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Finished my iMac g3 mod, finally

dwag3

dwag3

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Oct 31, 2011
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Many months ago I set out to put a Mac Mini's guts into an iMac g3 case and have largely succeeded.

Below is the first image, see more here.
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Really happy with how it turned out, thanks for the advice and encouragement guys!
 
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may i ask, what are the new specs of the iMac with the mac mini's guts? what do you plan to do next to it?

EDIT: How fast does it run? and what is the max screen resolution that you can have with this iMac?

oh, and nice job with the mac. i would recomend getting a more modern keyboard - one that is up to date with lion and that. just so you get the full features. :D plus, the picture is a big big :)
 
I remember when you first set out on this long journey a few months ago and now I just need to know one thing

was it worth it to get your computer from your childhood back into your life?
 
Whoa, sorry about the giant picture! The mini is a 2007 2 ghz core 2 duo with 2 GB of ram. The dell display is a rather paltry 1024 x 768 but all I want this machine to do is play music and look pretty :)

The keyboard works perfectly with lion. I tried using the aluminum wireless keyboard that I ordinarily use with my MacBook Pro but it just didn't look right.

Lastly, Lil Chillbil, I felt like the process was half the fun. Though the project frustrated me to no end at some points... My dremel skills leave a little to be desired.
 
That looks brilliant :) that an LCD isn't it? Does it match up well with the corners? I'm not a great deal away from finishing my own project but Christ I've hit some snags on the way lol.

Can you get a little video of this starting to desktop whilst having a little look round the case please :)

Very good job!
 
dwag3 said:
Whoa, sorry about the giant picture!
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You can edit original post and replace with [img].

Your mod looks very clean, I was thinking to do that same to my Ruby but so far I can't decide to sacrifice perfectly working internals...

Good work sir! :)
 
That looks great! I've heard that they don't look as good with LCD's, but that looks pretty nice. I was hoping to get a Ruby myself to work with, though I might just paint my clamshell iBook the same color.
 
No the LCD doesn't match up particularly well but for my purposes it's okay. I originally was going to dremel the display bezel down to accomodate the LCD screen area but I'm not too neat with power tools and the plastic I did dremel on the inside was very brittle. I'm looking for another solution but for now this is just fine :) 666sheep thanks, I fixed my image post!
 
dwag3 said:
No the LCD doesn't match up particularly well but for my purposes it's okay. I originally was going to dremel the display bezel down to accomodate the LCD screen area but I'm not too neat with power tools and the plastic I did dremel on the inside was very brittle. I'm looking for another solution but for now this is just fine :) 666sheep thanks, I fixed my image post!
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Even with the LCD it looks very good, well done and the graphite colour is my favorite.
 
Lil Chillbil said:
Now do the same with a imac g4 with almost no space to work with
then i'll really be impressed
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I would love to but I don't have the time... Plus g4s run for a little more than I want to pay. If I find one at a garage sale I'll pick it up for sure though.
 
Awesome job

I see imac g4's go for 100 dollars for a 15in here and 150-200 for a 17in. and nice job on the imac g3 im hopping to do that with mine but I sorta wanna keep it mint but I also wanna be able to use it as a computer again. :apple: ftw :)
 
Really nice job! I have an iMac G3 Graphite sitting here... now I am tempted to make it usable again.
 
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