[CUBE] Introducing: The PowerCube Enclosure

[Richard Clark]

wheres this logo you all are talking about? I see no logo.
On 28 Oct 2003, at 5:42 AM, david sarcastix wrote:

> I actually think it's a good idea, nicely designed, intelligently 
> engineered
> AND COMPLETELY RUINED BY THE POWERLOGIX LOGO ON THE FRONT!!!
>
> It is as if they do not understand AT ALL what the CUBE is about.
>
> It reminds of going to a sales or corporate meeting, and they give 
> EVERYONE
> a gift, and you pull off the ribbon, and open the box, and you see a
> beautiful Tiffany sterling silver letter opener, and it's engraved "GMC
> TRUCKS".
>
> Or TWA.
>
> Or Johnson & Johnson.
>
> They had the money and the taste to buy you a fine gift, that you 
> would keep
> forever, but they COULD NOT resist screwing it up by engraving the 
> name of
> their company on it.
>
> No one is going to forget that POWERLOGIX made the enclosure.
>
> So, if at all, the POWERLOGIX logo should be on the BACK. And smaller.
>
> It's nothing to be ASHAMED of, but in my opinion it does not work on 
> the
> front.
>
> I'm sure that the wonderful people at POWERLOGIX make fine products, 
> but no
> one is going to look at the case and say "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH, 
> you
> have a POWERLOGIX!!!".
>
> Yes, APPLE put the 'apple' on the front of the original housing, but it
> actually looks okay.  AND Apple is a brand that is recognized, and if 
> you
> care, coveted by many. And lastly they MADE the freakin' computer.  
> Without
> APPLE there would be no CUBE.  It makes no sense for the logo to be 
> that
> big, even though POWERLOGIX has done fine work in the creation of it.
>
> It's like buying a brushed aluminum body for your 'Vette or '64 XKE 
> Jag, and
> on the hood it says "MetalMasters, So. California".
>
> So POWERLOGIX big on the front, suggests to me way too much credit for 
> only
> making the enclosure.
>
> If anything it should have an Apple logo on the front, or BETTER yet, a
> stencil cutout.  Unless it is illegal to use the logo, then they 
> should make
> a deal with a shop that will add the logo, or stamp out the logo, or 
> put a
> decal or SOMETHING.
>
> Or NOTHING!!
>
> No Logo!
>
> MYSTERIOSO!!!
>
> MONDO MYSTERIOSO!!!!!
>
> I wonder if I can buy one without the logo.
>
> Best,
>
> David Sarcastix