Santiago Lema 
Marx 🐱 knows the true value of iconic Mac design: PowerPC G4 #Cube keeps your body warm while the TrashCan #MacPro upper vent will blow soft Sahara winds on your head.
Yes. He likes heat. A lot of it.
Running #RetroPie or #AmiBerry get quite hot too (I set fan to only turn on when absolutely necessary ).
Of course Marx 🐱 sleeps with the head on these too.
Also, I can’t use my tablet & mouse 🤷🏻♂️ #cats #retrocomputing
So today I was watching YouTube on the Trashcan Mac Pro and it went to sleep in the middle of a video. Apparently something was blocking the vent and caused it to overheat to a point where it decided to just shut down.
Amusingly the Cube didn’t stop but maybe it would just have burned down had I not removed the cat.
Kaelef 
AT HayesMarx 🐱 still happily sleeps on the warm upper vent of Trashcan 
Mac Pro & Cube.
Ready to face the coming winter in the southern hemisphere.
Gianmarco Gargiulo@santiago I see you're not using macOS on that thing.
derSammler
Arcturax 🦇@santiago I had a cat who loved sleeping atop my mirror door drive PowerMac G4. The handles made good headrests and since the power supply was under him in the machine it got warm up top. He also loved to attack the cd drive door though the handhold loop when I remotely triggered it from the keyboard
Jack M@santiago I’m jealous of those two! I want to start collecting certain macs.
KayhrynTinkOhhhh De Bestie & warm Spot in de House!
ME would sleepie there too on a chill winter's day!
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@santiago there's various routers supplied by European telecom companies that run hot (and similarly attract cats), I've often wondered if the folk with these routers often end up with a cat-shaped "not spot" in their wifi coverage 😺
Loren@santiago she looks very tired. Let her sleep. She's cute
Karin Sorenby@santiago what a sweet one🥰
Barry Schwartz 🫖@santiago I used to have that problem with a dog and a space heater. And the dog was hard to move and quite confused and scared.
Rachel Greenham@santiago the cat knows the value of these designs.
I note in passing the Mac Studio has its hot air exhaust vent on the back. They're adapting...
Jocelynephiliac 
@santiago @astraluma if not for sleeping, why so warm?
🇵🇸Manu🌱Carrasco Molina@santiago what do you do with that cube?!?! I once had one and sold it since it was so underpowered.
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦@santiago In my direct experience, a Cube will roast itself into complete dysfunction well before actually catching fire.
This is from last year: Marx 🐱helping scroll pages on the screen.
It took me a while to understand this behavior. Turns out it’s also because the screen is warm on his little paw. It’s an old Apple Cinema 20 inch. He doesn’t do it on more recent, colder screens.
Puss ‘n Books 🇨🇦
ThatKomputerKat 
@santiago how are the thermals on this configuration? It seems like you might need an electric catsink.
Scott Small 🇨🇦@santiago Your cat has excellent taste 😂
Blake Patterson
NiciHW🦋@santiago that is adorable
Gwyn Moxham@santiago @teledyn still can’t believe we settled on calling that beautiful machine a ‘trash can’. I always preferred ‘r2d2’. Sadly put mine out to pasture a few months back after it simply failed to boot, but it did 9 years Trojan service (and only 1 GPU replacement along the way). It was a damn fine radiator too :)
kreg@santiago nice to see a cube out in the wild. I really loved that machine.
Pas cet Antoine là 
@santiago We need the cube back!