Dr. M: It was a gag, point being that he looked good doing it. Better than he did with the Lisa.

It takes a real UI nerd to want one of *those* (not that one can find them, what with the whole landfill thing), but a few of my hip, happening Linux-geek friends have gone out of their way to acquire cubes. Apple was the original beige box company; NeXT was about creating fetish-objects.

[Insert blather about Apple as a company of compromises here, Mac -> IIgs -> melting/cracking/warping laptops.]