A Questionable G4 Cube Upgrade
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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.
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
I really enjoyed the Wolf 359 line.
SAME! lol
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.
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.
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 😂
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.
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?
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.
Sean, I haven't seen the video yet, but I feel like I might be being misled (today is April 1st).
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.
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.
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.
Need to shine a light through an Apple logo cutout to shine in the middle of the cube on the desk
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...
"There's never been a bigger badder cube since the Battle of Wolf 359." 🤣
"Never been a bigger badder cube since the the battle of Wolf 359"
-Sisko hated that
Wolf 359 reference. This is my favourite channel. Confirmed.
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..
E6000 is the Adhesive of the Gods... pretty close to a universal adhesive...
It's a desktop Borg cube...
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
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.
Uh ... ugly glue-job on the logo :(
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.
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 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)
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.
And to the magic of buying two of them, I have a already took’n apart one, right here
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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.
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.
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.
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!
Brilliant, I bet you get 400 frames per second on Crysis with this bad boy.
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.
What I’m really interested in is that motorized screwdriver! Which one is that?
The consoles displays in Star Trek enterprise were all powered by g4 cubes !
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.
herd and dosdude1 are champions for vintage macs
Maybe run that C port of Minecraft in the cube and shock the kids
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.
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.
"Chungus Cube" aka The Chube
Bizarre but impressive computer w/some unique curiosity & Sci-Fi cubes :)
uhh I think you uploaded this wrong, I'm not a member lol
"We are the Cubes you will be assimilated resistance is futile"
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.'
Freaky riming. TODAY I sat down to disassemble my G4 cube to install a M2 Mac Mini inside it. How does youtube know I was doing that today?
Put the RGB green so it's a Borg Cube 😂
I need that ibook apple logo link
We need to make more of that enclosure so other people can upgrade their cubes and do some other things to it too.
Lovely video as usual! Keep up the good work.🤩
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.
Resistance is futile.
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.
Killer upgrade Sean Very cool I have a link where you can get the assorted correct Square drive belts for the DVD Rom drive takes about 20 min to do Belt Replacement ruclips.net/user/redirect?
You ARE gonna have to take it apart again... you remove all those FINGERPRINTS you left ALL OVER the metal sheet with the Apple Logo glued to it...well,I guess you could use an alcohol wipe and the long screwdriver to MAYBE get rid of so-me of them, but you'd probably scratch up the case in the process.... so you're probably better off taking it apart..... :/
Well since you will be taking it apart then you can do some more to the lighting.... what if you DRILLED SOME HOLES THROUGH the metal sheet behind the apple logo??? It would bring the light into the apple and light it up somewhat...but you9 would HAVE TO be VERY CAREFUL not to drill into the apple very far... AND it would probably look weird if you didn't put the holes in a pattern....
- - ohhh you could use the hole in the bottom grill as a template!!! Just remove the grill and place it on the back of the metal plate then use a sharpie to fill the dots in, creating the pattern on the metal......
OR if you are REALLY HANDY you could cut that square area and glue a piece of acrylic over the cut out hole, then glue the apple to that..... but you would have to remove it from the metal very carefully first... but it could be done :)
there are a BILLION ways to continue customizing this case... it really is ONE OF A KIND!!! Heck leaving it just the way it is would be be beautiful too!!! GREAT JOB!!!!
5:15 Introducing the G4 in all its "naked glory!"
I enjoy these Mac shenanigans. :)
now all its needs is a light up apple logo.
Now there are 2 of them, this is getting out of hand
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.
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.
Sean, please, when you test performance in internet, instead youtube use it frontend - Indivious. It is much faster.
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
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.
hahaha ... "there has never been a bigger batter cube since the battle of Wolf 359" ... you should only install green LEDs to make it even more BORG cube
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
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.
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.
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.
11:54 If not for classic Mac's peculiar screw placement, you would not have that ridiculously long screwdriver in your arsenal.
Incidentally, I too love dragging innocent computers screaming into the bleak dystopia that we call the modern web. :-D
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.
@Action Retro you should call it "Chungawungas". Kind of a play on word to the band Chumbawamba.
Oh man I wish I could give you an extra like for that wolf 359 comment. Chef’s kiss
My cube's case cracked terribly around the apple logo. Does anybody know where to find a new acrylic case ?
I’m just not feeling it… the best part of the cube for me is the push in handle… every time you use it it’s like you disarming a bomb….
One thing is that you dont show the Minecraft settings, so we dont have too much of a comparison. every video i see Minecraft i always think what if with XYZ settings or what if with optifine or something like that.
Great mod. Could you describe that Firewire SSD you had, and how to acquire or build it?
I first saw a cube in Larry Davids office in an episode of "Curb your enthusiasm". I think it was season 1 or 2
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.
IIRC wasn't the stock acrylic case very prone to cracking from thermal stress?
Hear me out. Ahmed that would make the mac studio like the Mac mini's bigger brother into like a G4 cube
Please illuminate the logo please.
Drill a hole behind the pieces and superglue a LED into the hole.
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
Hey you should 3d print a new drive cover with the apple logo cut out it in, and backlight it.
Shame you didn't glue led under clear apple logo
Would be quite a flex
Good project though
haha wolf 359, nice. this cube is better looking for sure though.
who else thinks he made this g4 cube look more like the machine from cloudy with a chance of meatballs
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
That was fun to watch. The oversized cube was worth getting.
You could superglue the nut to the cube itself to keep it in olace
You should cut the metal behind the apple logo to let the leds shine from behind.
I wonder if you could shove the internals of an M1 or M2 mac mini into one of these cubes.
Is video resolutions for anyone else to say unavailable?
Guess my comment go deleted for being too long lol, great vid as always!
My favorite newfound channel! So fun!