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The SpeedZone : Dueling Laptops ... G4/1 GHz iBook vs G4/1 GHz PowerBook - A Performance Report

The SpeedZone : PowerBook A Desktop Replacement? ... G5 Power Mac Trounces G4/1.33 GHz PowerBook - A Performance Report

The SpeedZone: Top Of The Line Tower Doesn't Live Up To Its Potential!... Yet - 35 Performance Test Results For the Dual Processor G5/2.0 GHz Tower

The SpeedZone: Is a 13% Performance Improvement Worth $400? ... 35 Performance Test Results For the G5/1.6 GHz & 1.8 GHz Towers

The SpeedZone: The New 1.8 GHz G5: Nearly Twice As Big ... Is It Twice As Fast? Hard Drive, Processor And Graphics Card Performance

The SpeedZone: G4 Processor Upgrade Performance... How Fast Will They Make Your G4 Machine?

Cider Press Reviews - Top Of The Line Processor Upgrades Make The Best Sense To Two Groups Of People

The SpeedZone: Three eMac Icebergs Start Melting When The Heat Is On .... How Fast Are They? This Fast ....

The SpeedZone: 700 MHz, 800 MHz and 1 GHz eMacs Compared- A Preliminary, New eMac, Performance Report

The SpeedZone: How Fast Is The 17 Inch PowerBook When Running A Race Against The Other PowerBooks? This Fast ....

The 17 Inch PowerBook May Be Bold And Beautiful, But When It Counts, It Can't Take The Place Of A Tower Machine - A Preliminary Performance Report

Cider Press Reviews - For Those Not Satisfied With Twice The Performance, Perhaps The Middle Sibling From Sonnet, PowerLogix Or GigaDesign Is The Answer ...

The SpeedZone: iBook G3/900 MHz or PowerBook G4/867 ... What's The Difference In Performance & Features? We Take A Look

The SpeedZone: New Dual 1.42 GHz Tower Performance Compared To Current Power Macs, iMacs, PowerBooks And iBooks

The SpeedZone - New Generation Of Towers Performance Compared To The Last Generation

The SpeedZone: Sure The New Dual G4/1.42 GHz Tower Is Faster Than The Others .. But By How Much? - A Tale Of The Three Towers!

Deep In The Zone: You May Be Cute, You May Be Cuddly, And You May Be Rugged, But You Are No Substitute For A PowerBook - A Performance Report  On The New iBooks

The SpeedZone: The New G4/1GHz PowerBook Compared To 11 Current & Previous PowerBooks & iBooks

Deep In The Zone: New GHz & 867 MHz PowerBooks vs 20 Current & Former Power Macs, iMacs, PowerBooks And iBooks, All Running O S X - A Performance Report

Deep In The Zone: PowerBook vs PowerBook, How Much Faster Is The GHz PowerBook - A Performance Report 

The SpeedZone: The New G4/867 MHz PowerBook Compared To 9 Current & Previous PowerBooks & iBooks - A Performance Report

The SpeedZone: The New iBooks And Game Performance - How Much Difference Does The New Graphics Card Make? .... A Performance Report

The SpeedZone: What Is Faster, The 1GHz iMac Or The 1 GHz PowerBook? - A Detailed Performance Report

The SpeedZone: The Performance Of The New 12 Inch PowerBook Compared To 13 Other Laptops

Deep In The Zone: New 12 Inch 867 MHz PowerBooks vs 22 Current & Former Power Macs, iMacs, PowerBooks And iBooks, All Running O S X - A Performance Report

Hey The G4/867 PowerBook Is Faster Than The G4/867 PowerBook! - A Detailed Performance Report Of the New 12 Inch PowerBook

The SpeedZone - The New Power Mac G4/1GHz and Dual 1.25 GHz Performance Compared To 8 Other Power Macs

The SpeedZone: Sure The New Dual G4/1.25 GHz Tower Is Faster Than The Single G4/1 GHz .. But By How Much? A Tale Of The Two Towers!

The Performance Of 8 iMacs And eMacs Compared

The SpeedZone: iMac G4/800 vs iMac G4/1GHz .. How Much Faster Is The GHz Machine?

The SpeedZone: iMac Upgrades And OS 9 - A Performance Report

The SpeedZone: Comparing The Performance Of The New Dual Processor Power Mac Towers To 28 Current & Former Macintosh Desktops And Portables

The SpeedZone: How Fast Are The New Power Mac Towers At Playing Games? This Fast .... A Performance Report

The SpeedZone: It's 40% Faster, Costs $1,600 More And Purrs Like A Kitten- A Detailed Look At The Performance Of The Dual G4/1.25 GHz Power Mac

The SpeedZone: GHz vs GHz! Is the New Power Mac Dual G4/1000 Any Faster Than The Old Power Mac Dual G4/1000? - A Performance Report

The SpeedZone: Original G3/233 Bondi Blue iMac vs Flat Panel G4/800! Would You Believe That In Some Cases The G4 Is 33 Times As Fast- A Detailed Performance Report

The SpeedZone: It Costs $800 More Than The Power Mac Dual Processor 867, Just How Much Faster Is The Dual GHz Machine? - A Performance Report

The SpeedZone: Comparing The Performance Of The New Dual Processor G4/867 MHz Power Mac To 28 Current & Former Macintosh Desktop And Portables

The SpeedZone: A Month Ago It Was The Top Of The Line Power Mac, Now, Is It Humbled By The Current Low End Dual 867 MHz Power Mac? - A Performance Report

The SpeedZone: 667 MHz vs 700 MHz, G4 vs G3, PowerBook vs iBook - A Performance Report

The SpeedZone: 667 MHz vs 700 MHz, G4 vs G3, PowerBook vs iBook - A Performance Report

The Performance Edge: Comparing The Cold Hard Performance Numbers Of 24 Current And Previous G4 & G3 Macintosh Computers, And Laptops To The New eMac

Gumdrop vs iLamp, CRT vs Flat Panel, G4 vs G4 .... eMac vs iMac - A Performance Report - We are going to give you a preliminary look at the performance of the G4/700 eMac. Below we compare it to the flat panel G4/700 iMac

iMacs And Gaming Performance - The G4 iMacs Have The Rest Of The Gang Quaking In Their Boots - If you want to get an iMac to choke these days, you will have to load one of the new demanding games ... like Giants or 4X4 Evolution 2

iMac G4/800 vs iMac G4/700 - How Much Difference Does 100 MHz And A SuperDrive Make? - A Performance Report - On average the 700 MHz G4 iMac was about 10% slower than its faster sibling

iMac vs 800 MHz Tower - Which Machine Gives You More Bang For The Buck, A Performance Report - They both have the same processor, running at the same speed and they both lack a L3 backside cache. So in raw processing power they should weigh in about the same. They do in some of our tests below, where only raw processing power is called for. However in many of the tests we ran, that are also processor focused, the iMac ran about 10-15% behind the Power Mac Tower

Faster Than A Speeding Bullet, Or Slower Than Molasses In A Juno Winter? - Virtual PC Performance On The New G4 Tower Macintoshes - Well it actually falls somewhere between these two extremes. For the test results below we ran Virtual PC 5.0 with Windows 2000 on each of the new Tower machines

The Cold Hard Performance Numbers Of 22 Current And Previous G4 And G3 Macintosh Computers And Laptops, Compared

Eeny Meeny, Miney Moe - All The New G4 Towers Go Toe To Toe - A Performance Report - We finally have benchmark results for all three of the new Tower Power Macs. In general the results confirm our feelings about each one of these machines

Dual Processors, Gaming And OS X - In Terms Of Performance The Gigahertz Machine Is A Giant Killer! - If you have a dual processor machine the game will utilize both processors and turn in about a 50% performance improvement over a single processor machine of the same speed.

Photoshop, Gaming And More - A Further Exploration Of The Comparative Performance Of The New Dual Gigahertz And 933 MHz G4 Towers

Is Apple's Top Of The Line Dual Processor Gigahertz Tower Too Fast, Too Powerful? Perhaps - The Dual Processor G4/1GHz vs The G4/933, A Performance Report - We spent the weekend benchmarking the new single processor G4/933 Tower. Below you will find some of the results of our work, and a comparison between the 933 and the dual GHz G4. All the test below we done using OS X

More Extensive Performance Numbers On The Dual G4 Gigahertz Machine

The Inside Scoop On The Gigahertz Power Mac - Up Close And Personal - A Pictorial Review - The internal components of these computers are laid out in a nice, uncluttered way. Everything is very identifiable, uncomplicated, and easy to access

A Dueling, Dual Processor Shoot Out - A First Look At The Performance Of The New Gigahertz Tower Compared To The Last Generation Dual Processor Machine

Hey Not So Fast! PowerBook G4/550 vs PowerBook G4/500 - Newer, Faster Clocked PowerBook Not Always Faster - A Performance Review Under OS X - overall performance of the new low-end PowerBook is somewhat mixed, both when running under Mac OS X and when under OS 9

Let The Games Begin! PowerBook G4/550 vs PowerBook G4/500 Under OS 9 - In Some Tasks The New PowerBook Shines and In Many It Doesn't - If you are a hard core gamer, and looking for a PowerBook, then the newer one is what you want to get. The ATI Mobility Radeon graphics card in the 4x AGP slot with 16MB of DDR graphics memory blows the previous, top of the line PowerBook out of the water, turning in a 130% performance improvement.

PowerBook G4/550 vs iBook G3/600 How Much Of Difference Does A Number Change And Titanium Case Make - A Performance Review Under OS X - In most of our OS 10.1 tests, the G4 PowerBook bested the higher clocked iBook ... sometimes by a large margin.

PowerBook G4/550 vs iBook G3/600 And OS 9 - The G4 Advantage Is More Specialized - A Performance Comparison Under OS 9.2.1 - The advantage of the PowerBook's G4 processor under OS 9 is less consistent than it is under OS X. However, as you'll see from the results below, in certain applications the performance of the G4 will run rings around the G3, even when that G3 has a higher clock speed

How Does A 20% Clock-Speed mprovement Turn Into A 40% Performance Improvement? - The iBook G3/500 vs The iBook G3/600 - why in many of our test results below are we seeing close to a 30% - 40% performance gain? The answer, we believe, can be laid at the feet of one more change Apple made. In the place of the 66 MHz System Bus (read "pathway") between the processor and main memory, there is now a 100 MHz one

Faster Than A Speeding Bullet? Filesharing Performance & OS 10.1 - I would like to share with your readers the considerable improvement in file sharing copy speed that I measured between OS 9 and OS X

G4 vs G3, 733 MHz vs 700 MHz, Power Mac vs iMac - A Performance Report - We have received numerous requests to compare the performance of the new iMacs to the Quicksilver towers. Below we take a first stab at this, comparing the top of the line iMac (700 MHz), to the bottom of the line QuickSilver Power Mac (733 MHz)

Three Macintosh Operating Systems Go Head To Head - Mac OS 9.2.1 vs Classic Mac OS 9.2.1 vs Mac OS 10.1 - From a performance standpoint, the main advantage Mac OS X has over previous versions of the Mac OS, is the ability to utilize the processor(s) more effecently. It does this two ways. The first is a better multitasking scheme, which allows you to run multiple applications, either on one processor, or across multiple processors. The other is more developed multithreading support

A Tale Of Two Versions Of The Same Macintosh Operating System - Classic Mac 9.2.1 Performance Compared To Standard Mac OS 9.2.1 - Below we compare performance when booted under Mac OS 9.2.1 and when booted under Mac OS 10.1 but running applications in the Classic environment using the same Mac OS 9.2.1. Apple has done a great job of both making the experience of moving between Mac OS X and Classic Mac OS almost seamless, and in keeping the performance of the Classic layer very good

More On Multithreading & Multitasking - How It Works And What It Does In OS X To Make Computing More Efficient - Last week we posted an article on how Multitasking and Multithreading can better utilize a computers processing potential. We asked several questions about multithreading, such as does it require dual processors or can multithreading occur if just one processor is present. Below we post some of the informative and thoughtful responses we received

OS X Runs A Marathon While OS 9 Is Just Finishing Tying Its Shoes - OS X And The Multitasking/Multithreaded Factor - I am not a programmer, so I might be slightly off base here, but I will try to explain the huge advantage that OS X has over OS 9 in the performance arena. It comes down to two words: Multitasking and Multithreaded

How Much Of A Difference Do Dual Processors Make? It's Mixed - The Dual Processor G4/800 Meets Mac OS 10.1 - performance of the dual processor machine is really mixed. Converting a QuickTime movie to a DV Stream showed an 80% speed improvement for the dual processor Power Mac. However when encoding the same file using a Sorenson codec, the dual processor machine was slightly slower than the single processor 867 MHz

The Hundred Dollar Price Break On Certain PowerForce Upgrade Cards - PowerLogix's Price Cuts And The Price/Performance Equation - PowerLogix has knocked up to $100 off the upgrade cards listed below. The entry level G3/350 for PowerPC 604e based machines is an especially good bargain at $149. PowerLogix has discontinued its G3 upgrades for Zif based Macs but do have a G4 version for these machines

The Performance Edge: Quicksilver 867 MHz vs Dual 800 MHz - A Performance Report - Below we look at just the 867 MHz Quicksilver performance when compared to the dual processor 800 MHz machine

Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe - A Performance Comparison Of The Quicksilver Dual Processor G4/800 To The G4/733 & G4/867 Power Macs - Ok there is no Moe. But we did preliminary performance testing on the new Quicksilver dual G4/800 and thought we share the results with you

Across The Board Price Cuts From Sonnet And The New Price/Performance Equation - Sonnet, has dropped prices on various G3 and G4 upgrades for a wide variety of Macintosh machines. Some of these price cuts are up to $50. You can now pick up a G3 card for as little as $150

6.2 Gigaflops Can't Be All Bad? - First Report On The Performance Of The Quicksilver Dual Processor G4/800 PowerMac - a reader (will call him John ... mainly because that's his name), sent us the results of his newly arrived Quicksilver Dual Processor G4/800. Needless to say, he is one happy camper

Now That Is More Like It - What A Difference A Little Backside Cache Makes - A Performance Comparison Of The Quicksilver G4/733 And G4/867 - we have got our hands on a Quicksilver 867. Where the 733 has only a on chip cache running at full processor speed, the 867 not only has a faster clock-speed but also has the same 256K on chip cache (again at full processor speed) plus 2 full MB of backside cache running at one fourth the processor speed. On a purely MHz basis the 867 is only 18% faster. Yet in many of the tests it turned in anywhere between a 24% - 145% speed improvement over its younger sibling

The Power Mac Single Processor G4/533MHz, Skunks The New Quicksilver 733 MHz Power Mac, In Most Tests - The 'Megahertz Myth' In Reverse - This is our first look at the performance of the new Quicksilver Power Macs announced at Macworld NY in July. Below we compare the new 733 MHz machine to some of the currently selling Macs, and a few machines from the last round of PowerMacs

XLR8 Has Cut Prices Up To 16% Across Its Produt Line - The New Upgrade Card Price/Performance Equation - XLR8 has, dropped prices up to $70 across its product line

The iBook May Be Cute And Inexpensive, But The PowerBook G4 Blows It Away - A Performance Review - In almost all of our tests the G4 PowerBooks with their faster bus speed (100MHz) and larger backside cache, greatly outclassed the iBook with its paltry 256K of cache and bus speed of only 66MHz

G3 Upgrade Cards May Be Down, But They're Not Out - PowerLogix's Price Cuts And The Price/Performance Equation - PowerLogix has knocked $50 off three of their G3 upgrade cards

PowerBook vs PowerBook - Mano A Mano - Apple's G4 PowerBooks Benchmarked - In the results, for processor intensive activity, the 500 MHz PowerBook showed between 16 to 30 percent better performance over the 400 MHz model

Across The Board Price Cuts From Sonnet And The New Price/Performance Equation - Sonnet, has dropped prices on various G3 and G4 upgrades for a wide variety of Macintosh machines. Some of these price cuts are up to $150

The Affordable iMac Upgrade - The Price/Performance Equation For PowerLogix's iMac Upgrade - PowerLogix , is offering a $50 rebate on the 400MHz version of the iForce G3 upgrade card

If You Have Got The Right Machine You Can Take $150 Off Your Next Upgrade Card! - The Price/Performance Equation For PowerLogix's Upgrade Card Price Cuts

The New 533 MHz and 466 MHz G4 Towers Performance Compared To 39 Previous Macs - We are working hard to get all the new machines benchmarked, so consider this an interim report

Apple Thinks You Can't Run OS X On An Upgraded Machine. Upgrade Manufacturers Say "Think different!" - Which manufacturers are supporting OS X and on what cards? Find out!

A $200 Price Drop Makes G4 Upgrade Attractive . Sonnet's Price Cuts & The Price/Performance Equation - Sonnet, has dropped prices up to $100 on its upgrades for ZIF based machines and $200 on its G4 upgrade for 7200 class machines

XLR8 Has Cut Prices Across Its Produt Line - The New Upgrade Card Price/Performance Equation - XLR8 has, dropped prices up to $130 across its product line and come out with a variety of dual processor G4 upgrade cards for 604e based Mac and native G3/G4 machines

G3 Upgrade Cards Fall Below $200 - The Price/Performance Equation For PowerLogix's Upgrade Card Price Cuts! - PowerLogix has reduced prices on 5 of their G3/G4 upgrade cards for both Zif and PCI based machines

How Much Difference Does Having a Faster "Backside" Cache Make - A Performance Review - We decided to take a second, in-depth look at cache speed to get a fuller perspective on the benefits of backside cache, and exactly what processes it speeds up

Five Days And Counting, Get Them While They're Hot - Metabox Upgrades And The Price/Performance Equation - Metabox is a relative new-comer to the shores of the US. They are a German company now selling their joeCARDs in North America. They have announced a special rebate, of up to $80, on many of their upgrade cards for Apple G3 and first generation G4 machines, and for certain pre-G3 Power Macs and Clones. The rebate offer ends on the 15th of December.

For Owners Of Power Mac 6100s The Time For G3 Envy May Be Over - The Price/Performance Equation - NewerTech just a few short weeks after dropping the price on their MAXpowr PDS G3/300-333MHz upgrade card for the 6100 class of Power Macs by $100, has dropped the price again

Santa Sonnet's Holiday Price Cuts And The New Price/Performance Equation - Sonnet has come out with a series of prices cuts of up to $100 on many of its G3 and G4 upgrade cards

Ho, Ho, Ho Down The Prices Go - Newer Tech's Upgrades And The New Price/Performance Equation - NewerTech in the spirit of the holidays has dropped prices of up to $100 on many of their upgrade cards for most Power Macs and Macintosh Clones

It's Two, Two,Two Upgrades In One - XLR8's 466MHz Carrier Zif Card And The New Price/Performance Equation - XLR8 has, with Christmas in mind, reduced the price of it's Carrier Zif G3/466/233/1MB for PCI PowerMacs by $100.

And Down, Down The Prices Go! - Newer G3/G4 Upgrades And The Price/Performance Equation - NewerTech has dropped prices of over $100 on 2 of their upgrade cards for 604e based machine

"Hey Joe Have I Got A Card For You!" - Metabox G3/G4 Cards And The Price/Performance Equation - Metabox is a relative new-comer to the shores of the US. They are a German company now selling their joeCARDs in North America

All This And FireWire Too! - Newer's PowerBook G3 Upgrades And The Price/Performance Equation. - NewerTech has a special on their two G3 upgrade cards for G3 PowerBooks; buy an upgrade card and they throw in their CardBus FireWire 2 Go card for free

Sonnet Adds Two More Innovative Upgrades For Venerable Old Macs - And We Explore The Price/Performance Equation - Sonnet, which seems to have a G3 or G4 upgrade card for almost every Mac out there, has come out with two more upgrades for the previously non-upgradable 7200 series of Power Macs

PowerLogix Ships New Upgrade For G3 PowerBooks And We Look At the Price/Performance Equation! - PowerLogix is now shipping their Blue Chip G3/466 upgrade for Wallstreet and Mainstreet PowerBook G3s. A G3/500 upgrade is to follow in November.

Price Cuts Up To $170 - XLR8 Upgrade Card Price Drops And The New Price Performance Equation - XLR8 has reduced the prices up to $170 on many of their processor upgrade cards

G3 And G4 Upgrade Prices Are Falling Right And Left - Newer's New Price/Performance Equation - NewerTech is having another round of price cuts since their temporary cuts of August

Get Them While They're Hot- What Sonnets Price Cuts Mean To You - 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

Sonnet's Bus Doubling Technology And The Price/Performance Equation - Fortissimo is a bus doubling technology that creates a second bus which resides between the motherboard bus and the processor

Sonnet Pulls Another Rabbit Out Of The Hat! The Price/Performance Equation For The New Power Mac 7200s - Sonnet, which seems to have a G3 or G4 upgrade card for almost every Mac out there, has come out with another first - a G3 upgrade for the previously non-upgradable 7200 series of Power Macs

Save 100$ On PowerBook Upgrades - What Sonnets Price Cuts Mean To You

Get Up To $120 Off On Your G4 Upgrade - Newer's Seybold Price Cuts And The Price/Performance Equation! - According to Newer these price cuts, which range from $20 to $120, are good for one week only in honor of the Seybold Conference, which is taking place now in San Francisco, and Labor Day

Save 50$ On Your Next G4 Upgrade - What Sonnets Price Cuts Mean To You

PowerLogix Announces Two Upgrades For G3 PowerBooks And We Look At The Price/Performance Equation - PowerLogix has come out with two upgrades for G3 PowerBooks. The cards, called the BlueChip by PowerLogix, replace the stock card

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

Save 50$ On Your Next G3 Upgrade - What Sonnets Price Cuts Mean To You - Sonnet has come out with a series of prices cuts on its G3 upgrade cards

"Help iMac Processor Upgrades Are Taking Over The Planet!" - The Price/Performance Equation For PowerLogix's New iMac Upgrades - PowerLogix comes out with two upgrades for iMacs.....we're surprised as you are!

PowerLogix Cuts Prices On Their Top Of The Line G4 & G3 Upgrades - The New Price Performance Equation

The Browser Wars In The New Millennium Battle - What's Faster Netscape, Microsoft Or iCab? - There are 4 companies working on different Web browsers for the Mac. Which one will walk away with the performance prize .... perhaps it's not so clear cut!

Is There A Processor Upgrade Price War On? - Sonnet's Price Cuts And The New Price/Performance Equation - Sonnet has dropped prices on 13 of their G3 and G4 upgrade cards

Newer Drops It's Prices On Most Of It's High-End Cards Including The iMac Upgrade - The New Price/Performance Equation!

What Sonnet's May G3 Upgrade Card Price Cuts Mean To You - The New Price/Performance Equation - Sonnet has come out with a series of prices cuts ranging from $20 to $100 on 4 of its G3 upgrade cards for PCI based Macs and 2, G3 cache slot upgrades

G3 Upgrade Cards Fall Below $200 - What PowerLogix's Upgrade Card Price Cuts Mean To You! - PowerLogix has reduced prices on two of their G3 upgrade cards and two of their G4 cards for both Zif and PCI based machines.

21% Off Your Next G3/G4 Upgrade Card - Newer's Temporary Rebate And The Price/Performance Equation - NewerTech has a rebate of up to $150 on two of their cards for PCI based PowerMacs

It's Sonnet One Week And Newer The Next - Newer's G4 Price Cuts And The New Price Performance Equation - NewerTech has dropped prices on their G4 upgrades for PCI based Macs and beige and Blue & White G3 Power Macs

What Sonnet's April G3 & G4 Upgrade Card Price Cuts Mean To You - The New Price/Performance Equation - Sonnet has come out with a series of prices cuts ranging from $50 to $100 on 2 of its G3 and 3 of its G4 upgrade cards

G4 Upgrade Cards Sprouting Like Mushrooms! - XLR8 Price Cuts And The New Price Performance Equation - XLR8 has reduced the prices up to $120 on most of their line G4 processor upgrade cards

What Do Newer's Price Cuts Mean To You - G3/G4 Upgrade Price Cuts And The New Price/Performance Equation! - NewerTech has dropped prices on two of their 500Mhz upgrade cards and on their entry-level G4 card for PCI based Macs

A Gigahertz PowerPC Chip Coming To A Mac Near You? Three And Four Gigahertz Models To Follow Shortly? - IBM will be presenting a paper describing a complete PowerPC processor that runs at 1 gigahertz, at the International Solid State Circuits Conference that opened Monday in San Francisco. IBM says that these gigahertz chips (that's a billion cycles per second to you and me) should reach production status in the second half of this year.

Using The Force - What PowerLogix's Upgrade Card Price Cuts Mean To You! - PowerLogix has reduced prices on four of their G3 upgrade cards and two of their G4 cards for both Zif and PCI based machines.

Newer's Winning G3 Upgrade For The 6100 Series Of Machines - A Review - It was indeed a revelation when Newer released their upgrade cards for first generation Power Mac's. Finally those of us who were as they say, financially limited could hope for access to true G3 power without having to part with either our machines or large amounts of cash!

Thought You Couldn't Upgrade Your iMac? Newer Tech Tells You To Think different! - Benchmarks, Information And An Interview With Newer's Point Man For The New iMaxpowr G3/466 Upgrade Card

The Performance Edge: Three's A Charm - XLR8 Upgrade Card Price Drops And The New Price Performance Equation - XLR8 drops prices on two of its Zif cards (one a G4) and one PCI card.

PowerBook 1400 Owners Once Again Have An Upgrade Option - Covering Sonnet's announcement of a G3/333 uprade card for PowerBook 1400 owners. Includes benchmarks from older PowerBook 1400 upgrades to give you a taste of what to expect. The future looks bright!

Merry Christmas From XLR8! Upgrade Card Price Drops And The New Price Performance Equation - Price drops by XLR8 on most of their G3 upgrade cards for PCI and Zif slots gives us the chance to run the numbers again.

Turning Your G3 Computer Into A Screaming Beast! - Paul sent us in his results from upgrading a G3/233 with a Sonnet Encore G3/500 processor and a 13.6 7200 RPM Quantum hard drive. The numbers are impressive!

Keeping Up With The Jones - Newer's G3 Upgrade Price Cut And The New Price/Performance Equation! - In the past 10 months the price on this particular card, the MAXpowr G3 300/200/1MB, has fallen about 60%. This particular month the price has fallen about 17% over the previous month - happy holidays!

Santa Sonnet - Sonnet's Holiday Price Cuts And The New Price/Performance Equation - just in time for your holiday shopping Sonnet has dropped prices on 12 of its G3 upgrade cards between $50 - $100

What Do XLR8's 500Mhz Upgrade Card Price Drops Mean To You - The New Price Performance Equation - XLR8 has dropped the prices on two of its top of the line 500Mhz upgrade cards and we let you know just how much of a performance gain you'll see if you put one in your machine

So Newer Has Dropped The Prices Of Their Upgrade Cards Again - What's New? Why The Price/Performance Equation Of Course! - Newer Tech has dropped the price on many of their G3 upgrade cards by up to $100 so we run the price/performance numbers for you once again.

XLR8 Has Its Own Perspective On Speculative Processing And G3/G4 Upgrades. Disabling Speculative Processing May be The Best Solution - In XLR8's view the best thing to do to Speculative processing is to just disable it and they feel they have a top notch software fix that does just that.

PowerLogix And XLR8 Respond To Newer's Claims Regarding G3/G4 Processor Upgrades And Speculative Processing - PowerLogix thinks that their software solution is just as good (if not better) and less expensive than Newer's hardware solution for the Speculative Processing bug. Newer they say may just be engaging in a little FUD.

Will The Problems With Speculative Processing That Effected G3 Upgrades Be Even A Bigger Problem With G4 Upgrades? - Newer Technology says that they have the Speculative Processing bug that effected some G3 cards licked and lay out their position in this White Paper.

There is only one optimal bus speed for each CPU speed and perhaps fastest is not best! - Newer Technology goes in to great detail on why, if your upgrading a PowerPC 601, 603 or 604 machine with a G3 or G4 upgrade, having a faster system bus speed may actually slow you down.

Pretty Soon They'll Be Giving Them Away! Sonnet Price Cuts And The New Price/Performance Equation - Sonnet has dropped the prices on most of their CPU upgrade cards so once again we run the performance numbers.

Newer Joins The 500Mhz Club And Drops Prices On Other Cards - The New Price/Performance Equation - NewerTech has dropped a few upgrade cards, added a few cards, announced a G4 card and lowered prices up to $100 on the existing G3 cards. We run the performance numbers for you again.

"To G3 Or To G4, That Is The Question" - An Upgrading to a PowerPC G4 Processor FAQ - This White Paper from XLR8 goes into some detail about the benefits and limitations of the of the G4 processor and compares it to the G3.

What Do XLR8's Price Drops Mean To You - The New Price Performance Equation - XLR8 has dropped the prices on most of their CPU upgrades up to 20%, so we once again run the numbers for you.

Performance Of All Shipping Zif G3 Upgrade Cards Compared - Rumors of chip dumping and a request leads us to run the numbers on all available Zif G3 upgrade cards.

A G4 Upgrade Card For $500? It's G3 Me Now, G4 Me Later - The Price/Performance Equation - XLR8 offers the first G4 upgrade deal to hit the streets.

Using The Force - A Renewed Look At The PowerForce Upgrade Cards From PowerLogix - PowerLogix's cards come under our scrutiny this time.

XLR8 Your Mac, Pedal To The Metal - The New Price Performance Equation For September! - New price cuts from XLR8 means it is time for us to run the numbers again, vroom, vroom.......

Keeping Up With NewerTech's CPU Upgrades - The Price/Performance Equation - We have been ignoring NewerTech's G3 upgrades for too long. In this information page we rectify the situation.

It Cost $59 In 1995 And Today Cost Only $3 - The Amazing Saga Of Apple's Professional PowerBooks - The price/performance equation for Apple's professional PowerBooks has fallen dramatically over the last few years. We take a look at what you get now as compared to 1995.

Prices On Sonnet's Fast G3 Cards Cut Again - The Price/Performance Equation - We track what these new cuts by Sonnet will mean to you in terms of performance and the price you will pay for that performance.

Two New Screaming G3 Cards Push The Performance Envelope - The Price/Performance Equation - Sonnet has come out with two fast new cards. One for PCI based Macs and the other for NuBus Macs. We compare the performance of the cards to the machines they are intended for and explore how much each unit of performance is going to cost you.

XLR8 Your Mac And Accelerate Your Mac - The New Price Performance Equation! - XLR8 has reduced the prices of their CPU upgrade cards to coincide with the start of Macworld. We take a look at the performance of each card and compare it to the performance of the machines they are intended for. We also look at the price/performance ratio of each card - how much each unit of performance will cost you.

Three Fast Cards At Lower Prices - Sonnet's G3 Upgrades And The Price/Performance Equation - Sonnet has lowered the price again on three of its upgrade cards, two G3s and a PPC. We take a look at what these upgrades will mean to you in terms of performance and at the price/performance ratio of each card.

Can The Little Taxi Make It Up The Hill - A Performance Review Of The iCab Browser - the new iCab browser for the Mac has created a lot of buzz for being light on System resources and fast to boot. We put the browser through its paces and wonder why anyone, from a performance standpoint, would stick with Explorer.

iMac Clone vs The Real Thing - A Performance Evaluation - we compare the putative performance of Future Power's iMac knock off, the E-Power, to the genuine article. However we think the same day Apple sends a note thanking Future Power for the flattery, Apple's lawyer's will hand the company a summons - with a smile of course.

Formula One Performance At Pedestrian Prices - Mactell Upgrades And The Price/Performance Equation - We explore how Mactell's recent price cuts on their processor upgrade cards will effect both you machine and pocketbook.

Fast Cards And Lower Prices - Sonnet's G3 Upgrades And The Price/Performance Equation - Sonnet has lowered the prices on two of its G3 processor upgrade cards for PCI Macs. We take a look at how they will perform in the machines they are intended for and what the price/performance ratio is for each card.

A Closer Look at XLR8's Cache Boosting Software - We take a second, closer, look at XLR8's software package that allows you to bump the speed of your backside cache. We ran MacBench and "real world" tests with various cache settings. Our results were surprising.

The Performance Edge: Revision "D" iMac/333Mhz Performance Compared to Twentyfive Currently Shipping and Past PowerMacs - We take this little gem and stack it up against all the current benchmark results we have

Sonnet Has Cut The Prices Of It's CPU Cards Again, But What Does That Mean To You In Terms Of Performance/Price? - Isn't it fun to watch a manufacture whack a $100 or so off some of their high-end cards every few weeks or so? Sonnet has stepped up to the plate once again with their G3 cards for NuBus based Macs. We provide you with the low-down and have a couple of handy graphs to show you how their cards will perform in the machines they are intended for and a price performance graph comparing the cards.

A 20% Speed Improvement For Your G3 Machine Though Simple Software! - XLR8 have improved their Cache "speed boosting" control panel to include Apple's G3 machines and Macs upgraded with G3 upgrade cards from all the major manufacturers. We have the scoop and some preliminary benchmarks.

The Performance Edge: Sonnet Has Cut The Prices Of It's CPU Cards But What Does That Mean To You In Terms Of Performance? - Just how much bang will you get for less bucks?

The Performance Edge: Vimage Has Cut The Prices Of It's CPU Cards But What Does That Mean To You In Terms Of Performance?

The Falling Price/Performance Ratio Of The Professional PowerMacs - Things Have Never Been Better. Computer performance improves and prices fall - its a constant refrain. But by how much? We look at the price/performance ratio of PowerMacs from mid 1995 to the present.

The Performance Edge: Getting B&W G3/400Mhz Performance Out Of Your Pokey 603e Based Machine. We take a first look at the Sonnet Crescendo G3/L2 400Mhz upgrade card designed to fit into the L2 cache slot of certain Macintoshes. You'll find a short overview and comparative performance benchmarks

How Much Difference Does Having Faster "Backside" Cache Make - A Performance Review - last time Mike looked at how the size of the Backside Cache effects performance, this time he looks at how the speed of the cache effects the efficiency of the processor.

How Much Difference Does Having a Big "Backside" Cache Make - A Performance Review. Mike Juhaus asks - "How much of a difference does the size of your backside cache make? We were curious about this and the loan of two Sonnet Crescendo 300Mhz processor upgrade cards, one with 512K of backside cache and one with 1MB, gave us a chance to run some tests and find out. "