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Certain models of the Macintosh Performa and PowerBook lines are being recalled for inspection and possible repairs which the Technology Product Center (TPC) will conduct, Harvard University Information Systems announced in a letter mailed last month...
...letter, which summarizes Apple's plans for its Repair Extension Program, Jackie Whiting, vice president of Apple's customer-service division, advises users of Power Macintosh or Macintosh Performa to consider these questions...
Before this technology, sound files came largely in the form of Windows WAV or Macintosh AV files. Both of these formats had terrific sound quality, but at a high price: since those files were often a megabyte or more in size, it could take minutes to download a 15-second sound bite...
...with 20-year-old images and film stock. "We had to degrade them a little bit in terms of the resolution," Lucas explains. "Most of the shots that we're talking about, which are the space battle shots at the end of the movie, were actually done on a Macintosh, the kind of thing that almost anybody can do." All told, about a third of the first movie's special-effects shots were worked on, producing roughly 4 1/2 minutes of new footage--or at least "new" in the sense that Free as a Bird was a new Beatles song...
...Computer reportedly will lay off up to 3,000 people, or some 20 percent of its workforce, and sell its floundering Newton division as the company struggles to recover from a whopping $120 million loss in the fourth quarter of 1996. Apple was forced to make the cuts after Macintosh sales flagged during the Christmas season even as the company was already anticipating a 20 percent drop in 1997 revenues to $8 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. If Apple carries out the cuts, they would comprise the second massive restructuring in two years for the company, which eliminated...