Word: mb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Seedy Petey is not my favorite service to use. You can get it in most metropolitan areas from cellular carriers such as AT&T. But, unlike cellular-phone service, which is billed by the minute, you pay by the bit: it costs around $15 a month to send 500 MB of data; unlimited service is available for $54 a month. That would be reasonable if it always worked. But it doesn't, at least under the harsh conditions of my commute...
...First and foremost, the new iMacs give their users what all users want: more power. The basic iMac - which now qualifies as the low-end iMac - comes with a 350MHz G3 chip, 64 MB of RAM (expandable all the way up to 512MB), and a six-gigabyte hard drive. What else? A new, quieter cooling system, rapid startup, and a new price: $999. MORE...
...using it as a springboard--hold on to that word--for their Visor.) The basic model sells for $149, but you'll need to shell out another $30 if you want a cradle for synching it with your PC or Macintosh. The "deluxe" unit is $249; with 8 MB of RAM, it has four times the memory of the basic and comes in five goofy high-tech colors...
SOFTWARE WARS Sun Microsystems is giving away an entire suite of Microsoft-compatible office software, from word processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs to calendars and e-mail. Download the free 65-MB StarOffice at www.sun.com (this may take a while) or pay $10 for a CD. Mac users must wait for the universally compatible Web-based version, Star-Portal, to offer the same applications and store their data online, creating truly portable desktops...
...decent one for $250 or less. Another reason is the spread of MP3, the hugely popular standard for downloading music online. What better way to store your MP3 collection than on CDs? Blank CD-R discs (which can record only once) cost about $2 each and hold 650 MB of data. If you figure an average of 5 MB per MP3 tune, one disc holds about 130 songs. By any measure, that's a lot of tuneage...