Power Mac G4 Cube

The Power Mac G4 Cube was a compact desktop version of the Power Mac G4 tower that was introduced by Apple Computer in 2000.

Features
Boasting 3.5 gigaflops, which was the equivlant to a supercomputer at the time, it was marketed towards professional users. The Apple design team fitted the cube's insides in an 8x8x8 space and it was fanless, making it extremely quiet. It shipped usually with a 20 GB hardrive and 64 MB and a DVD-Rom Drive. The Cube was some what expandable but it had to have smaller AGP cards because of the unique size. Besides that it has 2 USB ports and Two Firewire. Amazingly the Cube had two different monitor connectors built in, it also a microphone jack but it lacked sound output. Also with its intro came the Mac Pro Keyboard and Mouse, because the lack of sound output came the USB speakers with special adapter. Last but not least the monitor there were two choices the Flat panel studio monitors avaiable in 15' an 17' models. Also there was Apple's last CRT monitor which I must say was the best ever ! It some what resembled the Blue Cinema Display but was shorter and more egg shaped and totally translucent.

Reception
The G4 Cube did not take off with consumers and it was discontinued within a year, when Steve Jobs announced that it was being placed on ice. Its replacement arrived in 2005 in the form of the Mac mini, which was more successful and remains in production today.