While the console made a promising first appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2004, it had been cancelled by December of that year.
[2] The console was initially based on VIA's Glory Personal Gaming Console Platform (although Apex Digital later switched to an AMD CPU and NVIDIA GPU platform), and would have included a keyboard, mouse, game controller, 3.5 inch floppy disk reader, and a remote control.
[9][10][11] The system would have sported a number of features related to console gaming and multimedia, such as: The system's Drop & Play feature works by referring to a database of scripts for information on how each specific game should be played.
Outside of the ApeXtreme, the Drop & Play technology found use in Alienware's DHS series of media centers.
[17] By March 2004, HardOCP reported that Apex Digital had dropped VIA and replaced the CPU with AMD AthlonXP 2000+, mated to NVIDIA's nForce2 IGP and GeForce4 MX graphics card with motherboard manufactured by Biostar.