Had one of those for my main work machine for about a year and a half, and it was the first time in my career that my office was perfectly silent unless I was playing music. No fan FTW!
I saw it first in John Lewis (a British department store), while shopping for a uni computer with my sister. The thing looked pretty darn cool, but we went for the much much cheaper iMac instead. I remember trying to use the blasted puck mouse on that thing. I found my hand and arm always started aching and took me a while to figure out why. It would slowly rotate in my hand without me noticing and I'd subsonsciously grip ever harder as the pointer started not going straight. The cubes had a sensible mouse
They weren't prone to overheating, but the thermal cycling caused by getting hot repeatedly would cause cracks to appear in the case over time. For heavy users, it took less than a year. A fan would have fixed that, and probably such a slow one that it would have been inaudible anyway.
I remember a company made a replacement case made of perforated metal that wouldn't crack. Looked like the front panel of the PowerMac G5's, but still a cube. Not *quite* as cool looking as the transparent plexiglass, but still striking, and offered much better cooling.
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Loved that machine. (Score:2)
Had one of those for my main work machine for about a year and a half, and it was the first time in my career that my office was perfectly silent unless I was playing music. No fan FTW!
-jcr
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I saw it first in John Lewis (a British department store), while shopping for a uni computer with my sister. The thing looked pretty darn cool, but we went for the much much cheaper iMac instead. I remember trying to use the blasted puck mouse on that thing. I found my hand and arm always started aching and took me a while to figure out why. It would slowly rotate in my hand without me noticing and I'd subsonsciously grip ever harder as the pointer started not going straight. The cubes had a sensible mouse
Re:Loved that machine. (Score:2)
They weren't prone to overheating, but the thermal cycling caused by getting hot repeatedly would cause cracks to appear in the case over time. For heavy users, it took less than a year. A fan would have fixed that, and probably such a slow one that it would have been inaudible anyway.
Replacement (Score:2)
I remember a company made a replacement case made of perforated metal that wouldn't crack. Looked like the front panel of the PowerMac G5's, but still a cube. Not *quite* as cool looking as the transparent plexiglass, but still striking, and offered much better cooling.