eBay has 450 Cubes for $500 now. Anybody doing upgrades or wanting more silent computing should get 'em while they're cheap! As soon as the upgrades resume shipping, those prices may go up again. Everybody see http://www.G4noise.com yet? MDD Macs are epidemically noisy. We are so lucky to be in the land of silence. k On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 09:53 PM, a l a n t h o m p s o n wrote: > man, i would love to, but i *am* also in for the aesthetics - my cube > is displayed on my desk (http://homepage.mac.com/athomp2) so i > couldn't stomach the dangling wires and sheot. > > i'd lusted after the cube for a long time before finally finding mine > on ebay. i used to have a sgi O2 and a clone SuSE box before the > cube. i sold the O2, and gave away the clone to get the cube, and > while i'm wishing for an internal superdrive, i am not wishing for a > frankenbox... thanks for tracking that down, though. i'm definitely > checking out the info.... > > it's not all about the aesthetics, though, but man, the cube is > beautiful - it pulls on my love of industrial design, and unix :-) > would never, ever, ever have bought one before os X. > > --alan