The Cube defines a new PC genre and a Question

[Michael J.Cykana]

After almost two years after Apple decided to put the Cube on ice, it 
appears a new genre of PC has arisen - the small form factor PC.

Shuttle PC
http://us.shuttle.com/

ICE-Cube
http://www.fica.com/site/html/products/pc.asp

Jetway MiniQ
http://www.jetway.com.tw/evisn/oem/miniQ450.htm

Soltek Qbic
http://www.soltekusa.com/product/showproduct.php?productid=1042222291

 From a review

SFF or Small Form Factor PC's are very quietly and quickly becoming the 
epitome of the desktop computer arena. Shuttle is really the one who 
did the most R&D for the SFF but due to a serious error in letting the 
patent slip by many companies are jumping on the bandwagon and cashing 
in on this new PC adventure. I first saw one of these SFF boards over 
two years ago before the mini PC was even talked about and have seen it 
mature and change as it gets redesigned by each player who gets in the 
game.

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Of course because they us P4's, Celerons, AMD CPU's they all have fans 
and are noisy compared to a real Cube. Price-wise they are about $1100 
with USB 2.0, FireWire, CD-RW, ...

Construction-wise I consider the Apple Cube to be much superior.

So here's the question. With the advent of SFF PC's will Apple 
re-introduce the Cube? Perhaps with a 970 at its heart.

-- mike
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