Sean is the kind of guy who gets a rare Apple product whose defining feature is the design aesthetic, only to just wrap this aesthetic upside down to make a janky Frankenstein monster 😅 It's so ridiculous, I love it 😂
Not sure if April Fools shenanigans or just standard AR shenanigans... but I love it. I still have a G4 cube kicking around that I should do something with. :D
The cube was a favorite of tech-phobic executives and the style-conscious, I saw a few on the desks of higher-ups back when they were new. The biggest problem that I remember was that the plastic was defective and visible cracks would form which pretty much ruined the aesthetic for the discerning target market.
You could model and 3D print a new corner pillar that accommodates the new VRM. You should be able to sink a nut in the plastic with a soldering iron for added strength. I like it, would be cool to see how you update the logo to glow.
drill holes in the metal plate and put led's in those holes, or you can just 3d print a plate, leave holes behind the logo spot, and shine through that way, if you dont want to do it that way, 3d print a plate, and leave a cut out of the logo in the center, use leds to fill the space, or drop in the logo, mount it from behind with something right on the edges or, just get something like a little cylinder to mount into the 3d print. like case badges that pultrude the case and are held in by glue or whatever, you know little posts under the badge that hold them in place.
Awesome job! I remember those old cubes. Really cute. The only edits I would make is to try a more uniform application of adhesive on the apple, so you don’t see a circle on the back, and to polish the plate that it’s on.
I still remember seeing my first G4 cube in person. It was love at first sight. Truly amazing design. Was a big reason of my eventual move to the Mac from PC later on. But of course Apple has not as had such an amazing design since then (except maybe the trashcan mac pro)
I actually didn't watch it till today (the next day) because I genuinely thought it was a member special. YT still gives notifications regardless of if something is members only or not, so one could be confused.
I bought a 450mhz g4 cube when they were brand new. I love "tiny" computers, and at the time, the cube was the smallest mac available... still have it, need to get it out of storage to see if it still works.
For the lonely nut, you could glue it in place with a bit of epoxy. As for making the Apple logo glow, you could design a cutout that fits the curved recess and have it laser cut out of thin steel with the logo. And then fit behind it some white plastic. That would look fantastic!
I remember being fascinated by the G4 cube, only ever saw them in magazines though. In the Y2k it was an impressive (yet flawed but we didn't know that immediately lol) feat of engineering to fit such a machine in that chassis, was never a mac guy at all but I wanted one!
Would be really sweet to have PCBWay make a polished and drilled plate to replace the stamped steel piece with the apple logo so that it matched the super awesome one on top! Thanks for the excellent content as usual.
I think if you want ot RGB, I would 3d print new corner posts and put LEB,s in those. You can also take a dremal and carefullly drill a hole in the back of the metal to place a LED behind the apple logo to glow!!
Thanks, I have been going through all your video's. I am looking for a power adapter for a dual 450DP. My power supply died. I just need the adapter. Can you point to a vendor?
These have the same issue as the iMac G5. The PPC processors were simply just to hot for these tiny cases meaning apple had to adjust the fan curve and preformance. Left these things serverley underpowered.
No, the issue was it was too small (and too Steve Jobs involved) to have a fan at all; the 7410 it would have come with stock only puts out 12 W at 500MHz at full blast, less than 5 W at 450 during typical use. But since the case is tiny and has no room for convection airflow, it aggregated over time, leading to the issues. They didn't (and arguably still haven't) learn from the Apple III. As an iMac G5 owner I can tell you that thing *definitely* has fans, and IBM was at fault for making the G5 more or less a straight single-core POWER4 (including needing a whole other core, a 405, just to boot it) rather than actually putting the R&D into making a decent G5 because they just wanted to focus on high profit servers. However, its main bottleneck is using a mobile FX 5200.
@@BringMayFlowers Yeah sounds about right. Steve Jobs was horrid and bitchy. He tried to break literal physics laws just to have a silent machine. Apple III is a brilliant example.
I have a G4 Cube which I bought from new a long, long time ago. I doubt I could ever part with it, although I hardly ever turn it on now, so it sits in the centre of my bookcase… like a piece of sculpture, because it kind of is. Last time I turned it on was to try MorphOS which, with some persuasion and brief use of a better resolution monitor, I did get installed. Also replaced the battery and the hard drive with a PARA to SATA adapter and a small SSD, but that’s kinda flapping around in the breeze where the old drive was. Mine also has a sticky slot loading drive and at least one touch-power switch (can’t remember if on the Cube or it’s Monitor) is a bit sick. Stunning looking machine.
That larger chonck was with a mod kit that moved the VRM to be mounted on a heat sink on the outside of the cube frame. They had a power mod board that plugged into the VRM to allow som e 7448 upgrades they had. Pretty cool They did that.
My work bought at least half a dozen to run a public display with a bunch different exhibits. Then locked them is a wooden pedestal underneath the actual exhibit. With no windows.
You can still do better on that video card! There were 6800 variants that were flashable. I've seen some people cramming them into Cubes post-VRM upgrade and with heatsink swaps so they'll fit. I think you could also get a 9800 Pro working in there once you've got the new VRM as well.
Would it be possible to drill a hole in the metal behind the translucent logo so that the light shines through it from inside the case? Might be too late since you superglued it, but I think it would have looked cool that way.
I actually bought a G4 cube a few years after it came out for really cheap. I upgraded the RAM to 1.5GB and got an upgraded video card. I think I ended up giving it to my brother for some mac specific art software. Neat little machine. Kinda wish i kept it.
I remember apple doing a demonstration of these on campus and I honestly wanted one. However looking at the price tag? Broke collage me decided 'nah, I'm good.'
I put a dual G4 500mhz upgrade card in my Cube and later a 1.33ghz G4 upgrade with a Geforce 2MX. Had a 80mm fan bracket on the bottom of them I put a fan in it
Before the trash can Power Macintosh, the tissue box holder PowerMac. Stunning design as only Apple could and I wanted one but I’m satisfied with the G4 iMac Flat Panel I have.
I brought my cube to VCF as well and oh boy the kids loved it with Minecraft as well and was happy to let them play with it. Unfortunately my cube is failing for some reason and I'm not sure why
Try 3M waterproof mounting tape/panel bond tape. Grey stuff with red backing. About half the SSD upgrades I have done in this town are held down that way and none have come loose.
I think you should try putting 2 white LEDs below the logo at a 90° angle from each other, wrap them in something reflective and use them as mini spotlights, sort of like the 20th century fox logo.
Dude! How did you miss the idea to put a hole in that metal plate first before gluing down the plastic Apple logo?! You could have then put a white led behind it. Maybe with some white acrylic to act as a diffuser. I'd have also painted that metal plate a gloss white.
Can you put an infinity mirror in front of your logo you created and use a LED light between the mirror and logo? That would be an interesting project.
I wish I'd found out about VCF East sooner, all my favorite youtubers are going to be there. Sadly I don't have the money on hand to travel up there and it's too soon to request time off from work.
Awesome cube, I'm not normally a Mac fan, but they did have it down when it came to hardware, and modd-ability with other operating systems, which btw is why I like your channel, you seem to torture hardware to it's limits, kinda like we do here at Flying High Studios, lol! Keep doing what you're doing, you're awesome man! Peace, and love from everyone here at Flying High Studios!!!
With the larger case, you could probably fit a better fan and change the bios on the GeForce 6200 to run at higher clocks with less concerns regarding temperature
Say what you will about the G4 Cube, but it was a much more reasonable product that came out of Apple compared to the trashcan that came a little over a decade later
Punch out grill holes in the shape of the apple logo and reattach the plastic logo after so you see the a retro grill hole with the led light going through it
hey great video, glad i found you. Can you do a video with the apple power mac g4 cube? retro fitting it with a new mac? also, that juicy crumb is awesome have that myself.
If I had a nickel for every time I saw a small yet powerful PowerPC based computer from the early 2000s that was considered a flop, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
I can't believe you didn't clean those metal faces before you put it in there and i will now be slightly miffed because of someone else's computer for the rest of time.
The translucence vibe doesn't work well with such a tight unit. You could line the inside with a silver gray paper or very thin sheetmetal facing outward, giving more of an original look.
1:00 "Dragging those innocent computers screaming into the bleak dystopia that we call the modern web." I really adore how you word things tbh.
I really enjoyed the Wolf 359 line.
SAME! lol
Sean is the kind of guy who gets a rare Apple product whose defining feature is the design aesthetic, only to just wrap this aesthetic upside down to make a janky Frankenstein monster 😅 It's so ridiculous, I love it 😂
Not sure if April Fools shenanigans or just standard AR shenanigans... but I love it. I still have a G4 cube kicking around that I should do something with. :D
The cube was a favorite of tech-phobic executives and the style-conscious, I saw a few on the desks of higher-ups back when they were new. The biggest problem that I remember was that the plastic was defective and visible cracks would form which pretty much ruined the aesthetic for the discerning target market.
"Never been a bigger badder cube since the the battle of Wolf 359"
-Sisko hated that
You could model and 3D print a new corner pillar that accommodates the new VRM. You should be able to sink a nut in the plastic with a soldering iron for added strength.
I like it, would be cool to see how you update the logo to glow.
You can also have the printer pause, drop the nut into ploce, then resume the print.
Another option is threaded heat-set inserts.
drill holes in the metal plate and put led's in those holes, or you can just 3d print a plate, leave holes behind the logo spot, and shine through that way, if you dont want to do it that way, 3d print a plate, and leave a cut out of the logo in the center, use leds to fill the space, or drop in the logo, mount it from behind with something right on the edges or, just get something like a little cylinder to mount into the 3d print. like case badges that pultrude the case and are held in by glue or whatever, you know little posts under the badge that hold them in place.
Wolf 359 reference. This is my favourite channel. Confirmed.
Awesome job! I remember those old cubes. Really cute. The only edits I would make is to try a more uniform application of adhesive on the apple, so you don’t see a circle on the back, and to polish the plate that it’s on.
"There's never been a bigger badder cube since the Battle of Wolf 359." 🤣
I still remember seeing my first G4 cube in person. It was love at first sight. Truly amazing design. Was a big reason of my eventual move to the Mac from PC later on. But of course Apple has not as had such an amazing design since then (except maybe the trashcan mac pro)
No ones ever done early access as an April fools joke.
I actually didn't watch it till today (the next day) because I genuinely thought it was a member special. YT still gives notifications regardless of if something is members only or not, so one could be confused.
I bought a 450mhz g4 cube when they were brand new. I love "tiny" computers, and at the time, the cube was the smallest mac available... still have it, need to get it out of storage to see if it still works.
E6000 is the Adhesive of the Gods... pretty close to a universal adhesive...
It's a desktop Borg cube...
For the lonely nut, you could glue it in place with a bit of epoxy.
As for making the Apple logo glow, you could design a cutout that fits the curved recess and have it laser cut out of thin steel with the logo. And then fit behind it some white plastic. That would look fantastic!
Okay, that thing looks pretty on the outside, but on the inside it is literally all the bad ideas they ever had for the all-in-one Macs from the past.
I remember being fascinated by the G4 cube, only ever saw them in magazines though. In the Y2k it was an impressive (yet flawed but we didn't know that immediately lol) feat of engineering to fit such a machine in that chassis, was never a mac guy at all but I wanted one!
Would be really sweet to have PCBWay make a polished and drilled plate to replace the stamped steel piece with the apple logo so that it matched the super awesome one on top!
Thanks for the excellent content as usual.
Someone should mod one of these with an integral small flat screen display on the front, in the style of the original all-in-one Macs.
I think if you want ot RGB, I would 3d print new corner posts and put LEB,s in those. You can also take a dremal and carefullly drill a hole in the back of the metal to place a LED behind the apple logo to glow!!
Thanks, I have been going through all your video's. I am looking for a power adapter for a dual 450DP. My power supply died. I just need the adapter. Can you point to a vendor?
Loved it! My dad owned a G4 Cube. I thought it was the coolest Mac he ever owned. I loved how you turned it on just by waving a hand over it.
Need to shine a light through an Apple logo cutout to shine in the middle of the cube on the desk
These have the same issue as the iMac G5. The PPC processors were simply just to hot for these tiny cases meaning apple had to adjust the fan curve and preformance. Left these things serverley underpowered.
No, the issue was it was too small (and too Steve Jobs involved) to have a fan at all; the 7410 it would have come with stock only puts out 12 W at 500MHz at full blast, less than 5 W at 450 during typical use. But since the case is tiny and has no room for convection airflow, it aggregated over time, leading to the issues. They didn't (and arguably still haven't) learn from the Apple III.
As an iMac G5 owner I can tell you that thing *definitely* has fans, and IBM was at fault for making the G5 more or less a straight single-core POWER4 (including needing a whole other core, a 405, just to boot it) rather than actually putting the R&D into making a decent G5 because they just wanted to focus on high profit servers. However, its main bottleneck is using a mobile FX 5200.
@@BringMayFlowers Yeah sounds about right. Steve Jobs was horrid and bitchy. He tried to break literal physics laws just to have a silent machine. Apple III is a brilliant example.
I have a G4 Cube which I bought from new a long, long time ago. I doubt I could ever part with it, although I hardly ever turn it on now, so it sits in the centre of my bookcase… like a piece of sculpture, because it kind of is.
Last time I turned it on was to try MorphOS which, with some persuasion and brief use of a better resolution monitor, I did get installed. Also replaced the battery and the hard drive with a PARA to SATA adapter and a small SSD, but that’s kinda flapping around in the breeze where the old drive was. Mine also has a sticky slot loading drive and at least one touch-power switch (can’t remember if on the Cube or it’s Monitor) is a bit sick.
Stunning looking machine.
The consoles displays in Star Trek enterprise were all powered by g4 cubes !
That larger chonck was with a mod kit that moved the VRM to be mounted on a heat sink on the outside of the cube frame. They had a power mod board that plugged into the VRM to allow som e 7448 upgrades they had. Pretty cool
They did that.
My work bought at least half a dozen to run a public display with a bunch different exhibits.
Then locked them is a wooden pedestal underneath the actual exhibit.
With no windows.
My favorite computer❤
You can still do better on that video card! There were 6800 variants that were flashable. I've seen some people cramming them into Cubes post-VRM upgrade and with heatsink swaps so they'll fit. I think you could also get a 9800 Pro working in there once you've got the new VRM as well.
Do you have the info for the gentleman selling the reproduction iBook pieces? I need a few of them since the leaf always falls out.
"We are the Cubes you will be assimilated resistance is futile"
Would it be possible to drill a hole in the metal behind the translucent logo so that the light shines through it from inside the case? Might be too late since you superglued it, but I think it would have looked cool that way.
We need to make more of that enclosure so other people can upgrade their cubes and do some other things to it too.
And to the magic of buying two of them, I have a already took’n apart one, right here
Technology connections is infiltrating
5:15 Introducing the G4 in all its "naked glory!"
I enjoy these Mac shenanigans. :)
HA! I only know one person who bought one. Yes, they actually bought one when they came out. I wonder if he still owns it...
Brilliant, I bet you get 400 frames per second on Crysis with this bad boy.
I actually bought a G4 cube a few years after it came out for really cheap. I upgraded the RAM to 1.5GB and got an upgraded video card. I think I ended up giving it to my brother for some mac specific art software. Neat little machine. Kinda wish i kept it.
I love videos like these. I'm always looking forward to the mods you come up with. Makes me always want to think outside (or inside) a bigger box.
I think a bit of white carbon fiber vinyl wrap would have been a nice visual upgrade on the metal plate before gluing down the Logo.
Sean, I haven't seen the video yet, but I feel like I might be being misled (today is April 1st).
herd and dosdude1 are champions for vintage macs
I remember apple doing a demonstration of these on campus and I honestly wanted one. However looking at the price tag? Broke collage me decided 'nah, I'm good.'
You can get automotive double-sided tape designed for spoilers/trim and this is very strong to use for mounting stuff.
I put a dual G4 500mhz upgrade card in my Cube and later a 1.33ghz G4 upgrade with a Geforce 2MX. Had a 80mm fan bracket on the bottom of them I put a fan in it
Before the trash can Power Macintosh, the tissue box holder PowerMac.
Stunning design as only Apple could and I wanted one but I’m satisfied with the G4 iMac Flat Panel I have.
Only thing I’m worried about is the mounting. It’s a heavy unit for just the acrylic to hold. I see spider cracking in its future
I brought my cube to VCF as well and oh boy the kids loved it with Minecraft as well and was happy to let them play with it. Unfortunately my cube is failing for some reason and I'm not sure why
Try 3M waterproof mounting tape/panel bond tape. Grey stuff with red backing. About half the SSD upgrades I have done in this town are held down that way and none have come loose.
That was fun to watch. The oversized cube was worth getting.
Put the RGB green so it's a Borg Cube 😂
What I’m really interested in is that motorized screwdriver! Which one is that?
"Chungus Cube" aka The Chube
now all its needs is a light up apple logo.
Chonky & Janky. Your channel is great for us older folk to learn the latest slang young people are using. ☺
People have been saying janky for decades now lol..
I think you should try putting 2 white LEDs below the logo at a 90° angle from each other, wrap them in something reflective and use them as mini spotlights, sort of like the 20th century fox logo.
Dude!
How did you miss the idea to put a hole in that metal plate first before gluing down the plastic Apple logo?!
You could have then put a white led behind it. Maybe with some white acrylic to act as a diffuser.
I'd have also painted that metal plate a gloss white.
Maybe run that C port of Minecraft in the cube and shock the kids
Can you put an infinity mirror in front of your logo you created and use a LED light between the mirror and logo? That would be an interesting project.
Whatever today's date is aside, I wish I had the money to buy an old 2010s MBP so I can stop using my phone for everything.
I wish I'd found out about VCF East sooner, all my favorite youtubers are going to be there. Sadly I don't have the money on hand to travel up there and it's too soon to request time off from work.
I first saw a cube in Larry Davids office in an episode of "Curb your enthusiasm". I think it was season 1 or 2
Now there are 2 of them, this is getting out of hand
Awesome cube, I'm not normally a Mac fan, but they did have it down when it came to hardware, and modd-ability with other operating systems, which btw is why I like your channel, you seem to torture hardware to it's limits, kinda like we do here at Flying High Studios, lol! Keep doing what you're doing, you're awesome man! Peace, and love from everyone here at Flying High Studios!!!
11:54 If not for classic Mac's peculiar screw placement, you would not have that ridiculously long screwdriver in your arsenal.
@Action Retro you should call it "Chungawungas". Kind of a play on word to the band Chumbawamba.
Bizarre but impressive computer w/some unique curiosity & Sci-Fi cubes :)
Alien tape is amazing stuff. There are a dozen rock off versions out there.but they work amazing for applications like this.
My favorite newfound channel! So fun!
I always enjoy watching your shenanigans.
With the larger case, you could probably fit a better fan and change the bios on the GeForce 6200 to run at higher clocks with less concerns regarding temperature
Say what you will about the G4 Cube, but it was a much more reasonable product that came out of Apple compared to the trashcan that came a little over a decade later
Another great modification. Makes me long for my old cube again.
Incidentally, I too love dragging innocent computers screaming into the bleak dystopia that we call the modern web. :-D
You could superglue the nut to the cube itself to keep it in olace
Punch out grill holes in the shape of the apple logo and reattach the plastic logo after so you see the a retro grill hole with the led light going through it
Great mod. Could you describe that Firewire SSD you had, and how to acquire or build it?
Oh man I wish I could give you an extra like for that wolf 359 comment. Chef’s kiss
This is a crime against computers you glorious monster
Lovely video as usual! Keep up the good work.🤩
hey great video, glad i found you. Can you do a video with the apple power mac g4 cube? retro fitting it with a new mac? also, that juicy crumb is awesome have that myself.
That thing looks so cool.
IIRC wasn't the stock acrylic case very prone to cracking from thermal stress?
Now put Locutus of Borg as the wallpaper!
I lost the auction for a Cube with dual 1.8GHz G4. That one should have that case.
That's pretty cool. I feel like I need a 3D printer after watching these videos
If I had a nickel for every time I saw a small yet powerful PowerPC based computer from the early 2000s that was considered a flop, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Thumbs up for the wolf 359 reference.
Those long screwdrivers can be handy!
I think you should find a nice metallic spray paint and go over the metal faces to give them a nicer finish :)
Sean, please, when you test performance in internet, instead youtube use it frontend - Indivious. It is much faster.
haha wolf 359, nice. this cube is better looking for sure though.
I can't believe you didn't clean those metal faces before you put it in there and i will now be slightly miffed because of someone else's computer for the rest of time.
The translucence vibe doesn't work well with such a tight unit. You could line the inside with a silver gray paper or very thin sheetmetal facing outward, giving more of an original look.
I wonder if you could shove the internals of an M1 or M2 mac mini into one of these cubes.
Looks like a borg cube with the lights off.
CHUNGUSCUBE!
Hmm, that case looks very familiar lol
I love love love my little cube.