the cube is still a great machine, and the only thing that held me back from trading in my imac as a down payment for the cube was it's shortened video slot (in order to fit in the 8" cube), which meant that vendors would have to make a special short-card to fit in there -- plus, apple flat-out said they wouldn't support upgrading the video... and i just didn't get any warm-fuzzies from either ati or nvidia about supporting the cube long-term. but the 16mb ati rage pro is two years old in last-generation's g4 towers, and it does everything i need it to at work, plus decent games... so yeah, it should be fine, i would think.
Are you kidding? The Cube is a great machine and its G4 will certainly get you through until the form factor is revived down the line. I've got 2 Cubes, one a silent 450 with 386 MB at school with a 15" Studio and one fast and slightly noiser one 500 with 1.5 Megs RAM at home hooked up to a Cinema display. You will find all the memory you can pack in helpful, but I would take it up in as large a block as you can afford. The 1.5 config seems to prevent use of virtual memory though. <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
Its a nice machine! However, in OSX, it seems to be a bit laggy... But that may be more OSX's fault than the computer, it seems speedy enough in 9, but I don't use OS9 ... .
I think it will last the 2 years you need it to ... but don't think you couldn't upgrade the video card ... my geforce is a PC geforce (so you can't use an apple flat panel, but it has regular VGA out), but it works fine in OSX/9 using the apple nvidia drivers, and even sleeps just fine with it.
However, for me ... I think i need a G5 or dual proc G4 . I'll still keep the cube though, it would make a nice server, or maybe even backup or something ...
My Cube's humming along nicely (450MHz, RADEON, 1GB RAM). I'm thinking of swapping out the HD for a larger one, and then I expect several years of loyal service from the gorgeous little machine.
If a friend of mine didn't need a Mac for his studio, I'd still have my 8600/200. So this machine is gravy.
years depending on your applications. Most can get by with machines in the 300-400mHz range.
But it's value will probably drop in January if a LCD iMac is introduced. That would create an all in one product which is "luggable"(like the Cube) but without the need for a separate monitor.
Mind you, aesthetically the Cube is still a piece of art and will probably be inducted in the Smithsonian.
However, for me ... I think i need a G5 or dual proc G4 . I'll still keep the cube though, it would make a nice server, or maybe even backup or something ...</strong><hr></blockquote>
See the dual 450 hack on this board for the ultimate Cube. I'll be going there as soon as some DP sawtooth's come up for sale (when the G5 ships)
Your G4 cube is a collector, so be proud to own one;
A radeon video card is far better than the video of an i book. So i think excepting Geforce 3 video card, your computer is a very good Mac's game machine.
One advice get more memory, prize are very low for the moment and in the future it would be hard to find 100 mhz SDRAM.
... But the price of PC100 RAM doesn't matter much, if at all. Just use the (already) cheaper PC133 RAM and it will scale down to work with your 100 MHz bus. I've found that <a href="http://www.datamem.com"; target="_blank">www.datamem.com</a> has very competitive prices, and they only ship quality RAM. You pay a few bucks for reliability, worth it to me at least.
Just pick up any of the PC133 RAM, but always buy the 512 MB chips. This way you don't have to take one out to add more RAM should you run out of RAM slots (i.e., if you have 3 128 MB chips and want to boost your memory to 1 GB, you have to take one chip out and replace it with a bigger one. This is wasteful).
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just kidding
You may think about adding some RAM. 192MB is still kind of at the low side....
<strong>Funny, I would take the iBook over my Cube. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
Really? I'd much rather have the G4 processor than the G3 in the iBook.
I like portability more than desktops becasue high school can be an unorganized place.
<strong>The iBook 600 would be nearly as fast as my Cube in even altivec enhanced apps, wouldnt it?
I like portability more than desktops becasue high school can be an unorganized place.
Yeah, you're right, but I'm stuck with the 500MHz one so I'm not lucky.
450Mhz G4
1.5Gb Ram
Nivida GeForce2 Mx400
80Gig Seagate Barracuda IV Disk
Its a nice machine! However, in OSX, it seems to be a bit laggy... But that may be more OSX's fault than the computer, it seems speedy enough in 9, but I don't use OS9 ...
I think it will last the 2 years you need it to ... but don't think you couldn't upgrade the video card ... my geforce is a PC geforce (so you can't use an apple flat panel, but it has regular VGA out), but it works fine in OSX/9 using the apple nvidia drivers, and even sleeps just fine with it.
However, for me ... I think i need a G5 or dual proc G4
If a friend of mine didn't need a Mac for his studio, I'd still have my 8600/200. So this machine is gravy.
years depending on your applications. Most can get by with machines in the 300-400mHz range.
But it's value will probably drop in January if a LCD iMac is introduced. That would create an all in one product which is "luggable"(like the Cube) but without the need for a separate monitor.
Mind you, aesthetically the Cube is still a piece of art and will probably be inducted in the Smithsonian.
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However, for me ... I think i need a G5 or dual proc G4
See the dual 450 hack on this board for the ultimate Cube. I'll be going there as soon as some DP sawtooth's come up for sale (when the G5 ships)
A radeon video card is far better than the video of an i book. So i think excepting Geforce 3 video card, your computer is a very good Mac's game machine.
One advice get more memory, prize are very low for the moment and in the future it would be hard to find 100 mhz SDRAM.
Just pick up any of the PC133 RAM, but always buy the 512 MB chips. This way you don't have to take one out to add more RAM should you run out of RAM slots (i.e., if you have 3 128 MB chips and want to boost your memory to 1 GB, you have to take one chip out and replace it with a bigger one. This is wasteful).
-Ender