>Sonnet today unveiled several major upgrade products for old and new
>Power Mac and PowerBook computers, including a 1GHz upgrade for
>Power Macs, a new 800MHz G4 upgrade for older PCI-based PowerMac
>7000/8000/9000 series machines, a 500MHz G3 upgrade for Power Mac
>7200, a 500MHz G4 upgrade for "WallStreet" PowerBooks, new PCI
>upgrade cards, and new product series that mounts hard drives
>direclty on ATA/133 PCI cards.
>
>Crescendo/PCI G4 800MHz - $400 - Mac OS 9/X
>
>The 800MHz processor upgrade for PCI Power Macs represents a series
>of "tremendous technological breakthroughs," with its
>highly-anticipated 7455 AltiVec-enabled PowerPC G4 chip and 1MB of
>L3 backside cache. The upgrade is compatible with the following
>systems:
>
>* Power Mac 7300, 7500, 7600, 85xx, 8600, 95xx, 9600
>* Workgroup Server 7350, 8550, 9650
>* Daystar Genesis
>* PowerCenter, PowerCenter Pro, PowerCurve, PowerTower,
>PowerTower Pro, PowerWave
>* UMAX J700/S900
While that is a lot of money it is cheaper then the older/ slower
upgrades were when they first came out. It will be interesting to see
how well they work in our old machines. I had an idea someone would
do this . Anyone thinking about buying one?
Sonnet is also releasing a new Tempo ATA PCI card which has
an IDE hard drive mounted on the card! So no cables etc needed. It
sounds like a simple nice idea. Reading the details I'm not so sure
anyone really needs it. They are using 2 1/2 inch drives ( Powerbook
drives) as the 3 1/2 inch ATA drives are too large but this means
they are 4200 rpm drives slow by todays standards and the deal
breaker as far as I'm concerned they are not bootable! They also
allow you to hook up 2 ata drives with a cable. So they are really
just the same as an ATA 133 tempo card with a slow non bootable drive
added on. Prices start at $220.00 for the 20gb model. Not such a good
deal IMHO. Later Will S
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