In Apple’s first real setback since the release of the iMac in 1998 (which was their second computer market revolution after the Mac’s 1984 birth), Apple recently announced that production of the Power Mac G4 Cube will be suspended indefinitely.

Since (and indeed before) the days when the Apple II and Commodore 64 sat on our desks and we wrote software to blank cassettes, computer users the world over have faced a universal conundrum … sacrificing file size without sacrificing quality or quantity.

A potential downfall is having to input a salesperson for each sale. If you run a cash-only business like a store, even setting a salesperson as ‘C’ is an extra step you could do without. You also can’t set the preferences to let you turn off the receipt feature so you’re forced to print one every time.