Introdução
Ir para o passo 1The infamous Power Mac G4 Cube, Apple's original failed attempt at a compact G4-based Macintosh. Released in 2000 at a cost of $1599, the Cube was considered too expensive, and too slow. The Cube, unlike most computers, uses passive cooling, which means no fan. While quiet, it was a big mistake on Apple's part, because the G4 processors run very hot!
The Cube boasted a 450MHz or 500Mhz G4 CPU; not particularly fast given its 1Ghz Pentium III contemporary. The Cube is virtually silent, aside from the original 5400 RPM hard-drives. After a single year of production, Apple put the cube "on ice”. But it lives on in infamy as a popular candidate for Macquariums and as a coveted design piece. An internal fan hookup in the form of a 12V, 2-pin connector is available but was never utilised by Apple. If you want, you can buy a fan, connect it, and figure out a place to fit it; this is a popular mod to cool overheating Cubes.
Conceptually, it was replaced by the Mac Mini in 2005, 5 years later.
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Removing the Ram
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Start by fliping the cube so that the side with the graphics card is facing you, you may want to push the handle back in.
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There are 3 RAM Slots, they are Standard PC100 Ram. The cube can support up to 1.5GB of ram, that's a 512MB Stick In All 3 Slots.
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Remove the ram, just like any other kind of ram.
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Removing the AGP Riser card
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Pull the card out of the PCI Socket, and no, unfortunately, you can't use this to put an AGP card in a PCI slot in a PC.
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Once the card is free, mind the 3 cables attached to it, remove these 2 cables first.
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The third cable is glued to the AGP board, unplug it from the logic board instead.
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Removing the Voltage Regulator Module.
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This board is called the DC/DC board, or the Voltage Regulator Module. It takes the power from the power brick and regulates the power to different components of the Cube.
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First, disconnect the power connector.
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Then release the white clip on the connector socket, which is accessed from the side of the core.
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With a little persuasion, the board comes out of it's socket(it's hard to show how the board comes out, but in person, it's pretty self explanatory)
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The Logic Board
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Unfortunately, this as far as I am going to dissect my cube, partially because I still use it frequently, but here is an overview of the cube.
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450Mhz or 500Mhz PowerPC G4 Processor
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Shipped with 64MB ram, supports up to 1.5GB of PC100 or PC133
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One PCI Slot(Converted to AGP via adaptor)
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No Onboard Audio.(Unfortunately)
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8 comentários
This is great! What a beautiful machine that was.
Awesome teardown, Chris! Thanks for posting it.
