For Cube Owners Only

and those interested in them, of course. Over the weekend Laurie Duncan opened a web site, CubeOwner.com, to provide one-stop information on Apple's discontinued Power Mac G4 Cube. The site has a FAQ, with contributions by members of the Macintosh Guy's Cube List, a forum, a gallery and links. The FAQ covers things like repairs to Cube-specific issues, installing different graphics cards, installing dual G4 CPUs, instaling an internal fan, etc. The links page contains links to support, reviews and other things.

As frequent readers know, we at Macs Only! are Cube fanatics. The EIC was among the first to receive one shipped retail in early August of 2000 and he still uses it as his main desktop work computer. He also has one at home as does our ace reporter and New England Editor, Dana Baggett. We enjoy its design and superb engineering but we especially enjoy computing silently but powerfully. Mac OS X runs fine on the Cube and Apple's flat panel LCD displays look fabulous with it. The Cube has just enough upgradability in RAM, hard drive and graphics to keep it from quickly becoming obsolete. The graphics upgrade is limited to a GeForce2 MX if one wants to keep it silent but there is also the ATi Radeon and GeForce3 which have fans. What Cube owners wish for most is a third party G4 CPU upgrade to 800MHz or more.