Fr, 08:31·Hardware: Mac·cmk
On January 7, 2002, Apple presented the iMac with the PowerPC G4 chip – and shortly before the presentation at Macworld San Francisco, the design came to light in the New York Times. The iMac G4 differed from its colorful predecessor in, among other things, a swiveling TFT display, initially only with a screen diagonal of 15″ – but later also with a 17″ and even 20″ display.
The iMac G4 was a huge success on the market – Apple received 150,000 pre-orders in the first month and manufactured 5,000 devices per day to meet demand. By today’s standards, especially when measured against the iPhone, these are of course very small numbers, but for the time the number of units was very considerable. The design of the iMac, although it was only in the range until August 31, 2004, remained in the memory of most Apple fans. The successor model, the iMac G5, came in a design that has been used until the current iMac generation.
The iMac G4 becomes the iMac M4
Apple recently introduced the Mac mini M4 – in a significantly smaller case than its predecessor and therefore with shrunk innards. By today’s standards, an iMac G4 can hardly be used productively because the specifications are no longer sufficient for most activities. The YouTube channel “Action Retro” therefore set out on a new project and converted an iMac G4 to the innards of the Mac mini M4.
In the video, Action Retro shows how he removes the logic board from the Mac mini M4 and, somewhat adventurously, attaches it to the original fan of the iMac G4. Unfortunately, this isn’t a particularly “clean” conversion, because the YouTuber runs various cables through the back of the case – and the iMac G4/M4 has two different power buttons. One of the buttons turns on the Mac mini M4, the other turns on what’s left of the iMac G4. Nevertheless, this is an interesting project that will definitely find some imitators.
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