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...gets sucked up into the vacuum created in the funnel, where it briefly mixes with the grounds before cascading back down into the carafe. It's a riot of noise and smell. And Utopia looks fabulous too; its translucent plastic housing would be right at home next to an iMac...
...IRONY From the people who wish they had brought you the iMac comes a line of translucent, fruit-colored irons. Yes, irons. Proctor-Silex's $45 appliances, available in strawberry, lime, tangerine or blueberry, may not have microchips, but they are equipped with essentials like auto shut-off, adjustable steam and nonstick soleplates...
FASCS is also experimenting with new UNIX-based kiosks, donated by Sun Microsystems. There are three machines which use a UNIX operating system in the Science Center outside of Lecture Hall D, intended to serve the same purpose as the iMac kiosks--a place to quickly check e-mail and surf the Internet...
...time for blast-off, right? Pretty much. The Cube is just as speedy as its larger G4 cousin. It's also shockingly silent, thanks to Apple's fan-free liquid cooling system--a technology that has clearly undergone some improvement since it was first used in the iMac last year. Back then, the casing got so hot you could fry an egg on it; the Cube is much better at keeping its cool...
Then there's the lack of any kind of removable storage device like a Zip drive. Such a sacrifice is to be expected in an $899 iMac. In an $1,800 Cube, it starts to look like meanness. You can always buy and connect a peripheral Zip, of course--but remember, you're also going to have to shell out a minimum of $1,000 for the 15-in.-wide, 1-in.-thick Studio Display that goes with the Cube. Your wallet will start to look as slim as the screen...