New Operating System Features Sherlock 2

Apple is announcing Mac OS 9 at special price. Mac OS 9 is the ultimate upgrade for anyone on the Internet or anyone who wants to be. With more than 50 powerful new features, Mac OS 9 offers a full suite of capabilities for new and advanced users. At work, home, or school, there’s no better way to get the most of your Macintosh computer and the Internet.

 What’s in it for you? Whether you’re using Mac OS 9 at home or as a publisher or educator, you’ll find many new features and a variety of capabilities for new and advanced users.

Sherlock 2. In addition to its smart disk and file searching, Sherlock 2 is your Internet search detective and personal shopper. Scour the Web for people, references, Apple info and current news in a flash. Sherlock 2 also lets you shop and compare prices.

ColorSync 3. Included in Mac OS 9, ColorSync 3 manages color across input, display and output. It features improved AppleScript support, saveable workflow settings, powerful Calibration Assistant and enhanced control for profiles.

Mac OS upgrade. If you purchased the Mac OS 8.5 retail product from an authorized Apple reseller on or after Oct 5, 1999, you can upgrade to Mac OS 9 for US $19.95 by using this upgrade order form for US customers (download is 104K; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).

CUPERTINO, California—Oct. 5, 1999—Apple® today announced that Mac® OS 9, a major new release of the Macintosh® operating system featuring 9 Internet power tools, will be available in U.S. dealers on October 23 for a suggested retail price of $99. Mac OS 9 features the debut of Sherlock 2, now the ultimate search engine for news and people on the Web plus the perfect personal shopper on the Internet, letting users find products, compare prices, pinpoint availability and even participate in auctions.

“Mac OS 9 is the best Internet OS ever,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s interim CEO. “Sherlock 2 is a groundbreaking way to search and shop on the Internet.”

Leading the more than 50 new features in Mac OS 9 are 9 Internet power tools:

• Sherlock 2, the ultimate search engine for news and people on the Web, is also now the perfect personal shopper on the Internet. Sherlock 2 features “channels” that provide tailored lists of search targets, such as “news,” “people,” “shopping,” etc. Users can create their own custom channels as well. The Shopping channel lets users search for merchandise across multiple sources at once (for example: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, eBay and eToys) comparing products, prices and availability from all sources in one convenient window.
• Multiple users can now share one Macintosh while protecting their private files and maintaining all their Internet settings, system and application preferences.
• Voiceprint Password allows users to log onto their Mac simply by speaking a pass phrase.
• The Keychain manages each user’s multiple IDs and passwords and stores them securely. When users log in, they automatically gain access to those password-protected sites and accounts without having to re-type individual passwords.
• Auto Updating allows users to automatically update their software over the Internet with the latest software and performance enhancements from Apple.
• Encryption uses industrial-strength cryptography to easily password-protect files so they can be securely stored on a computer or sent across the Internet.
• File Sharing over the Internet lets users turn their Macs into Internet file servers so they can share files or folders with other users as easily as dragging and dropping.
• Internet AppleScript® enables customers to automate tasks from the most simple to the most complex, involving a single computer or many Macs working in parallel across the Internet.
• Network Browser makes finding file servers, FTP servers, and web servers as easy as selecting a local printer, in small workgroups or the largest organizations.

Pricing, Availability and System Requirements
Mac OS 9 will be available in the United States on October 23 through Apple Authorized Resellers, The Apple Store™ (www.apple.com) and many software retailers for the suggested retail price of U.S. $99. Mac OS 9 will be available worldwide in November. Apple will offer a $20 rebate on the purchase of Mac OS 9 to customers who currently own Mac OS 8.5 or Mac OS 8.6. For more information on Mac OS 9 and this special offer, visit Apple’s Mac OS web site at www.apple.com/macos.

Minimum requirements to run Mac OS 9 are an Apple PowerPC-based computer and 32MB of physical RAM with virtual memory turned on. Mac OS 9 is optimized to take advantage of the incredible performance of the new Power Mac G4 with Velocity Engine

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