[geeks] Cerf Cube

[Joshua D. Boyd]

I suppose if people are going to insist on putting it that way, then yes
it is a mac cube, except it is smaller and friendlier and made from
better materials (look up people complaints about the G4 Cube case
defects).

Further, while it does not have the performance of a G4, the ultimate goal
is to be much cheaper, and offer superior software, based on linux most
likely, but that is a fact that the average user should never no.

And while I don't have anything against the PPC, I kinda like the idea of
this machine being either Strong Arm or MIPS.  This helps cut costs, and
also helps encourage a leaner, faster, cooler attitude (or at least it
does in my detached from reality brain) in programmers.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> Isn't that (essentially) a Mac Cube?
> 
> Ken
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua D. Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 5:06 PM
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Cerf Cube
> 
> 
> Nope.  It must be metal, and it must be a semi decent quality of metal.
> Perhaps with real wood highlights, and or buttons, and track lighting in
> the room this sculptor sits in.  And darn it, get rid of the flouresent
> lights.
> 
> OK, here is a plan.  Picture that 3" cube.  Now, imaging a wooden
> (whatever it is that the quality scrabble pieces are made out of) button
> on the front, and when it is on operating normally, a blue LED glows
> beneth the machine.  Connect that to a 18" flat panel display, mat black.
> A USB keyboard like a notebooks, with a leather wrapped wrist rest.  And
> the speakers should be like the bang & olfson towers, except small enough
> to fit nicely next to the display, and perhaps with a sub woofer to help
> out.  Put a high quality mic in the display and let the user have either a
> mouse, or a touch tablet and a custom made wacom (metal casing, like the
> casing on a Compaq Armada M700).  What more could anyone want?  Well,
> maybe a slightly larger case to hold a DVD Rom.
> 
> Or, maybe we should just hide the computer in a desk drawer.
> 
> --
> Joshua Boyd
> 
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 ward at zilla.nu wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:50:55PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > 
> > > A small aluminum cube of a computer running anything but Intel with
> > > graphics the quality of a TNT or better would still be darn cool though.
> > 
> > Hmmn.  How about a plastic cube with a PPC and NVidia or Radeon?
> > 
> > Reagen
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