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Eug Wanker · Feb 20, 2004, 09:15 PM

G4ME · Feb 20, 2004, 09:16 PM

kick ass

gorickey · Feb 20, 2004, 09:18 PM

This has been posted a few times already; however, I still like it...

Eug Wanker · Feb 20, 2004, 09:27 PM

Originally posted by gorickey:
This has been posted a few times already; however, I still like it...

Ooops. Sorry. Where?

insha · Feb 20, 2004, 09:29 PM

I don't know. I liked the old Cube... but it is still cool though.

Vader�s Pinch of Death · Feb 20, 2004, 09:29 PM

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Ooops. Sorry. Where?

Ya and I even sent you a link like 2 months ago

iWrite · Feb 20, 2004, 09:33 PM

WHERE CAN I BUY ONE ***NOW***?!?

That is so FREAKING COOL!

I want one -- are they available?

AWESOME!

Vader�s Pinch of Death · Feb 20, 2004, 09:36 PM

Originally posted by iWrite:
WHERE CAN I BUY ONE ***NOW***?!?

That is so FREAKING COOL!

I want one -- are they available?

AWESOME!

It is a one of a kind that some dude made from an old cube.

Eug Wanker · Feb 20, 2004, 09:37 PM

Originally posted by Vader�s Pinch of Death:
Ya and I even sent you a link like 2 months ago

Doh!

Originally posted by iWrite:
WHERE CAN I BUY ONE ***NOW***?!?

That is so FREAKING COOL!

I want one -- are they available?

AWESOME!

He built it himself. It's a G4 Cube in a homemade case. It seems to be painted plastic. (Click on the picture.)

iWrite · Feb 20, 2004, 09:42 PM

BUMMER --->

Lock the lousy thread then.

I, seriously, would get in my car and drive to the Apple Store and buy one if it was there.

No doubt about it.

Vader�s Pinch of Death · Feb 20, 2004, 09:45 PM

Originally posted by iWrite:
BUMMER --->

Lock the lousy thread then.

I, seriously, would get in my car and drive to the Apple Store and buy one if it was there.

No doubt about it.

Ya there would be you and me and 150,000 others but that would be it until Apple canned it.

nredman · Feb 20, 2004, 09:50 PM

i got one a few months ago...its not very snappy.

ryju · Feb 20, 2004, 10:42 PM

I was about to spaz because this was posted so many times... but then I remember that that was on Spymac... grrr.

insha · 11:20 PM

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Doh!

He built it himself. It's a G4 Cube in a homemade case. It seems to be painted plastic. (Click on the picture.)

Can't read Korean (I guess it's Korean). Like the idea though; I think I'm going to try and build one them for myself.

CharlesS · Feb 20, 2004, 11:41 PM

The original Cube was a work of art. And much better looking than this thing.

Eug Wanker · Feb 20, 2004, 11:41 PM

Japanese, and if you look at the top of the page you'll see numbers.
Click on each number to get to a new page with more pix.

The Ginger Rat · Feb 21, 2004, 12:54 AM

IIRC he drilled all those freaking little holes himself. Yow!

Judge_Fire · Feb 21, 2004, 04:00 AM

My initial response to it was 'ok, kinda obvious', but the more I see these pics, the more I actually like it.

Case size (expandability) should be a choice, small|medium|large.

J

iWrite · Feb 21, 2004, 08:49 AM

I liked it a lot.

But, then, I loved the Cube. The Cube was a classic case of something ahead of its time -- WAY ahead of its time -- and that's why it failed, IMO.

Anyway, would I buy one of those things? Heck yeah! Bring one out even in G4 specs with an aluminum case, price it at around $1000 and people would buy them like crazy because now the time IS right for them.

The iMac needs to go away and be replaced by a good Cube.

mitchell_pgh · Feb 21, 2004, 09:34 AM

I think it looks good, but Apple will F@#$ it up by pricing the thing at 1699 for the base model and will have less expandability then the tower and perform worse.

I still contend that it wasn't the design or technology that killed the cube, it was the crazy price. For something like $200, you could "upgrade" from the cube to a full blown G4 dual processor tower. Most Mac users did.

The cube would have been amazing if they could have got it around $1000 - $1200

Eug · Feb 21, 2004, 09:43 AM

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
I still contend that it wasn't the design or technology that killed the cube, it was the crazy price.

I agree.

Powaqqatsi · Feb 21, 2004, 10:56 AM

Originally posted by iWrite:
The Cube was a classic case of something ahead of its time -- WAY ahead of its time -- and that's why it failed, IMO.

WAY ahead of my bank balance you mean.

nobitacu · Feb 21, 2004, 11:13 AM

Wow, that does look really good. If Apple would make something like that for real and have a G5 chip inside, it will be flying out of the stores like crazy!

But I guess Apple just can't see that...

Ming

Mediaman_12 · Feb 21, 2004, 01:10 PM

Did he shove a fan in there?
he has lay the cubes 'core' on it's side, so the convection cooling for the CPU can no longer function.
Didn't the cube have a load of fancy temp sensors that shut it off if the vents got covered?

funkboy · Feb 21, 2004, 06:43 PM

The Cube has current the same optical drive options as a G5 tower - only one single front-accessible drive, that's it.

So, wouldn't it make sense to introduce a Cube in the near future in tandem with a new G5 tower with, gasp, two front drive bays?

d4nth3m4n · Feb 21, 2004, 08:34 PM

Originally posted by funkboy:
The Cube has current the same optical drive options as a G5 tower - only one single front-accessible drive, that's it.

So, wouldn't it make sense to introduce a Cube in the near future in tandem with a new G5 tower with, gasp, two front drive bays?

isnt space already tight in a cube?