[Cube] cubes in general

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I have 2 cubes. Instead of upgrading the procsessor, hard drive, airport, DVD burner, etc, Shouldn't I just buy a Mac Mini?

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From: "James Whitfield" <darknight113 at excite.com>
> 
> I have a 450 mhz cube. I put in the 1.7ghz powerlogic upgrade and now my cube is 
> as fast as a ferrari. All I paid for it was $289. It's an excellent investment
> 
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>  --- On Thu 12/22, Kim David McNeill Simmons < ksphoto1 at one.net > wrote:
> From: Kim David McNeill Simmons [mailto: ksphoto1 at one.net]
> To: cube at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:03:21 -0500
> Subject: [Cube] cubes in general
> 
> Hello all,<br>	I have had my Cube since it first started shipping, a very  
> <br>delightful computer. All I have done is change out the hard drive and  
> <br>added memory. No other upgrade has been done, not because I did not  
> <br>want to , but because I have found over the years that in my personal  
> <br>opinion processor upgrades are just not worth the money. By the time  
> <br>you put in the money for a dual or single upgrade and upgrade the  <br>video 
> card, you have just about bought and paid for a comparable  <br>tower, and now a 
> mini maxed out would be bought and paid for. Do not  <br>get me wrong, I love my 
> Cube but as a Stock computer I know she will  <br>continue to run for sometime.  
> Where as I had a perfectly good 733mhz  <br>computer I put an upgrade card into 
> and although it runs much faster,  <br>she does not want to start up right away 
> and some times it does take  <br>awhile, I can not close the side door at all or 
> the computer will not  <br>run. I did have an 
> authorized dealer put in the upgrade and he when  <br>thru the computer from one 
> end to another and could not make it  <br>function correctly at all. This was a 
> computer that had been rock  <br>solid prior to the processor upgrade. Prior to 
> this I had spend a lot  <br>of money with Newer well before they went under 
> trying to make my  <br>computers of that time work as promised.<br>	This is 
> all just personal experience, not meant to cause issues,  <br>especially since 
> so many on this list have had such good luck in  <br>upgrading. But I think i is 
> a far better avenue to buy a new computer  <br>then to upgrade processors at 
> this point. Now when Apple has decided  <br>to create a Mac that gives us that 
> capability without issues, then I  <br>will jump onboard once again to the 
> processor upgrade line, but not  <br>until then.<br><br>Kim D M 
> Simmons<br><br>Simmons Photography<br>1684 State Route 232<br>New Richmond, Ohio   
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