The Apple G4 Cube Promotional Video
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- After introducing the G4 Cube at Macworld New York in 2000, here is the promotional video that was shown. Although praised for its innovative industrial design, the Cube fails to catch on with creative professionals because it's too expensive, not powerful enough and hard to upgrade. The Cube is "put on ice" in July 2001 with Apple promising that it will be "reborn" in another form at a later date. Its widely accepted that the Mac mini computer was its successful replacement.
"I painted a boat and made the smoke go the right direction."
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"I was smoking some paint and made the boat go in the right direction"
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Man. It was set up to be a huge success. But the price was the ONLY thing the kept it from becoming a grand slam. That's too bad. It was an amazing achievement.
Bruh just putting this here so you see this and remember this comment
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Aesthetically, still one of the best looking Apple products to date.
I Still have my G4 Cube, I use it as an iTunes jukebox and play Quake 2 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein every now and then.
This is an example of design first, engineering second.
Such a young Jonathan Ive right there , really nice to see that
What is the opening music? I’d like to add it to my Apple Music library. I also hope apple brings back the spirit of the cube in the Apple silicon Mac Pro.
I just can't realize how hard were to design such a small computer who worked without a fan. It's just a masterpiece of computer engineering. Johnny Ive it's a genius.
Wow. Even for today, that is one Gorgeous computer.
This Apple cube computer is an ultimate statement of art and it didn’t sell well hence it’s an collectors item, in pristine condition with all documentation it can go for $1800 or even more in future.
HOLY SHIT! he swore in a Mac ad!!
What a bad ass old man hippy!
yeah Lee Clow is awsome lol
Definitely followed by the iMac G4. During the G4 era apple was designing great designs.
This actually looks really nice. I'd totally be a sucker for one of these today.
This was a super cool looking computer. Very sad that this computer failed but it is one of the most best looking computer
I am saving up to get this complete setup, not as a computer, but as a work of art
My first and only Apple: the most beautiful mac ever built. Still on duty (for Internet purposes only).
The lovely music background is very well fitted for such a cult object!
I'm a Mac fanboy all day long, but one thing that they conveniently left out of this video was the MASSIVE, FUCKIN' MASSIVE power brick that was half the size of the cube its self.
If the Apple Silicon Mac Pro does NOT pay tribute to this work of art? I will scream. June can’t come fast enough.
They should make a line of retro apple products.. like a mac mini inside the cube!
This is one of the best computers ever designed. Yes it may have been a total waste of space in the g4 line up, but without this mac... Without the g4 cube, I will not be holding this iPhone right now and texting this. This video doesn't just represent one of apple biggest loses, but the point in time where technology changed for ever. I owe my life to Jon, Steve and the rest of the apple team. Since without them, all my life would be about is fiddling with firewalls and crash consoles in windo
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I'd Love to get a Mac mini and build it into one of these cases.
That was common. You can probably find one that's pre-butchered.
I've got Leopard running on my 500MHz Cube with a Radeon 7500 and its fantastic. Using a Cube is just plain fun. You can't help be feel awesome using this perfectly silent system. Mac Mini can't hold a candle to the G4 Cube when it comes to sheer elegance and design.
How the f was this a super computer? It was just a desktop PC in a nice case basically.
At the time they argued it was faster. For maybe a month it was. Then, silence. Hehe.
@@jazzlover10000 They intentionally mentioned supercomputers from the 80's as comparison while ignoring the superior instructions per clock of the warring PIII and Athlon 1000+ Mhz race at the time.
A friend gave me today. Not knowing what it was that cube!!!! The monitor arrive in a few days
I'm glad Apple dropped the 'orbital tracking shot' from their promos. I'm also glad Jony Ive is still spritually transcendal everytime he talks about his designs.
You can. Cube PSUs have a fan connector, and the core has mounting points for a 60mm fan. Reliability solved.
Not sure if I should like the video cause someone so awesome shared it or if
i should dislike it because it's an apple ad (even if it was an old ad)
i like the music, very relaxing
I love the way how you can access the computer!
It could be (visually) a nuclear module in a Bond movie.
5:42 Holy shit, done it again.
lol yeah Lee Clow let that one slip
"download it to firewire"
i love the cube....i love mac!!!
I always wanted 1 of these,,,,they just looked way before there time to me,,,,
I went to the same high school as Johnny Ive, Walton High School in Stafford (UK) - I was a few years younger so I never met him, but still cool to know.
It’s more configurable than todays Mac mini.
Jon Ive is a wicked designer!
I want that little blue eMac in the background.
I have this computer :) and the iMac G4 too :)
Looks nice. I like my computers smaller, but it's kinda hard to work with just 40GB of HD (well you HAVE to expand the RAM...). Anyway, I'd say this is a good step for Apple to move into, and push the limits of smaller computer technology. I have to disagree on the whole argument that it's hard to upgrade a PC, though. Still don't understand why they are still using that argument.
I love watching old tech vids of how excited they are over 40GB HDDs when I have my 64GB iPhone and 4.75TB worth of HDD space (4TB HDD, 500GB HDD, and 250GB SSD)
9 years later, here I am with my iPhone with a 512GB SSD and 6GB RAM
i have a mac mini server, but i have it connected to my tv, mainly for music, movies, and to organise stuff like my iphone, pad,etc bur for computer stuff, i use a macbook pro.
I was not expecting the Holy shit.
@electrotech555 you can;t run the latest version of itunes on these. You can on a ten year old pc with xp which is what was out at the time.
Uhh I think $400 around on eBay. They were $1500-2000? when they were first released. They are now discontinued.
I work on them here and there, but I have not been a certified Apple Technician now for about 8 years.
Who'd have thunk their computer division wouldn't be worth much and they're a cell phone company now?
To be fair to them, even to this day, the Mac remains by far the best PC for people who can't build legos.
Someone should empty the shell to let a cat play in it.
M1 upgrades on CZcams with G4 Cube!
@elmetnuter not a fail at all (maybe because of it's price at the time) but the very same users of Cube back then are the ones who buy iMac mini today, so no "market share mistake"
Haha, iremember seeing this in my local apple store when it came out and thinking how amazing it was. seven years later, the computer does still have some cool features like the easy take apart. Its kind of funny to think that what was a "super computer" back then has only a small fraction of the power and memory of the macbook im using right now. anyways, good memories with those..
Cube, un opera d'arte esposta al Museo di arte moderna di New York.
Visto il prezzo non ebbe un franse successo, ma nessuno può negare che sia il più bel computer mai realizzato.
True to a certain point. I still have a PC that's around 5-6 years ago, and they are relatively manageable in my personal opinion. The elegance of the PC's now of course are much better than back then (I peered into a couple while window shopping), but I still don't think that was a strong opinion.
Even when the cube came out, computers were being sold with 100gb hard drives.
1.5gb is good for ram.
Really the only thing Apple has going for it is design. They're all a bunch of artists. Now that intel's in there, though, it'll get better x10!
Would anyone know the background music played at the beginning of this video ?
@TheSecretCobra well , the current Mac mini comes with a Radeon HD 6630m GPU which is more than adequate for gaming. The 2.7 GHz i7 in that model scores 6700 geekbench scores which is higher than the 2007 Mac Pro. And the Quad i7 in the Server edition is faster than the Mac Pro from 2008, scoring 9.9k geekbench scores.
1.5 gb of ram. Damn i cant get that anywhere else
No need to be defensive. I know I came off like I was biting your head off, but it's just an opinion after all. But there is no need to whine about Macs being difficult to upgrade. RAM and the harddrive tend to be very easy to work with. The processor tends to be problematic, but the great thing about Mac OS X is that it tend to run reasonably well on even the older computers, such as the G3 iBook which a friend of mine still uses.
That fellow is right, you're trying to compare hardware to software. And if you compare Mac OS to Windows OS, there's a much stronger base for the Windows and Unix kernel platforms. I am well aware Mac OS uses the Unix kernel, but it doesn't use it well.
Peak years of Apple design 🏆
But massachusetts would have a very large mac community.
I guess its easier to hold a trade show in silicon valley rather then out in boston harbour
Omg. wow..what year was this, I'm pretty sure the Iphone4 has 3 times the specs that this does (excluding the hard drive )
i think they should have made the new mighty mouse clear too. but i guess because of the scrole ball on the top, it looked weard.
Unfortunately, the G4 Cube was hands down the worse computer ever developed. Everything was centered around a heat sink in the middle of the unit without any fans. The hard drive was extremely rough to remove from the unit. It had AGP graphics, but it was adapted to a PCI riser card, which reduced the 64bit AGP down to 32bit PCI. In my days of being an Apple repair technician, I have never seen a unit with as many problems as the G4 Cube. Just my two cents worth.
Any idea what is the music piece in the beginning and towards the end?
5:44 DID HE SAID HOLLY SHIT! WE DID IT AGAIN??? LOL
Go back in time to tell Jony that in 17 years they will make a phone that is 10x smaller but is 500x more powerful while using 1000x less power.
Honestly speechless no android tard has come along and commented “but 1000 times more expensive wahhh”
The Ace of Spades but 1000 times more expensive wahhh :p
@@MrVitalic85 Did you drop out of 3rd grade arithmetic? Grow up
3:15 if only apple upgrades were like that today
@kiddkaos1 Cube just had the misfortune to be underated. It was just a piece of art foward of it's time. I think 5 y later it could have been a huge sucess as the first Macmini... just my point...
I thought that was Greg Popovich from the Spurs
-3 my Cube... oops! I mean, -3 both my Cubes!! They're quiet and just beautiful to look at, and still great workhorses with After Effects (yes, they're still on OS9) though don't see too much action these days. I still get a kick when hearing "whoa!" as I demonstrate the 'reactor core' method of getting inside a Cube. If I knew a way to cram all the goodies from my MacPro into the shell of a Cube, but keep it as silent as a original Cube, man, that'd be sweeeeeeeet! Okay, I thinks that's enough
@kiddkaos1 Magic of Apple.
He said holy shit :o
I still would buy it. It looks great.
All companies make commercials, arent they promotional videos? (and btw, microsoft use final cut pro to edit their tv commercials)
Anyone know the title of the opening track and closing track in the video?
@Random1765 It's from 2000, I did not read the info.
No offense taken. I still think things have come a long way since the past in the towers these days, including the elegance of the the towers (we are disagreeing here, to each his own), and I do think that people are paying the extra money for an Apple for the extra elegance, yes.
the Cube was a footstep to the mac mini
Everyone was excited and cold to wait to get their hands on one of course when the price was announced along with the monitor the look on people’s faces went to disappointment.thats one of the problems of making a good product is when you demo the unit and individuals tell you it’s the next best thing.you then start seeing dollar signs and the product is over priced before its ever released.this would have been groundbreaking for Apple just imagine this computers form factor of upgrading a few years down the road.
Why would your washing machine have n gigaflops?
@naxps It was a commercial failure, indeed. However, its miniaturization architecture may be the inspiring idea for the Mac Mini, which is a commercial success. In what regards its design, though, it made to the NY Modern Art Museum Gallery... =)
I can hear the pixels.
Um show me where there is a 120gb flash drive?
Too expensive but perhaps one Ive's best designs. I have one next to me..absolutely flawless case and BTW heating problems only when a) heavily modded or b) putting something on top which blocks air vents. Stock units did not overheat.
guys, chill out. im just pointing out that we have blown away the standards that were in place just a few years back
На заднем плане бело бородова дисплей для power mac
8 by 8 inch supercomputer ok i believe that but if someone says its 20grands i dont believe it its probably going to be over 90grand
2001 dude that was super
That guy swore! Wasn't expecting that from an Apple promotional video. :|
2:26 what happend to adobe and apple :(
3:20 Upgrading RAM and all is still easy on most Macs, but you can just open them up any more like that :(
funny to see the president of adobe say what a great machine the cube is
Wasn't the Cube a failure?
(not a shot at apple, yes I am a windows person, but this is an honest question)
what's this cube toaster thingy
I have one, live it. Just for retrogaming or try old programs
@MysticTrunksHQ yes if you compare to the size yes the mini replace the Cube
dam, i hav to agree, even some computers nowadays dont even look as kwl and complex i mean, ITS A CUBE =D
I was gonna say, is that like an old mac mini, but then I remembered that apple did a G4 version of that