Cubes live on!

[Francisco Romero]

 From the Kemplar initiative (extremely Cool!), I have to express the 
following:

I am always regarded with oohs and ahhs when people here in Venezuela 
looks at my Cube. And from the opinions expressed on the list, the 
machine is pretty much alive and kicking. I sometimes wonder why Apple 
stopped producing them and whether it would be a good idea to start 
again.

When the Cube was launched, there probably was not too many USB or 
Firewire devices to make people not look at the internal expandability 
as too much of a problem.  We have seen the processor options for cubes 
go from the original 450 - 500 Mhz to Single and dual options up to 1.2 
Ghz. And 1.5 Gb of RAM is still pretty good even for today's standards. 
We have adapted the various high end Video Card to our machines, and 
they rock!

Maybe adding a second IDE bus and adding one or even two laptop HD's 
could make the cube more expandable (there is still space inside!). 
With today's cooling fans, I would tolerate a small amount of noise 
just to keep the form factor. Today the floppy-less computers are more 
and more common and becoming a industry norm. A PC-card slot on the 
top, maybe?

Lets hope that Apple, with today's marketplace and options, rethinks 
the Cube and maybe provides us with a G5, dual IDE bus, Superdrive 
Twinview Cube sometime in the future!


Regards,

Francisco Romero