IN A MOVE apparently intended to win back market losses to Dell, Apple has cut prices on their eMac machines to $699 for educators, $779 for normal buyers. This, according to Apple's resident PR monkeys, buys the lucky customer a "stunning" (their words) 17-inch CRT, 128 MB of RAM, a 700MHz G4, and a 40 GB HDD, and a standard CD-ROM.
Not a bad offer from Cupertino, but it doesn't seem to be the kind of deal that's going to win back many buyers who've decided to become Evil PC People. Dell's own 2350 series, after all, can be configured with a P4 Celeron 2.0, a full 512 meg of DDR RAM, a 60 Gb HDD, 48X CD-RW, and a 17" CRT. We don't know if the Dell CRT is as "stunning" as the Apple version, but it certainly seems better value — the entire Dell package ships at $749 — and dropping the included RAM to 256 meg would put the Dell box at a lower cost for a much more powerful overall package.
It may be that Apple is fated to lose the education market in the end just as it's lost every other market they once possessed. Educators choosing to go with Apple or Dell ultimately have to decide whether to use a system they might prefer — or to offer computer instruction on the computers students are going to be using in their professional lives.
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Not a bad offer from Cupertino, but it doesn't seem to be the kind of deal that's going to win back many buyers who've decided to become Evil PC People. Dell's own 2350 series, after all, can be configured with a P4 Celeron 2.0, a full 512 meg of DDR RAM, a 60 Gb HDD, 48X CD-RW, and a 17" CRT. We don't know if the Dell CRT is as "stunning" as the Apple version, but it certainly seems better value — the entire Dell package ships at $749 — and dropping the included RAM to 256 meg would put the Dell box at a lower cost for a much more powerful overall package.
It may be that Apple is fated to lose the education market in the end just as it's lost every other market they once possessed. Educators choosing to go with Apple or Dell ultimately have to decide whether to use a system they might prefer — or to offer computer instruction on the computers students are going to be using in their professional lives.
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- Changes:
- New functions under Image menu: Cut-out Strip/Horizontal or Vertical allow to cut-out a strip from the middle of an image and join remaining parts. This could be used for example to easily remove an ad banner from a captured web page.
- New function under Color menu: "Color Correction" combines Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation and Gamma corrections in one step.
- "Quick Save" now permits specifying increment step, instead of always incrementing the file name counter by 1.
- New options on "Quick Save" permit the naming scheme with file name incrementing to be used also for naming captured images (tabs in HyperSnap-DX window) even when not auto-saving to files. Previously new captures were always named Snap1, Snap2 etc.
- The graphics file format and options of files saved with "Quick Save" and through File/Save As menu is now the same. Previously they used to have different formats and settings remembered, which led to some confusion.
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