Performa 500 Review
Written: 2/27/2000
Written by:
Moto®
Price: $229
Performa 500 supplied by:
Evergreen Technologies
The Performa 500 is an CPU upgrade kit from
Evergreen Technologies
designed to update older Pentium II's and Slot 1 Celerons to 500Mhz of CPU
power, allowing you to run the latest and greatest software. When the Performa
500 showed up on our doorsteps, we wondered how this thing updates an old
computer? At first we thought it was some kind of "overdrive" processor. Opening
the package revealed that the Performa 500 is nothing more than a PPGA Celeron
500 on a Slot Kit.
Is it a Celeron 500 or a Performa 500?
Now you might be thinking, "Wait a minute! I can buy a Celeron
500 and a Slot Kit for less than $150!", and you would be correct. Why pay $229
for something you can buy for less than $150? Well, I'm trying to find a good
reason myself. To be fair, Evergreen is offering a $30 mail-in rebate for the
Performa 500. That brings the price to $199. Still on the expensive side. As for
the rebate, why not just take $30 off the price? I mean, first you have to order
the Performa 500 from Evergreen, then you have to mail them a rebate form and
wait four to six weeks for your $30 to come back. I guess they're counting on
some people not mailing in the rebate.
The Performa 500 is a good example of how marketing can sell
normal everyday stuff at inflated prices. No where on the Performa 500 box does
it say this is a Celeron 500. No sir! This is a Performa 500 and the Performa
500’s advanced architecture boosts older systems to new PC performance and
offers enhanced 3D performance for graphics, video and sound for today's leading
software! Just check out this speed chart on what you can achieve with the
Performa 500!
Umm, ya. That all sounds great but the fact remains Evergreen is
trying to sell a Celeron 500 for well over the market price.
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