The Performance Edge: Ho, Ho,
Ho Down The Prices Go - Newer Tech's Upgrades And The New Price/Performance
Equation
Saturday, November 18, 2000
NewerTech in the spirit of the holidays has dropped prices
of up to $100 on many of their upgrade cards for most Power
Macs and Macintosh Clones.
Below we explore what performance
gain you will see with these cards installed in the machines
they are intended for. We also take a comparative look at
the price/performance
equation of each card.
New Prices and the
Machines The Cards Are Intended For
MAXpowr G4/450/225/1MB
Old Price $649 New Price $549
MAXpowr G3/400/200/1MB
Old Price $349 New Price $299
Power Mac 7300, 7500, 7600, 8500, 8515,
8600, 9500, 9515, 9600
Power Computing: Power Curve**, Power Center**, Power
Center Pro**, PowerTower**, PowerTower Pro, PowerWave
What kind of performance gain are
you getting for the money you'll be shelling out for the various
cards?......
Scores marked in Red indicate this information was provided
by Newer. Scores Marked in Blue indicate that this information
was independently verified by MacSpeedZone. Also keep in mind
that MacBench does not stress the G4's accelerated functions.
For Applications that are accelerated for the G4 you can see
up to a 1.5 - 5 times speed improvement over a similarly clocked
G3 processor.
** The G4 cards will not work in all machines.
See above for compatibility.
And how much do you pay per performance point
(price divided by performance score) ....
Newer Rolls Out CORRECT Holiday Pricing Across The Product Line
Numerous holiday price reductions of as much as $100 for G3
& G4 CPU upgrades WICHITA, KS, USA - November 20, 2000 - Newer
Technology, the technology leader in Apple [NASDAQ: AAPL] Macintosh
CPU upgrades, announces their first ever Holiday Sale on their
line of the world's most highly rated G3 and G4 CPU upgrade
cards. Improved pricing covers cards from 300MHz to 500MHz.
Including cards utilizing Newer's award winning MAXpowr hardware
ROM compatibility circuitry. These are the only cards on the
market that are truly 100% compatible with Apple's 7300-9600
series of Power Macintosh computers. "We intend on bringing
a little cheer to several thousand people with our special Holiday
Sale," stated John Nelson, Newer's iPresident. "These are the
most attractive prices ever offered on 100% ROM compatible G3
and G4 CPU upgrade cards. We are very excited by the prospect
that our technically superior CPU upgrade cards are now affordable
to a significantly wider range of customers". Upgrades for the
following computers are significantly lowered for Newer's Holiday
Sale: - 6100 (all speeds), 6110, 6112, 6115, 6116, 6117, 6118,
Workgroup Server 6150 - 4400, 5400, 5410, 5420, 5430, 5440,
5500, 6360, 6400, 6410, 6420, 6430, 6440, 6500 - PowerBase (any
style, any speed), StarMax 3000, 4000, 5000, 5500, - UMAX C500,
C600, C600X, Apple 7220 - 7300, WGS 7350, 7500, 7600, 8500,
8515, WGS 8550, 8600, 9500, 9515, 9600, - All Daystar Genesis
and Millenium Series, UMAX J700, S900, Mactell XB-Pro - PowerTower
Pro, PowerTower, PowerCenter Pro, Power Center, PowerWave, PowerCurve
- PowerMac G3 Desktop beige, Mini Tower beige, All-In-One beige,
Server beige - PowerMac G3 Tower blue & white - PowerMac G4
PCI Graphics ("Yikes" ZIF motherboard) ______________________________Newer
Technology, Inc. __________________________Holiday 2000 Super
Sale Pricing _________________Power Macintosh Processor Upgrades
& Peripherals _______________________________________ Early
Nov. ______ Holiday _______________________________________
Street Price ____ Special Prices MAXpowr G4-ZIF 450MHz/1MB/225MHz_____7MXMG450/225
___________ $549 ___________ $499 500MHz/1MB/250MHz_____7MXMG500/250
___________ $799 ___________ $749 ** PowerMac G3 (beige, all
speeds); PowerMac G3 towers (blue/ice, all speeds) ** EXTREMELY
LIMITED AVAILABILITY ___(450MHz cards are now priced as the
year's best G4 buy) MAXpowr G3-ZIF 500MHz/1MB/250MHz_____7MXG+500/250
____________ $399 __________ $379 PowerMac G3 (beige, all speeds);
PowerMac G3 towers (blue/ice, all speeds) MAXpowr G4 PCI 450MHz/1MB/225MHz_____7MXAP450/225
____________ $649 __________ $549 PowerMac 7300-9600; Many Clones
MAXpowr G3 PCI 400MHz/1MB/200MHz_____7MXP+400/200 ____________
$349 __________ $299 * PowerMac 7300-9600; Most Clones MAXpowr
G3-L2 400MHz/1MB/200MHz_____7MXLB+400/200 ___________ $399 __________
$299 * 4400, 5400 series, 5500, 6360, 6400 series, 6500 series
PowerBase, UMAX C500, C600, C600x StarMax 3000, 4000, 5000,
5500 series MAXpowr G3 PDS 61XX Series 300MHz-330MHz/1MB/150MHz-165MHz_____7MXPD+6100
_ $349 _________ $249 * 6100, 6110, 6112, 6115, 6116, 6117,
6118, 6150 * Prices corrected from the Friday (11/17/00) Press
Release Mailing. PERIPHERALS PowerBook Docking Stations BookEndz_____7BEPBG3B
PowerBook G3 (1999) ____________________________ $199 __________
$99 Availability Newer Technology Macintosh products are available
worldwide through major distributors, with North American distribution
through Ingram-Micro as well as through national resellers,
value-added resellers, online sources and mail order catalogs.
Newer's USB products can be purchased through the more than
800 Sears retail stores throughout North America. Newer Technology
products can also be purchased from Newer's online store at
www.newerstore.com. MAXpowr Differences MAXpowr G4 upgrades
use Newer's exclusive SmartSet technology which allows the processor
upgrade to set its bus speed automatically - there are no switches
to tinker with. MAXpowr processor upgrades are set to run at
the optimum bus speed for fastest memory access Ñ without adding
wait states that slow system performance, or push the memory
beyond Apple's specifications. Rather than artificially inflating
the bus speed (important only for older motherboard Level 2
cache access), MAXpowr processor upgrades set the system bus
at speeds that produce the least number of wait states between
the CPU and system memory. Patent-pending Compatibility Circuitry
on the MAXpowr upgrade provides the correct management of speculative
access so that users data is not at risk - without demanding
user input. MAXpowr G4 upgrades also correctly manage context
switching - where instructions processed by the AltiVec unit
inside the G4 CPU are executed successfully despite interrupts.
If interrupted the instruction results are not saved correctly
therefore data is at risk of corruption. There are a number
of white papers on Newer Technology's website which discuss
these topics in great detail. Newer Technology has consistently
lead the development of processor upgrades for Apple Macintosh
computers. Newer's firsts include the first Power Macintosh
processor upgrade. The first G3 Power Mac processor upgrade
and the first G3 processor upgrade for the Power Mac 6100, 7100
and 8100 series as well as the iMac. MAXpowr upgrades are also
the only upgrades to feature a hardware solution for speculative
access management. Newer Technology has more than 15 years of
experience and is the leading developer of performance upgrades
for Apple PowerBooks, desktop Apple Macintosh computers and
Mac OS compatibles. For more information, contact Newer Technology,
Inc., 4848 W. Irving Street, Wichita, KS 67209; phone: +1 316-943-0222;
fax: +1 316/943-0555; e-mail: sales@newertech.com, or visit
the website at http://www.newertech.com. For international inquiries,
please contact info@newertech.com.
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