October 1997 / What's New

Bigger, Better, and Still Fits in Your Lap A Desktop for Your Lap	Laptop screens keep getting bigger, but the latest notebook from Digital, the HiNote Ultra 2000, has a 14.1-inch XGA 1024- by 768-pixel active-matrix display that may define the best size of all. - by Russell Kay
New Features in a Notebook	NEC's Versa 6200 family ($5199 to $5999, built to order) brings new features and options to the high-end laptop market.
Beat Processor Obsolescence It's Easier with Evergreen	Rather than retire a creaky old system, you can simply pull the existing processor from a desktop PC or 486-based laptop and plug in an Evergreen processor for more computing power.
Home Entertainment on a PC From Here to Infinia	Toshiba's new Infinia line brings new options and easy Internet access to the home PC.
More-Powerful 3-D Workstations	Intergraph's TDZ 2000 3-D graphics workstations (from $10,495) come with a 300-MHz Pentium II processor, a RealiZm II 3-D graphics accelerator, 64 MB of RAM, a 4-GB hard drive, a 24X CD-ROM drive, and a floppy drive.
New Pentium II Systems "D"liverance from Dell	The Pentium II Dell Dimension XPS "D" line comes with 233- or 266-MHz Pentium II processors and us es Intel's new 440LX chip set.
One-Stop Shopping If Anyone Can, It's Canon	Canon's MultiPass C3000 ($549) can handle all your printing, scanning, faxing, and copying needs for the home or small-office environment.
Videoconference on the Road	The Winnov VideumCam Desktop ($299) and Traveler ($299) videoconferencing cameras provide 352- by 240-pixel resolution and 16.7 million colors for portable or desktop computers.
Quick on the Draw	The PowerStorm 4D30T ($2999) from Digital is a new midrange graphics accelerator for high-performance 2-D and 3-D graphics in the desktop/workstation environment.
Color Copiers	Hewlett-Packard has used its ink-jet and scanner technologies to create two series of color copiers.
New Disk Drive Technology	The LS-120 Diskette has the same shape and size as a standard 1.44-MB 3-1/2-inch diskette, but it has a formatted storage capacity of 120 MB.
A Small, Colorful Ink-Jet Printer Lexmark 1000	The Lexmark 1000 offers 600- by 600- dpi color printing for a mere $139.
Import Real Objects into 3-D Programs O bject Oriented 3-D Scanning	The Roland Picza scanner ($1195) uses a needle to physically map the surface of small objects, such as Matchbox cars or dolls, for importing into 3-D drawing programs as DXF or IGES files.
No-Hassle ISDN	Arescom's Apex 1100 ISDN access router ($679) comes bundled with the Apex Wizard application to simplify configuration.
Hot-Pluggable Server Technology	NetFrame 's ClusterSystem 9008 ($9995), a quad-processor Pentium Pro platform designed for remote-office, application-server, and mid-size business environments, offers hot-pluggable PCI technology, allowing users to add and replace individual PCI cards and device drivers without shutting down the system.
Clustered Servers in One Box	Tandem Computers' CS150 ($15,000) is a clustered Windows NT server with two Pentium Pro-based servers in a single cabinet.
Frontpage 98 Adds Refinement to Web Publishing Where the Pros Are, FrontPage Waits for You	Microsoft's FrontPage 98 improves on a product that's already hugely popular with hobbyists, novices, and professional Webmasters alike. - by Pete Loshin
Automate Your Computer Lab Call in the LabExpert	KeyLabs' LabExpert 2.0 ($1804 for 25 seats) automates time-consuming or boring tasks that otherwise need to be done manually by lab technicians or computer-classroom monitors.
Faster Fast Ethernet Fast, Faster, Faster Still	If Fast Ethernet doesn't provide enough throughput for you, Adaptec's Duralink Aggregation software ($199) combines the bandwidth of standard Fast Ethernet NIC ports into one single network port with multiple Gigabit-Ethernet-per-second data transfer rates.
Making Math for Engineers Easy	GrafiCalc ($ 295) makes it possible to interactively solve geometry-related design problems on any palmtop, PC, or laptop running Windows 3.1 or higher.
Encryption Made Easy	Cryptographic techniques can be a burden on the processing power of a server.
Safeguard Your E-Mail Attachments	Hilgraeve's DropChute+ ($50) aims to ease the delivery of large e-mail attachments.
Video E-Mail for Eudora Eudorable Email Video	Eudora E-Mail users now have a tool for compressing, decompressing, a nd recording e-mail video messages.
Instant HTML Simmer Your Database Into HTML with ShowBase	The ShowBase Extra 2.0 program ($1499 to $4499, depending on platform) converts dBase, ODBC-compliant, MARC, ASCII, and comma-delimited database files into Internet-ready pages without requiring HTML coding.
Control the Development Process	Cyrano ClientPack for Windows ($2250) lets you plan, manage, and analyze your testing procedures.
Roll Out OLAP -- Anywhere Calling All OLAPs	DSS Web 5.0 ($17,500) from MicroStrategy works with the company's DSS Agent 5.0 product ($37,500) to provide a common interface for standard data-warehousing/data-analysis applications.
Portable Active Server Pages	Development of Active Server Pages is code-independent with Chili ASP ($995 for unlimited users).
New Development Tools for C and C++	Elements 2.1 for C and C++ ($3100 to $15,995) includes four new components.
A Haht Development Environment	Hahtsite 3.0 supports server-side Java and JavaBeans, client-side JavaScript and Java applets, a Java editor, and JDBC while providing project management for Java applets.
SuiteSpot Professional	Netscape is expanding its SuiteSpot software suite in release 3.1 with a larger version, called SuiteSpot P rofessional ($3495 for 50 users), as well as an updated standard suite.
A Visio Trio	Visio has updated its line of business and technical-drawing tools.
pcAnywhere32 8.0	Symantec's pcAnywhere32 8.0 ($149; upgrade, $79) adds new security and remote-access functions to give road warriors or home-office workers greater access to network resources.

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