Sonnet due to release 1.7GHz for Cube and PowerLogix poised to return from the dead?

CubeOwner Forums -> 1.7 Ghz Sonnet ?

Sources say (and I have confirmed):
Encore/ST G4 1.7 GHz for Cube (Part No. SG4-C1700) will ship in December 2004 at  US $499.95 MSRP. It appears that these are Freescale (formerly known as Motorola) 7447 chips. Our friends at OWC should have them listed shortly so keep an eye open here for details once it's "official."

In related news, the latest unofficial reports regarding PowerLogix indicate that Dual G4/1.2-1.4GHz 7457 with 4MB of L3 cache upgrades for the Cube are expected to ship sometime before the end of the year. I'd call that a new performance standard for Cube!

I'm hearing "proprietary VRM bypass", so power will in no way be an issue for these. Furthermore, a single G4/7457 @ 1.4GHz with 512K L2 1:1 and 2MB L3 is comparable in performance to a single G4/7447 @ 1.7GHz - which has only the 512K L2 cache an no L3.

Look for Dual pricing in the $599 range - a nice performance boost for not much more cash. Single G4 7457 @ 1.4GHz should be around $399 - which will give the same performance as the Sonnet G4/7447 @ 1.7GHz, but for 20% less.

More details as they become available. For many CubeOwners, this may be a very Merry Christmas, indeed.

  • posted by Laurie at 10:39 PM ET | ~ permalink