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...March 14, Apple Computer unveiled the Power Macintosh series of personal computers, the first fruit of its 1991 alliance with IBM and Motorola. At Apple's recent Seybold Seminars exhibition in Boston I got a chance to kick the machines' tires and take a test drive to see the new "power" for myself...
Upon calling to inquire about purchasing a Macintosh laptop computer, the caller was told the prices of three different laptop models: the Powerbook 165, the Powerbook 180 and the Powerbook 180c, each with different hard drive configurations. Each of those computers was in-stock and would be immediately available, the caller was told...
...founder's approach seems to be paying off. When Macworld magazine selected the 10 best Macintosh CD-ROM programs for its March issue, three were ours: TIME Almanac 1993 (Best Almanac CD), Clinton: Portrait of Victory (Best Politics CD) and Seven Days in August (Best History CD). Seven Days is a multimedia account of the week in 1961 when the Berlin Wall was erected. "Of all the discs I surveyed," wrote Macworld editor James A. Martin, "this one is my favorite, for it best exploits the real potential of CD-ROM as a medium that can add depth and perspective...
Despite all this, the Macintosh almost didn't survive. Even worse than its initial hardware problems was the sneering contempt of "power users," reared on IBM machines, who made it clear to anybody who asked that real men didn't use mice. Ironically, Microsoft's Bill Gates, whose company owned the operating system at the heart of the IBM-PC, was plotting all the while to shift the entire market to the Mac way of doing things. Today, two-thirds of the computers that use Apple's desktop metaphor are made by the company's competitors...
...information highway grows and driving gets more complicated, people may find themselves relying more and more on their metaphors. The Macintosh interface has already been adapted by such network services as CompuServe and America Online (on which sending a message is like posting a note on a bulletin board). A similar Mac-like program called Mosaic is making the vast resources of the Internet increasingly accessible...