iMac G4 with M1 chip: Success!!!

[PML7554]

really nice work man. congrats! is there any adapter to convert the original display connector to hdmi? or do you have to work with the soldering like @Pendleton115 ?

Thanks!
No soldering, I followed the instructions of dremeljunkie, but I directly put the pins of the original TMDS connector on a dvi female to HDMI male adaptor. The pins perfectly fit on the holes of the female DVI connector.

 

[PML7554]

@colbyjohn94 il you want to talk about the mod, you can mail me : on yahoo.com, my identifier is pmleheup

 

[colbyjohn94]

@colbyjohn94 il you want to talk about the mod, you can mail me : on yahoo.com, my identifier is pmleheup

Just sent an email!

 

[CE3]

That’s impressive! Great work! And still such a nice looking iMac design.

 

[Eriamjh1138@DAN]

Thanks!
No soldering, I followed the instructions of dremeljunkie, but I directly put the pins of the original TMDS connector on a dvi female to HDMI male adaptor. The pins perfectly fit on the holes of the female DVI connector.

DremelJunkie’s site is the best for G4 iMac ”use as a display” mods. He’s my idol.

 

[marcosfisica]

Thanks!
No soldering, I followed the instructions of dremeljunkie, but I directly put the pins of the original TMDS connector on a dvi female to HDMI male adaptor. The pins perfectly fit on the holes of the female DVI connector.

nice! I didn't know the Dremeljunkie site. Now I'm thinking about buying a not working iMac G4 to do some mod.

 

[Shirasaki]

Modern apple certainly can go retro and recycle all of those classic designs with M chip in it, and old young would both be pleased, albeit for different reason. Those designs can buy apple at least another decade to figure out something even more revolutionary (maybe?).

 

[quarkysg]

Modern apple certainly can go retro and recycle all of those classic designs with M chip in it, and old young would both be pleased, albeit for different reason. Those designs can buy apple at least another decade to figure out something even more revolutionary (maybe?).

As much as I like the iMac G4 design, I'm afraid Apple might not be going back to it, as shipping and storing it will cost more than the current iMac designs. Too many moving parts as well.

Great effort to OP btw!

Next upgrade would be a 4K screen, heh heh?

 

[wyrdness]

Sorry. It was a joke about removing stuff to get more space then removing the headphone Jack from the iPhone.

It was an excellent joke. I genuinely LOL'd.

 

[darngooddesign]

Congratulations, hands down the best looking iMacs to date.

 

[Brewc]

I would love to own one, but don’t have the skills to build it.

 

[gagigu]

Thank you!
I’m working on my mod since 2019… I first used a 2009 Mac Mini, and upgraded it last year with the 2014. The M1 is still in project, but I use sometimes Windows, and it is not possible with the M1.
Some pictures of the part of the reused original motherboard :
I soldered cables for Ethernet and sound ports.
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Hi PML7554
Is it possible to send you the old motherboard of my 20'' G4 and you would modify it so I could use the original Ports (upgraded to USB 3) aswell as you did it? I'd love to have everything as much as original even with the I/O Switch.

 

[45Nelson]

Hi everyone!

Not sure if anyone will care but this is one of the only places I can think to post about it besides twitter! I've been on a passion project these last few weeks and I finished it the other night and wanted to share (because I'm absolutely geeking about it!)

I decided to make my dream computer and figured out a way to put and M1 chip inside an iMac G4!!

I've always wanted the iMac G4 since I was a kid and I knew a few people made some hackintosh's with them but I didn't want that, I wanted a real Mac. I always thought about putting the Mac mini internals in it but with intel chips it wouldn't work for a couple reasons (size, heat/airflow). Well now with the M1 how thermally cool it runs, I thought I'd give it another shot!

Well I'm proud to say after a lot of frustrating weeks and reengineering of the G4 dome base, it was a success! I'm typing this on the updated G4 right now

I'm certainly not an engineer by any standard and went into the mod blind, not knowing what to expect. I reached out for some help during the process and I want to give special thanks to my friend Jeremiah, who put up with my frustrating @$$ on many sleepless nights as he helped work on this with me. Also thank you Pendleton115 (from twitter) who helped me through some of the technical questions I had throughout the wiring process and encouraged me to keep going. Lastly to DremelJunkie - who's blog helped me make this idea possible with the wiring process and all of his detailed mod outlines from 10 years ago and are still remarkably helpful!

I might be the only one to find this cool but I'm pretty proud of it because I had a vision to build my dream computer and to be able to use it as my daily driver now just brings a smile to my face!

I'll attach some pictures and if you guys want see a video I can post my Twitter! Let me know what you guys think and I'd love to know if anyone has tried anything similar!

Do you know anyone that will do this for a fee? If I supply the G4 a new screen and the M1?