iMac early 2006 worth it

[EugW]

Are you saying that because it's running Windows? The link I included works for both old Mac Pro's and early intel iMac's.

Oh I see. The video shows a Mac Pro.

 

[JB59]

Everything works. I was probably a little conservative when I said you could only have half a dozen pages open at a time. It has handled everything I have thrown at it so far. Even x264 video files play with the x1600 graphics.

 

[Klineex]

I have an iMac 2006 20 inch and I made great use out of it because I turned it into a monitor with original speakers and camera for my Mac mini 2018 its actually really nice. I swapped out the hard drive for an LVDS HDMI controller board and used the hard drive SATA power cable to power it so it can be turned on and off through the regular power button connected to the logic board since that turns on and off power to the hard drive SATA power cable. I just run the HDMI cable out of the memory access door on the bottom, spliced the speakers to an aux cable and run that out the bottom too, and spliced the camera to a usb cable and run that out the bottom too, it all works great with the Mac mini. the iMac 2006 still gets hot and the fans are still audible since its still running in the background powered on while being used as a monitor, you can even still see the power on white LED on the front so technically it could still be used as the regular old iMac if you plug the HDMI cable directly into the mini DVI port on the back with an adaptor and run off a USB 2.0 SSD so its basically like I created my own target display mode + camera

 

[JB59]

Brilliant!