Finally!
I FINALLY excavated out my desk, and installed the new Macally keyboard and Apple Pro Mouse on the Cube. And it works PERFECTLY!!! I'm typing on it right now, and it's excellent. I love the keyboard.
Granted, this is a 450 Mhz G4 processor, Running OS X 10.4 Tiger, so it boots a bit slow. But once it's up and running, it's fine. And I'm currently just using the installed version of Safari for now. (The previous owner installed Firefox, which I appreciate. But I'm going to install TenFourFox when I get 'round to it...) After I get the browser situation taken care of, I'm going to installing YouView for my YouTube needs, and then I'm going to get some scads of Classic software installed in the Classic apps folder. (I'm hoping the Cube will recognize the extra USB port on the keyboard, so I can just copy the software over on thumb drives. I've already got a bunch of stuff on one of my thumb drives... Now, if I can just find it...)
My desk is so cramped now, what with the Mac Mini and the TAM taking up real estate. If I'd clean the mass pile of junk and old DVD's off of one side, I could get a good bit more space. But that would take effort, and...
They called the Cube the "silent supercomputer", and they're right. There's hardly any sound out of the thing. The hard drive is unnervingly quiet. I haven't tried the optical disk yet, but will here in a bit.
I had to install a separate monitor for the system, along with the new keyboard and mouse. It wouldn't take to the KVM switch at all. Now, I'm looking at the Macally + ProMouse, and thinking strongly about switching it over to my Mini, to use with it. But I just can't bring myself to hook the old iMac keyboard and puck mouse up the Cube. (And I like the puck mouse. I'm weird that way...)
Hmmm... The previous owner has the system monitoring utilities up and running While it looks cool, I can do without it. Bit of a waste of memory.
So many things to do... But I'm happy. It's such a classy. cool computer.
Kid in the candy store time....
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