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Cubes

  • 15-09-2009 7:19pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭


    Does any one of you have a G4 Cube?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Yep :D !

    Ken


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    My trusty Cube (named Daeron, the Elda who invented Tengwar and Cirth) works mostly as our print server, so the laserprinter (named Thoth, the Egyptian who invented writing) is off in the spare room where it makes little noise. I've upgraded it to 1.5GB memory, 120 GB HD, and it runs 9.2.2 and 10.4.11.

    How's yours?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Still functioning !! It's a 450 MHz model with 512MB and the stock 20GB Drive. I upgraded the video card to a Radeon 7500 32MB. It was used in the living room as a net computer attached to a 15" monitor. I had it set up with a set of Harman/Kardon Sound Sticks and Subwoofer.

    It's in storage now this past year but I still plug it in from time to time. AFAIK it had Panther on it before it was taken down.

    Keep threatening to buy a CPU upgrade for it and use it as a media player :)
    . . . some day eh !?

    Ken


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 896 ✭✭✭nialler


    Gave a perfectly working one away about 2 years ago, sorry to have done it now, would have made a perfect goldfish bowl. Still know a business in Dublin who have a 20th Anniversary mac running os 9, cracking little machine, for those of you who haven't a clue what I'm talking about:

    20081121085820-6.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 593 ✭✭✭Scráib


    I wanted the cube when it came out badly! Unfortunately I was in secondary school and couldn't afford one on Summer's wages. Bah!

    Didn't they have problems with the crystal enclosure? I heard it cracked in some cases due to the cube heating up, expansion of parts etc.


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  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,195 Mod ✭✭✭✭whiterebel


    nialler wrote: »
    Gave a perfectly working one away about 2 years ago, sorry to have done it now, would have made a perfect goldfish bowl. Still know a business in Dublin who have a 20th Anniversary mac running os 9, cracking little machine, for those of you who haven't a clue what I'm talking about:

    20081121085820-6.jpg

    There were 2 of these on the reception desk in Apple years ago. They were really gorgeous in the flesh. Some money when they came out, was it 5 or 10K each?

    I loved the Cube but didn't have the money for it. Even the Mac Mini, smaller and all as it is, doesn't hold a candle to the cube.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    The Twentieth Anniversary Macs were planned to be listed for $9K but on release were about $7.5K.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    Scráib wrote: »
    I wanted the cube when it came out badly! Unfortunately I was in secondary school and couldn't afford one on Summer's wages. Bah!
    Of course now it's not very difficult to get a good Cube on eBay for much less.
    Didn't they have problems with the crystal enclosure? I heard it cracked in some cases due to the cube heating up, expansion of parts etc.
    I never heard of problems like that. Certainly I never had any.

    In any case, I've just replaced the 17" CRT Studio Display with a 17" LCD Studio Display I got on eBay.

    Anyone need a 17" CRT Studio Display?


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,195 Mod ✭✭✭✭whiterebel


    Yoda wrote: »
    Of course now it's not very difficult to get a good Cube on eBay for much less.

    I never heard of problems like that. Certainly I never had any.

    In any case, I've just replaced the 17" CRT Studio Display with a 17" LCD Studio Display I got on eBay.

    Anyone need a 17" CRT Studio Display?

    There were problems with the clear plastic looking cracked "inside" so to speak. Apple denied it but it looked like a problem during the manufacturing process. There were too many for it to be a coincidence.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 idmoore


    whiterebel wrote: »
    There were problems with the clear plastic looking cracked "inside" so to speak. Apple denied it but it looked like a problem during the manufacturing process. There were too many for it to be a coincidence.

    I believe it was an injection moulding problem.

    I remember selling them back in the day and almost every one had the same issue.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    My Cube looks fine.

    I freecycled the CRT by the way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Inspector Gadget


    The cubes are lovely looking, no question, but current OSes (well, as current as you can manage depending on the hardware) crawl on those old things. I'm writing this on a dual 2GHz G5 Power Mac running Tiger which my 2.16GHz White Macbook (running Snow Leopard) leaves for dust in terms of performance. I really like my G5 but this particular statistic is distressing.

    What I'm saying is that I can't imagine going back to using an early model G4 for anything any more. The G5 is slow enough as it is!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    Well, sure. 'Pends what you're doing though. The Cube is a splendid print server, and it's nice for guests to be able to browse a bit or read their e-mails. 10.4.11 doesn't really "crawl", but then it's not as though we're asking the Cube to do a massive Photoshop conversion or anything.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Inspector Gadget


    Well, this Power Mac is running 10.4.11 (there's little point in installing Leopard on it, as it'll kill it) so I have an idea as to how it runs, but this machine has issues with certain types of media playback amongst other things (in particular x264 kills it), which makes it a pain in the neck on occasions but that limits its usefulness for certain jobs. That's all I'm saying.


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