Double Shut Down Problem -- Update
Continuing its courting of the education community, Apple will open an on line Apple Store for K-12 Education on April 30th. This effort introduces on line buy-to-order purchasing for the education market. The server will be secured so that only qualified institutions can purchase at education prices.
According to MacFixIt 3/9. Macromedia Shockwave and Flash can cause Netscape 4.0x to crash when hitting a site that causes Java to load when there isn't enough RAM. MacFixIt mentions that the only workaround is to disable Java. However, the other is to increase Netscape 4.0x's RAM allocation significantly--I use 24 MB. I use 16 MB with Internet Explorer 4.0a.
According to TechWeb, Apple is still pitching the Newton OS based eMate to education. Apple says that it's not giving up on the "hand-held" market despite recently canceling further development of the Newton OS. [Thanks Dana Baggett]
Mike Breeden's Accelerate Your Mac! page published some BYTEmark benchmarks for his PowerBook G3 @ 250 MHz and those for 300 MHz and 338 MHz Pentium II computers. The PowerBook G3 substantially beat both Wintels in integer computing (most applications) and lost by a hair to the 338 MHz on floating point (science, engineering and graphics applications). The BYTEmark was used as the basis for the Apple claim of twice the speed in its now famous snail ad. Here are the BYTEmarks (Motorola) for my computers (a PowerMac 9600, PowerMac 8500, PowerComputing PowerBase, PowerBook 3400 and a PowerMac 7100):
| Computer/CPU/Cache/Bus | Integer Index | Floating Point Index |
|---|---|---|
| Pentium II/338 MHz/?/75 MHz* | 4.754942 | 5.398357 |
| Pentium II/300 MHz/?/66 MHz* | 4.226743 | 4.829937 |
| 9600/289 MHz/1 MB/52.5 MHz | 8.212220 | 6.379240 |
| 8500/250 MHz/1 MB/50 MHz | 6.344572 | 5.189765 |
| 9600/200 MHz/512K/50 MHz | 5.112021 | 4.298786 |
| PwrBase/180 MHz/512K/40 | 3.772931 | 2.554107 |
| 3400/180 MHz/256K/40 MHz | 3.770686 | 2.525530 |
| 7100/80 MHz/256K/25 MHz | 1.504050 | 1.485960 |
| Dell/Pentium 90 MHz/?/66 MHz | 1.000000 | 1.000000 |
The clear winner is the Apple PowerMac 9600 with a PowerLogix PowerForce G3 250/250/52.5 CPU card. The PowerMac 8500 with a PowerLogix PowerBoost beats the 300 MHz Pentium II. The 9600/200 MHz 604e is on par with the Pentium II 300 MHz. Even the 7100/80 is around 50 per cent faster than the Pentium 90.
From Darren Williams,
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From Svante Rosenberg, read Swedish? Here is a Swedish site called Mac Sajt which means MacUser.
From Bob Bernardara, remember the 20th Anniversary Mac originally offered at $7500? It's now under $2000. Here's a well-done site devoted to the TAM that Bob established.
The reply from many readers to yesterday's question about the Mac OS 8.0/8.1 Disk Tools diskettes which have Finder v7.5.6DT, is "diskette space". The 8.0 and 8.1 Finders simply do not fit on a diskette.
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