|  | April 09, 2013
Installing NAS4Free February 28, 2013
Building an XBMC 12 Home Theatre PC January 25, 2011
XBMC Guide updated to version 10.0 August 06, 2010
Building a Green PC February 15, 2010
Building an ION powered HTPC with XBMC October 10, 2008
The "Cambridge Autonomous Underwater Vehicle 2008" September 12, 2008
"Florian", the DVD burning robot September 05, 2008
The "i-EPIA" May 22, 2008
The "GTA-PC" April 14, 2007
The "Digg" Case |
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The "ITX-Laptop" December 07, 2006
The "Tortoise Beetle" October 02, 2006
The "DOS Head Unit" August 31, 2006
The "Janus Project" August 05, 2006
The "Leela PC" June 26, 2006
Nano-ITX in a Football May 17, 2006
The "EPIA Alloy Mod" April 11, 2006
Neatorama's Collection of Case Mods February 18, 2006
The "Rundfunker" October 24, 2005
The "ITX TV" October 06, 2005
The K'nex-ITX August 05, 2005
The "Waffle Iron PC" July 21, 2005
The "Supra-Server" July 18, 2005
The "Mega-ITX" July 07, 2005
The "Encyclomedia" May 25, 2005
The "Accordion ITX" May 16, 2005
The "FileServerRouterSwitch" May 15, 2005
The "Mini Falcon" May 13, 2005
The "Bender PC" May 11, 2005
The "BBC ITX B" |
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The "Frame" April 20, 2005
The "Jeannie" March 09, 2005
The "Cool Cube" January 30, 2005
First Nano-ITX Project? January 17, 2005
The "iGrill" January 15, 2005
The "Gumball PC" December 15, 2004
The "Deco Box" December 03, 2004
The "TERA-ITX" October 06, 2004
The "Coealacanth-PC" September 17, 2004
The "Gramaphone-ITX-HD" August 26, 2004
The "C1541 Disk Drive ITX" August 25, 2004
The "SEGA-ITX" August 13, 2004
The "Quiet Cubid" August 06, 2004
The "BMWPC" July 14, 2004
The "Moo Cow Moo" July 02, 2004
The "Mini Mesh Box" June 17, 2004
Jukebox ITX May 24, 2004
The "ERN005PC" (KANA) March 13, 2004
The "Underwood No. 5" February 04, 2004
The "Humidor CL" Full alphabetical archive on right hand side of page... |
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The "G4 Cube PC"
By Wookie
- Posted on November 9, 2002
Introduction
The Apple G4 Cube had many similarities with
projects on these pages. Plexiglas-stylee construction, miniscule
case design, external power supplies, fanless operation -
all too familiar. Suspiciously so. So suspicious in fact,
that we think Jonathan
Ives (a well known regular celebrity reader of this site)
used his uber-design skills to create an egg-shaped
time portal to double back a couple of years and invented
it. Andy Woo (not his real name, his real name is Wookie)
has installed an EPIA 800 into a salvaged G4 Cube case, and
it's ready-made and fits a treat - none of this build a case
from *insert ever more ridiculous material here* mallarkey.
How about string? Isn't it about time somebody knitted themselves
a Mini-ITX Case? We predict ebay will be inundated with literally
tens of searches for "G4 Cube". In fact, here's
the link to save you some trouble...
When a G4 Cube isn't a G4 Cube
It looks identical to an Apple G4 Cube. However,
underneath the beautiful skin and outfit, the heart and soul
of the Cube was transplanted with an x86 compatible CPU and
powered by GNU/Linux operating system. The above picture showing
my Cube running RedHat Linux 8.0 and is connected with my
PC's CRT monitor and mouse/keyboard. Except initial OS installation
my Cube will be running headless.
What it does
The Cube is to replace my aging AMD K6-2 home
server. It will mainly serve the following functions:
File serving
- SMB, NFS and Netatalk
- FTP
Apache web server powering my Weblog
MySQL RDBMS as the backend
The Case
I brought this G4 Cube housing
during a local Mac user group expo for about USD 60. Sure
enough, the hard drive, the G4 chip and the logic board have
been removed. Just left a barebone housing.
The Apple G4 Cube used a fanless design. Hence
it needed such a huge heatsink for cooling.
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