Fastest Bondi iMac in the world (I think)

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Not sure if this is the right place to post this but oh well, I broke up with my girlfriend today and I was bored so I had some fun with my Bondi iMac.... Sorry about the poor PIC I only have my phones cam and trust me Photoshop had nothing to do with this pic.
 

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Do you plan to replace the display with an LCD panel, or keep the CRT?

Also, this isn't the slot loader, is it? It's too bad you can't get a slot-load superdrive into it. You could have a lot of fun with that... maybe throw a RAID rack in the upper back somewhere?
 
Sweet, how much did it cost you, and are you going to give some directions?:cool:
 
RRK said:
Sweet, how much did it cost you, and are you going to give some directions?:cool:
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Well It only cost the price of a Bondi iMac witch at the time I bought it was $25. How to do it? Well we shall see...
 
PlaceofDis said:
could've just figured out a way to use it as a monitor too :p
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You got me, I was going to wait until this was mentioned, as much as I would love to take credit for putting a Mac Mini with a C2D in this beast I didnt. I left a small hint in the PIC if you look closley the displays panel is open behind the about box. I removed the inner casings of the iMac and found the video cable, the video cable is not a standard VGA cable its the old Apple display connector after searching my Mac stuff for 2 hours I found my adapter to turn it into VGA at first I just plugged in the power and the video and I got nothing, I had to place the logic board back in place and reconnect it before the thing would turn on, and the display must be set to 1024*768 75Hz. After the iMac is booted I just have to press the power button and the iMac goes to sleep and the screen stays on. I have this connected to my iMac C2D, I think it looks really cool, and really easy to do.
 
If it has a standard VGA connection, then I see no reason why you couldn't stick a mini inside one, you could even use the Mini's disk drive if you had a slot loading model...
 
Maybe you can at least put a KVM inside the box and then you'll have a Bondi that can control the C2D. :)
 
Killyp said:
If it has a standard VGA connection, then I see no reason why you couldn't stick a mini inside one, you could even use the Mini's disk drive if you had a slot loading model...
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Like I said it is not a standard VGA connection but its close, I have yet to figure out how to get the screen to stay on without the connections to the logic board but I really have not tried it much, I have been thinking about getting a G4 Mac Mini logic board just to play with.

mkrishnan said:
Maybe you can at least put a KVM inside the box and then you'll have a Bondi that can control the C2D. :)
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Thats a really good idea, I could use it to run OS 9 to make up for the lack of Classic on my Intel iMac.
 
Killyp said:
If it has a standard VGA connection, then I see no reason why you couldn't stick a mini inside one, you could even use the Mini's disk drive if you had a slot loading model...
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Some old Mac monitors came with a Mac Display to VGA adapter if for some reason you wanted to hook it up to a PC. I have one somewheres...
 
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