PowerPC G4 Upgrades Direct from Motorola?

Gizzmonic asks: "I was looking at PowerPC upgrade cards for my Mac G3 Blue-and-White and I couldn't help but notice that the offerings by PowerLogix and Sonnet are quite pricey. So, I started poking around Motorola's site looking for the G4 or my dreams. I could probably pull a few strings at work and get them to order a G4 direct. Is there any reason that a G4 from Motorola wouldn't work with the ZIF socket on my motherboard? (Yes, I know about the G4 enabler software) Ordering from Motorola or one of their suppliers could potentially save me a lot of dough, but I'd hate to plunk down the money for an incompatible CPU. What do you folks think?"

Comments

Re:Why not just upgradethe whole system?

[Perdo]

Yes, isn't that unfortunate?

True about the used systems...

The G4 533 w/512k cache smoked the G4 733 w/256k cache. Basicly, the 533/512 G4 was not surpassed in performance untill the 800 came out so..

Buy used and steal Jaguar. Apple gets no dimes untill they lower their prices on current under powered hardware.

Can you belive they have the gall to migrate to DDR on an asynchronous bus which actually quite a bit slower than SDRAM?

At least Apple's marketing department can use the DDR buzzword now.