>>The low end cube is 450MHz ($1799), the low end tower is 400MHz ($1599). However, the tower has Gigabit Ethernet as of today, while the cube sounds as though it only has 100Mb/s. The cube has no expandability [other than memory, hard disk and maybe graphics card], while the tower has multiple hard drive bays, can have a ZIP disk as well, 3 PCI slots.<<
FruJu -
I can see your point about the expandability, although a lot of users really don't need or want that. Also, don't forget that you can add quite a bit of functionality via FireWire and/or USB.
But Gigabit Ethernet? That's a nice feature, but who has a Gigabit Ethernet connection to the desktop? It's got to be less than 1/10th of a percent of the user population right now, and it will be years before it gets much beyond that. Certainly anyone who uses one of these at home will not have the need for anything beyond 100Mb/s.
The cube is a very sexy machine, indeed. I'm disappointed that the OS X beta wasn't released, though. I really want to get my hands on that.
- Allen |
