In Apple’s first real setback since the release of the iMac in 1998 (which was their second computer market revolution after the Mac’s 1984 birth), Apple recently announced that production of the Power Mac G4 Cube will be suspended indefinitely.

This machine will soon reflect your personality, beliefs, talents’ even your favourite colour. So if you aren’t crazy about the giant Mac smiley face or the scenes straight out of Innerspace, you’ll want a new desktop pattern or picture.

Since (and indeed before) the days when the Apple II and Commodore 64 sat on our desks and we wrote software to blank cassettes, computer users the world over have faced a universal conundrum … sacrificing file size without sacrificing quality or quantity.