANCE ALTHOUGH APPLE'S NEW CONsumer portable may be one of the company's most hotly anticipated products ever, the iBook's reality falls […]

APPLE'S G4 CONFUSION HAS LEFT MAC BUYERS HOLDING THE BAG BAD THINGS HAPPEN And nowhere is that truer than in the computer business, where all it takes to derail a […]

IMAC DV AND MAC OS 9 INCREASE THE MAC'S EASE-OF-USE EDGE. BUT IS THAT ENOUGH? SOME THINGS ARE SO obvious that when they finally arrive, instead of saying, 'Wow!' or, […]

With the Power Mac G4, Apple Brings Super Power to Your Desktop COMIC BOOKS MADE THEIR MARK ON the world by telling the stories of people with amazing and bizarre […]

ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT THE POWER MAC G4: IT'S NOT NAMED THE POWER MAC G3 THE COEN BROTHERS' 1996 film Fargo was a big movie about small-minded people […]

THINK THE iBOOK IS IMPRESSIVE? WAIT TILL YOU UNPLUG IT. NEW YORK--ANOTHER Macworld Expo, another groundbreaking product announcement from Steve Jobs. Apple's performance at its major media events has become […]

NEW SLIM POWERBOOKS OFFER MORE AND LESS AS MOST PORTABLE USERS WILL tell you, the three most important considerations in a notebook computer are size, size, and size. Luckily for […]

WHY MP3 AND THE MAC WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THE MUSIC WORLD CONVERGENCE IS THE bogeyman of media megacorporations. In the music industry, where so much is made by so many for […]

WHEN IT COMES TO. THE MAC OS X FINDER, APPLE SHOULD GIVE ITS CUSTOMERS A CHOICE News Item: When Mac OS X arrives early next year, the venerable and familiar […]

High-end notebook has sharp screen and new multimedia capabilities Apple might have stumbled onto the next killer feature for mobile computing: the portable cinema. The company's new flagship portable, the […]

The future of the PowerBook is going to take some dramatic turns and angles and colors and gadgets Once upon a time, the PowerBook was the most easily recognized computer […]

The PowerPC troika this week will fire the latest salvo in what it hopes will be the first real challenge to Intel Corp.'s dominance of personal computing. At this week's […]

For those who thought Apple Computer Inc. had already delivered its command performance in the realm of PowerPC portables, sources said there's a surprise of Epic proportions waiting in the […]