Opinion: Apple’s Cube was ahead of its time – Digital Lifestyle – Macworld UK: “”

“Looking back today, it seems that the Cube was simply ahead of its time.
It was an ingenious and striking design that missed the mark by about five years–and $1,000.

But don’t tell that to the loyal Cube owners out there, from whom you couldn’t pry their Cubes from their cold, dead hands. The G4 Cube’s enduring appeal from Mac fans is a testament to its unique and visionary design that has yet to be duplicated–even in the Mac mini–to this day.”

My Apple Cube sits in my study on top of one of my Warfedale stereo speakers. It’s still a perfectly useable computer, runs OSX Leopard, and until fairly recently served video files over the network to my media server in the lounge. That task is now done by an intel Mac Mini. But the Cube just looks great so I keep it out just to look at and occasionally use.