#NEC CD-ROMs?
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If your refering to the CD Walkman like units, they're showing them in
their MacWorld and MacUser adds running on Macs. Unfortunatly the
literature on them is not ready yet, but they are putting people on a list
to get it when it's ready. They have a non-800 consumer affairs number you
might try, it's (312) 860-0335. But why are you asking questions here, I
thought you sysops already knew everything! 🙂
Nope, knew about the drive itself but these are ads for the actual compact
disc ROMS that contain clip art and fonts. The font one supposedly has
hundreds of fonts — you pay for four and then you pay to unlock others
later. But the ad is REAL coy about the price and also doesn't spell out if
it is Mac as well as PC,
I have the NEC CD ROM unit for evaluation for Macintosh Buyer's Guide, as
well as quite a few of the CD's. The 'drive' unit works very well, and the
CD's all seem to run as advertised. While Streamline is making much of the
EPS clip art available on CD ROM seem overpriced and superflous, the fonts
look good. The review was put on hold from the winter issue, however,
because Image Studio had promised us a CD ROM for review (I reviewed their
first product a few years ago for the same magazine), but, as of this date,
has failed to deliver. I don't know if this is because the product is
vaporware or because they've had so much demand they've decided they can
ignore for the moment the magazines offering to review their products. My
experience of them has been that they are not the most "user friendly" of
companies, although they do produce a good, solid line of products.
Another important caveat on a CD product is that the photo libraries are
_not_ for publication use. You can import the photos for comps, but if you
want to print them, you must pay the fees to the companies, which can run
hundreds of dollars per shot.
The folks from NEC were at our office today demoing the drive and their
disks. I'm home now, so I don't have the pricing info handy (and I've
vowed not to set foot in the office until Monday — a real first for me
lately!)
Anyway, I'll check on Monday for you. I do remember that they at least
thought that competitive pricing was one of their chief selling points. For
instance, the PostScript font disc contains a copy of Suitcase II. As with
the individual fonts, (Adobe volumes 1-105, I think), if you want it, you
pay (they said) about 40 percent off the list price to them and they give
you the password to unlock it. If you don't need it, you haven't been
charged for it. An interesting approach.