
On the high end of things, the Macintosh II line had faded away, and Apple was replacing it with the 68040-powered Quadras. By this time, the LC line was anchoring the low end of the Mac product line, and the Performa was still mostly just rebadged LCs and Classic IIs. Now that we’ve looked at the what of the Centris line, let’s look at the why. All three models came with System 7.1, and could run up to Mac OS 8.1 which shipped in early 1998. It and the 610 both came in the “pizza box” form factor, while the more expandable Centris 650 lived in a recycled Macintosh IIvx case which was both taller and deeper. Composite and S-Video input and output ports.


The ability to bring in reference tokens from previous lines and setting up variables makes this work efficient and less error-prone, both of which are good things. I use it for all sorts of administrative tasks, from verifying Relay FM membership payments to personal budgeting and more. It’s one of those Mac applications so wired into my workflow that I can’t imagine working without it. I’ve been a Soulver user since … forever. Soulver 3 for macOS is a unique tool that brings the power of natural language processing, unit and currency conversions, calendar math and a whole lot more to the Mac in a native, rich application that integrates with system features including the command line, Automator, URL schemes and third-party services like Alfred.
