Upgrade your Flat Panel iMac to 1.35GHz with new Daystar accelerator

First the good news: Daystar Technology just announced a new CPU upgrade for 700MHz and 800MHz Flat Panel iMac G4s. According to their press release, pricing and final specifications are expected to be announced closer to the anticipated product release date of July 28th, 2005, but xBench scores reportedly jump from the low 70's to over 130, surpassing the fastest iMac G4 shipped from Apple to date. Hard to say if that'll be a good deal or not, without pricing, but accelerator cards can be a very cost-effective way to gain significant performace enhancements for a fraction of the cost of a new computer.

Now for the bad news:  Daystar says that you'll have to ship your iMac to them in order to have the upgrade installed.