samsonlonghair wrote:
Here's the iMac in question sitting on my workbench next to his older brother, the G4. I also keep a couple Mac Pro towers nearby to drive this array of monitors. I'm typing this sentence on one of those Mac Pro towers right now. The port on the far right is a mini-DVI output. I'm using an adaptor to connect it to another monitor via VGA. I'm connecting a Firewire 400 cable from this iMac to one of my Mac Pro towers. Don't you just love Apple's proprietary connectors?
iMac 4,1
2GHz Intel Core Duo
1 Processor; 2 cores
1GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
I think those tray-loading G3 iMacs are cool because they have a VGA connector on the INSIDE of the computer. How cool is that? If all iMacs had been designed that way, screen replacement would be much easier!
Did not know that on the early G3 CRTs, thanks. That internal VGA port would have made for an easier mod. You do have that mini VGA port which is already analog for the VGA cable, perhaps the $20 LCD swap out could work if the entire housing could be fit? It would just be an issue of replacement screen clearing the motherboard and mounting. Rotozip out an access hole in the back for the VGA cable and AC cord input. The controls would need preset before mounting.
Reading the specs, more then adequate as a browser and Mame, worth salvaging and adding a hard drive inside. I see a lot of iMacs! Ooh the shiny silver Apple monitors at the top! I almost bought one of those at the thrift store; had a proprietary video cable. Your broken G5 iMac can work with the replacement monitor in front of the Apple; maybe one of the beautiful silver Apple Monitors with a conversion video cable? Curious, how do the internal speakers sound, are they Harmon Kardon?
Make it a dual boot OSX and OS9 for all the OS9 Mac games! The G5 is the last and fastest iMac for direct dual boot OS9 option. So many games to rediscover out there, Jazz Jack Rabbit, Spectre, Lemmings and others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G5
The iMac G5 is an all-in-one desktop computer designed and built by Apple Inc. from 2004 to 2006. It was the final iMac to use a PowerPC processor, making it the last model that could natively run Mac OS 9 (Classic) applications.