Macworld New York 2000-The G4 Cube Introduction

[TheWildKiwi]

"a stunning crystal clear enclosure"

[mastertrent]

play minecraft on a cube :D

[w33zlmusic]

They really need to make a new Mac Cube

[TechmanUSA]

@w33zlmusic it was a flop

[McDouchebag22]

An 8" cube!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

OMFG

[1BYEBYE1]

OMG 1.5GB OF RAM, i think my calculator has more then that.

[Rapperlyfe]

i remember this was so revelutionary

[TheUltraCoolDude1]

RIP Steve Jobs. We will miss you, Steve.

[ConverseFreaks101]

hmm what happened to the video there many blocks

[EpicEarn]

It's funny. Now, you can get a WAY better really small Intel Mac called a Mac Mini for $499 (that's the least end model). This cost $1799 (the least end model). Wow.

[tanshagnes]

G4 design is amazing! Never would I think a computer is in a cube!

[Alpmaster13]

5:31 The cameraman was like "oh my god...... oh steve jobs is coming"

[g3org33r3]

Incredible

[JackBandicootsBunker]

The MacMini was a nice product, specially the PowerPC versions. But their designs and momentum were inferior to those from the PowerCube. It's a shame specs didn't make up for its price, but it was a brilliant concept still.

[MrGhostface2001]

Why did it fail?

[JackBandicootsBunker]

@MrGhostface2001 Overpriced (200 bucks more than the base PowerMac which was more expandable than the G4 Cube), upgradeability wasn't as great as expected (full-profile AGP video cards were not supported, for example), the price did not include a monitor, specs weren't that amazing compared to the higher-end PowerMac G4s, and quality issues with the acrylic case.

[kbrinks]

Every top comment is some hilarious comedian sarcastically being excited about 10 year old hardware specs.

[Silverpup67]

yeah...but it heated up like a mother

[DrewR2010]

It looks like a cube that Wall.E makes when you take the components out...

[baracuda5555]

He was THE technology Rock Star!

[LaGuitarra87]

A milestone in product design and computer technology! R.I.P Steve

[FlightSimTutorials]

Wow....$1799 and $2299.....and it failed miserably.

[juliensays]

and now you can buy it for 50 bucks on ebay...

[NitekMuscle]

Apple is one of the few companies to make quotidian computing seem interesting and actually worthwhile.

[izzylife93]

this has been improved into the Mac mini.....:D

[chillinur36]

thats smaller than i thought.

[gokarter28]

Im guessing this was what mac mini replaced?

[kockgunner]

Best looking computer ever. They should make these designs again!

[keyzin]

so much potential compared to the current mac mini ... i like the concept of excessing every part of the computer with just 1 push ... omg ... stunning ... for a early 2000 pc ... too bad it died

[AmpliFreQ3107]

I've never seen this thing before until just now. Even though it was a failure, that is a beauty and I want one for collection.

Steve Jobs should've be rebuilt into a machine using his brain! There will never be a genius like him in our lifetime! :'(

[JohnsonsTech]

so basically its the mac mini.

[muizawan]

one more thing....... gotta love that

[pabloenis]

I'm writing this on my MacBook Air with 256 gb storage. Unbelievable 8 inch cube my ass! ;) 40 gb lol

[NewJoel17]

lol... now all the power of this 8" cube is in a slim phone.. man... 11 years.

[johanzenandersen]

@NewJoel17 What will happen in the next 11 years? I'm pretty optimistic.

[m1up]

@NewJoel17

Phone is more powerful lol

[masmotors]

my dad still backs his info on a

1993 machintosh lc3 if i remeber even though he has a brand new pc in living room i guess he love macs im a pc guy i game on it so macs not me rip jobs

[musicjmusic0]

The Schlotzsky's Deli in my town used to have this on each other their computers, with the speakers and everything, up until they closed at teh end of 2009.

[jbarker98420]

Apple is way better off using intel chips

[JackBandicootsBunker]

@jbarker98420 I strongly disagree with that. Apple is bollocks since they swapped to Intel. The problem with PowerPC was the support, and Windows only supporting CISC chips. Now that Windows 8 is coming up, RISC chips will be supported again. If developers really cared about programming for a RISC computer, the PowerPC concept would have continued up to today. Apple WAS better and was UNIQUE with PowerPC. Now they are just another reseller who overprices mediocre Intel hardware.

[simulacrae]

@JackBandicootsBunker I kind of agree, but it hasn't really ben Apples "thing" to compete on specs, but rather how the hardware works with the software.

But I agree in that regard that they seem to not even care about some of the hardware, of course you have to use mobile chipsets in laptops, but why are the new iMac's using mobile GPU's for instance, they draw less power sure, but you get half the performance out of it. The future will tell if they're gonna keep upgrading their mac pro line.

[JackBandicootsBunker]

@simulacrae If Apple's thing wasn't competing on specs, then why every campaign they've done during the PowerPC era was comparing specs with Intel? Rembember they showed the audience the remembered "megahertz myth", for example. I know there was a reason in comparing a RISC chip no one knew about against a CISC chip. But overall, they compare specs too. As for the Pro line, as far as they're going now, they should either go back to IBM, or swap Intel for AMD.

[simulacrae]

@JackBandicootsBunker I should have clearer, I meant recently, ever since they moved to Intel they've donwplayed the hardware and focused on other traits.

[JackBandicootsBunker]

@simulacrae Well, apart from the design and the OS... I can think of connections, applications portals and stuff.

[ShawnFlan]

I love the cube amazing for the year when it came out

[mislik]

I have one, running as a web server, for 7 years now

[MrRapoon]

I remember when the cube was released; it was brilliant for its time. Aesthetically, it’s incredible. Too bad it was far too expensive.

[ctheuploader]

Steve Jobs has died. R.I.P Oct. 5, 2011, today.

[Task1000]

I'm kinda surprised how many people are taking the price range so lightly.

[PERDOMO1088]

How is it hard to upgrade? he just pulled it out of the tower in like 4 seconds...

[ctheuploader]

windows didn't include up to 1.5 GB memory in their computers until about 2007 and this is 2000 and Apple is doing it

[kjevo]

@ctheuploader wat.. i have an xp machine here from 2001with 3gb of memory. so...

[ctheuploader]

@kjevo That is a special case. Prolly cost a lot more. But this is reasonably priced for that time.

[kjevo]

@ctheuploader Bought it for €75 at a flea market, It does have a 6 ram slots :P all filled with 512mb ones.

[bigcar10]

mac mini's grandfather?

[DrHouse2004]

Before the Mac mini!

[bouchandre]

Before time began, there was... the cube.

[Schubbe226]

Wow 40gb

[trekker123eski]

Wow 1.5GB now with the Mac mini we got 4GB

[gabriel71413]

1,799 for a single core proccessor, with 64mb of memory, and 20gb of storage. wow.... tht must of been terrable lol

[gunnarMyTube]

Truly classic product presentation.

[wesleyc38]

the start of the mac mini!!

[VZIPTEAM]

Mac OS X Sucks!.

[silenteyesspy]

@VZIPTEAM: that's how I feel about windows

[wesscoast]

Well, laugh all you want, that miniturization lives on in the Mac mini today. The G4 was supposedly too expensive, but.. please, that doesn't take anything away from the actual machine itself. The trendline was obvious, aggressive miniturization.

Notice too, Apple was agressively eliminating hardware components (to free their designers).. the diskette drive, the fan, later, they'd kill the optical drive, and even firewire itself.

[Jaxx471]

did someone say an '8 inch cube'?

[EcoDimension]

the grand daddy of mac mini.

[MrDeltasgremlin]

FOUR DERP.. DERP...

[bullet50000]

they made it hard to upgrade because the heatsink case would be overworked

[mlongpre]

sick comp at the time! wish i could have afforded one!

[akjgds]

LOL 40 GB

[GoGoggansGo]

@akjgds i had an 2000 dollar dell in 2004 with 120gb and i was the man we have come so far since then

[denzelwash1]

@akjgds and it is "UP TO" :)

[legotech101]

@akjgds that was a lot then

[Ethanace]

@akjgds

Dude, almost 12 years ago and you forget that we still sell portable computers today with only just over 40GB of hard disk space. Look at the new MacBook Air's, some of them come with 64GB Flash Drives - agreed they are obviously much faster because technology has come a long way in 12 years, but think about how little data people had back then, 40GB could hold a lot for someone who had games that could fit on 700mb CD's, and who still used portal CD players as source of music.

[PeppersOnChili]

@akjgds 1.5GB ram :O super fast

[54321thedeathbed]

@akjgds

[shnunk1]

Your mum...in an 8 inch cube.

[AngloMonsTr]

A GIGABYTE AND A HALF OF MEMORY? =O

[srOLDSKULL]

Even today it looks cool, could not imagine how cool it was in his era...

[lordpoee]

How big is it again??

[bigdima3]

Steve Jobs 10 years ago:

No wrinkles

Extra fat on his face

Chubbier than now

Nerdy outfit;

Same type of (cheap looking) jeans

[bart2daman]

introducing the new auto load toaster

[K1llerEel]

iToaster!

[SteelSkin667]

That thing was gorgeous, and a silent computer was rare those days, but it was too expensive for it's own good.

[abehammy]

@SteelSkin667 Plus, it would overheat easily and there were reports of cracks forming on the exterior shell.

[steve101574]

Wow imagine the iPad 2 next to this old thing that is such a huge 'breakthrough' in 2000

[The3rdPersonViewer]

How many times has he said 8" Cube?

[siekiersk]

o man 40 GB's

[appayipyip]

This is amazing even 11 years later. Apple is #1

[angelfabia]

Mac Mini was born!

[TheSecretCobra]

40GB of HDD? 1.5GB of Ram? Damn that must of been almost impossible back then, nowadays 24GB + of Ram is common in high-end systems, and I believe the most HDD space you can get is 3TB per drive (Sata II/III Standard)

[504Anon]

ITOAAAAAAAAASTEEEEERRRRRRR!!!1­1

[XxEmoPandasxX]

Lol they should at that time look at todays mac mini xD

[kristechreviews]

this makes no since but my school was built in 05 and we had a powermac that was from 03 not the cube but the normal powermac

[kristechreviews]

so this is now called the mac mini

[edenmarubeller]

hmm how steve has changed over the years

[Dugm94]

Wow! Epic specs!!!!!

[acslater017]

Man I know it was never successful but that is still such a cool design! I would love to see one in person and see how easy/hard it is to upgrade...

[zeldanerd5]

4:55 holy shit it has a handle!!

[ratchetandclankf]

Put a Mac Mini in that chasis and I will buy it. For $700.

[ColdNightLight]

yeah we got it its a cube

[ThePandaPwnage]

40gb of storage...... even my ipod I bought 3 years ago still has more memory

[dvamateur]

I don't like sales people

[TrackSleepyWeather]

wow $1799, the Mac mini's are so much cheaper :P

[PC3Pointless]

Cube still runs ok as an internet browser now, even with its immensely fast 450Mhz processor, sometimes I swear its almost faster then my quad core 2.7Ghz..... welll maybe not.... but we can pretend!

[furbawl]

Gorgeous... simply gorgeous :)

[beebler26]

After everything Apple has come out with, I still think this is the nicest for its time.

[jlvyn13]

push a button...a fucking handle comes out...

[EvannRachel]

That's the sexiest toaster I've ever seen.

[MrIgnasK]

compared to this, the ipad is literally cheaper, faster and better...

[AndySamVids]

1.5GB of memory is like nothing now.

40GB of storage can't even hold the amount of pics I have now!

[FireFox2382]

Wow ten years! Now my phone is faster than this lol

[ssiv226]

oh woww

[stogi5959]

i cant believe it hasnt been popular ITS AN 8-INCH-CUBEEEEEEEEE

[graphicgiraffe]

Wow i could make a aquarium out of that

[CutControlPunk]

@graphicgiraffe Like this? ))))

walyou . com/mac-g4-cube-fish-tank-mod/­

[graphicgiraffe]

@CutControlPunk Exactly like that! ;)

[JackBandicootsBunker]

@graphicgiraffe LOL there's a scene who makes aquariums out of any Macintosh chassis, MacQuarium makers.

[Mikeint0sh]

even now, that pretty cool!



[doritostheking]

@iMacG3nerd No, I'm not raging, I just have to wonder why you'd ask why they build a tower, when you have a tower, which also presumably extensively uses the key feature of towers: expansion slots.

I don't think you can call me a mac nerd when your username is "iMacG3nerd", I mean we are PPC bros.

[doritostheking]

@iMacG3nerd No, I'm not raging, I just have to wonder why you'd ask why they build a tower, when you have a tower, which also presumably extensively uses the key feature of towers: expansion slots.

I don't think you can call me a mac nerd when your username is "iMacG3nerd", I mean we are PPC bros.

[doritostheking]

@iMacG3nerd First thing is that's bullshit. Second, if you apparently do understand what an expansion slot is for why the fuck did you ask the question?

[zesarz4]

Holy s***t is the Companion cube in real life!!

[doritostheking]

@iMacG3nerd Do you know what expansion slots are? That's why they still make towers.

[diaphilm]

maybe they should have tried a sphere.

spheres are sexier

[madrab2010]

It's got a USB port!! Its already got my ipad2 beat

[thejman36]

Caaahhhmponent.

[EndOfTheW0rld]

Holy shit 1.5GB is a lot for 2001.

Also I lol'd at how it couldn't even read the DVD

[whewmancool]

well it's one of the worst apple products over

[MrVinney96]

@whewmancool And it is the Mac Mini's dad. And it is crap, yes.

[whewmancool]

@MrVinney96 mac mini actually quite good

[simonwedege]

The most beautiful computer ever made by any manufacturer in all time.

[EndOfTheW0rld]

@simonwedege I beg to differ. I thought the G4 iMacs were gorgeous.

[pianomvr88]

But can it blend!

[revonvideo]

@iMacG3nerd Spending a long time researching this, lol. It is because the Cube was $200 more expensive, and had a lot less room to add more RAM/Disk space

[Kyuuqsoft]

I will make more better instead pulling the motherboard out, i use a remote control and it pops out itself like opening like a robot. or press a button.

[revonvideo]

@iMacG3nerd Ah, as far as I am aware they relaunched the PowerMac G5 afterwards, making it a lot better

[revonvideo]

@iMacG3nerd Power Mac no longer exists.

[Fernesur]

i'll can see this all the fucking day

[thehouserocker]

I made a toaster out of mine!!

[Blobface07]

Start of the mac mini range



[simonwedege]

@Blobface07 Oh no... this wasn't a Mac Mini. The Cube was super fast, kind of expensive but a technological wonder for the consumer market.

A Mac Mini is a slower and cheaper Mac, for those who can't afford the more expensive ones. The Cube was a super computer of it's time.

[dgendgen]

omg its only 1799 $ and 2299& my god ! bring me back to august in the year 2000 !!!! im goin to the apple store .. with future money :)

[mutaforme79]

Fantastic presentation.

[MrRobTopping]

would it not be pretty hard to put the wires in

[remurdereht]

"and its not affordable"

[Mexican9377]

Looks like we've edvanced so much in the last 10 years.

[RuokangasBrasil]

@Mexican9377 yh, like the ipad 2 : )

[carlosandregoes]

The cube is just gorgeous...

[thenerfers321]

We

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CUBE!!!

[MBP6705]

@thenerfers321

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[007k5]

Computerbag

[Kyorere23]

OMG ONLY $2299

[alexinhd1]

G4 WAIT TILL YOU SEE A4

[jnnycliff]

talk about 3.2 quade with 12mb cache. Apple just finally accept Intel's credit. I'm not gonna pay $2200 for this kind of spect today. But i can understand how it is in 2000

[masterlocke100]

everyone loses it hen he pulls it out.

[YouNGCAsHbAbY]

lol 1/2 mem 40gig lol i have a laptop thats 4 gig mem and 300gig lol i luv how they making so amazing and then 6 years later this is crap

[scooman]

I don't understand why the cube failed. I loved my cube. It was so great looking on the desk compared to the big gray boxes. At the time, it was one of the fastest computers around.

[Aerlenbach]

Did we mention it was shaped like a cube?

[fatestkoopa]

To bad it failed

[joshuaras1]

6 years later the ipod touch/iphone came out and owned this inabout veryway possible

[area51topAlien]

0:35 i thought he said it not affordable

[brieman2]

Oh wow Steve was fat... He had a liver transplant and has cancer...

[MeowMixMadness]

"Hey, steve, how'd you make that presentation?"

".. Microsoft power point..."

[segers909]

@MeowMixMadness Keynote, part of iWork.

[ThatEccentricguy]

you know the mac mini fits even more power into even less space

[bbabybry]

ONLY 40 GIGS!!!!! LOL!! NOW WERE AT 4 terabytes!

[CJMilsey]

Just to make sure, the cube is 8" right?

[chutch1122]

Haha. I like how they were raving about 1.5 GB of RAM when now (6 years later albeit) 16 is the max :D

[sunderhoeksema]

I'm watching this vid on a Cube. And it doesn't work very well :-P 240p :-P

[shigalbigal]

I wanna buy a mac mini and go back in 2000 and go at the G4 Cube unveil showing my mac mini.

Steve Jobs's facial expression would of been priceless!

[nowupdate]

2000 year 1799 $:)

present day 50$

[macnerd93]

@nowupdate the thing is though, you are wrong you'd pay that for a typical Power Mac G4, the G4 Cube generally now goes for about $500- to well over a $1000, and they will only go up in value as they are quite rare out for less than a year, before Apple canned it

[totallynotjonathan]

@macnerd93 just googled it and found the entire system in working order (includes the g4 in working condition with mouse speakers keyboard and a 1gb upgrade) looks mint too for the buy it now price of 200 bucks on ebay took me around 5 seconds to find it.

[macnerd93]

@totallynotjonathan does that come with a matching Apple ADC monitor though :P, i'd prefer the complete matching set, still 200 isn't bad here in the UK the average price of them tends to range from £100-180 quid for battered & bruised ones and better ones 200-300 quid with the box, matching monitor and pro speakers etc

[totallynotjonathan]

@macnerd93 meh id rather spend $500 to $1000 on something good like a phenom II quad core and a 6850 like i got my entire pc cost around 600 to build

[jonathanwindham]

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