Macworld New York 2000-The G4 Cube Introduction

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Here we see Steve Jobs introducing the G4 Cube. Although praised for its innovative industrial design, the Cube fails to catch on with creative professionals because it's too expensive, not powerful enough and hard to upgrade. The Cube is "put on ice" in July 2001 with Apple promising that it will be "reborn" in another form at a later date. Its widely accepted that the Mac mini computer was its successful replacement.

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Kajayacht (Monday 1st of September 2008 10:27:30 PM)
How big is this thing again? I didn't quite get that.
tommyk77 (Sunday 31st of August 2008 03:08:21 PM)
Funny to see how much computers have evolved over eight years. The new Mac Pros have up to 32GB RAM, 4TB of storage, hard drives up to 15,000rpm, and two 3.2GHz Intel Xeons with 4 cores each.
ImaMacFan (Sunday 31st of August 2008 10:02:56 AM)
I have been a windows & linux user for years now. since the beagaing of computers actually. but I have recently made a switch over to macintoshes and I have to say, that both my 1.42GHz ibook & mac mini smoke any pentium 4 that I have used leaving them in the dust. nor have I ever had one crash on me. I can not say that about windows or even linux for that fact. the macintoshes just plain work period. not to mention that the newer mac runs windows now, as well as they play all the modern games.
xxxaabbccxxx (Monday 25th of August 2008 11:56:57 AM)
APPLE has ALWAYS been a ripoff. It was then, it still is now. You want a BETTER LOOKING computer, you pay MORE for it.
277luke (Sunday 17th of August 2008 08:51:08 PM)
Dude the gamecube is a video game system, this is a computer
277luke (Thursday 14th of August 2008 09:41:32 PM)
Yeah, I know what you mean, most macs in the power pc days wernt very powerful, when I was a pc guy I had a Power Spec PC and it had a 1.4 GHz Pentium 4 and 256 MB of ram and that was only a year after the G4 Cube. But now I'm a mac guy and I have a Aluminum iMac with a 2.4 Core 2 Duo and 3 GB's of ram, shows how much computers have changed lol :P
niceveritt (Saturday 23rd of August 2008 08:13:43 AM)
Macs were very powerful back then in terms of CPU speed. For example that although only 450mhz would easily beat a 1ghz Pentium. An 867mhz G4 was faster than a 1.7ghz Pentium 4. Mhz doesn't mean performance its just a contributing factor. The same reason a 1.6ghz core 2 duo is faster than a 3ghz pentium 4 or pentium d. Search mhz myth on youtube. You are right however in saying they didn't ship much ram or hdd space with the system. The reason for that is so you can buy your own for less money
277luke (Thursday 14th of August 2008 09:37:08 PM)
no it's not, os 10.5 is way better lol.
holty337 (Sunday 17th of August 2008 02:38:40 PM)
You have to understand that at the time the same spec PC was not as fast as MACS the way they number crunch is and was then faster than the same spec PC and as for price there was nothing that came close to the cube or the iMacs you just had beige boxes, and this was not your average off the shelf computer Apple products always come with a premium but once you own one you will never go back i own a Cube and its 2008 and it still gets the wow factor this computer won loads of design awards "class
277luke (Sunday 17th of August 2008 08:54:17 PM)
I have a mac, I love it, I kinda said that in the last post.