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If you’re considering adding another screen to your macOS setup to help fix that laptop hunch or just to add some extra screen real estate, read on. To fix that, I’ve found that plugging my laptop to an external monitor on my desk is essential for me to be productive.

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But it’s really hard for me to put in a full workday hunched over one. It’s great to do work while lounging in my favorite chair or at a coffee shop (when we could still do that). If someone is able to solder small wires to those ports etc.Every computer I’ve called my own for work or personal use has been a laptop. The guy "PML7554" showed a picture where he used parts of the old mainboard of the G4 and soldered cables for ethernet, sound ports and I/O power button so he can connect it to the mainboard of his Mac Mini late 2014. On Macrumors I found a thread where someone put a Mac Mini M1 inside his iMac G4 and there commented few people. I also want to reuse the original audio ports (also the 2.5mm for the iMac speakers) and the I/O power button.

Put in the mainboard of the Mac Mini inside the iMac G4.

Maybe exchange the display panel with one form a iMac G5 20'' as I read in ersterhernd's thread "Esterhernds iMac G5 (iSight 20 A1145) Project" that those panels are quite the same.

I want to reuse the sleep LED, if somehow I can connect this to the one of the Mac Mini that would be great!.

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Probably you can help me figure out how to add this. Saw from MacTester57 also this nice solution with that touch panels under the dome. Would be nice if I could run it from my keyboard, but a simple potentiometer at the back would do it too. There are a few wires left of the 4 big wire bundles.

Figure how to adjust background lights to lighter and darker.

Fixing those signal interference: I changed the 20cm HDMI cable to a longer, now I have a buggy picture (you see it in the darker areas of the screen and also only appears on dark places on the screen like boot screen, screensaver, video etc.).

Beautiful eye catcher even if it's not finished yet. The iMac is now running connected to the Mac Mini late 2012, which I connected those iMac speakers with an old Griffin iFire I found back then. Big help was the schematics from that Youtube guy as sometimes it wasn't very clear what happened in his video next. In the end we wanted to use as much from the original iMac hardware as possible, so luckily both guides also used the factory power supply. I did the whole connecting together with my father and we oriented ourself to the guide of Dremeljunkie and found also a very useful video on Youtube (How To Turn a 20'' iMac Into An External Monitor).

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I know this piece of hardware isn't up to date anymore and doesn't support Mac OS higher than 10.15 but it's still pretty modern and useable nowadays. In 2015 I bought a Mac Mini late 2012 quad i7 and upgraded to 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD. Later I'm going to put the motherboard of a modern Mac Mini inside the dome of the iMac. I wanted old design with new hardware, so my plan was to convert the TMDS to DVI so it acts as external screen.

Motec plugs (or similars as I didn't had any)Ĭonvert this machine to an old jukebox for my living room with side effect of an eyecatcher.

So I told myself over winter holidays I will finish what I began 7 years ago. This winter I went back to my parents home and rediscovered this old piece of art. So 7 years ago I started this project, dismantled everything and then.

My plan was to bring this old machine back to life as it didn't work properly. I purchased this iMac G4 20'' 7 years ago as for me it was the most beautiful computer design ever made. Overall I own several storage options of the iPod classics from 1G-5G. My favorites which are still in use are the first classic with 5GB, the 5th generation with 30GB and the last with 160GB. Back in the days I used to collect old iPods so now my collection is over 30 iPods from several generations (iPod classic, mini, nano, shuffle).

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My main workstation is a good working MacBook Pro late 2013 with 2 30'' Cinema Displays. I'm from Switzerland and I'm 27 years old. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide