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PC Magazine December 14, 1999
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PC Magazine December 14, 1999
on Google Books
MacAddict December 1999
Closing out the year with a small cover note about “our biggest issue ever” (at 144 numbered pages), MacAddict’s Mac OS 9 coverage included a news item about legal troubles with Microware, who’d been selling “OS-9″ since the days of the Radio Shack and Tandy Color Computers. There was also coverage of the new iMacs, which engineered out the cooling fan (although the fanless iMac I bought a few years later developed a considerable whine from its hard drive), added “graphite” grey at the high end to echo the Power Mac G4, and included a slot-loading CD-ROM drive. (There’s an anecdote in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs with Jobs flying into a rage on realizing the original iMac used a portable-type CD-ROM drive that exposed its lens along with a snap-on disc hub.)
Macworld January 2000
The new-and-improved iMac received feature coverage in this issue (although its review of the iBook wasn’t that impressed, matching the mood of some letters to the editor.) A news item reported on the impending G5 chip, but another item and Andrew Gore’s editorial rapped Apple’s knuckles for putting slower G4 chips in its Power Macs for the same price even with the excuse it hadn’t been provided with sufficient supplies. The “Game Room” column presented “the Top 10 Mac Gaming Thingies of the past 1,000 years,” even if id Software (and the even more cross-platform Infocom) showed up alongside Dark Castle, Balance of Power, Myst, and Bungie’s (earlier) games.