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...ABOUT THE TIME the sky-blue Macintosh screen begins looking like the color of a mountain climber dead of hypothermia. About the time I realize that my last "15-minute break" allowed me to go to Coffee Connection, run five miles and watch an entire college basketball game. About the time the fan in my hard drive makes me think that evil spirits in my brain are yelling at me. About the time I dream that Marion Barry reads my thesis about him, hates it, escapes from jail and is scouring Cambridge with a butcher knife looking...
...large electronics company has set a higher standard for product design than Apple. The genius of the Macintosh was that it made using a real computer seem like children's fun and games. For the new PowerBook 170, Apple and Lunar Design have done the converse, creating a toylike object (it weighs 6.8 lbs. and has a built-in video-game-style track ball) that has serious power and looks more sexy than wholesome. And it's practical: because notebook computers are often used away from a desk, there are palm-rest surfaces between keyboard and lap to prevent wrist...
...large electronics company has set a higher standard for product design than Apple. The genius of the Macintosh was that it made using a real computer seem like children's fun and games. For the new PowerBook 170, Apple and Lunar Design have done the converse, creating a toylike object (it weighs 6.8 lbs. and has a built-in video-game-style track ball) that has serious power and looks more sexy than wholesome. And it's practical: because notebook computers are often used away from a desk, there are palm-rest surfaces between keyboard and lap to prevent wrist...
Third, the source. The main proponent of the illegitimate children story is Robert "Say" Macintosh, an outspoken Black activist in Arkansas who cries racism--and bashes Bill Clinton--every chance he gets. For more than a decade, Macintosh has embarrassed those working for racial harmony in the state with out-landish accusations of unfair treatment. He's chained himself to fences outside the State Capitol and burned flags to provoke attacks from ignorant whites...
...next generation, called OS/2, which runs IBM's line of PS/2 computers. Microsoft developed OS/2 as well, but IBM believes the software company has undermined sales of that software by pushing a highly successful program called Windows 3.0, which enables old MS-DOS software to work much like a Macintosh. That has also alienated Apple, which contends that Microsoft stole elements of Windows from Macintosh programs. The new IBM-Apple venture, which will develop its own software, could spell the end of OS/2 and any remaining relationship with Microsoft. "We're flabbergasted," says Steven Ballmer, Microsoft's senior vice president...