[geeks] Cerf Cube

[Hatle, Steven J.]

 What you describe sounds like the bastard child of the G4 Cube, and the
Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh.

Either are machines I wouldn't mind having in my house right now. 

Best I can do is my NeXT cube for esthetics, and my BeBox for blinky lights,
with the new iBook moving up with a bullet for looks combined with Unixy
goodness.

Steve


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From: Joshua D. Boyd

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.