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Why did apple STOP making the cube?
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Lone Deranger
macrumors 68000
Yeah... as simple as the design appeared... it was awesome! I would dearly love to see Apple revisit that design. I'd pay a pretty penny for an updated Mac with such a form factor.
The NeXT cubes were pretty radical too! 🙂
The NeXT cubes were pretty radical too! 🙂
sushi
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Don't know except that they didn't sell well.
Personally, I was excited when they came out until I saw one. Too many wires. The connector was hard to reach. Required a power brick. All in all, a big disappointment.
Ropie
macrumors regular
These points are fair but I wouldn't call it a disappointment. It was extremely radical for the time and still looks wonderful today. My dad still has one and as far as I know it has never given any problems though has only had light use (internet, bit of word processing). They could always reform the mac mini into a cube shape I suppose but these days, when every bugger has an ipod or an iphone or similar, compact and stylish computers are not really that exciting...
JNB
macrumors 604
The Cube was an example of form over function. It was more a desk accessory than anything. Underpowered, overpriced, just a repackaging of problematic older guts in a Kleenex box of an enclosure. Place that one on the same shelf as the 20th Anniversary Mac.
I liked it from a purely aesthetic POV, but that's where the appreciation ended.
I liked it from a purely aesthetic POV, but that's where the appreciation ended.
drichards
macrumors 6502a
20th anniversary Mac was in Batman and Robin, and on Seinfeld. Where was the cube?
