[rescue] Apple WWDC Summary, Cube Computers

Tue Jun 24 14:29:41 CDT 2003

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:27:42AM -0400, Kevin wrote:
> What's a "TAM"?

Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh.

> Both the G4 Cube and the NeXT Cube tanked hard, for differing reasons.
> Something about that particular geometric shape makes people put their
> wallets away :)  

The G4 cube should have been the same or cheaper than equivolent
Powermac towers.  

The NeXT Cube had it's own set of problems, but at least it was nicely
expandable, if quite expensive, and a bit slow CPU wise (towards the end
at least).

> Anyone know if the Cobalt Qube sold well?  It was insane expensive for
> what it offered. 