One day while I was writing a review at the office, I heard someone at the
front of the office exclaimed "The cube is here!". Upon hearing that, I immediately
dropped what I was doing and rushed to see what the commotion was all about. Indeed, there were two very
distinct boxes lying on the floor beside the delivery guy from the Apple Singapore
office. "Cool man!", I exclaimed. I was waiting for Apple to send the G4 cube
for quite sometime now as Apple promised to send us one to review. Immediately,
I took the boxes to the reviews lab and set it up. I cleared up a table and
opened the boxes to set up this beautiful machine. It drew gasps, "oohs" and "aahs"
from my fellow colleagues, proof that it is indeed a very sexy machine. Someone
then said, "Hey! where is the power button?" Upon hearing that, I said, "Watch
this!". I then placed my finger on the power icon at the bottom right corner
of the LCD monitor. The button lit up and the Cube came to life with the familiar
PowerMac chime. Another round of gasps and wows were heard. "This is really
cool!", someone said. "Gee.. can I get one?", another said. The kind of response
this machine drew from people who had seen it for the first time is just amazing.
The crystalline look of the case and its peripherals really make the product
a showpiece and a talking point. The cube is no geek machine. In fact, it is a machine
that is reverred by people from the creative and design profession. It is people like them whom I feel Apple's Cube would be greatly appreciated and prized. Remember the 20th anniversary limited edition
Mac. It drew the same kind of response from the people who first saw it.

One thing's for sure - the Cube is quiet. I can barely hear its hard disk or DVD-ROM drive spin during an intense
disk access. You can only hear the hard disk or DVD-ROM drive spin only if the
environment is dead quiet (like in the dead of night). Under ambient noises
say, in an air-conditioned room, it is practically silent. This is truly a machine
for those thinkers that cannot bear the noise of those cooling fans that is
so common among its G4 and iMac siblings (and not forgetting PCs).