The Power Mac G4 Cube is a personal computer of the Macintosh family
sold by Apple from July 2000 to 2001. It was designed by Jonathan Ive
and conceived by CEO Steve Jobs as a powerful, miniaturized desktop
computer. Apple developed new technologies and manufacturing methods for
its 7.7-inch (20 cm) cubic computer housed in clear acrylic glass. The
Cube was mid-range, between the consumer iMac G3 and the professional
Power Mac G4. It was announced at the Macworld Expo on July 19, 2000.
It won awards for its design, but reviews noted the high cost for its
power, its limited expandability, and cosmetic defects. It was a
commercial failure, selling just 150,000 units before production ended
within a year. The Cube was a rare failure for the company under Jobs,
after a successful period that brought the company back from the brink
of bankruptcy. However, it influenced future Apple products, from the
iPod to the Mac mini. New York's Museum of Modern Art holds a G4 Cube as
part of its collection.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1917:
First World War: Troops of the British Empire defeated Ottoman
forces at the Battle of Rafa on the Sinai–Palestine border in present-
day Rafah.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rafa>
1972:
The Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association
lost to the Milwaukee Bucks, ending a 33-game winning streak, the
longest of any team in American professional sports.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers>
1992:
Radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail announced
the discovery of two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12
(depicted), generally considered the first definitive detection of an
exoplanet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet>
2015:
Contaminated beer served at a funeral in Tete Province,
Mozambique, killed 75 people and made at least 230 others ill.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique_funeral_beer_poisoning>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cryptodepression:
(geography, limnology) The portion of a lake which lies below sea level.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cryptodepression>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of
an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion.
--Simone de Beauvoir
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir>