Comments on: YouTube Find: G4 Cube Intro – Macworld 2000

By: The Wizard

The Wizard — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:40:19 +0000

I read about the cube as being a super cool design/concept back in 2000 in PC magazine. But I never realized how really cool it was until I watched this video. Thanks Michael for posting it. I think that away from the price point back then, this will always be a one of a kind machine considering the time it was launched in.

@Michael: I have been a mac user back in 2005 since the launch of the first mini too.

By: Joshua Curtiss

Joshua Curtiss — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:55:42 +0000

Man. Save the nasty “snow-white” iMac, I think Apple’s product line-up back then was so gorgeous. The clear plastic.. It was so futuristic-looking, you felt like you owned a piece of alien technology. Those were the days… Apple hasn’t amazed me in it’s computer design since then, except with the G4 iMac..

By: krye

krye — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:52:48 +0000

Found it: Mac Mini in a G4 Cube:

http://www.123macmini.com/macminicube/

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:45:27 +0000

@Bryan

What happened to the head?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:31:43 +0000

Didn’t the hard drive make a racket? I don’t see how it could run totally silent…

Still, it’s an awesome design. I like my G4 iMac–headless now, so it’s even cooler looking. Now it just needs a custom paint job.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:29:34 +0000

^^ Cram? you could fit like 6 minis in there. Someone did mod it and put an external hd, mini, and airport station inside the g4. Saw it on TUAW.

By: krye

krye — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:26:05 +0000

I loved the Cube, but I could never afford it. Sweet design, compaired to every thing else on the market in 2000. Nothing came close. Everything else was just an ugly beige box.

I wonder if there is a mod out there to take the Mac Mini guts and cram it into a G4 cube enclosure. I know I saw a post for a guy do it with a PC mini ITX board.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:32:23 +0000

The Cube was a clever design but one of their best I dunno. The Mac Mini is a lot better imo. They fit more power into a smaller space, granted its been quite some time since the Cube was introduced, but looking back I think the Mini was a better design choice.

Not the iMac G4 though, that was sweet, I still don’t know how they managed to fit it all in there.