Maybe dual 900 G3 yes. Would the price be a lot less too? I'm all about ripping AAC's fast. You remember what the x factor was? I get 7X on my 500 G4 Cube and only 13.5X on my dual 867 (huge disappointment). k On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 05:05 PM, Robert Jagitsch wrote: > We have just completed a test of an IBM 750FX PowerPC CPU in a Cube. > The 750FX is a very low power device which means there are no fans or > beefy DC/DC boards needed. And it's fast...take a look at the > benchmarks comparing the 750FX at 900MHz to a 500MHz G4 (these done in > a 100Mhz bus PowerBook Pismo.) > > http://www.powerlogix.com/products2/performance/pismo.html > > The clock speed of the 750FX more than makes up for the lack of > Altivec, see the iTunes rip comparison. > > Any interest in this?