Sun Baked said:Rip out everything but the LCD, inverter, and the backlight and toss it in the trash, get a new power supply and a new DVI cable and you have yourself a nifty $1300 17" LCD monitor.
Something that you could easily have bought from Dell for slightly over a couple hundred.
Of course this will probably destroy the iMac G5, so you'll need a new one of those.
Buy an old iMac G5 case and stick an LCD monitor inside, it'll be a lot less expensive.
belvdr said:Whoa, there. I think he/she was referring to hooking a monitor to the iMac as another display device, not turning the iMac into a display device.
EDIT: Then again, maybe not. Everytime I re-read the original post, I can't figure out what he/she is doing.
Why not? Tell them to bring the monitor if they want it fixed.tomimacg5 said:Hey guys, yes I'm talking about hooking up a PC to my iMac screen, the reason being, I'm always fixing family and friends PC's but since I sold my PC and moved to a 20" iMac G5 I can't do it anymore. I'd love to have the option there. Is there no way of reversing the DVI out? Or even a USB VGA device?
tomimacg5 said:Hey guys, yes I'm talking about hooking up a PC to my iMac screen, the reason being, I'm always fixing family and friends PC's but since I sold my PC and moved to a 20" iMac G5 I can't do it anymore. I'd love to have the option there. Is there no way of reversing the DVI out? Or even a USB VGA device?
fartheststar said:You got a mac. Stop fixing their PC's and make them switch!
Seriously though, that's awfully nice of you. After I switched (except for at work), I hardly have problems any more, I don't think about those things any more.
Yes, an unemployed Bill Gates would destroy the world.TDM21 said:But without Windows, there would be no need for Tech support people. Think about all the people who would lose their jobs.