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Maybe putting in a different antenna will help, but it’s no priority. I can’t get any further than 5m from the Cube with my AirPods and I connected an ethernet cable. But for some reason, people are fixated on the looks of Apple’s macOS. There are several beautiful Linux distributions already present in the Linux world.

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The WiFi antenna that was in the Mac Mini I screwed on to the heatsink, in one of the original screw holes. Brief: This article lists some macOS lookalike Linux distributions.The comparison here is based on similarity to macOS in looks and functioning. I n what strikes us as an attention gaining marketing move, Cobalt Computer is threatening a law suit over the industrial design of the new.

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To make the WiFi and Bluetooth work, I bought new antenna’s and mounted this one on the original place in the case. A Cube Is A Qube Is A Cube, And NeXT's Still Came First. I’m still pissed off about that, but I’ll have to find another way to make this work again The Last Cube Windows, Mac, Linux, XONE, PS4, Switch game.

I’m not sure what, but the switch isn’t working anymore. Collect stickers on the cubes sides and use their distinct abilities to progress through levels with atmospheric. Unfortunately, after putting it all together for the last time, something went wrong. It fitted perfectly under the power adapter in the case. So I put in a AC/DC transformator to get 5V. But I needed to power the switch as well. I connected the motherboard using a connector to the original wires of the power button. It has a bit of a hassle, but I made it work. One of my big wishes was to keep the original power button. A lot of builds I’ve seen did not pay that much attention to this part, but I wanted it to look like factory-work. I didn’t want to cut away major parts or leave anything out.

Keep the case as original as possible.

It had to look nice from to outside as well as the inside I did all the research I could do to make sure I wouldn’t mess up a Cube and a brand new Mac Mini.īefore I started, I set myself these goals: I never did a build like this before, so I was quite nervous about it. The newer alum only mini has the power supply inside, and the case is equal or slightly larger than a cube acryllic, so you would have to gut the mini to fit it inside the cube. They’re very hard to come by in The Netherlands, but after seeing all these wicked builds on this forum I wanted to do the same.Īnd what better way to use a Cube than to put a super fast Mac Mini M1 in there! After searching for 2 months I found a Cube 200km away and picked it up the same day. The old mac mini with acrylic/alum easily fits inside, and the power brick should fit with it as well. I had to work from home, so I wanted something beautiful in there. First, I bought an iMac G4 to put in my home office. Last year I got more and more interested in old Mac’s (again) and started searching the web. Stay tuned for more information when it becomes available.Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide And there is an entire company called C-Cube that does digital video and audio compression, and another computer company called I Cube that provides high bandwidth solutions.Ĭobalt has not officially, yet, taken the case to court. Altec Lansing, a company that still makes totally rockini speakers, has a line tiny box shaped speakers called PowerCube. Other companies have also taken a stab, rather successfully we might add, using the catchy word "cube" to name their products. Then, perhaps just as cleverly, Cobalt called their cube shaped product the Cobalt Qube, only to be followed by Appleis G4 Cube. The product, cleverly enough, was called the NeXT Cube.

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NeXT was shipping the NeXT Cube, running the underpinnings of the future Mac OS X, NeXT, in the late i80s. The Cobalt product has been on the market for over a year, and the company feels threatened by the newly released Apple G4 Cube.Īs ridiculous as this sounds, it becomes more so when one digs deep into the nostalgia file and dredges up memories of Steve Jobsi OTHER other company, NeXT.

A little background shows that Cobalt ships a product called the Cobalt Qube, a bright blue 7" box that functions as a Linux server.

A story first reported at ZDNet hints that the computer maker might go after Apple for their latest desktop offering. N what strikes us as an attention gaining marketing move, Cobalt Computer is threatening a law suit over the industrial design of the new Power Mac G4 Cube.