Power Mac G4 Cube Teardown

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The infamous Power Mac G4 Cube, Apple's original failed attempt at a compact G4-based Macintosh. Released in 2000 at a cost of $1599, the Cube was considered too expensive, and too slow. The Cube, unlike most computers, uses passive cooling, which means no fan.  While quiet, it was a big mistake on Apple's part, because the G4 processors run very hot!

The Cube boasted a 450MHz or 500Mhz G4 CPU; not particularly fast given its 1Ghz Pentium III contemporary. The Cube is virtually silent, aside from the original 5400 RPM hard-drives. After a single year of production, Apple put the cube "on ice”. But it lives on in infamy as a popular candidate for Macquariums and as a coveted design piece. An internal fan hookup in the form of a 12V, 2-pin connector is available but was never utilised by Apple. If you want, you can buy a fan, connect it, and figure out a place to fit it; this is a popular mod to cool overheating Cubes.

Conceptually, it was replaced by the Mac Mini in 2005, 5 years later.