Apple is presenting the Power Mac G4 Cube: a supercomputer miraculously engineered into an eight-inch cube, suspended in a stunning crystal-clear enclosure.

Though it’s less than one quarter the size of most PCs, the G4 Cube delivers far greater performance. With its built-in Velocity Engine, the G4 processor reaches speeds of over one billion calculations per second. Humbling even the fastest Pentium III. And giving you more than enough horsepower for the most demanding uses, from desktop publishing to making Desktop Movies, and from playing ultra-realistic 3D games to enjoying the latest DVD movies.

  The 450MHz Power Mac G4 Cube comes ready for action with Mac OS 9, 64MB of high-performance RAM, 1MB of backside level 2 cache, a capacious 20GB Ultra ATA/66 hard disk drive, DVD-ROM drive with DVD-Video playback, and the ATI RAGE 128 Pro graphics card with 16MB of graphics memory.

Amazingly, Apple figured out how to cool this enormous G4 power without a fan, making this one of the quietest computers ever built. Running in virtual silence, the G4 Cube doesn’t distract you from more important things — like thinking. This also lets you appreciate the pristine audio quality of the pair of Apple-designed Harman Kardon stereo speakers that bring hi-fidelity sound to your movies, music and games.

 The G4 Cube is also the first computer to come standard with the Apple Pro Mouse, for perfect precision on almost any surface. The optical tracking engine tracks movement 1500 times per second for pinpoint cursor control. It’s ultrasensitive, too. In fact, the entire surface is a button, ergonomically designed so you can rest your finger wherever it’s most comfortable. Since Apple have eliminated the mouse ball, you get a mouse that doesn’t skip, stick or need cleaning.

The key to everything
The Power Mac G4 Cube comes with a 108-key Apple Pro Keyboard with 15 full-size function keys, full document navigation controls, full-size inverted T cursor keys, audio control keys and a disk-eject key. Lefty? No problem: the keyboard has a USB port on either side, so you can set it up for right — or left-handed mouse use and still have a port to plug in your digital camera, Palm OS-based handheld or other USB device.

 The 108-key professional keyboard with 15 full-size function keys, full document navigation controls, full-size inverted T cursor keys, audio control keys and a disk-eject key.  
 
  
Less is more
In another first, the G4 Cube connects to your display in an entirely new way, thanks to another bit of nifty engineering. It’s called the new Apple Display Connector (ADC), and it reduces desktop clutter even further by combining power, video and USB signals on a single slim cable.

The single-connection ADC lets you attach your Power Mac G4 Cube to your choice of three displays of equally stunning design. The 17-inch (16-inch viewable) Apple Studio Display features a Natural Flat Diamondtron CRT that cuts glare and provides images of extraordinary sharpness. The 15-inch flat-panel Apple Studio Display features a liquid crystal screen that delivers a pure digital image from the G4 Cube, with no image degradation and absolutely zero flicker. And the 22-inch all-digital Apple Cinema Display — the largest LCD monitor available — gives you more than two pages of workspace (or playspace, as the case may be) and retains its brilliant colors over a wide range of viewing angles.

True, it looks like it belongs in the Museum of Modern Art. But the G4 Cube is really a thoroughbred supercomputer that belongs right on your desk.

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