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I love the iMac known as iLamp or volleyball or whatever else… Has anyone replaced the innards with a mac mini? That’s my next project! Any thios would be appreciated.
I can see that being a fun procect - but not sure if the screen on the iMac ends up using a standard cable with pinout you can connect to the video port of the mini. I guess you need a circuit diagram for the iMac
Hi there, I have the same project with my old G4 iMac Did you finally managed to do this?? If yes how did you manage the screen connection?? Thanks Joel
Nope. Screen issue was a show stopper!
but there is a solution to connect the original screen to a mini CLICK - but be careful - if you don’t understand chinese - it will be very hard to get ;-) (google could help - but not so much) there is a topic about that on macrumors, but last point was the link to the page above. i have an iLamp 17" and i’m also planning a “technical refresh” but instead of a mini i will put in a mini itx board with a core 2 duo - the mini wont help anyway - the optical drive is not usable in the iMac, the whole thing makes only sense when put in without the case and in the end - the mini is only a mini itx board - so why should i buy a pretty expensive mini itx board without the abilitys that some other boards have (mine has 2 vga and a hdmi output, 6 usb 2.0 and since it’s a santa rosa board - i’m able to run the snow kitty on it i’m thinking abit getting a different lcd panel in the g4 - the hanns g. 17" have the same aspect ration and the same resolution as the 17" iMac g4 - but i have to figure out how to put everything together in the lampie
