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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?"
You'd still be crippled by the old mobo at 66 mhz (I think). You'd probably be better off buying one of the recently replaced (non-DDR) boxes. They have great discounts on these now. You could ebay your old system for around $500 and use that towards your new bitching quicksilver. Then you'd have it near the bleeding edge, get quartz extreme support, plus have it last a lot longer. A hundred dollar upgrade here and a four hundred dollar upgrade there and sooner or later you're talking real money. And just to be a bit off topic, but I'm really noticing an increase in Apple mindshare here on Slashdot. It's really becoming noticable. Nearly everyday they are on the frontpage.