lev Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 So I guess one is for power and one for the video input. Were you able to identify the shape of the video input connector??? lev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Luca Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 Oh my... this is really interesting!!! Calson, if you manage to discover what kind of video input the 24" has, we can hook a TV-Box and trnasform our Mac in a Multimedia Center! And it would be great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caslon Posted October 6, 2006 Author Share Posted October 6, 2006 The connector is very much like an IDE hard drive connector, just not as big. That's funny Don Lucha. I have no idea why anyone would mess with the display. You can already hook it up via the Mini DVI connector. Besides, I would use a Mac Mini for my media center, not an iMac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Luca Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 err... I'm afraid you misunderstood... The mini-DVI on the back of the iMac is a Video-out connector... If I undestrood well, the connector you were talking about is a Video-In connector... which means I can hook external devices and use the 24" iMac's monitor to watch TV or play with my PS2... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lev Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 I agree with Caslon concerning the media center. Still, with the imac you can do that already via some elgato-toy (watching tv I mean) !!! But as far as I know you cannot hook up the imac to a different mac and use the imac's display for that new mac. You can only mirror/expand the imac's desktop via the imac's mini-dvi-out That's why it would be interesting to know if the internal connector (which ,I suppose, feeds the video signal into the imac-tft) can be replaced by the dvi-out of another graphics unit... EDIT: sorry, went to take a coffee while composing the message. Did not notice that Don Luca responded in the mean time :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffDM Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 I read on Cnet news, that the quad cores will be for dual-processor servers. So that does mean that there wont be any quad-core models for boards like the iMac.Thnx! In a word, no. You probably will not be able to convert any current iMac to a quad core. The quads coming this year will be for servers & workstations and there will be a high end desktop version. The problem is that the iMac uses mobile chips, which has a different socket than the the desktop chips. There will eventually be a mobile quad chip, but the socket is going to change to a different mobile socket before then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farelle Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Well that sux, i guess the only upgrade option we have to look into is that graphics now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caslon Posted October 9, 2006 Author Share Posted October 9, 2006 I think we will have to wait and see what Apple does. Two years ago no one would have thought there would be a dual processor iMac and yet here it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lev Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Sorry to be a pain in the a$$ ;-) but are there any news on the display-connector-front? Do you recall the shape or have some fotos you did not post so far? thanks, lev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odedia Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Yeah, i'm wondering that myself... I just ordered a near-maxed-out 24" iMac, and I would love to know if the screen will be usable in the future, and if the graphics card is replacable for the 7900 or other cards in the future. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo50 Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 does anyone know what type of panel in this 24" iMac? i suppose this is Samsung PVA... but i don't know exactly... does anyone know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caslon Posted October 12, 2006 Author Share Posted October 12, 2006 I'm waiting on a refernce card from MXM Upgrades to see if it is or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lev Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Ok, so I guess we have to be patient for now :-) But I think I have come up with another way to use the imac's display with another mac. If you attach an Elgato EyeTV hybrid (http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=home) to the usb-port of your imac you provide the imac with a s-video-in. According to Elgato you can then for example attach a console and play without latency on he imac's screen. Now if you attach a DVi-to-s-video adapter to the dvi-port of the graphics card of a mac pro for example and plug in the s-video-out of the adapter into the imac via the EyeTV device you should see the mac pro's image on the imac's screen. Theoretically. But I don't know how good the image quality would be. Still, a direct connection to the imac's display (inside the imac) would be better in my opinion. Any thoughts on this one? cheers, lev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odedia Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Accodrding to this article: http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=883 the new Geforce 7950 GTX MXM card is mac compatible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caslon Posted October 13, 2006 Author Share Posted October 13, 2006 Read the article again. The chip is Mac compatible. The MXM card we can't say until it is swaped and tested or released buy Apple. This would be a great card if it works. I wonder about heat and power issues with the stock iMac setup. I'm sure I'll get around to testing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossie Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 Im interested in the display connector aswell. Because once its time comes, i still want to be able to use that amazing screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
columbusgeek Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 How easy is it to upgrade the ram? Is it "little door on side" easy or is it "tear it totally down" like you had to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odedia Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 RAM is a piece of cake. There's even a short guide on apple's site on how to do it. 2 screwed and you have the RAM door avaliable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
columbusgeek Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Thank you. I found the info about only 2 slots later on in my evening of reading and never came back here to update my question. Thanks for the response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caslon Posted October 19, 2006 Author Share Posted October 19, 2006 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Update !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, the 7900 card I tried was really a 6800. It did not work. I just tried a 7800 and it's a type III card and physically will not work with the iMac 24. My only conclusion is that it Mac cards or nothing. I'm done trying. That makes 4 different cards that don't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lev Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 That's really a pity. I would have liked a 7900 in an iMac. But thanks a lot for trying. Honestly. I don't know if I would have had the courage to open my iMac. By the way, did you get another glimps at the internal display-connector? Cheers, Lev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caslon Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 Here is a pic of the two connectors for the LCD panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aberracus Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Caslon How come that you have so many macs and you open them and mess with them.. you do testing for living? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lev Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Thanks a lot Caslon!!! I was waiting for such a picture. Now, does anyone recognize the type of connector? I suppose one is for power and one for the video-in signal... Come on. We are close to keeping that beautiful display once the iMac itself has to retire... :-) Anyone have any knowledge on TFT-Displays? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hersato Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Thanks Caslon, for nice pictures, but where is the power supply ?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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