[SedVictaCatoni]

I'm pretty sure Mac tried something like this before, a computer called 'The Cube'. It crashed and burned big time, probably 'cause of the price and that it didn't LOOK like a computer.

The G4 Cube was designed as a sort of premium-priced business computer. It failed because that market segment isn't terribly big. The Mini is designed as the opposite - a very low-cost computer.

[golas1964]

I was looking at the new iMacs, but they only have FireWire 400 (IEEE-1394) and no FireWire 800. So I'll wait until it has both...