The Performance Edge: Get Them
While They're Hot - What Sonnet's Price Cuts Mean To You
Sunday, October 1, 2000
Sonnet
has come out with a series of prices cuts of up to $100 on
3 of its G3 upgrade cards; one for PCI based Macs, one for
Zif Macs and one cache slot G3 upgrade. The prices for the
Encore upgrade (zif) and the cache slot upgrade are new permanent
prices, however the G3/500 upgrade for PCI based Macs is good
only for the month of October... at the end of October the
price goes back to $500.
Below we explore what performance
gain you will see with these cards installed in the machines
they are made 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
Note: It may be some days after this is posted
that new prices will be reflected at retailers
Encore G3/500/250/1M
Old Price $499.95 New Price $399.95
Power Mac G3 desktops
G3 Towers
G3 Servers
All-In-One
Blue & White G3s
Crescendo G3/PCI 500/250/1M
Old Price $499.95 New Price $399.95
Power Mac 7300, 7500, 7600, 8500, 8515,
8600, 9500, 9515, 9600
Workgroup Server 7350, 8550, 9650
Power Computing PowerTower Pro, PowerWave
UMAX J700/S900
DayStar Genesis 360, 400, 528, 600, 720, 800, 900, 932
Mactell XB-Pro
Crescendo G3 400/200/1M for PCI/L2 Macs
Old Price $399.95 New Price $349.95
Power Mac 4400, 5400, 5500*, 6400, 6500*,
7220
Performa 5400, 5410, 5420, 5430, 5440, 6360, 6400, 6410,
6420
20th Anniversary Mac*
Power Computing PowerBase Desktop
Motorola StarMax 3000, 4000
* The Crescendo G3/L2 500/1M will support only Mac
models that have a 50 MHz bus speed as indicated with
asterisk.
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 Sonnet. Scores Marked in Blue indicate that
this information was independently verified by MacSpeedZone.
And how much
do you pay per performance point (price divided by performance
score) ....
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