The Performance Edge: Get Up
To $120 Off On Your G4 Upgrade - Newer's Seybold Price Cuts
And The Price/Performance Equation!
Monday, August 28, 2000
NewerTech is having a blowout sale of its G3 & G4 cards
for some NuBus Macs, PCI based Macs and Zif based Macs. According
to Newer these price cuts, which range from $20 to $120, are
good for one week only. This is in honor of the Seybold Conference,
which is taking place now in San Francisco, and Labor Day
- that is between 8/29/00 and 9/4/00. Get them while they're
hot!
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 G4/400/200/1MB
Old Price $529 New Price $449
MAXpowr G4/350/175/1MB
Old Price $449 New Price $349
Power Mac 7300, 7500, 7600, 8500, 8515,
8600, 9500, 9515, 9600
Power Computing PowerTower Pro, PowerWave
UMAX J700/S900
DayStar Genesis 360, 400, 528, 600, 720, 800, 900, 932
computers
MAXpowr G3/500/250/1MB
Old Price $499 New Price $399
MAXpowr G4/450/225/1MB
Old Price $679 New Price $599
MAXpowr G4/400/200/1MB
Old Price $549 New Price $429
Power Mac G3 desktops
G3 Towers
G3 Servers
All-In-One
Blue & White G3s
MAXpowr PDS G3/300-333/150-167/1MB (6100)
Old Price $349 New Price $ 329
Power Macintosh 6100/60, 6100/60AV,
6100/66, 6100/66AV , 6100/66 DOS Compatible***
***DOS card must be removed prior to MAXpowr G3 PDS
installation.
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) ....
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