Crave speed? Crave FireWire? Apple has unveiled 500 MHz Power Mac G4s, 500 MHz FireWire enhanced PowerBooks, and revved-up iBooks. Crave games? An injunction against Connectix's Virtual Game Station has been lifted - but now Sony's suing over patents. Crave an alternative to FileMaker? Matt Neuburg examines the re-birth of the visual database environment Helix. We also note the releases of Eudora 4.3.1, GraphicConverter 3.8, and (ahem) Windows 2000.

Topics:

• MailBITS/21-Feb-00
• Beefier Laptops & Faster G4s at Macworld Tokyo
• Virtual Game Station Shipping Again
• Life Spiral: Helix Returns

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