[Cube] Hello everyone

[Bill Fox]

I have several Cubes and still use 2 of them routinely. One is  
completely stock except for 704MB RAM. It's running Tiger and Panther  
Server off two different partitions on my home AirPort network. I use  
it as a backup and to maintain our family's many Macs.

The second is my main day-job machine with many upgrades: a 1.4GHz  
CPU, a 120GB Seagate Barracuda drive, a GeForce2 MX graphics card and  
896MB RAM. It runs a 22" Cinema Display and is still a very fast,  
stable and quiet machine for everything I do--no digital video and no  
Photoshop.

OS X through Tiger runs great on both.

With Mac OS 9 and lower, the RAM mantra was "the more the better, as  
much as you can afford." But OS X's memory management is much more  
efficient. In objective tests, I've found that 256MB of RAM works  
fine with OS X through Panther with little to no performance  
advantage with more, unless one is working with a few specific RAM- 
hungry applications like Photoshop. With Photoshop there seems to be  
no such thing as too much RAM.

Apple recommends 512MB RAM with Tiger but I've not repeated my tests  
with Tiger yet. Anyway, RAM for the Cube is cheap (PC100 or PC133)  
these days so there's no reason to stick with the minimum.

On May 27, 2005, at 7:25 AM, Riba wrote:

>> I believe that the specs are:
>> 450 MHZ
>> 128 or 256 MB RAM (not sure atm)
>> 20 GIG HD
>> CD Rom Drive
>>
>> I plan on booting it up in the next couple of days to get better  
>> specs on it, just haven't had a chance as of yet.
>>
>> If that were your machine what would you do to it to crank it up  
>> for Tiger and the use I mentioned.