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The Future's...Cube Shaped

TheNeil

TheNeil

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Yes it's true, after a somewhat barren few months I've landed a shiny Cube (missed out on a PB2400 - no way I'm paying £190 for one)(of course if anyone has one they'd like to sell for a more reasonable price... ;) )

For the bargain (for the UK) price of £135 I got the 450MHz version with 768Mb RAM and the DVD drive and...it's pretty (I know, I'm a vacuous, shallow fool)

Fresh OS install it was working straight out of the box but the proximity switch must have gotten jarred while it was in transit as it kept turning itself on and off. Just had to pop the cube, clean everything out and re-align the switch and all working again

In other news I landed a Fujitsu tablet PC - can't wait to play with that when it turns up ;D

 
Cool! Looks like you got a good price there too. I also oggled the Cubes when they were in the shops all those years ago and ever since first seeing one I have wanted one. Unfortunately price was (and still is) a limiting factor.

 
I have a Shuttle cube (running OpenBSD for work) and would *love* to replace it with a G4 cube; they're so cute!

Are you planning on upgrading it? You could probably do dual 1.4s, at least. With a GeForce 6200, you could push a pretty big panel with it and it would rock MacOS X. :-)

Then again, it's probably a really sweet MacOS 9 machine even in stock trim.

 
It's currently running 10.4 quite nicely but I haven't really played with it much so how much of a struggle it is in its original spec is a bit of an unknown

Upgrading isn't likely as I can no doubt use the cash to buy another Mac curio

 
G4 Cubes are nice. Much nicer than a Mac mini. I wish Apple had marketed them as entry level instead of designer models. There would be more of them around and they would be cheaper. No way I'm paying more for a Cube than for a PowerMac.

 
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