[Cube] Confession...

[George Pepper]

The bottom line in all of this is that Apple has never made a real  
replacement for the Cube.  Each of us has to figure out what their  
needs are, and NO WAY a Cube could be my main machine anymore, but the  
Mini's lack of upgradability made it unworthy as well.  Since I want a  
DESKTOP to run 23" and 30" displays, I went for a G5, which I can  
upgrade just a ton.. but it's big.  WAY big compared to a Cube.  It  
sure is a joy to work inside of, though.  Lots of room, and hardly any  
tools needed for most upgrades.  It really is a brilliant design, BUT  
IT'S BIG and it has fans.  Nice, quiet fans, but I can still hear  
them, so they aren't suitable for a recording booth where I want to  
have a DYI recording remote system.  Even the Mini has a fan, for  
crying out loud.

I know the market these days is in mobile form factors, but I still  
think there is room for a desktop solution between the Mini and the  
Mac Pro in terms of upgradable component systems, but Apple doesn't  
think so, so I guess I must be wrong.  I've just never been attracted  
to the iMac and my romance with the Mini didn't work out (Story of my  
life. LOL!).

When I wanted a couple of backup machines, however, the first thing I  
thought of was getting a couple of Cubes and upgrading them.  They are  
still the coolest design Apple ever came up with, so I plan to use  
them as backups just as long as possible.  Heck, I still have a G4 400  
TiBook that works perfectly and it's fine with OS X 10.4.11, so Cubes  
will do fine for my backups for a few years at least.

Oh, and I've worked with Cubes since I used a NeXT Cube back in the  
early 90's.  Now that was a wonderful system for the time, and the OS  
was years ahead of its time.  In fact, the NeXT OS lead directly to OS  
X!  Parts of OS X STILL have the same code tags as the NeXT OS did.

George

On Mar 6, 2009, at 3:05 AM, Stefan wrote:

>> I am with you Stefan.
>>
>> I started life with an Apple II, progressed to Lisa, LC475, Quadra  
>> then a string of Power Macs. However.... The Cube is the nicest all  
>> round for my purposes. I do dabble with PC from time to time, but  
>> always feel like I am wearing a favourite pair of gloves when using  
>> the Cube.