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...BARKSDALE With Microsoft's browser destined for every Mac and Windows PC, is Netscape's the new Betamax...
...line of Ready consumer PCs ($1,999 to $2,999, plus monitor), making its debut in August, breaks from the gray-box approach to PC design by placing the CD-ROM and floppy drives in a shoe box-size module that sits next to the monitor, making for a much simpler look. A special display gives regular news updates throughout the day. And this week the company is initiating a build-to-order program aimed squarely at rivals such as Gateway. The approach may help the firm grab that market share it so badly covets...
...most people, the cost and confusion of a PC is no bargain. Their wired future lies in the emergence of low-cost, easy-to-use consumer electronics devices--Net-linked TVs, phones or game machines projected to be a $1 billion market by the turn of the century. Microsoft placed a bet on the "info appliance" business in April when it bought WebTV for $425 million. Last week Sun Microsystems joined the party. The giant server firm acquired Diba, an appliance start-up in search of deep pockets...
Smaller, faster, better is something of a cliche in the computer business, but occasionally it yields little miracles. At PC Expo in New York City last week, Toshiba displayed a smaller, faster computer that, geeks were wagging, is actually better. With all the capabilities of a full-fledged laptop, the teensy (roughly the size of a paperback book) beige Libretto is a fully functional Windows 95 computer fueled by 75 MHz of Intel Pentium power. This mini-notebook also features one of Toshiba's finest-quality color screens (albeit a tiny 5 in. wide) with a pointing device built into...
...third guy looks up from his PC and says, "Computers!" So half of the pictures either have someone laboriously logging on or, as in Speed 2, hand the villain a Mighty Morphin PowerBook as his tool of terror...