Best Macintosh

[mms]

my cube has a dual 450MHz g4, a 120GB 7200RPM HD, 1.1GB ram and a radeon 7500

dual? I know the original didn't have dual 450mhz, and I haven't heard of such an upgrade. Did I miss something?

Most well known mac:

Colored iBooks.

Did you mean iMacs? I would have thought either the original or flat-panel iMacs would be the most well-known, rather than those toilet-bowl models.

 

[Mord]

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/cube/dual_g4_cube/dual_g4_cube.html


I did this but with copper instead of aluminium plates (and arctic silver 5)

 

[jknight8907]

Did you mean iMacs? I would have thought either the original or flat-panel iMacs would be the most well-known, rather than those toilet-bowl models.

I'd say for desktops the flat-panel iMac would be the most well known, but the one you see the most in non-Apple commercials are the colored laptops (I thought they were iBooks???) like the one that chick uses in one of the 'Legally Blonde' moves (according to my sister). Is it an iBook?

 

[blackfox]

Well, I have owned (still own) only two apple computers:
A Pismo bought new w/ Apple employee discount in 2000, upgraded to G3 900, 7200rpm HD, max ram...had a VERY hard life, still looks new (a little dusty) and performs well, in fact better than new (due to upgrades).
A Quicksilver 733 (bought used off a friend)...never a day's problem either, although it has had a much more protected existence under my desk...

Neither has had to go to the shop, or been down for more than a day...what more can you ask?

From second-hand opinion, I would have to say the PM dual 533 (or 500, can't remember) seems highly recommended by those who have owned them FWIW...never had one myself.

 

[jackieonasses]

man oh man! i didnt even belive good ol' cube's were that popular! I got mine off ebay 1 year ago. (first mac) and it is like 4 years old! it (thanks to panther) run nearly as fast on webpages as my g5....well almost.

 

[Mord]

and with a quartz extreem ghraphics card it will run as fast

get yourself over to www.cubeowner.com and look into some upgrades a 7200rpm HD is a cheap good speed boost and if your up to some moding it cubes can go up to dual 1.3GHz with radeon 9800xt's and a 120GB 7200RPM HD they have huge potential


(the clear cube is almost required for those upgrades and dont buy anything before looking into the installation some can take hours and the dual and the 9800xt require an external power supply, a 1.4GHz geforce 3 cube would be more realistic)

 

[johnnowak]

PowerMac 7600. 9 years later it's been upgraded from a 132mhz 604 to a 1ghz G4. It has 768MB of RAM, and a 160GB Ultrawide SCSI HD. The thing still cooks baby. Well... when the 43mhz bus isn't cramping its style anyway.

 

[blue&whiteman]

the b&w G3 I had for almost 5 years. most reliable thing I have ever owned. was on 24/7 for that entire 5 years also.

 

[iJed]

iMac 233 rev B. Was originally B stock too but its still going like the day it was bought. Its running Panther 10.3.4 and has run every Mac OS X version ever released since DP3. Its also run some versions of Mac OS X Server 1.x.