Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 29th Mar 2007 16:04 UTC
About one year ago, I sold my iBook G4 in order to buy the then upcoming MacBook. Due to an unexpected change of plans (I moved to a new house), that MacBook never reached my desk; I still really missed having a Mac around. Now, almost a year later, I am again back on Mac. So, what did I buy? A sleek black MacBook? An all-powerful Intel PowerMac quad-core? No. David, OSNews' owner, sent me his G4 Cube.
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I bought a Cube last year for $100 as a project computer. Just about everything can be upgraded, the main hold-back, unfortunately, is the system bus, which is stuck at 100 MHz (and is the same on available processor upgrades). I added a new graphics card, 1.8 GHz procoessor, dual-layer DVD burner, hard drive, maxed the RAM at 1.5 GB, and installed an Airport card.
The machine itself can be very tempermental (mostly randon shutdown and sleep issues), but as Thom mentioned, there is an incredible amount of troubleshooting information and support at:
http://www.cubeowner.com
Once you have it set up and running, it's very reliable. I have OS 10.4.9 installed and it makes a great second computer (and was quite fun to upgrade).