Marathon
Marathon
showed its rackable iMac. Well, it is not the full iMac,
only its motherboard and drives which are put in a new box
which is rackable.It is easy to install it yourself. Using
your iMac's logicboard, drives and speakers, your completed
iRack will sport a PowerPC G3 at 233 to 333MHz, two USB
ports, IDE hard disk drive, IDE CD reader, 100base-T ethernet,
and SVGA video out. The iRack is compatible only with iMacs
Rev A-D. At the $399 price, the iRack does not include the
iMac's logicboard and drives.
Belkin
Belkin
presented some of its products including USB and Firewire
hubs. There was nothing really new, except that the Firewire
hubs (4 ports) now have the same look than the USB hubs.
Belkin also produces a 6 ports Firewire Hub
(silver color). This hub stands vertically on your desktop.
The unit stands alone or docks with additional Hubs, making
it easy to put all your multimedia gear on the ultrafast
FireWire track. FireWire technology supports up to 63 devices
on one computer with Plug-and-Play ease. LED lights indicate
use of the ports.
EZQuest
EZQuest presented its new Cobra 48GB Slim
Line Firewire Hard Drive today. The new Cobra Slim Line
has burst transfer rates of up to 28MB/s and sustained rates
of 23MB/s. "This drive meets the demands set by business
travelers and Power Book users for smaller, lighter and
easy to use, without sacrificing performance", according
to EZQuest. The Cobra 48GB Slim Line Firewire Hard Drive
has an MSRP of $599. All Silm Line Hard Drives ship with
Intech's speed tools software, two 6 pin Firewire ports,
external power adapter, one 6â Firewire cable, the EZQuest
EZ Start Up Kit and come with a 2 year warranty
EZQuest also announced the shipping of its
new Boa Firewire DVD-RW / CD-RW drive. The Boa Firewire
DVD-RW / CD-RW drive sports an MSRP of $995. The Boa Firewire
DVD-RW / CD-RW drive offers the ability to burn DVD-R, DVD-RW,
CDR and CD-RW and will read DVD-Video, DVD-Rom and DVD-R,
in addition to CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-Audio, CD-RW, CDI, CD Bridge,
CD Extended, CD Mix Mode and Photo CDs. The Boa Firewire
DVD-RW / CD-RW drive is also supported by Apple's DVD Studio
Pro. The Boa Firewire DVD-RW / CD-RW drives are shipping
in Mac and PC versions. The Mac version ships with Toast
5.0.1 for DVD and CD burning. The PC version ships with
Veritas Primo, Sonic's My DVD, and one 2 port 1394/Firewire
PCI Card.
Microsoft
Microsoft
showed the OS X version of Office. All four Office applications
Ñ Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage Ñ will be upadated
and will run natively on Mac OSX 10.1. The primary design
goal is to make Office 10 fully native. Office 10 will run
only on Mac OS X 10.1. Any customer who uses an Office 2001
product can upgrade to Office 10 for just $149.
IBM
IBM was presenting an OSX version of its voice
recognition software, Via
Voice.With a new look, ViaVoice for Mac OS X was designed
to take advantage of Mac OS X's Aqua interface. Via Voice
has an Aqua look and feel and several new features including
a new Command Center, a redesigned Voice Center, SpeakPad
and Preferences. Via Voice for OSX will ship this fall.
VST
VST was
presenting its Titanium drives (CDRW and hard disk). They
are quite small and the new color of the enclosure is awesome.
They fit in the palm of the hand and, with their FireWire
interface, they are capable of handling a variety of digital
music, digital video and digital pictures applications.
QPS
QPS
had several new or recent products to show. Among them,
there were the M3 drive and the M2 slimdrives (including
the RAID version which is shown near a Cube).
The Que! M2 QuadSlim are very small drives
that can be connected to your drive through a Firewire port.
You can connect up to five drives by stacking them or up
to ten M2's with the optional 2U-10-bay rack mount accessory
kit. The Que! M2 includes the Que! D2D (DV to DVD) MPEG-2
conversion/ encoding software. The Que! D2D software enables
you to convert edited DV footage from your DV camcorder
into DVD MPEG-2 files which can be played with notebook
and PC desktop computers and standard DVD set-top players
for a fraction of the cost of a MPEG-2 encoding hardware
solution. Take your video, audio, MP3's, and digital data
on the road and share the revolution with anybody, anywhere,
anytime with the M2 QuadSlim technology.
Macromedia
Macromedia
presented Freehand 10. FreeHand 10 offers graphic designers
several new features including Master Pages, the new Macromedia
User Interface and sophisticated vector-based illustration
tools.
MacAlly
MacAlly
was presenting several devices including the Airstick and
the iShock II
The USB AirStick (picture below) is a midair
joystick with an advanced, motion-tracking tilt sensor.
AirStick is 100% programmable for both InputSprocket and
non-InputSprocket games. AirStick's 2 in 1 design (game
controller and joystick) enables gamer to control game activities
in midair, quickly and easily without limitation of the
desktop
Macally iShockII is the first USB game controller
for Mac with force feedback in the market. iShockII is packed
with 13 fully programmable buttons, dual thumb sticks, 8
way directional buttons and realistic multi-level vibration
into one awesome unit. iShockII supports both InputSprocket
and non-InputSprocket games and its an ideal choice for
Mac gamers who wants to feel every bump and turn in your
games.
Goodies
Several goodies were given during the Expo.
Among them there are the I love/apple NY badge, the magic
ball of NVIDIA and the fan of MacAlly
Goodbye New York !
It is time to say goodbye to New York. Here
are the last photos of the expo that we have not published
yet:
The next big show should be Apple Expo
Paris at the end of September.... The Cube-Zone
and the OSX-Zone will
probably be there for another coverage....
