The desire to have a G4 CUBE!

**theCaptain** · October 13th, 2001, 05:43 PM

It hit me, the strong desire to have a G4 cube. I miss those things. I will not settle for a used one. Its a damn shame Apple stopped making those things but I can understand their frustration.

**ablack6596** · October 13th, 2001, 05:48 PM

I want one aslo think of a Dual 800 G4 cube I would bye it as soon as it was anounced.

**theCaptain** · October 13th, 2001, 05:53 PM

I couldnt agree more with you, why is it that we feel this desire now, but did not as much, when they were actually available?

**ablack6596** · October 13th, 2001, 06:19 PM

Well I was thinking of getting one but I just thought oh I can always get a better one in a year because my dual 500 is so much faster than this cube when os x comes out but then they suddenly stopped making them.

**scruffy** · October 13th, 2001, 10:37 PM

I think part of the reason they stopped making them was that there is no way you could put one of the newer G4 processors in there. The faster they run, the more heat they kick out - when they made the cubes, G4s ran at, what was it, about 400 MHz? The heatsink that was needed to keep them cool (in a mini-tower) was pretty small, so they could get away with making the heatsink a bit bigger and taking out the fan.

Have you seen the size of the heatsink they have to put on the 800 MHz G4s? And that is with a fan running over the cards & processor, and another fan drawing power out over the power supply. The heatsink is almost as big as the whole Cube was. Take the fans out of the thing, and you'd have a puddle of melted transparent plastic pretty quick - that or they could go back to releasing 400 MHz G4s.

I wouldn't mind the slower CPU so much, I hate that the only fanless Mac now is the iMac...

**themacko** · October 13th, 2001, 11:31 PM

I best Apple could have figured out a way to cool those bad boys down .. even it did require *gasp* a fan! They are cool though .. if I had the $$$ I would get one.

**AdmiralAK** · October 14th, 2001, 09:46 AM

I dont mind fans any more

Usually when I work the fan's noise is masked by the sound of the music lol

When I sleep is teh problem cause I have my mac in my bedroom lol...so I shut it down at night...

Now just imagine....
Cube... with NO fan.... dual G5 processors... kickass graphics card (with dual monitor capability)... built in DVD-R., wireless keyboard and mouse via bluetooth, USB 2, Firewire, built in 70GB HD....some sort of TV tuner and an A/V card .... and 2 cinematic diplays... OS X .... droooolll..... can I have one ?

Admiral