{"id":350624,"date":"2021-10-09T20:13:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T17:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/this-hero-turned-an-ancient-imac-g4-into-a-powerful-m1-mac-review-geek\/"},"modified":"2021-10-09T20:13:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T17:13:38","slug":"this-hero-turned-an-ancient-imac-g4-into-a-powerful-m1-mac-review-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-hero-turned-an-ancient-imac-g4-into-a-powerful-m1-mac-review-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"#This Hero Turned an Ancient iMac G4 Into a Powerful M1 Mac \u2013 Review Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#This Hero Turned an Ancient iMac G4 Into a Powerful M1 Mac \u2013 Review Geek”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Everybody has their weird opinions on App<\/a>le product design, but most people can agree that the 2002 iMac G4 is ridiculous, unique, and beautiful. That\u2019s why it\u2019s such a popular modding platform\u2014people just can\u2019t give up the old \u201ciLamp.\u201d But we need to prepare ourselves for a new wave of iMac G4 mods, because someone just turned theirs into a powerful M1 machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To celebrate the life of Steve Jobs, who passed just 10 years ago, aspiring app developer Colby Sheets cracked open an iMac G4, took out its guts, and stuck an M1 Mac Mini inside. The mod required a lot of tinkering, but the results speak for themselves. It\u2019s the most powerful iLamp of all time.<\/p>\n

In a MacRumors<\/em><\/a> forum post discussing the mod, Sheets says \u201cI\u2019ve always wanted the iMac G4 since I was a kid and I knew a few people made some hackintosh\u2019s with them but I didn\u2019t want that, I wanted a real Mac.\u201d Stuffing a \u201creal Mac\u201d inside the iLamp seems like an obvious solution, but as Sheets acknowledges, Intel Macs just don\u2019t have the thermal performance to pull off the job.<\/p>\n

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In celebration of Steve Job\u2019s life and his inspiration to many, I wanted to show a passion project I\u2019ve been working on that I think Steve would be proud of. Something that wasn\u2019t possible 20 years ago but is now.<\/p>\n

Hello, iMac G4 with an M1 chip. pic.twitter.com\/q6zUpyFrwu<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Colby Sheets (@ColbySheets) October 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The new M1 Macs, on the other hand, have better thermal performance than any other modern laptop or desktop computer. And the M1 Mac Mini can fit inside the iLamp (with some tweaking), making it the perfect candidate for this mod. (And yes, that\u2019s the original iMac G4 display. Sheets could upgrade it, but there\u2019s something special about that old LCD.)<\/p>\n

Sheets isn\u2019t an engineer, so a lot of community resources went into this project. YouTube<\/a>r Pendleton115<\/a> helped Sheets get the iLamp\u2019s display connected to the Mac Mini\u2019s board, for example. And Sheets referenced some decade-old modding instructions from Dremel Junkie<\/a> to get the wiring straight.<\/p>\n

Hopefully this project inspires others to mod their classic Macs. Colby Sheets hasn\u2019t shared any instructions to duplicate the M1 iLamp mod, but because there are so many community resources centered around the iMac G4, we expect similar projects to pop up in the near future.<\/p>\n

Source: Macrumors Forum<\/a> via 9to5Mac<\/a><\/small>\n<\/div>\n