Apple PowerMac G4 Cube Microcomputer, CPU
date: label: Date made
content: 2000
name: label: maker
content: Apple Computer, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Announced in July 2000, the PowerMac G4 Cube introduced a dramatic new case design. Housed in an 8x8x8 cube, the G4 Cube combined the elegance of the iMac with the power of the PowerMac G4. The Cube traded expandability for its diminutive size: There were no PCI slots, and while the Graphics was fit into an 2x AGP slot, there wasn't room for full-length AGP cards. With the exception of PCI expansion, the Cube was as versatile as it's larger G4 cousin: Three RAM slots, an AirPort slot, and two USB and FireWire ports.
label: Description
content: The Cube was not nearly the success that Apple had hoped it would be. The consensus was that Apple had misjudged the market, making the Cube an expensive "luxury" computer instead of a cheaper monitor-less iMac.
label: Description
content: This particular PowerMac G4 was used as the design workstation for the National Museum of American History's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Institution
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0137.01
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0137.01
label: accession number
content: 2005.0137
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 24.765 cm x 19.05 cm x 19.05 cm