Suggestions for a Mac G4 Cube?

[Waccoon]

Lemmink:  It's a wounderfull piece of craftmanship and design

Then why did Apple discontinue it?  Obviously, people didn't like it and Apple felt compelled to replace it with the Mac Mini.

I like Ilwrath's review.  It *is* too damn big to put on a desk, especially since you can't put anything on top of it.

[Waccoon]

the Macmini is a return to the original Imac concept as it started with the old blue CRT-Imac. A machine as cheap as a pc to get more students and other "non-power users".

To be fair, the biggest complaint I had about the original iMac is that at a price that was affordable, it forced you to use a puny 15" screen instead of letting you get whatever you want.  No matter how slow a system is, I could not live without my 20" Optiquest CRT.  To get more flexibility (including PCI slots), you had to pay at least a $500 price premium for a tower.  The cube corrected that, but was still too pricey.  Mac Mini corrects this problem completely.

I'm still not sure if I should buy one, though.  I do mostly architecture-independent stuff, like Java and web interfaces.  New ceramic engine headers for my Subaru would get much more use.  :-)