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To: cscott who wrote (3141)	5/7/1999 12:47:00 PM
From: Kenneth M. Koff, CPCU	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5843

To All: Latest 'Business Week' has a very positive piece on RealNetworks, including the new Buy@Once concept. Article available through AOL

To: cscott who wrote (3141)	5/7/1999 8:33:00 PM
From: soup	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5843

>That's a good one. A serious note about Apple, though. I would consider them a bigger threat if they had a working Web site. I've downloaded stuff from Real with no problem at all, but I can't even get to apple.com (even when trying to follow the Yahoo link on the page you posted or from download.com).< Huh. I'm not having any of the problems you mentioned. I followed the South Park link and got there in one step: apple.com Likewise, the Phantom Menace sound played fine for me ... FYI, I'm having trouble with RealPlayer. The audio works fine, but I keep getting messages that the file I'm trying to read is not a RealPlayer file (?) Their tech FAQ directs me to turn off all my non-Apple extensions (no help) and another site tells to turn on Virtual Memory (?) Not the best of experiences either. soup PS> Semi-on-topic is my post on the SI/AAPL thread: >Attended an Apple Final Cut Pro seminar. I've never done any video editing but was there with a PB tech from Tekserve who is a videomaker. We were both blown away! apple.com Some points: * The level of sophistication is unbelievable (this is FCP 1.0) and the hardware costs are far less than I thought. Essentially, if you are setting up a base Blue & White (or Beige w/266+ and Firewire) for Photoshop, you've got all you need: 300-400 mhz processor 128-256 mb ram 1 or 2 IDE drives (plus a PCI card for the second IDE drive) Add a Firewire camera, deck and $999 for FCPro and you have a turnkey system for as little as $4000. That's it, no accelerator cards, no fast/wide scsi cards or drives needed!! * The Apple rep used the phrase "80/20" - meaning 80% of the functionality of an Avid system for 20% of the price. * Fee-based phone support will cost $2500/year. * Seminars and full blown hands-on workshops to be scheduled: seminars.apple.com * Japanese and 5 Euro-language versions to ship later this year. * Firewire PC cards from Newer to ship this summer will enable 300 mhz Wall Streets to run FCP. * Regarding the future, he said "Think Altivec." Add in QT Streaming Server and I think AAPL has put together a brilliant low-mid end content acquisition/manipulation/distribution system. If I had any guts, I'd be shorting AVID. Big time. PS> Please don't pump me for FCP info, I barely understand this much:< info.apple.com