PowerLogix announced price reductions on its line of PowerForce G3 and G4 upgrades, as well as the RapidFire FireWire/USB card. The PowerForce G3 350/175/512 KB is now $180, and the 500/250/1 MB is now $400. The PowerForce G4 450/225/1 MB is now $500. The PowerForce G3 ZIF 500/250/1 MB is now $400, and the 450/225/1 MB is now $500. The RapidFire board is now $140.
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I did and its a dog... dropped frames galore and poor porformance...
as for a CPU upgrade... why bother... buy ram that will work on your old mac and new mac when you get it..
With the 400 and 500 mhz Pismo Powerbooks at $2000 +/- hardly seems worth upgrading a Wallstreet Powerbook at $600 or $700.
BlueChip needs a new price point too.
I disagree with the nay-sayers here. I would love to buy a new G4 cube, but even at $1499 it's not within reach. I just started a family and spare cash is hard to come by. I ended up buying the PowerForce G4 450 card from Small Dog, who threw in the RapidFire FireWire/USB combo card, all for $459. This replaces a PowerForce G3 250 upclocked to 270 which I bought 16 months ago for $169. The base machine is a Power Computing PowerBase 240, purchased in 1997 for $1200. So over three and a half years I've spent a total of $1830 on my computer (not including a RAM upgrade) and have had a 603e/240, a G3/270, and a G4/450. And you have to give me some points for the fact that most good machines cost more than that alone in 1997 (I got my PowerBase right before PCC's closeout - it was like $1799 before that). To have that total cash outlfow and have a 450 G4 today is pretty sweet!
I forgot to mention I did buy an Xclaim VR 128 card and a 13Gb hard drive, so the cost is another $300 - but these are peripheral items, not base CPU's like our discussion topic, so I don't know if they count. In any event, they were better than what you could have bought standard in Apple machines at the time I bought them.
I dont get it.
didnt IBM announce some 700 MHz G3's and motorola some 550 Mhz G4's already, why dont the upgrade makers announce products using these chips already, then it really would be worthwhile upgrading (you could get speeds which even apple dont sell at). surely they would do more business then too...
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still not worth it
Come on. Look at the awesome apple price cuts.
Get a new computer.