banini_jeque Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I just found this, what do you guys think? I think it's pretty tight. Atom + ION powered iMac G3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElShotte Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Yeah it does look awesome man. One thing that I have noticed is there is no plate for the motherboard to cover the gap between the case and side connections? I would get either plexiglass or some other form of plastic and make one, other than that, superb conversion and I am sure it was hard enough to accomplish as is, it must have been a great project though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Surge Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Thats a really cool build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryu-ka Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Dude, that's frickin awesome! Too bad it can't run OS X without an EFI bootloader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trabbikevin Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 To be serious: I planned to do this 1 month before -.- Damn, now it's nothing special anymore. (have only a blue iMac G3 but it's slow as hell so I though I could do this, but hmm.. now I've got to think about it..). edit: IS there any discussion-platform for it ? Cause I've got several questions (like: my old laptops's screen would fit perfectly in this case, really - 1280x800 pixel would the resolution be and it really woud fit in it.) and where to get these parts, especially how to remove everything etc. Would be very cool though, maybe I don't give it up as it's a cool thing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted November 26, 2009 Author Share Posted November 26, 2009 trabbikevin, go here: http://www.applefritter.com/node/10574 They have links to everything you should need, including take apart guides etc. Remember though that the grape one I linked to here is a tray loading model, and the slightly newer slot loading ones are much more complex inside, so I don't know if it is even possible to do this mod on those. If it is, they would be preferable since they have a 150 watt power supply and could probably run a Zotac 9300 wifi board with a low power core 2 duo or like an e5200 or something. I don't know why you would want to put a 1280x800 laptop screen in. It wouldn't fit in the bezel right and would make the machine look far from stock. The whole point of the iMac G3 design is that they have a CRT. I also doubt you could use the stock power supply if you did that, as it is also designed for using the CRT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Pirate Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 That's amazing. There may be life left for my old 266Mhz iMac! Long live the Grape! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk1nhead Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 great mod! is this possible on an eMac instead of the tray loading iMac G3's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trabbikevin Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 I don't know why it shouldn't be possible. I guess it would be even better with the eMac (although, my personal thought, it's a bitt ugly xD but well it's my own opinion).. Thanks for the answer.. Will see, I mean the iMac G3 doesn't run away, it's on my desk and waits for work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted December 31, 2009 Author Share Posted December 31, 2009 Do it man. I'm about to start testing on a slot load iMac G3 in the next few weeks. I took the motherboard out, and I'm making ribbon cables to extend all of it's connections. On the video ribbon cable, I'm going to connect all the video wires to a vga connector, and connect that to a pc. Then I'm going to one by one connect the rest of the wires to the right pins on the iMac's motherboard until video from the PC shows up on it's screen. If that works, I'll measure the voltage on the wire that caused it to work, and then I'll know that the hack will require that voltage on that wire. Shouldn't be too hard. Edit: I just found this little board here, which you could use and probably not have to cut anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z0ID Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 n1 !!! Will there be enough space in a g4 Cube for this Board ? I love the design of the cube ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted February 22, 2010 Author Share Posted February 22, 2010 A lot of people have already put ITX boards in cubes. I'm planning on doing one myself soon. I'm buying a cube case for $35 tonight actually, but the guy said it's just the acrylic, so I may have to fab my own chassis. I want it to have a core i7 though, so I may wait for the new Zotac H55 ITX board, and then I can put an i7, replace the wifi with a firewire card, and I want to try putting in a graphics card with a riser as well. I've never seen anyone do ITX AND a graphics card in a cube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 that is awesome! I'll have to send this to my Mum, I wonder if she's still got her pink iMac... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilanMac Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Great mod! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sysyphus Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 If anyone is up for a challenge, then how about combining these: The "Mac-ITX" and a Zotac GeForce 9300 WiFi or a Zotac IONITX Atom 330 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sohum Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 haha i wanna try this out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeBaGeL Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Hot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valpocade Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 I have an old Bondi iMac sitting in my closet. What kind of adapter is required to hook up the VGA out from a mini itx board to the display connector on the tray loader iMacs? There is no mention of what kind of adapter the builder of the Grape Zotac iMac used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jud420 Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANARCHiNTOSH Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 neat. couldnt stand that CRT for more than an hour though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonota Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 neat. couldnt stand that CRT for more than an hour though I think the CRT looks aight. But damn, that's awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
지안 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 awesome build! gotta try this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalel83 Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 why not take out the crt screen, and put a lcd in it's place? would give alot more internal real estate submitting yourself to a crt monitor isn't worth anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshRAWR Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 That's pretty awesome. what gave you the idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted June 8, 2010 Author Share Posted June 8, 2010 I have an old Bondi iMac sitting in my closet. What kind of adapter is required to hook up the VGA out from a mini itx board to the display connector on the tray loader iMacs? There is no mention of what kind of adapter the builder of the Grape Zotac iMac used. The adapter is homemade and actually adapts from the vga pin stubs under the motherboard to the db15 connector for the imac. It actually is mentioned on the site along with links to the pinouts. The CRT doesn't bother me at all, but I never use the machine for more than an hour at a time. It's not my main Hack/Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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