[CUBE] G5 Upgrades In G4 Macs WILL NEVER HAPPEN

[Kunga]

Laurie Duncan said. "... Someone will put a G5 in a Cube. I guarantee 
it."

Pardon my French but this is a highly irresponsible thing to say. 
Anyone who understands the G5 knows that it will NEVER be in a 2000 
Cube. G5 is totally incompatible with all G4 motherboards. Not gonna 
happen. There are NEVER going to be G5 upgrades for any G4 Macs. I 
guarantee it.

But what might happen is an Apple resurrection of the Cube as a new G5 
product once they can figure out how to cool a mobile G5 system 
convectively or with one very quiet fan perhaps late next year or in 
2005.

One thing for sure, G4 Cubes running at 500 MHz are still plenty fast 
for basic communications work. I see stock Cubes with 32MB video cards 
lasting the rest of our lives for word processing, iLife, mail, 
internet, light video editing and DVD creation. 500 MHz Cubes meet FCP 
3 & 4 minimums for Real Time editing. SuperDrives can be added 
externally or internally. Once you add a faster processor, you must add 
a fan and there goes a lot of Cube's appeal - dead silence. It is in 
this silence that many of us find the greatest joy in sticking with 
Cubes.

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On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 02:42  AM, Tom Hostler wrote:

> <http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,59764,00.html?