iMac G4 Appreciation Thread

[Certificate of Excellence]

I've never seen imac g4 interior packaging in person. Thanks for sharing

 

[Trash80toG4]

Oh well, dems da breaks

Yah, breaks in the usual direction. Hobble the low end so as not to steal sales from the high end syndrome at its worst. I'm wondering if the iLamp's AirPort card slot might support the VTBook** laptop vidcards I snagged a while back? They've got some crazy specs. Never did find OS9 drivers for it though.


** VillageTronic VTMD-413-270 - supports Windows, Mac and Linux

edit: found something interesting: https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/villagetronic-vibook-usb-graphics-system

 

[Trash80toG4]

Found some info/pic: https://www.chicagocomputersupply.com/vitrvt32grad.html

General info: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-External-Graphics-Cards-for-Laptops.112162.0.html

 

[indigo_k]

I'll admit, I did not fully appreciate this model when they came out - I was still very much enamored with the Space Egg G3 iMac design. But lately I've realized that at this point in my nostalgia, it's basically everything I want out of a Vintage Mac - a stylish form factor with a lightweight LCD, ability to run both OSX AND Classic natively, modern internet connectivity, a massive library of software, AND they can still be found, mostly working, at decent prices. I'm anticipating picking up a non-functioning one later this month and am looking forward to cleaning it up and getting it working again. Probably mostly running it as a music and print server, but also enjoying some retro gaming and software/multimedia dev on it.

 

[phunguss]

Finally updating my 17" G4 800MHz with an mSata->IDE 32Gb adapter with os9 and 10.4. I updated my 15" G4 1GHz with an mSata-IDE 120Gb running 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 (no classic support)

I 3D printed a mini version running on a Hackintoshed NUC a while ago...

Intel NUC mini iMac

 

[Trash80toG4]

Wow! love that micro ilamp setup. PROPS!
Have you got a decent enough (super high) resolution on its micro screen as compared to the anemic real deal resolution?
Not to seriously nit-pick, but the only thing I spy missing would be the requisite SD Card next to the USB ports in the optical bay.

 

[phunguss]

Wow! love that micro ilamp setup. PROPS!
Have you got a decent enough (super high) resolution on its micro screen as compared to the anemic real deal resolution?
Not to seriously nit-pick, but the only thing I spy missing would be the requisite SD Card next to the USB ports in the optical bay.

Check the link under the last picture in the post above, for the full write up and lots more pics. It's actually an iPad screen with Mipi driver board and will do 2048x1536 on a 7.6" screen.

The NUC model I used did not have an SD card slot built in, but the front and back IO shields are customizable to any NUC you use.

Next to a 17"