Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
The cube.
Author: Robert Cassidy Posted: 7/19/2000; 9:42:02 AM Topic: scriptingNews outline for 7/18/2000 Msg #: 18765 (In response to 18749) Prev/Next: 18764 / 18766
AppleInsider has a picture of what they claim is the Apple cube. I still like the Cobalt Qube. It's prettier, and it comes without the attitude. (As of 5:52PM, AppleInsider is not responding. If one were paranoid, one might think Apple's lawyers had something to do with it.)I wouldn't like the Qube on my desk. Too distracting, though it is pretty. The G4 cube is a nice balance - a bit more subtle.
The two are remarkably similar, however. They spec very similarly between the top-end Qube 2 and the low end G4 cube, both at $1799. The Qube has dual 100Mbit and a PCI slot which makes sense for a server, the G4 has a much faster processor, greater memory expansion, Firewire, and Airport, which makes sense for a machine that is more multipurpose. Otherwise (RAM, disk, etc.) they are very close. With MacOSX, the G4 cube will be a mighty attractive Frontier server...
I love the way you get at the internals of the G4 cube though, and the pop-up DVD is very slick. Right now, I *really* want one. It'll wear off in a few days...
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