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GREATER TORONTO EDITION • JANUARY '97

F EA T U R E S '

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20 A rough guide to reading computer ads

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64 Color me Comdex Past, present and future at Vegas tradeshow

How to break through the jargon to find deals

That's why they call it a personal computer

72 Real DVD titles, applications a year away

Thinking small

78 A v irtual visit to Comdex

Making your first computer a portable

80 I BM demos data transmission through humans

51 Setting up a comfortable workspace

84 I rDA products beaming at Comdex

Some simple steps to safe computing

85 DEC's Quinn talks PCstrategy

56 Your first peripherals

86 Canadian firms out in force

Separating the toys from the tools

58 First software for your home office

88 Corel Ventura 7, new multimedia titles launched

Knowing what you need before you buy

59 Your first monitor

90 M ultilingual tools for software's Tower of Babel 92 Gates says no to PCnaysayers 93 I ntel boss declares war on television

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38 D esktop replacement notebooks A look at the latest powerful portables

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T i ps to save money with an RRSP

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I n tel competitors positive despite losses

96 Windows for palmtop computers arrives

128 Monty Python's gloriously silly CD-ROM 130 An exhaustive look at Renaissancelife and art Information makes up for difficult navigation

Smaller, faster OS planned for range of devices

101 Cassiopeia palmtop a charmer Casio employs Windows CE in new handheld PC 104 The CPU question Do the brains behind our

Q igt 128 Cyber romance breaks nonew ground I

computer's brain really matter

132 Pilot now works with Macs 112 Weaving your own Web site: Part XVI 134 Sharing data between applications Windows-based software easesthe process

Publicizing your Web site: Part II I

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115 Making cents of your money TCPsannual review of personal financial software 118 Getting organized A roundup of personal information

management software

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industry has done a rotten job of getting people wired, despite all the hype. At the recent Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, vendors,

ic vendor,which may or may not have competitive pricing now and in the future, Some of the wizzy new software ideas from the Internet won't work on them. Sure, if written in Java, it will probably work, but

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TVs aren't computer screens. I admit it, I am biased. We are a computer kind of family. In

like ReaIAudio, QuickTime, VRML, etc., are all here now for Macs, PCs and many Unix boxes, but will they be there for your little black box? Will that little black box have the

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puters for nothing. The whole thing about interactivity is that my interactivity is not likely to interest my wife or my kids and vice versa. Web surfing seems like an inappropriate family activity. Think about when you have to share a newspaper with someone else.

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readable fonts to keep text readable. Not all units I saw looked this good. These black box units are non-standard. Different vendors are using different operating systems and software on them. WebTV and Diba were two popular brands around the Comdex show floor. They seemed well supported at the show, but in the fast moving consumer electronics field, this year's hot product is often in next year's remainders bin and development ceases. Because the internet is changing so fast, you want to know that the product you buy will be supported well into the future. With PCs, you have more of a known quantity. With Web TV units, it is a new universe and no one can guarantee at this point which units will take off.

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by massive sales of these units, but for my money, I'd buy an inexpensive computer instead.For as little as $1,200 you can have a computer capable of not only surfing the Web, but also charting spreadsheets, desktop

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although you can run Pippin titles on a Mac, you could not go the other way round and run Mac titles on a Pippin. I am not quite sure who dreamed up that strategy, but it does not seem like a good one to me. The lack of local hard drives on Web TV

Internet for Grarulrna One cool device that I saw at Comdex that did seem worth c onsidering was from

Uniden, a telephone manufacturer based in the United States. I liked these units, because simple e-mail is fairly standard. Text-based messages can do the job for most people right now. Unidenused 059 to create a POP compliant e-mail phone. This striking looking unit is predicted to be available early in 1997 and sell for about $300 for a one-line cordless phone version. It is about the size of a small thermal fax machine. The lid flips up to reveal a small keyboard and screen, with which you can do the basics of e-mail. It only does text-based email and cannot handle any file attachments, but it is always on (np boot up time) and can be set to poll your mail server at whatever interval you set it to. I think I have finally spotted a way to get my computer-reluctant mother on e-mail. Three numbers to program and five bucks a month for an e-mail-only account — this seems like a dream unit. The rest of this issue is packed with infor-

mation and ideas to ease the pain of choosing and getting up to speed on a new computer. If you are already there, we encourage you to pass this copy around to your friends who want to get wired. Enjoy the issue.

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MB to 16 MB) on my tour-year-old 486-33 and discovered I had 32-pin, 1 MB SIMMs.

The stores I have checked with only carry 30pin or 72-pin SIMMs. Do you know of anywhere I might obtain 4 MB, 32-pin SIMMs? Also, I have heard rumors that I would be

able to use 30-pin SIMMs in place of (or in tandem with) my old 32-pin SIMMs. Can you either substantiate this claim or refute it?

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experiencing. The closest to a definitive answer seems to be that IBM on some PS/2 models and

Pleasetest motherboards I really wish The Computer Paperwould test out the wide range of Pentium motherboards that are available on the market.

EddyLau,via Internet

AST on some modelsusedpropnetary 32-pin SIMMs, which cannot be interchanged with standard 30-pin SIMMs. Your options seem to be limited to contacting the manufacturer to see if it still carries the kind

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CF replies: Testing motherboardsis something we have been considering for quite some time.,We have at various times planned to do this and then put the project on the shel f. Testing motherboards is an extremely labor-intensive undertaking,as there are a Iot of different brands and each moth-

erboard needs to be setup with identical componentsbefore itcan be benchmarked. Isuspectthat we will get to it in the future, but not in tire next

few months. And lf not snotherboards, then honkln'fast systems I think that you should do ratings on some high-end Pentium or Pentium Pro 200 sys-

tems. Right now, I'm looking for a really highend system, and I want to know what would be the best configuration and when would be the right time to buy.

SeanFraser,via Internet SH replies: The Test Lab in our February 97issue

will feature highland systems of the Pentium 200

MHz variety. Keep an eye out.

OS/2 did It first I do hope Ross Macdonald was pressed for time on his "Looking forward to backing up" article in the November TCP,because otherwise I'd have to attribute this to either shoddy research, or the all-too-common Ioumalistic i n ability t o s e e a n y thing o u tside Microsoft's little realm. Mr. Macdonald, in writing about using

large-capacity flopticals for backup targets, states that "there's no software yet to allow a backup to a PD in the sense that we normally think of a backup;... the PD won't recognize any existing back-up utilities that compress or

automatically schedule or incrementally save, or any of that other neat backup stuff." Maybe not in the DOS/Windows world, Symmantec Fastback Plus for OS/2, on the other hand, has a few unique abilities. Besides the usual compression, scheduling and incremental backup functions, it supports four types of backup devices: standard

floppy disks, floppyeonnected QIC tape drives, SCSI tapes drives, and a little thing called

"system devices." A system device in Fastback/2 can be any drive with a recognizable drive letter, removable or fixed: local disks, network drives, ZIP

and JAZ disks... and, as iong as a PD drive can

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And while we' re on the subJect of O S/2.. . I flnd it very disturbing the type of coverage you gave OS/2 Warp 4.0 in your October issue of The Computer Paper.There were only two half-page columns pertaining to it's release, whereas, one year ago, when Windows 95 was

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umn about the widely anticipated â&#x20AC;&#x201D; amongst expert cotnputer users and ISPs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; release of Unux 2.0 (aka Linux 96). What has happened to one greatest computer papers'? Has the media taken it over? Appears so.

MichaelThomdyke To thine own eyes be true In TCP'sNovember Lab Test on color inkjet printers, you rate the Canon BJC 4100. Since then theCanon BJC 4200 has come on the

Ple errors on our part: the watTanties on the Canon 240 and 4550 mod-.;,:.j y els are for one year ottly, and the correct toll-free number for Canada- e+4". We extend- our-"apologies' to AK Microsystems for any Inconve-~r

market and I was wondering how you rated it. I went to a retail store to check out their print-

ers and compared theEpson Stylus Color 500, Canon BJC 4200, and the HP 680c. They had

samples on the same paper, same resolution, and same picture. To my eyes, the Canon BJC 4200 was the winner. Please let me know your comments. Arthur Owen DT replies: We have yet totest this new Canon model.Ho~ever, each one of these brands has a good share of the market and many satisfied Itsers. Sometimes, after a/I the fneasurement are takenand the tests run, subjective experienceis the deciding factor, so if it looks the best to you, that should be a factor in your buying decisionas much as theperform ance figures.

Where's the one-line, many-devices piece? In your November '96 issue a letter from

Glenn McCauley refers to an article "One phone line, so many devices" in TCP, November 1996. I have been trying to find this article in online past issues (I assumed the above reference is incorrect, since the letter

' itslows tlown is to takeimportant calls.

was in fact in the November '96 issue) and have been unsuccessful. Please let me know where I can find this article if it is available. Al Mallory DT rephes:We received a lotofcomments on this article, which unfortunately, did not makeit into the Prairie and Eastern editions because of space limitations. Thearticle date cited in the Novemberletter is

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The CoolWomen site features a virtual cafe where discussion takes place, a bulletin board for upcoming events and other information.—fE Contact: CoolWorns, Tsl: 416-924-6961. Web site: http//www.coolwornsn.org Halifax company wins 19C research grant • NB — Srooklyn North SoftwareWorks, a twoyear-old developer of hypertext toois for the World Wide Web based in Halifax, N.S., has won the first annual Software Market Research Grant from the federal governm nt.e The Industry Canada grant provides Brooklyn North with

$20,000 worth of market information and analyst services from Toronto's International Data Corp. Inc, To qualify for the grant, which will be offered again next year, a software company must have a head office and development facilities in Canada, a product on the market„and annual revenues between $200,000 and $5 million. Pink Panther's passport to peril • A new CD-ROM title from New York-based Wanderlust International features the animated adventure of the popular cartoon cat, offering a mix of humor, problem solving and action. The Pink Panther character, originally introduced in the Inspector Clouseau live-action comedies in the 1960s, has been licensed from its copyright holder, MGM/UA Family Entertainment, to star as an international agent seeking to protect international travellers from a variety of dangers. Like Corel's new Wild World of Madison Jaxx game, the Pink Panther's Passport to Peril offers an element of learning, with a cultural database of over 250 pages of info and pictures on food, peoples and languages, nature and history.—fE Contact: Wanderlust. Tel: 212-966-8887. PageMart Canada Introducesnarrowband personal communlcatlons service • Industry Canada has awarded a licence to provide two-way wireless messaging services to Toronto-based PageMart Canada. The new Rcence will permit PageMart to establish two-way messaging and data communications, including wireless modern, information on demand, telemetry, and response paging. Continued onpage f1

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According to PageMart,nNarrowband PCS (NPCS) is thought of as an enhanced form of paging service, yet it really represents a shift in the entire concept of wireless messaging. The common name for this emerging technology is two-way paging, but because it encompasses so many advanced messaging services, including voice messaging,N-PCS more accurately deAnes the wide array of products and services coming to market over the next several years. E-mails, faxes and messages can be sent both wa ys,no fuss and no wires." An example of what N-PCS will make practical would be the ability to use a notebook PC or a handheld personal digital assistant (PDA) to connect to the Internet via wireless modem to the PageMart network service. A wide variety of devices, from pagersto computers,can hook up to the N-PCS once it is in place. PageMart intends to roll out a test version of the new service early this year, with wider availability mid to late1997.— /E

departments that offer services of interest to information technology companies, a link to research finn International Data Corp. (Canada) Ltd.'s Web page, a modest calendar of industry events, and a listing of meetings of standards organizations, along with other material. Those who want to check industry news will be able to use Bnks from the site to the sites of some high-technology publications, Bunn told Newsbytes. Those who are looking for information on IT products will And links to the

Contact: PageMart Canada,Tel: 416-423-6605. Web site: http Jlwww.pagemart.ca . "Marshall Mcluhan, What Are Va IIainl w • Marshall McLuhan, whobegan his scholarly life as a kind of prematurely middl«-aged, fusty academic prude who viewed the mass media with alarm, eventually blossomed into the unintentional prophet of the Information Age, His often obscure catch phrases, such as "the global village,n and "the medium is the message," have inspired much of the serious study of mass media and communications technologies in the last 35 years. As well, the ucybercultureu that emerged in the mid 1980s gained much inspiration from his writings. He is also the patron saint of Wiredmagazine in its mission to make the computer revolution hip. Now, the latest in McLuhan-mania comes to you via the World Wide Web, with the launch of Messenger — the Marshall Mcf.trhail Movie, a virtual film production studio that will allow subscribers to participate in every facet of the production of a real life documentary film on McLuhan, "from location scouting to camera reports to screening dailies to the number of sticky buns eaten (by the crew) each day. Other benefits include a ticket to opening night, and later, a VHS cassette of the film with the subscribers' screen film credit as an associate producer." In other words, for a inere $49.95 fee, any wannabe filmmaker can participate, virtually, in the making of this film, and get a production credit on his or her resume, for what it'sworth, As the title suggests, Messenger — The Marshall McLuharr Movieis a project designed to illuminate the connections between McLuhan's life «nd thought and the wired world of today. Subscribers can participate in the project via the Internet in much the same way as one partidpates in growing a bonsai plant — you get to watch the thing taking shape, over time. As a realtime course in Almmaking, this could be of interest and instruction, not to mention fun, for the family's wouldbe George Lucas.—1E

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legions of shoppers mired in the maze of choice and lingo that permeated every computer ad and sales pitch, To no one's surprise, the syndrome continues today. Now, however, quite a bit of the machinery has changed to the point where there's a whole new set of things to leam

before venturing forth to buy a computer. Gone, for example, is the confusion engendered by trying to grasp the differences between five or six kinds of 486 chips. And, if you recall hearing something about a Vesa local Bus, you can forget that too, because the prominence of the Pentium has introduced at least some kind of standard, chip wise, and similarly dictated the use of the PCI

bus on all consumer-oriented computers. However, the function and number of

components required to make a personal computer have remained more or less the same, and even increased to some degree as multimedia capability has become an expected feature.

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The Chip: pentlum, AMD KS, Cyrls6$86, etc. This is usually the first thing listed in any computer ad. It tells you what kind of chip-

or central processing unit (CPU) — functions as the actual brain of the computer.

involved a company like Intel releasing a code

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set for a new chip„. say, the Pentium„. prior to the chip's introduction because motherboard

back cache at this point "because that tech-

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and the firmware and the BIOS [binary

to know how to address the chip when it becomes available. That way you can buy software for a new chip on the same day the CPU

sion despite the fact that there's no genuine need for it. In simplest terms, it can be safely said that all three of these major brands of

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CPU are compatible, the two being more or less Pentium clones, Any differences lie in the subtle technological tricks each manufacturer employs to try and grab some segment of the market in terms

of increased performance, lower price or both. It all boils down to technological tricks,

input/output system]. So it's just not possible for a chip maker to call up the motherboard

makers and say they' re going to switch to a is released because software makers have had write-back cache, because that would mean a the code for some time prior. whole new program of research and develop"All the CPU makers have to adhere to

But, where everyone's familiar — or at least thinks they are — with' Intel's Pentium brand of chips, the AMD and Cyrix brands often engender some degree of mistrust or confu-

nology has to be supported by the hardware

[an] established code in order to ensure compatibility. But then they begin exercising little tricks to try and gain some competitive edge [and] most of the performance tweaks used by the various manufacturers are applied to the internal cache," explains Scott Knight, president of Vancouver-based Platinum Upgrades."A cache is essentially a guessing game. When you' re trying to implement a cache you' re trying to guess what the next instruction to the chip is going to be, based on all the previous instructions. A write-back

cache, for example — which is faster than a write-through cache — is quite. simply a better

ment for the motherboard makers to be able

'to support lt. Cache itself is a complicated business because there are so many different types (write-through, write-back, pipeline burst, etc.) and, as we' ve just seen, each competing chip maker applies its own technology to designing it. In other words, there's no point in trying to explain them aH here. Just remember that "write back" is better than

"write through" and "pipeline burst" is better than "write back"... the term "better" is used loosely here to indicate faster when all other factors remain the same. And a last word about cache. Those

apparently, because the basic process of CPU guesser because there are more hits based on described so far are "internal," meaning they' re manufacture for the PC market has generally the algorithm it uses." built into the CPU itself, which also means

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they are very small — generally about 16K. But you' ll often see another specification in a computer ad specifying Level 2 (or L2, or

secondary) cache, which is an external set of chips built onto the motherboard to work with the CPU in maximizing performance. When L2 cacheismentioned in an ad, you can expect to find either 256K or 512K in a normal consumer-level rnachine. As with most things computer, bigger is better. But back to the actual CPU, which is what

RAIN Things get a lot easier at this point, RAM stands for random access memory and, just as with most computer stuff, the more the better. Explaining how memory works would take volumes but all you need to know is that eight megabytes — or MB — of RAM is absotive-

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going to run today's software with any efficiency, But, with only 8 MB of RAM, you' ll

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on the screen. In most cases, though, the delay is more like seconds. But, when you' re trying to work or play a game or watch a CD-ROM, delay after delay will drive you nuts! Just to mix things up a little, we' re now presented with the option of something called

That's becauseRAM is where a lot of software information is stored for quick retrieval by the computer. When your RAM is full up, the computer has to go back to the hard drive, search for the information it's looking for instructions, then actually do it. In many cases, this can mean waiting several minutes between pushing the mouse button and seeing

we' re supposed to be talking about here.

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extended data out (EDO) RAM. This is a quicker type of RAM than the regular old dynamic RAM (DttAM) for highly technical reasons and can, according to some estimates, boost

Whichever brand of CPU is in the machine,

the name will be followed by a number which tells the internal speed of the chip as measured in megahertz, or MHz. This is one of those once simple numbers that has been fudged somewhat by newer technology.

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called the "P rating." So, for example, a particular AMD KS chip might have a "P rating" of 166 MHz but have an actual speed of 100 MHz, What the "P rating" tells us is that it claims to be as fast as an Intel Pentium 166 MHz in terms of actual computing. Dean Whitehair at AMD put it this way: "I think what you' re going to see with all the new advanced architectures that all microprocessor manufacturers are going to right now, is that core clock speed is going to become more and more irrelevant — espedally for the end user. Unfortunately, right now, they' re still measuring CPU performance based on clock speeds. But what we' re seeing, for example, is that AMD's KS with a P rating

of 133 has a core clock speed of only about 100 MHz but it performs as fast, or faster, than a Pentium 133."

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mation back and forth between the chip and the rest of the stuff in the computer. And bus

speed, like most things computer, makes a big difference when it comes to performance. You don't really have to know the following information, but I' ll throw it in for those who are interested (everybody else can skip a few para-

graphs): Regardless of the speed of your CPU, it c ommunicates to everything else in t h e computer through the bus. And, just as with

CPUs, bus speeds are measured in MHz. Now, this is where it gets a bit tricky: all the newer motherboards have jumpers that allow you to set the bus speed at 25 MHz, 30

MHz or 33 MHz. And when you buy your system, these jumpers wiII be set to optimize

whichever speed of CPU you' re getting (100 MHz, 133 MHz, 166 MHz, etc.). However,

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speeds isn't linear. Put more simply: when all other factors are constant, a Pentium 166 machine will likely be more than the arithmetically expected 66 percent faster than a Pentium 100 because it has the benefit of faster CPU communicating through a faster

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it's measured diagonally. But manufacturers got together somewhere and agreed to measure the entire picture tube size„not the size of the picture. Good monitors disguise this by putting a mask over the front of the tube so your image seems to fill the screen edge to

Again here, th e b i gger th e b e tter. Fourteen-inch monitors are really cheap now, even good quality ones, because it's generally. accepted that 15 inches is the minimum size for reasonable computing comfort. Of course, bigger is better, but the price curiously rises

edge. But if you measure what you see, you' ll find that your 17-inch monitor is only about

exponentially in relation to screen size. A. really good 15-inch monitor might set you back $650 but an equally good 17-inch model

15.5 inches across, your 15-incher is about 14 inches and your 14-inch monitor is closer to

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Software prices haven't followed their hardware counterparts and remain relativeiy expensive, so you might carefully consider what you want to use your computer for and look for a system with a bundle that best accommodates that. I wouldn't make a deci-

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drive these days (that's good), a sound card of some sort (hopefully a 16-bit SoundBlaster

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penalty. You want to check on all the above matters prior to purchasing the fund. These fees and charges should be in the prospectus. The reality, however, is that most people don't read the p rospectus t h o roughly, l e t a l o n e understand it, so ask. Some redemp-

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touchpads are far and away the most widely used mechanism, they are not necessarily the best for each individual. Luckily, we still have

some choice in this area with a couple of vendors offering trackballs and eraser-head type devices, which many people prefer. Some notebooks have unique options, like an infrared remote control mouse (which we"ve been referring to lately as the "IR wand" ).

Still, the notebook market has seen sever-

al incremental improvements over the last several months. Vendors are offering and shipping them with faster processors, larger screens and hard drives and faster CD-ROM drives. Within the category of desktop replacements, there is still a great amount of diversity to be considered. Notebooks exist to fit a

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There are two popular types of display screens for notebooks today — DSTN and TFF.

DSTN is the cost-effective option, but it daes not offer the clarity or brightness of TFT.

DSTN displays are back-Bt and cannot be viewed at an angle very well, whereas TFTdisplays produce brighter, sharper images viewable from several angles.

AST's new line of notebooks includes this model PSO. A fu/I-featured unit, it comes with

a Pentium 133 MHz processor and 256K of Level-2 cache. Our test unit came with 16 MB

The tests We used BAPCo Sysmark/32 running under Windows 95 to benchmark the notebooks. This is a grueling test and invariably, some computers fail to make it clean through the benchmark, Notebooks in particular have a hard time with the benchmark as they use

of RAM and a large 2.1 GB hard drive. The P50's 12.1-inch active matrix screen produces sharp images at resolutions up to 800x600 with 2 MB of video RAM. The CD-

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This isn't to say that a computer that can' t clear the benchmark is no good, but it is indicative o f p o ssible i ncompatibilities between the hardware and certain software.

rience, the system comes with built-in, 16-bit sound support and a 28.8Kbps faxmodem. It' s becoming quite common for manufacturers to integrate modems into the notebook itself,

ments for the desktop PC, and we received

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Making sense of the benchmark results is quite easy. The higher the Sysmark32 score,

thereby freeing up one PC card slot, which can be used for other devices. The PSOalso

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has infrared (IR) capabilities, which will allow you to communicate with other notebooks or IR-capable devices without the need for cables. At $6,490, this machine is very capa-

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than we had asked for, at 24 MB instead of 16 MB. The 12.1-inch active matrix screen is sharp and easy to read, producing clear images in both text and graphics applications at resolutions of 800x600. The system contains a 1 GB hard drive; an adequate amount of storage for most portables. Both the CD-

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The notebook also gives you the capability of outputting your video to a television set. A port on the back of the unit makes it very easy to accomplish this — particularly useful if you' re in the mood to take out your frustrations on your friends over a friendly game of Quake on your 30-inch TV. Now that's fun. Priced at $5,299, the system comes with a one-year warranty, with the option'of extending to two or three years,

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prises our way. When you first look at an OmniBook, you see an ultra-slim, very light-

test unit was equipped with the standard complement of 16 MB RAM, and 256K of pipelined cache. This particular model uses a trackball as its primary pointing device as

opposed to the ever-popular touchpad found among many of the notebooks we' ve tested. The 150ST features a built-in 6x CD-ROM drive and a built-in floppy drive, housed one on top of the other. The hard drive in this unit is larger than its cousin, the LM 133. At 1.3 GB, it' ll provide you with plenty of storage while you' re on the road. It's also the first notebook we' ve seen to come with a PCI 128-

bit video controller. If graphics-related applications are your thing, then this notebook was designed for you. And it can be yours for $S,499 with a three-year limited warranty.

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weight notebook. It's hard to imagine the power that lurks behind that gentle exterior. The 800CT is powered by a Pentium 133 MHz

processor with 256K of external cache on board. Our test unit was configured with 16 MB of EDO RAM, which is expandable to 48 MB, and a 1.4 GB hard drive. With a 10.4-inch active matrix screen, graphics quality was superb. Video consists of a 32-bit PCI chip with a 128-bit graphics controller from NeoMagic, With I MB of video RAM, resolu-

tions of 1024x768 are possible when an external monitor is used. As is common with HP OmniBooks, you get a built-in two-button mouse which pops out at the right side of the computer at the press of a button. Certainly different from touchpad devices, but very similar to a desk-

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Another all-in-one system, the 6200T from Eurocom has everything you need all under one roof. At the heart of the machine is a Pentium 133 MHz processor and 256K of secondary cache, 16 MB of RAM and a 1.2 GB hard drive. Your multimedia needs are met with a built-in Bx CD-ROM drive and 16-bit sound capabilities. The floppy drive on this model is also built in for your convenience. The 12.1-inch active matrix screen can produce impressive looking images at 800x600 resolution, with 2 MB of video RAM. Whereas most notebooks give you two PCMCIA slots, Eurocom's 6200T goes a step further, offering you three. With this configuration, it's possible to have two type-II cards, and one type-ill in the notebook at the same time. With standard configurations on most notebooks,

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tion where you will find a port replicator, including SCSI-2 and SVGA-out ports, support for an industry-standard half-length 16bit ISA card or a 32-bit PCI card. The docking system supports what is commonly referred to as "hot docking" which means that you can dock and undock the system while under power in an operating system enviroment. Due to dock's slim nature, the 4x SCSI CDROM and floppy drives are external. Performance on the OmniBook was on the higher end of the scale, with an overall Sysmark of 92. The 800CT sells for $6,490 as configured, and comes with a three-year warranty.

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and will allow resolutions of 800x600 internally or up to 1,280x1,024 when used on an external monitor. If your memory requirements should increase, the notebook will accommodate you with up to 64 MB of EDO

group presentations. The same notebook will have a 10x CD-ROM drive available by the time you read this article. Priced competitively at $4,264, the unit comes with a three-year warranty.

RAM using four DIMM (dual inline memory module) sockets. The keyboard makes use of the popular Windows 95 keys and uses a

IBIH ThlttkPttd $60 Looking for a lightweight, slim notebook?

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Consider your search over. IBM's ThinkPad 560 comes in at a mere 1.86 kg (4.1 Ibs) and

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mouse. This comes in real handy during

133 MHz Pentium processor and 16 MB of RAM. The hard drive is 1.08 GB, the floppy is external, and it features 16-bit stereo sound.

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wasted no time soaring through our grueling benchmark suite. The main unit can be docked on a MultiNet Mobile Staflon, which houses a built-in 6x CD-ROM drive, a

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the form of smaller-sized components. The processor is still 133 MHz, but RAM is 8 MB as standard. The screen is a 10.4-inch TFT, capable of i n ternal resolutions of 800x600 with 1 MB of video RAM. The unit comes with a 1.0 GB hard drive, and removPerformance was slightly less than the 6030H, which is anticipated due to the 8 MB of RAM. The price on the 4230 is $5,129 with a one-

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Notebooks seem to be very popular items these days, making demo units hard to come

by. This was the case when we requested a Toshiba model. As notebooks became more and more powerful, the demand by joumalists for demo units grows. We were unable to

obtain a 133 MHz model, so we went with the 500 CDT which features a 120 MHz CPU. The system has 256K of pipeline burst cache, 16 MB of RAM expandable to 144 MB, and a 1.2

GB hard drive. The multimedia components in the unit include built-in, 16-bit stereo sound, and a removable 6x CD-ROM drive. The floppy drive and CD-ROM drive are interchangeable. The screen is a 12.1-inch active matrix, with resolutions up to 800x600, using 2 MB of video RAM. Also included in the unit

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on your screen while you' re working. The next phase is the work area itself. In general, you want to make sure your desk and chair are going to meet two criteria: they need to be comfortably arranged, since you' ll be sittingthere for extended periods of time, and everything on, in, or around the desk needs to be reasonably accessible. Your first concern is making sure you' re able to sit comfortably and safely. Your chair should have some sort of lower back support,

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(CPU) and power supply, the keyboard, and the mouse. The monitor should have two crucial components: some provision for reducing glare, and a built-in tilt/swivel stand. It should also be elevated in such a way that you can look straight ahead and see the top half of the screen. (If you can afford it, get a monitor that's at least 15 inches in size; while it's a bit more expensive than a 14-inch mon-

itor, it can be much easier on the eyes.) The CPU enclosure should be placed somewhere within easy reach. People who own mini or medium tower computers have a tendency to put them on the floor, freeing up valuable desktop space. Unfortunately, this leads to some pretty interesting contortions when you' re trying to reach for the power switch, disk drive, or CD-ROM drive. This is a minor nuisance at best, but when you have to vj

install a program that comes on 10 floppies, you might begin to feel aches after the fourth or fifth time you have to lean over to switch diskettes. IBM had the right idea when it designed the new Aptiva model, which separates the drive bays from the CPU. I generally recommend split keyboards like the Microsoft Natural Keyboard, since they' re designed to alleviate stress on the wrists by allowing you to position your hands more naturally, and have built-in wrist rests. But keep in mind that some people dislike

this style of keyboard, so the best advice here is try before you buy. A decent wrist rest — a padded support that runs the length of the

keyboard — is highly recommended. Virtually aH home PCs now come with Windows, which means you' ll also need a mouse (and of course, you' ll need a mouse with a Macintosh). Like keyboards, mouse preferences are subjective, so try before you buy. When you consider how much mileage your average mouse gets in the space of a day, Con6nued on page$4 •

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nightmare setting up a single workspace for multiple users — a cominon situation with most home computers. There are desks and chairs available that allow users to customize just about every conceivable angle and elevation; it may be a worthwhile investment for a work area that will bg used by three or more people. It's hard to come up with the ergonomic system that's ideal for all members of the family, but it's a goal worth aiming fer.

A variation of the mouse is the trackball,

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devices„such as graphics tablets or touch pads. These have the advantage of being immobile, and many people find them easier on the wrists than a mouse. Also, if you' re

If there is one universal rule to follow, it' s already suffering from an RSI, these gadgets can be a godsend — but you might want to that the safest computing is to occasionally check with your physician first. not compute. No project is so important that time cannot be taken to eat properly, stretch, massage your wrists, or simply take a quick Peripheral vtslons Pedpherals come in many shapes and sizes, but stroll around the house or office. If you spend the general rule can be summed up in one all day in front of a computer at home or at worcL accessibility. Yourperipheralsshould be work, indude a 15-minute walk or bicycle within easy reach, so that you can get to power ride in your lunch break In general, regular even as short as five minutesswitches, eject buttons, and the like without rest breaks — having to stretch or twist, However, as more help to ease physical tension and relaxpotenand more peripherals compete for limited desk tially overworked muscles. space, this is not always possible. When you' re forced to move something a bit farther out of %erissmarter, net harder the way, a good rule of thumb is to keep the These guidelines address the most common most frequently used peripherals dosest to ergonomic problems in computing environyou; The mouse should be right next to you; ments, but they' re not complete, and they"re something like an external modem, which is

generally tumed on and off once per computing session„can be placed further away.

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word-processed copies of the report resulting from the previous inspection, the invoice

QuickBooks and M.Y.O.B. (Mind Your Own Business) from BestWare. The size of your business will have a lot to do with your choice — and most small operations will probably find that something like QuickBooks or

to be as comprehensive as you can about it. Even if you think of something that you

all previous house reports, a reliable way to keep accounts and some method for invoic-

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couldn't possibly imagine would have any relevance to the use of computers, put it on the list anyway, as you may fmd out differ-

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ently. The strategy is that you will then take this activities list and map it against the capa-

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home. Here's how you might go about using personal computer technology to meet the needs of this small business.

quite acceptable packages are available, bui you may find that it makes sense to buy this

vices) that you can afford. This process is know as "activities-based

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planning" and is designed to let you underto accomplish before you set about the tricky task of enlisting a personal computer and some software to help realize the accomplish-

business details of your customers, suppliers ning and statistical analysis and a database and other vital contacts. for keeping detailed records of all kinds. One of the strongest candidates for this There are excellent examples of such applicamight be a "contact management" applications currently available from Microsoft,

issue of electronic communication can also not be ignored. For a lot of small businesses, one good option is electronic mail (e-mail) via an Internet service provider (ISP). There are lots of good ISPs around (including national services such as Sympatico, IBM Advantis and iSTAR as well as access from online service like CompuServe, America Online and Microsoft's MSN) who can set you up with e-mail. If, however, you want to really move into the age of electronic commerce, you' ll want to consider having your own World Wide

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Keynote: You ain't seen nothlne yet, according to intel'sGrove

anniversary of the microprocessor, a temporary museum was erected in the parking lot next to the Las Uegas Convention Centre. In

it were mare than 40 historic examples of computer technology. The museum presented its display in the form of "The Hacker's Garage," a cluttered

tribute to the fledgling computer culture of the '70s that encouraged individuals and

small companies to invent Se technology that changed the world. Examples of pivotal inventions induded Computer Space, the nrst coin-operated video game, created by Nolan Bushnell in 1971, the MITS Altair 8800, perhaps the first, "do-it-yourself" personal computer, and the Apple 1, the first 200 of which were literally sold out of a garage by

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reality, the bulk of the people who are mobile professionals are more like you and me. We leave our desks for greater than20 percent of the time, but often we' re within the confines of our own corporate environment or certainly in the Metro area. Given that, we' re considered locally mobile. That means we

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devices (such as the Hewlett-Packard OmniGo„ the Psion, and the Apple Newton Message Pad) had been limited by the rela-

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One of the more interesting devices for the color Zaurus was a PC Card-based CCD lens, which plugs into the Zaurus' PC Card slot and turns it into a digital camera. During the demonstration, the Sharp representative took a picture, pasted the image into an e-mail

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The Be OS was also running on a.fairly normal single-processor PowerMacintosh. A spokesman said the Be OS would be available for the Mac early this year. In a separate announcement, Power Computing, which makes PowerMac clones, said it will be shipping BeOS along with the MacOS with its new systems. If you want a BeBox, the dual processor model is available now, and will set you back about US$3,000. Applications? With such a

gorgeous interface, who neeis 'em (seriously, porting of Mac applications is anticipated-

Adobe is rumored to be preparing a BeOSver-

Broderbund was promoting a group of wellproduced action adventure titles, aimed at an older market. The Last Express is a new "thrilling adventure game from Jordan Mechner, developer of the award-winning Prince of Persia and Karateka." In the game, the player is Robert Cath, an American travelling on the Orient Express from Paris to

and game pads. Particularly impressive this year was the Gravis GrIP Game System, "the first multiplayer, multi-button digital game system for the PC." The GrIP allows up to four players operate up to eight control buttons each. The GrIP system comes with a multi-port game hub, and two GrIP-Pad controllers, with ports

Istanbul in July 1914. The game takes place in

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trollers, Two versions of the system are available, one is bundled with a violent arcadestyle fighting game, and the other with a

System Commanderallows use of mere than one operating systemonosingle computer.

characters in a very fluid and variable way. The Tone Rebellion, created by the Logic Factory (Ascendancy) is a strategy game,

multi-player hockey game.

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where the player is the leader of one of four groups of Hoaters, inhabitants of a world of

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System Commander allours muitipie 0/Ses on a singie PC A new version of V Communications System Commander utility allows users to run multiple operating systems on a single PC. Its mak-

floating Islands. The player has to leam to before a new 0/S is nm Once multiple 0/Ses cooperate with other Hoater societies, mine a have been installed, the user is shown a menu resource called Tone, and avoid destruction by of 0/S choices at startup, and can simply the Leviathan, the common enemy of all the select the desired operating system to load. V Floaters. The game has amulti-player/Internet Communications c l aims t h a t S y stem feature that allows multiple users to play Commander doesn't require partitioning of simultaneously on several PCs at once.

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The PC Inferno Ever wondered how hot it gets inside a computer? Although it may seem silly, this is an important issue as an overheated colnputer can cause the metal legs of some silicon 4'ettlnlp on the Web phone chips to expand and c)imb out of their sockets — potentially damaging Software incompatibility has been a big problemfor anyone who has the computer and making it run improperly. wanted to use the Internet to hold voice conversations inexpensively A company called Quad-G Electronks in Mount Vernon, NY, via'products like "WebPhone." Israeli Internet telephony pioneer released the CP-Vue line of personal computer "eddas" designed to VocaiTec Ltd. has joined with a number of other Internet telephony monitor and display the temperature within the computer case and and coaununications companies to solve this problem. The solution central processing unit (CPU), These internal heat monitors claim to be lies in the foundiag of what is called the Voice Over IP (VoIP) Forum, able to warn users whea their systems are approaching dangerously a cooperative coalition of Internet, telephony, hardware, software and high heat levels, allowing them to save their Ales and power down networking industry leaders, whose formation is apparently intended before exteasive heat damage occurs. to create and drive rapid deployment of a set of standards for the compatibility of Internet telephoay products." ContactGualFe,Tel:914-668-7688. In addition to Cisco Systems and VocalTec, which is taking credit for initiating the VoIP Forum, founding partidpants include a total of Towards a better notebook 40 initial members, They say they have joined forces based on their Notebook computers could soon have displays that look even better shared interest in accelerating the growth of telephony applications than what you And oa desktop computers. Canadian graphics chip over the Internet, corporate Iatranets and bridging to the regular or spedalist ATI Technologies has announced what it daims is the induspublic switched telephone network try's first LCD graphics accelerator for notebook computers. It apparently integrates high-performance 3D rendering, leading 2D performance, TVguality video playback, and true color transmitters on a single chip — the ATI 3D RAGE LT — for the notebook manu-

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desktop and notebook as the 3D RAGE LT has features some desktop systems do not."

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accommodate notebooks of any thickness, The NoteBoard also features a built-in wrist rest, Darwin Keyboards says the NoteBoard is designed for people who use their notebooks

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devices such as printers. The IrDA "Beam It Over IrDA" booth at Comdex displayed products by more than 20 firms with devices and applications using the IrDA standard. Clearly, IrDA ports and soft-

ware are becoming a feature routinely included on products. This includes Windows CE and the new handheld PCs, such as those recently introduced to the market by Casio and NEC. "We' ve moved faster and caused more products to roll out than any other standards

group," says Brian Ingham„of IBM Canada's infrared market development group. "The computing and communications industries have embraced these standards faster than any other technical standard." In the coming year, even more printers and portable peripherals will have IrDA serial

ports, as will an increasing number of pagers and digital phones.Sony, for example, had a nifty little digital camera with an IrDA port on display. With the link between the camera

and another IrDA device, you can, for example, instantly download digital photos to a laptop or print them without the need for

cables. Puma Technology and Traveling Software were among the software developers demonstrating their file transfer application software. And Nokia Mobile Phones and other cellular devices were on display. These standards were created by the industry consortium to assure consumers

shopping for a computer or peripheral that an item displaying the group's semce mark works with other IrDA-certified equipment. John LSRoche, IrDA's executive director, says the trade group's strongest estimates about the implementation of thistechnology are in the notebook computer market. He says about 60 to 70 percent of all notebooks

shipped in 1996 will be IrDA capable, More~ than eight million notebook personal computers with IrDA ports have shipped to date, according to IrDA.

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the United States market. Nina Reich„president of Ooriane, also said Canada's Defence

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Enterprise Planning Systems e Based in Ottawa„Enterprise Planning formerly sold its business planning software at high prices, data for use on a portable computer. Janna said David Flood, the company's director of Contact Enterprise starts at $699 per seat. marketing. Now it gives the base model away for downloading on the interne, and has Software Solutions • The Toronto-based never been more profitable, Flood claimed at finn's twist on selling World Wide Web page Industry Canada's press conference. The key creation software is to bundle in Web hosting is in selling add-on modules. services. Software Solutions will host up to 2 MB of hypertext markup language (HTML) INitel Corp. • Ottawa-based Mitel showed plus embedded GIF (graphic interchange for- what it said is the first telephone with a unimat) and JPEG Ooint Photographic Experts versal serial bus (USB) interface for computerGroup) graphics files for one year free of telephony integration. charge when you buy its WebXpress product, or for three months free when you buy its La$erlNedila • Th e T oronto company Instant Homepage software, Otherwise, the announced ActiveAbs, a new interactive fittwo packages are virtually identical, said ness video that Erik Schannen, LaserMedia's Mark Pellicane, Software Solutions' president. president, claimed is the first of a new genre. WebXpress sells for $89.95 and Instant The software customizes the workout for each Homepage for $29.95. After the free hosting user, officials said. Due to be available in

period runs out, Software Solutions charges January, ActiveAbs is to sell for $29,9S, $7,50 per month, Pellicane said. Some of these firms came to Comdex as Merilatrlx Peripherals Inc. • Risen from part of Industry Canada's Team Canada prothe ashes of failed Ad Lib Inc., a maker of PC gram. This program may not exist in its presound boards, Mediatrix introduced Internet sent form by next year's show Norman telephony technology that allows fullLomow, deputy director of the Department of duplex, high-quality conversations over the Foreign Affairs and International Trade's U.S. Internet. The company let visitors to its booth test out the Audiotrix Phone by talking to a Mediatrix employee at its headquarters in

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with the PC. This PC is the full-scale product."

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key to the buying decision. For US$2,299, users can now standardize on a high-performance platform for all PC software, from Windows 95 to Windows NT to Windows for

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Things aren't much better at l o ngtime Intel rival AMD, which in early October reported a net loss of US$38,362,000 on sales of US$456,862,000 for its third quarter ending Sept. 29. Sales for the like peri-

nificantly from the levels of the second quarter, but the book-to-bill ratio remained below 1:1," said chairman and chief executive officer, WJ. Sanders III. Continued onpage 111

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The company's first handheld computer, the Psion Organiser, was released in 1984 after Psion had spent its first four years principally as a software developer, designing everything from games for the home computers of the day (the BBC Micro, Sindair Spectrum and QL) te an integrated software suite (Psion Xchange, which included word-processor, spreadsheet and database applications) that was well ahead of its time. That strength in software development has not been lost. In recognition of the fact that

its greatest strength lay in the software built into its machines, in July Psion announced the formatien of a new company, Psion Software PLC, to license its operating systems and applications software. The company says it hopes the move will encourage and assist other companies in bringing products to market such as palmtops, sub-notebooks, smart phones, intelligent terminals and mobile Web browsers using Psion's previously proprietary tech-

nologies. Psion says that it sees operating systems and applications designed for solid-state, handheld computers as being fundamentally different from PC platforms. "They have to start

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company. "With 13 years experience developing such expertise and with over twe million units sold, Psion is making its platforms available to licensees." According to Psion founder and chairman David Potter, the idea is to get its software established as a handheld software standard. "One of our strategies is to establish our platform as an open standard. We are already recognized as the world leader in the palmtop computer market and this sector will inevitably attract more players as communication and computing technologies continue to

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computer. And, if you want to synchronize your organizer files, or move spreadsheets or word-processing documents between your handheld device and your desktop PC, a slick serial cable-based (or infrared) transfer utility is included, The subject of this review is the Cassiopeia A10 from Casio Canada Ltd., one of the first companies to bring a Windows CE product to market.

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stripped-down version of Win 95. Many of the features are there on CE, but the subtleties or breadth of customizability are lost. For example, TCPlIP is supported, which means you can use a Windows CE device on the Internet (and in fact, both an Internet mail program and Microsoft's Pocket Internet Explorer Web browser are included with the Cassiopeia). However, only PPP is supported, so if your service provider uses some other dial-in protocol such as SLIP, you' re out of

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menus and tool bars, On Windows CE or Pocket Word, these are not available — pity. But given the constraints of the hardware (limited RAM, small screen dimensions, lack of hard dnve, etc.), Windows CE works. Individuals will quibble over what Microsoft chose to leave out of the operating system or how it implemented certain features, and my quibbles will be different than someone else' s. However, if you want a handheld computer that looks and sort of acts like your Windows desktop PC, and you are willing to live with the limitations inherent in t h ese small

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an application or access a file. It feels kind of like Windows 95 on a 486 with 8 MB of RAM. However„ the instant-an feature means you don't have to wait while Windows boots up, and both Word and Excel load much more quickly than the Windows 95 versions of those applications. Moreover, you can leave items like your appointment calendar or contact database running, and they are instantly available when you turn the machine on.

The keyboard is no worse, but no better, than ones found on other palmtops, which means it is awkward, but usable if you master

a two-finger pecking style, For example, I did manage to work for about an hour on this report on the flight back from Las Vegas without becoming too frustrated, and I know of

one reporter who regularly composes 1,000word stories on his Psion. The feature I like most on the Cassiopeia is the backlit screen, which allowed me to work in the darkened cabin of the evening flight with the screen completely visible.

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with batteries. The Cassiopeia is powered by an Hitachi SH-3 RISC processor, which is also being used by most of the other HPC manufacturers.

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back cachebecause that would mean a whole new program of research and development for the motherboard makers to be able to support it," he says. Knight says the biggest issue facing somebody buying a PC these days is motherboard compatibility, i.e.: "what the board can support both in terms of the BIOS and what the actual CPU can support." "Software isn't really a concern — I think every CPU manufacturer's worst nightmare would be to get a reputation for being unreliable with any software, so they put a lot into making sure that aspect is okay. But hardware can present its own problems," he adds.

final cost has on that choice. It's important to remember too, however, that a lot of the benchmark measurements used by chip makers which yield numbers to support claims of

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What Cyrix says Cyrix marketing director, Steve Lapinski, fully agrees with Knight's opinion that a Cyrix CPU will equal or better the performance of an Intel of equivalent speed but, of course, with an explanation: uI think another really important point of differentiation, is that, based on the architectural differences between a Cyrix and a Pentium, ours will allow you to play 16-bit and 32-bit software without having to change the platform. In other words, Intel has the Pentium and the Pentium Pro, and the Pentium Pro will actually slow down the performance of 16-bit applications consider-

ably." More specifically, Lapinski says that, as people gradually move more toward 32-bit applications, they' ll have to change motherboards if they' re depending on an I ntel Pentium whereas the Cyrix chips will still optimize the performance of the newer software without requiring significant hardware modification. Lapinski explains that Cyrix is able to accomplish "equal or better for cheaper" due to the architectural differences between the company's 686 and the Pentium. "Both processors are what's called superscalar — they contain a floating point unit and a primary cache andother features. But these have been optimized in the way we designed the 686 processor, which, for example, has the calculation functions like integer and floating point b u il t i n u s ing a h i g hly advanced architecture which also makes really basic things like register re-naming, out of order completion and branch prediction, etc„ a lot faster and a lot quicker. "The bottom line of all that is that our architecture eliminates many of the data dependencies and resource conflicts that the processor has to experience in order to achieve higher performance. Our processors are able to eliminate that where a Pentium processor has some issues as it goes along with trying to eliminate those dependencies. Each 686 is optimized for maximum instruction throughput." Offering a less complex example of what

that means, Lapinski explains that an Intel processor might experience what are called "stalls in the pipe" as it executes massive amounts of instructions while a Cyrix 686 chip has two pipes — thus eliminating such stalls. This, according to Lapinski, results in a five to 10 percent increase in performance over an equivalently rated Pentium chip. However, Lapinski stresses that the 686s are industry compatible with all existing software while still incorporating these kinds of enhancements. The cost-saving element — in terms of Cyrix chips being cheaper than Intel chipsis explained in terms of the company's infrastructure. ul can first say that we' re 400 people versus Intel's thousands, so our cost structure is a little bit different. Our manufacturing costs also benefit through having IBM as a partner, keeping in line with the size of an Intel giant. Civen that combination of partnerships between IBM and Cyrix and getting access to the latest technology processes, we' re able to offet very competitive prices." What Atttgb says Dean Whitehair, public relations manager for AMD, also agrees with Knight's assessment of CPUs, Whitehair says the end user will notice very little difference between makes of CPUs in consumer-level computers. "As far as performance goes, though, it' s not necessarily clock speed — or megahertz

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our microprocessors, "There's a tremendous amount of engineering in developing the product," Spindler continues, "and dramatic resources in terms of validation of the microprocessor to ensure the performance, to ensure the compatibility, to ensure the functionality. And then the next step is the whole process of manufacturing technology that goes into building these very, very reliable parts in very, very high volumes. Spindler says that overall, "what somebody who is purchasing a system [with a Pentium processor] gets is the benefit of a processor that has shipped in the tens of millions so it's been proven over an incredible variety of systems, of user types, of application software, of operating system software,

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Told that Cyrix and AMD make the same claims, Spindler enigmatically says that, "there's the statement, and there's the level of effort and actual meat behind that statement." He adds that intel spends hundreds of millions of dollars on microprocessor validation. Spindler assures me that assertions by others regarding superior performance in at least specific areas of the competitors' chips might be most tactfully described as "a major disconnect on the part of those particular individuals." . He points out that there are different ways to look at performance, "and, in some cases, others may run a particular benchmark and claim that that represents the overall performance of the processor. But we don't look at it that way at all. We actually do performance reports on our processors and we take a broad variety of industry-standard benchmarks and show the results of our processors' performance on those benchmarks.... We feel very good about where our processors stand on those." In direct contradiction to claims by all others cited here, Spindler is sure that the floating point in the Pentium processor outperforms the alternatives dramatically. "It's much, much faster than other devices. Typically things like 3D and graphics are floating point intensive and if you look at any floating point-oriented benchmark — like Spec Floating Point or Whetstone, for example — the Pentium is extremely strong." Asked how such performance differences might manifest themselves to we simple computerists slaving away in front of a monitor,

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before making an overall performance comparison because those claims are generally made on a particular type of a benchmark." Concluding his remarks by addressing the cost issue, Spindler says, "you really need to look at what's out there. There are Pentium processor-based systems that are selling at all the way down to entry-level types of prices. Even at the entry level a computer is a significant investment and I think that the buyers are looking for something that they know is proven technology. Proven in terms of compatibility, proven in terms of validation, proven in terms of performance. And all that

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beautiful Microsoft Money released in the fall of '95. Money is Microsoft's competition for Intuit's Quicken, After the failed attempt to buy Intuit, Microsoft is left with only one way to proceed if it wants to own the home finances market. It must build a better program. In this instance, the anti-trust regulations in the United States are working. Intuit was so far ahead in both product features and user base that the sale of Quicken would have left one program dominating the market, As it is, Microsoft has worked very hard to take away Intuit's customers. First, it built a program based on the same metaphor as Quicken. Then it made it one of the most full-featured and beautiful programs

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extensive help system with text-based reference informa::".>4';.4 t ion to help answer many . financial questions. As a newer Microsoft program, it uses IntelliSense technology which is Microsoft's

way of saying the program tries to guess what you are going to do based on what you have already done. Thus, things like autofill and other automated routines work to save you keystrokes. The basic components are good and prima rily unchanged from the earlier release. Money 97 now has a built-in Internet launch routine that takes you from the program to Web sites, as long as you have your Internet connection set up. This feature worked well for us. We liked this feature and the related feature — the Money Zone. The Money Zone is simply a Web site that the

software will take you to. There, you will find information about stocks, financial articles, links to other sites and upgrade or patch information should Microsoft offer it. There is a simplified online setup for electronic banking that works by entering the routing number from the bottom of your cheque. The software then tries to dial a number that will check to see if your institution offers online services. We couldn't get the

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