Suggestions for a Mac G4 Cube?

[Plaz]

@Wolfe

You could fit a µA1 in it with some custom work.

Thanks for those links, those are pretty cool ideals.
If and when uA1 MB prices come down. I'll definitly
concider it.

Plaz

[Dan]

Waccoon wrote:

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

Then why did Apple discontinue it?

Steve Jobs had gas or a bad hair day? :lol:

Obviously, people didn't like it and Apple felt compelled to replace it with the Mac Mini.

There is no  connection between then other than size AFAIK.
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".

[dslcc]

Since I'm not interested in spending $130 for the latest MacOS X.3

Don't buy Panther at the store. Buy it from OWC. They have some great prices on Mac OS X disks.

Got OSX 10.1 at OWC for $5.99 and 10.2 for about $25.

In fact if you don't need Panther and can do with Jaguar, I could give you my disks. ??
 :-)

[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.  :-)