Newerstore.com is now open for business. The iMaxPowr 466MHz G3 upgrade along with Newer's other products are listed there.

CDW has a closeout sale on Lombard model PowerBook G3/333s with free 2nd battery:

"LAST OF THE LOMBARDS!
PB 333 512K L2 CACHE 14.1 TFT 64MB RAM 8MB VRAM CD USB SCSI $1999
INCLUDES 2ND LI-ION BATTERY FREE! $149 VALUE!!
CDW PT #202768
Bruce Modell
Senior Account Manager
Apple Product Professional
(phone)800-953-4239 ext 78219
Http://www.cdw.com "

If you're really tight for funds this might be worth considering (it's close to the iBook in price but a lot more notebook). However the new PB G3/400's with DVD (software decoding) and firewire (but no SCSI port) are only about $500 more.

Maxtor's  FAST 40 Test Results: I've posted a review of the Maxtor 40GB DiamondMax Plus drive, tested in a B&W G3/400 rev 2. This is the fastest hard drive I've tested to date, delivering close to 30MB/sec sustained read and write rates in a B&W G3/400.

Reminder on Beige G3 IDE Drive Upgrades: Several readers wrote today with questions indicating they missed my Beige IDE drive replacement article which shows you how to easily replace the stock Beige G3 drive.) The new Maxtor 40GB should be fine in that system. Due to issues of slave support and cable reach (only 6 inches between the master/slave connectors) it's simpler to just replace the slow/small stock drive. Articles like these are linked in the G3-ZONE sidebar, Storage page and FAQ's How-To section.

$100 (after rebate) Epson 740: I've not seen this price locally, but I bought a new Epson 740 USB printer for $149.99 at the Richmond's Broad Street Office Depot. There's a $50 rebate good until March which makes the net cost about $100. I bought the last one they had in stock at the time and again I'm not sure that all Office Depot stores have this price. Costco's price was about $30 higher on the 740.

iMac 333's at Costco: Costco in Richmond, VA had iMac (Blueberry) 333Mhz models for about $690. Sam's Club had sold out here some weeks back.

Reminder on Current Hard drive Sales: For those that missed the weekend news here's a summary of the latest IDE drive sales:

• CompUSA's Sunday Ad listed Maxtor 40GB DiamondMax Plus drives for $249.99
• Staples and Best Buy have the drive for $299.99 but may price match if your local CompUSA is out of stock.
• Staples has the 20GB DiamondMax Plus 20GB drive for $129.94 ($30 off) until 2/26/2000.

New Voodoo Cards to Demo Again at CeBit Show: Simon Lisney sent a note that Macworld UK has an article mentioning the new 3dfx VSA100 cards will be shown at the CeBit show Feb. 24th-Mar. 1st, 2000 in Hanover Germany. The Voodoo5 demo from the Macworld Toyko show is shown in my previous photo gallery.

Reader Ratings Databases Updated: The Rate Your CPU Upgrade (owner's ratings/comments - over 3,300!), Mac Game Reviews and Mac Game/Video Card Performance databases were updated at 2:00 AM this morning.

For a blast from the past, see what was on the main news page one year ago today and two years ago.

The recent features page also lists articles posted (most recent first) as does the sidebar links here. The site topics pages (systems, cpu upgrades, etc. - see top and sidebar links on this page) also are places to check as well as the FAQ.

Weekend's News Summary

• $249.99 40GB/7200 RPM Maxtor HD sale at CompUSA
• 20GB/7200RPM Maxtor IDE HD $129.94
• Staples/Best Buy have the 40GB DiamondMax Plus drive at $299.99
• Yahoo article titled 'US secret agents work at Microsoft: French intelligence report'.
• Apple TILs/Software Updates
• Software Updates (Sound Manager 3.6.3/Virex 6.1):
• More Info on CarrierZIF 1.0 to 2.0 Upgrade
• $103/128MB 222 DIMMs
• More on IDE RAID/Onboard Controllers/G4 Drive Bays
• PowerBook Graphics Card/Chip Options
• Note on PowerBook Graphics Chips
• Summary of Past Week's News Items
• Reader Ratings Databases Updated

Friday's News Summary

• Price Increase Warning on OWC G4/450 Upgrades
• Sonnet Clocker Util
• Quake3 Mac PointRelease 116Beta
• Acard ATA/66 Firmware Update
• SANcube Firewire Storage Area Network
• Ixmicro closes doors
• Intel Demo's USB 2.0
• Dragon holds off on Mac naturally speaking
• Adaptec 39160 SCSI card 'review' (very thin...)

Thursday's News Summary

• CarrierZIF 2.0 MP Uses 2 Standard G4 ZIFs
• Clarification on G4 CPU Upgrades for B&W G3s
  (misleading ad)
• Toshiba 8X IDE DVD Drive Report
• TIL on new PB Software DVD Decoding
• RAM Prices Dropping Again
• Apple/AOL veterans working on Linux w/friendly GUI
• APC Mac UPS Survey
• Seti@home Performance - PCs vs Macs
• Tech Docs on New Macs
• No Magic to iMac/PB G3 CPU Upgrades

For links to older news pages see the Archives page.

The recent features page has a lists reviews/articles you may have missed.

For a guide to finding answers to questions - see my Site Guide page.

Considering a CPU Upgrade? Search the CPU Upgrade Owner's Survey results and search for owner reports by Mac model and/or card brand. The current database has more than 3,200+ reports and growing.