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The Performance Edge: Newer Drops Prices On Many Of It's Processor Upgrades - The New Price/Performance Equation!

7/9/00

NewerTech has introduced a G4/500 upgrade card for beige & Blue & White G3 Macs, reintroduced G3 cards for PDS & L2 cache slot and dropped prices on several of their G3 & G4 upgrades for PCI based Macs. Price drops range from $50 to $70.

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 G3/400/200/1MB
Old Price $399 New Price $349

Power Mac 7300, 7500, 7600, 8500, 8515, 8600, 9500, 9515, 9600
Power Computing PowerCenter, PowerCenter Pro, PowerTower, PowerTower Pro, PowerWave, PowerCurve
UMAX J700/S900
DayStar Genesis 360, 400, 528, 600, 720, 800, 900, 932 computers
Mactell's XB-Pro

MAXpowr G4/500/250/1MB
New Price $799

MAXpowr G4/450/225/1MB
Old Price $749 New Price $670

MAXpowr G4/400/200/1MB
Old Price $599 New Price $549

Power Mac G3 desktops
G3 Towers
G3 Servers
All-In-One
Blue & White G3s

MAXpowr PDS G3/300-333/150-167/1MB (6100)
New Price $349

MAXpowr PDS G3/266-300/133-150/1MB (8100 & 7100)
New Price $449

Power Macintosh 6100/60, 6100/60AV, 6100/66, 6100/66AV , 6100/66 DOS Compatible***, 7100/66, 7100/66AV, 7100/80, 7100/80AV, 8100/80, 8100/80AV, 8100/100, 8100/100AV, 8100/110, 8100/110AV, 8115/110AV

Power Macintosh Performa 6110, 6112 , 6115, 6116, 6117, 6118

***DOS card must be removed prior to MAXpowr G3 PDS installation.

MAXpowr L2 G3/400/200/1MB
New Price $399

Power Mac 4400, 5400, 5500, 6400, 6500, 7220

Performa 5400, 5410, 5420, 5430, 5440, 6360, 6400, 6410, 6420

Power Computing PowerBase

Motorola StarMax 3000, 4000, 5000

UMAX SuperMac C500, C600

APS M*Power Series (all)

Previous Prices For Newer Cards

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) ....

Previous Price/Performance Comparison For Newer Cards

For Great Prices On Upgrades Check The Vendors Below
Processor Upgrades	Graphics Cards	Hard Drives & Optical Drives
PowerMax	PowerMax	4AllMemory	PowerMax
Small Dog	Small Dog	Small Dog

SCSI, Firewire USB Cards	RAM	Closeout, Used & Refurbished Macs
MacConnection	4AllMemory	Apple Small Dog
Get your store listed!		PowerMax (refurb)	PowerMax (used)

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