I took the extreme shortcut, and decided to use the Deep Freezer to "chill out" my Macintosh G4 Cube. It's a rare species to begin with, but this animal is even more unique in that it's a Dual Processor 500 MHz, dating from October 2000.

The 450 MHz models were available in abundance, the 500 MHz models only available from the online Apple Store, and the Dual Processors only if you knew somebody at Apple Computer (until the aftermarket upgrades came about in 2003 or 2004). Even those would not display "Dual Processor" in the About Box, since they were not factor installed.

So, I present the "Ice Cube" ....

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In the foreground on the right, you can see one of my former spaghetti jars (which I always keep and serve drinks out of later). In this case, I filled it with ice tea (already refrigerated) and decided to time how long it would take to "flash freeze" in the Deep Freezer. The dang phone rang and I was chatting away, and just plain forgot about it, then ran over and pulled it out (by the lid), and it was frozen solid! My fingers were also frozen to the lid (not too smart). I'll retime how long it takes to freeze it later on. I know it was pretty damn fast.

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Just from opening and closing it once, ice crystals were already forming all along the perimeter of the freezer.

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It reached -27.2 F at it's coolest point. It's a little less than this in Celciius, but not by much.