[CUBE] New macs & processor upgrades

[John T. Folden]

On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 11:58 AM, DBoone wrote:

> The new Power Macs present a real dilemma to those like me not owning 
> a Cube
> setup but wanting one. The cost to upgrade a stock Cube (to: 1GHz 
> processor,
> 60 GB HD, combo drive, & accelerated graphics card) to the level of the
> $1500 entry level Power Mac is somewhere around $1,100. That doesn¹t 
> leave
> much - $400 - for purchasing the Cube (& probably OS X as well).  Most 
> of
> these are going for between $600 - $900 on eBay and elsewhere.
>

It all really depends on just how much you want a Cube.  There's also
the option of holding out for a Cube 500/CDRW so you can kill a couple
birds with one stone (namely the 60GB drive and a QE supported video
card). Though those probably still hold a higher value due to their
rarity.

I passed up the Cube when it was first released and went for a G4 733 DA
tower, which I was very pleased with... 18 months later I sold it and 
grabbed
a Cube, and had some money left over for other niceties (like a wrap 
around
glass desk <g>).

I don't see Airport Extreme as being anything to get excited about in
a desktop machine, and I don't expect FireWire 800 to be really useful
for a while yet (a new iPod certainly wouldn't justify buying a tower 
for
my uses). So.... I'll probably upgrade the CPU in the next couple of 
months
and wait and see what the new systems look like at the beginning of next
year.


John