8/12/2000
Hardware
If you want to add a Firewire Camera to your Cube,
Irez can help you... with its
Firewire Kritter Cam. According to Irez, Firewire allows "36x
more bandwidth than USB". The cam will be able to deliver
30 frames per second. It will be shipping in Fall 2000 for less
than $200.
8/11/2000
Icons
You want to paste icons of the cube on your hard
disk? You should check Xicons...
They have created some...These icons were designed specifically
as 128x128 pixel thumbnail icons for Mac OS X. They are also available
in smaller sizes if you don't have the DP4.
They are Speaking of us!!!
The French speaking Mac Web Site Macplus.net
(which is one of the best ones) told their readers that we
exist! Thanks guys!
Today in the Forums:
- When will the Cube be shipping?
- To make the Cube perfect....
Links
"The Curiosity of the Cube" Macinstein
"The Cube: Just What We Ordered?" LowEndMac
"Cubes are here sort of", MacWeek
"MP G4/500's and Cube's starting to show up",
The
Mac Observer
Question
Scott asks about the Radeon card. If you have received
your cube...Maybe you can give him an answer (I haven't received
mine yet...). Here is what Scott says:
"Thanks for such an informative site. I ordered
my cube 2 weeks ago. As far as the agp slot in the cube.. I've
read that it is 7" long. I wonder what the physical dimensions
of the radeon are... The card looks to be seated in an agp slot...
Scott"
Hardware
For those of you who were wondering, here are the
specs of the ATI Radeon card:
The Radeon uses what ATI calls the "Charisma
Engine". It's a transform and lightning unit, for faster
frame rates and texture processing. With that processor, the card
is able to handle 30 million triangles/second. The card has 32
MB of RAM.
The 3D features are the following:
- Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting
- Charisma Engine
- Pixel Tapestry Architecture
- Twin Cache Architecture
- Texture Cache
- Superscalar Rendering
- Single-Pass Multi-texturing
- True Color Rendering
- Triangle Setup Engine
- Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering
- Line & Edge Anti-aliasing
- Full screen Anti-aliasing
- Specular Highlights
- Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping
- Mip-Mapping
- Z-buffering and Double-buffering
- Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid and Cubic environment mapping
- Fog effects, texture lighting, video textures, reflections,
shadows, spotlights, LOD biasing and texture morphing
Here are the resolutions, colors and refresh rates
(maximum in Hz)
|
Resolution
|
512x384
|
640x480
|
640x870
|
800x600
|
832x624
|
1024x768
|
1152x864
|
1280x960
|
1280x1024
|
1600x1024
|
1600x1200
|
1792x1344
|
1856x1392
|
1920x1080
|
1920x1200
|
1920x1440
|
|
256 colors (8-bit)
|
70
|
200
|
75
|
200
|
75
|
200
|
150
|
75
|
130
|
60
|
90
|
60
|
60
|
85
|
85
|
75
|
|
65K colors (16-bit)
|
70
|
200
|
75
|
200
|
75
|
200
|
150
|
75
|
130
|
60
|
90
|
60
|
60
|
85
|
85
|
75
|
|
16.7M colors (32-bits)
|
70
|
200
|
75
|
200
|
75
|
200
|
150
|
75
|
130
|
60
|
90
|
60
|
60
|
85
|
85
|
75
|
8/10/2000
Apple Material
Apple has posted a new
web page concerning the cube. This page is about the customer
installable parts on the Cube. It contains several Pdf and Quicktime
files concerning the installation of an Airport card (Pdf and
Movie), a battery (Pdf only), a hard drive (Pdf and Movie), and
memory (Pdf and movie).
Poll
I created a new poll...
Vote to tell everybody what you would like in the next rev of
the Cube. If you don't find what you'd like, the forum
is for you!
Links
"The Cube popular in online polls", on
MacCentral
Online
Q&A
Question: Is the Power Supply of the Cube
internal?
Answer: No it's external...(look at the picture..)
That may be one of the reason why the cube does not need a fan.
The Cube Power Supply (Courtesy of Apple Computer)
For more information on this power supply, go to
the
AppleCare Tech Info Library
8/09/2000
Opinion:
Why should you buy a PowerMac G4 Cube? Some say
it does not have PCI slots. I used to need PCI slots. In my G3,
I have 2 video cards and a DVD decoder card ( Wired 4 DVD). But
I don't need them anymore. I can now buy a big LCD screen and
the DVD decoder is now on the video card. What about my SCSI peripherals?
That's a real problem. I'm not aware of a way of connecting all
those SCSI peripherals to the cube ( I know that there is the
Orange Micro SCSI/Firewire converter, but you can only connect
one peripheral at a time....). I'd also like to have a Radeon
in my cube... The ATI 128 is quite old now.... I hope it'll be
a BTO option in september, or even the standard card of the Cube!!!
The last question is the price. According to me,
it is quite cheap. If you can afford a graphite iBook, you can
afford a Cube. I know you won't have a screen...but you can buy
a cheap CRT one (even from the 17" from Apple is quite cheap).
What would I like in the rev B? A cube with a Radeon,
two G4 (yes two....)....and that's all.... Steve, It's nearly
perfect!!! Just one more step!
Today in the Forums:
- Can you find the Cube in your country?
- What would you like to see in the rev B of the Cube?
8/08/2000
Welcome to the Cube-Zone. The purpose of
this site is to gather information abouth the Apple PowerMac G4
Cube, and to help people who own this wonderful piece of hardware.
Don't hesitate to use the forums to tell us what you think of
the Cube, what you would like in a future revision of the Cube.
