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 nearly had David's Cube too. I was negotiating to purchase it from David about 6-months ago; however, I frustrated David too much over pricing for us to close the deal. I found that the Cube works tolerably if you are willing to max out the memory to 1.5Gb. But the required 512Mb SDRAM memory is quite expensive from the usual sources and a fully loaded Cube can easily cost as much as a new Mac Mini. Acquiring a Cube can quickly become an option only for the nostalgia obsessed unless you stumble on a fully loaded Cube for a good price. Even maxed out the Cube occasionally and inexplicably spins the beach ball wait cursor at random intervals. My experience has been the Cube has been flawless in daily operation and is pleasingly quiet.
It runs the recently released Lisa emulator too, which is an interesting retro-experience in its own right, doubly-so on a Cube.
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2005-07-06
That was a nice gesture from David to send you his Cube. I'm also looking to get a mac so I can get more street cred in the workforce/job search. I'm going to opt for a mac mini on ebay which according to others should meet my needs pretty well. Just a basic platform running OS X to familiarize with my self with so I can say yes I do know macs.
Your cube is such a whore. She's been passed around more than a basketball. The question is who will she go to next?