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Since you guys seem to be uber familiar, what's the going rate for a Cube alone? I doubt I could afford one, but they intrigued me since I saw the first commercial.
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Back to the Future Skylake Mac Cube mITX Build *REBORN*
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Since you guys seem to be uber familiar, what's the going rate for a Cube alone? I doubt I could afford one, but they intrigued me since I saw the first commercial.
I've been paying $100-150 for working Cubes+PSU. Add at least $50 if you want the "eyeball" speakers(they are Cube specific), and an ADC monitor can add $25-100 depending on which it is. As a caution the 20" and 23" won't work with a stock Cube.
A tad bit out of whack! @Gamer9430 @bunnspecial and I found a guy selling 5 Cubes for $75 each, it fell through sadly, as the seller couldn't get PayPal working, seemed a bit suspicious
It may be heresy, but I would only want the cube for a shelf as I think the engineering was marvelous of the era. I feel like Jonny is out of ideas.
I'll keep an eye out better then. Thanks!
I think you may have gotten some backlash in any other thread than this one! Using a Cube as a shelf item is a lot better than modding it in a poor fashion
Hahaha fair enough. I know you guys are dedicated to using these as intended. I wish I had the time to do that, or a use case. I just think they're awesome looking.
It's really no time to set it up to work, even if the Toaster-CD-Drive fails (which is often the case - then you have to start the cube in Target mode).
Basically there's the Cube, the AC-adapter and the acrylic-display connected via ADP (AppleDisplayPort sends Power, DVI-signal and USB-signal through a single cable), the USB-keyboard/mouse which can be connected to either Cube or more convenient to the monitor's USB-slot. If you connect the mouse to the keyboard, you'll have a spare USB-slot at the monitor for either WLAN-Connector or USB-soundcard.
You will either need a LAN-cable or that tiny Edimax-USB-WLAN-Connector, (8€) which offers support for WPA2 and Tiger/(PPC).
Since there's no sound-card in the Cube and if you want to get beyond the Harman-Kardon-Speakers/Sounsticks you'll need any USB-sound-card, e.g. Soundblaster. (I have another one from Speedlink which is crap, if you want to listen music...). Only the first version of the Harman-Kardon-Soundsticks (with subwoofer) offer a USB-connection, the later models need to be connected via USB-soundcard/Klinke 3.5.
Install Tiger. Run the updates and look for some useful software.
If you've got a high end PC or Mac you might use Cube as a "fat"-client to log into your primary machine too.
It's worth the effort!
(For software have a look at #187 - that's my standard-configuration on PPC/Tiger to make them work.)
FWIW, I have a Griffin iMic connected to one of mine, and it's a great plug and play solution for both OS 9 and OS X.
The iMic actually is more targeted toward audio in(which the Cube natively lacks in any form) but also works great for audio out.
The iMics became fairly popular in the days of the Digital Audio/Quicksilver since both of these lack audio in(which isn't much concern for me, but is a really big deal to some) but have the nice side effect of working well with a Cube at a price much lower than a set of "eyeballs" or a set of Sound Sticks. They do require a set of speakers in addition to the Cube, which of course you will likely need to hide(as I've done) unless you find some external speakers that look good with the Cube.
The iMic actually is more targeted toward audio in(which the Cube natively lacks in any form) but also works great for audio out.
The iMics became fairly popular in the days of the Digital Audio/Quicksilver since both of these lack audio in(which isn't much concern for me, but is a really big deal to some) but have the nice side effect of working well with a Cube at a price much lower than a set of "eyeballs" or a set of Sound Sticks. They do require a set of speakers in addition to the Cube, which of course you will likely need to hide(as I've done) unless you find some external speakers that look good with the Cube.
I wanted to make a small and powerful mITX rig. So I choose the coolest case I could find, a 2000 Power Mac G4.
Original Specs were:
CPU: 450 Mhz PowerPC G4
GPU: ATI Rage 128 Pro
HDD: 20-60GB (Missing)
Ram: 1GB PC100
Monitor: VGA something
New Specs are:
CPU: i5-6600k
GPU: GTX 950
SSD: Samsung SM951 PCIe AHCI - not NVMe
Ram: 16GB Crucial DDR4 2133 OC'd to 2400
CPU Cooler: Prolimatech PRO-SAM17
Monitor: Crossover 404k 40" 4K
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New Setup:
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Next step is to install OS X.
What a beautiful job you've done. I love the G4 Cube esthetics.