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“The Cube is Beautiful”
“The company that has long stood for style and innovation in a sea of industrial, me-too computers has now introduced a top-of-the-line, powerful machine that is simply the most gorgeous personal computer I've ever seen or used. And I've seen most of them.”

— Walter S. Mossberg
   The Wall Street Journal

“Classic beauty”
“I suppose some things would move me to choose Windows, if, say, the alternative was eating rats. Both are acquired tastes. But the new Macintosh G4 Cube computer, like the Parthenon in Athens, is a thing of classic beauty.”

— Peter H. Lewis
   New York Times

Ingenuity Cubed
“I’ve tried out and appreciated most of Apple’s recent models, but the Cube is the one I really wish I could keep.”

— Henry Norr
   San Francisco Examiner

The Transparent Cube
“The G4 Cube’s most striking visual effect is transparency, in its shell and its components like the optical mouse and crystal-ball-like speakers. Entire teams of engineers had to work on its specially molded plastic, going with an optical-grade polymer that would resist scratches and modulate the way light would refract through the surface.”

— Steven Levy
   Newsweek

Digital Convergence
“The most interesting thing I did recently was to implement my first digital convergence. Took an Apple Cube and one of Apple’s 22-inch Cinema flat-screen displays and a USB TV tuner and got some of the nice Harman Kardon speakers they have. It’s in the bedroom. It’s a TV, a Web browser, it’s mail, it’s a stereo, a DVD player. It doesn’t answer the phone, but that would be a simple addition.”

— Bill Joy
   Chief scientist, Sun Microsystems
   Quoted in Fortune

Like Christmas Morning
“Setting it up at The Examiner … reduced otherwise jaded journalists to anxious kids on Christmas morning, waiting for Santa to kick them down the latest and greatest from Cupertino. People literally gasp when they see this thing.”

— Alan T. Saracevic
   San Francisco Examiner

“The most beautiful”
“OK. I admit, it’s hard for me to be objective about ‘the cube.’ It’s quite simply the most beautiful personal computer I’ve ever seen. Packing a 450MHz PowerPC G4 processor and everything else most users will ever need into an eight-inch cube suspended in a stunning crystal-clear enclosure, it’s one of the most amazing pieces of engineering Apple’s ever produced.”

— Bob Levitus
   Houston Chronicle

Ice & Platinum
“The Cube is a work of art … For lack of a more emotive description, the Cube looks like it should be floating in an enormous glass of water — it’s an ice sculpture with a block of platinum trapped inside. It is a thing of beauty.”

— Andrew Gore
   Macworld

Cube Style
“The Cube sets a new standard in style for Macs and PCs, There’s no cooling fan, so it`s quiet except for the sound of the hard disk. Cable clutter is minimized with a new design that puts the power, video and USB signals on a single cable.”

— Chris Cobbs
   Orlando Sentinel

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