The Performance Edge: Newer
Drops It's Prices On Most Of It's High-End Cards Including The
iMac Upgrade - The New Price/Performance Equation!
5/6/00
NewerTech has dropped prices on their G3 & G4 upgrades
for PCI based Macs and beige and Blue & White G3 Power
Macs, up to $150. The have also reduced, slightly, the price
on the iMAXpowr and given you more time to return the card
for a rebate.
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 $849 New Price $749
MAXpowr G4/400/200/1MB
Old Price $699 New Price $599
MAXpowr G4/350/175/1MB
Old Price $499 New Price $449
Power Mac 7300, 7500, 7600, 8500, 8515,
8600, 9500, 9515, 9600
Power Computing PowerTower Pro, PowerWave, PowerCurve
UMAX J700 and S900
DayStar Genesis 360, 400, 528, 600, 720, 800, 900, 932
computers
MAXpowr G3/500/250/1MB
Old Price $699 New Price $549
MAXpowr G3/400/200/1MB
Old Price $449 New Price $399
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) ....
*** Price reflects credit of $150 when you
return old card within 14 days
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