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Now sure why…look at it!!

@NanoRaptor I want the kind of support this computer has,

@NanoRaptor No floppy drive?

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This has serious LAN-party cred tho.

@NanoRaptor apple learned the hard way about surface area to volume ratio

@NanoRaptor @lisamelton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube

@NanoRaptor iCube

@NanoRaptor It looks ridiculous now, but that's basically what the original iMac was.

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That's a chonky boi.

@NanoRaptor They learned from the iPhone prototype's infamous aquarium test, by making something that couldn't fit in any aquariums on site.

@NanoRaptor really want to find an animator who will make a NeXT HyperCube

@NanoRaptor Maybe it was too old fashioned for most people.

@NanoRaptor I always kind of appreciated its 150-disc internal CD/DVD changer 📀

@NanoRaptor Nor had been its Apple IIcube predecessor. A shame, really.

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social yeah we had a couple of these at work and it was super hard to carry them up and down the stairs. Ever drop one on your foot? Luckily I didn’t but we still have the indentation in the floor to prove it.

@NanoRaptor The lawsuits and recall almost bankrupted Apple - putting a 27” widescreen Trinitron CRT in an iMac caused fatigue issues with the stand, but worse, many iMac cubes fell through modern lightweight desks, causing injuries to owners.

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“We are the Apple. Your money will be assimilated.”

@NanoRaptor Well no wonder! Those quad G5 processors put out so much heat that it required 16 fans to keep the temps down, but that meant it also sounded like a dual jet engine taking off whenever you tried to open a Finder window! :blobfoxgoogly:

@NanoRaptor I choose to believe that it's just a massive CRT.

@NanoRaptor This design would at least justify a $1000 stand.

@NanoRaptor maybe if they’d used all that space for something useful like expansion slots but no, they had to go and weld the damned thing shut.