Both the Cube and the Trashcan have fancy metal enclosures with tool-free removal, revealing a computer inside with almost no user-serviceable parts. Both machines also use the “put all the hot parts around a giant central heatsink” strategy to get their small shape, though it’s interesting to see the evolution of what those hot parts were across a decade: in the Cube, the CPU and the spinning hard disk (replaced in this one with a contemporary SSD in a 3D-printed sled to hold it in place) take the two sides of the central heatsink, while the GPU is off to the side with no cooling. Meanwhile, the Trashcan’s triangular heatsink dedicates two whole sides to its two massive GPUs, and the little SSD stick hangs out on the outside of the one on the right.
roll that beautiful cube footage
