I Perfected the iMac G4 

If they created a variation of this board with a mount for a Mac mini system board, this would be perfect.

The lampshade iMac was by far the pinnacle of the G4 lineup... the articulating on that unit was the most balanced and buttery smooth thing I have ever put my hands on. If you weren't around for it, there's just no way of describing how well they perfected that feature.

The G4 looks like it belongs in a Dentists office that doesn't accept my insurance.

I'm primarily a windows user, i can count on one hand the times I've used a Mac or an iMac and even I think the iMac G4 is one of the most beautiful computers ever made. A work of art! And even though this G4 is just a glorified monitor now, what a monitor it is!

The iMac people **actually** want! Beautiful!

This is the most beautiful computer that has ever been made. The clear acrylic around the matte white bezel of the display. The frosted plastic on the base and back of the display. The ultra fine concentric machined circles on the bottom which most people will never see. The stainless steel arm and the vent holes. The chrome Apple logo. The pop out tray. The speakers and keyboard and mouse. I mean… it just doesn’t get any better. I have a 17” on display at home and can’t get enough of the design all these years later.

I’d love to see 3D printed plugs to improve the fit and finish of those I/O ports on the back. Also a future board revision where there’s a full raspi system that can drive the screen directly running Rasbian or the like, where it’s essentially a Linux iMac that supports target display mode.

Imagine Apple made an anniversary edition iMac in the style of an iMac G3 or G4. Would be a cool collectors item.

I LOVE Juicy Crumb. They also make boards for the 27” 2011 iMac which had such common crippling graphics failures. To see them continue to grow and make more old computers still usable is awesome.

Oh yeah! And now my Saturday has officially started 😊

FANTASTIC! Hope they make these boards for the 17"!! I've got one here that is near mint!

I love the purple color of the board.

I NEED THIS! My 20" iMac is dead like yours, this would be freaking awesome!

I love seeing new life given to old machines that shaped the industry.

This display is gorgeous

This is the coolest thing ever! I have a 20” iMac G4, and it used to run perfectly after I repasted the CPU. Then I put it in storage for a while. Took it out maybe a year later and it is dead, dead, dead. I would definitely be interested in trying this.

God, when M1 was announced and people did this kind of stuff, I loved it so much. And after this video, I realize that I STILL love to watching it. Thank you for the video.

I did something similar during the Pandemic. Gutted the dome and swapped in an AsRock A300 motherboard with a Ryzen 3400G. While I found a great guide on converting the TMDS signal from the monitor to HDMI, it only worked once before I fried something, so I ended up swapping the old LCD for a modern one. It's now my daily driver. Great to see other people show this beautiful machine the love it deserves!

The arm on that monitor was really nice! I wish Apple still made them like that.

This iMac still looks modern. I'd love to see this with the trash can Mac, that one is so beautiful.

Wikid Awesome! Thats Board is gonna go Brrrrrr

Wow, you are a very lucky guy. I was a PC guy when this Mac came out but I still drooled over it. What a great way to get this masterpiece back to its former glory!

I am SO excited for this project! I've been wanting to get a G4 again and do something like this for a while and now it's so much more viable.

i'm actually crying... The absolute love being shown to this gorgeous design is incredible!

You can really feel your genuine excitement in this one. Super cool mod, and absolutely a fantastic use for this machine!

You absolute madman

You have NO IDEA how overjoyed am that I came across this video! I have been waiting for someone to build a solution like this for YEARS. I've seen all the videos on how to convert a G4 iMac, but they all looked incredibly daunting and I knew I'd just end up destroying mine. This is an immediate order for me. So, so, so looking forward to trying this out.

I sure hope a 17" version is in the works

I really wish I had kept my iLuxo. It was a (iirc) 17 inch 800 MHz G4. It worked perfectly fine at one point, but when I pulled it out of storage about a year ago, it was completely DOA. Just blinked its power light, nothing more. I tried several of the common fixes (and some of the less-common ones) -- reseated all the connectors, changed the battery, reset the PRAM, etc., blew hot air on the power supply using my hot air station (some models had power supplies known to have bad capacitors, and heating them brings them back to life. I was still somewhat leery of recapping high voltage stuff at the time, so recapping it was not an option) and also tried swapping in different memory, unfortunately to no avail. Ended up selling it because I was getting fed up with it, plus I needed the money. I absolutely love the design of the thing, the monitor that just sort of floats in midair is truly magical, and was really sorry to see it go. I would have LOVED to do a mod like this. I actually have an M1 mini that is my daily driver (I'm typing this comment on it right now) and would have loved to hack that into the old G4's shell.

This is so cool! I've always adored the look of the iMac G4, but it was before my time as a Mac user (I switched in 2008/2009), so seeing what you've done with this makes my heart happy. I think its fair to say that its no longer an iMac G4 - its now an iMac M2. And I love it!

Thanks for sharing! I really wanted to use my 27" iMac 2011 as an external display without all the weird hacks I've seen online, because the display is still friggin' gorgeous even in 2024 and Juicy Crumb has a kit for that too. Hurray!!! This is exactly what I was looking for!

Love this so much, I have a Classic II with an M1 mini inside and an iPad retina LCD on a controller board, but this is next level! Kudos!

Absolutely insane. I used to have the more square display G4 and loved it, but sold it when I moved as it was big and didn't do anything. I didn't forsee the M1 series and how I could actually make my dream a reality. Definitely on the hunt for another

11:42 Wow looks very futuristic, i love it

It's amazing how much a case swap can give one the warm fuzzies. I once transferred a newer mid-tower's guts into an older full-size tower, and it was like having my old friend back. It helps that I was using the same monitor as I'd used with the older machine. I'd initially done the swap to get more internal space, since I wanted to expand and the newer machine's case was too cramped. However, I was so happy with the nostalgic effect that I ended up using that case for yet another build years later, despite it being ancient by that point and lacking in modern amenities like front-mounted USB and audio ports. Oh, well, that's what drive bay expansions are for. Sean's iMac "G4" in this video is like the super, ultra upgraded version of my experience.

Saturday morning just watchin’ mah stories

Nice to see you resurrect this classic. I love these kind of builds.

I've wondered about this retro/mini mod, myself. Looks awesome! Thanks for the demo/lesson!!

This is the sort of content that I just can’t enough of, thank you!

what a gorgeous sleeper!

this is one of the coolest seemless Mac mods i have ever seen. S+ man. S+.

@15:38 - May not be a lot out there but I almost guarantee the ones that are have been treated well because they haven't gone out of style. The reason you're talking about it today is testament to that :) My mom still has hers in her office but it hasn't run in a decade but it's still on her desk because it just looks so good. Thank you for showing me one way I can breathe exciting new life into it!

That was totally AWESOME!! Now to get an old iMac G4 and upgrade it!

I have kept my iMac G4 in my attic, safety covered with a cloth. Your video has got me thinking about bringing it back to life! Thank you!!! Also, I agree, the most beautiful computer Apple ever built!

I would love to do this on my 24 inch late 2006 iMac. Probably my favorite iMac ever

I've always wanted to do this! You're living my dream. I'll always have a soft spot for the iMac G3 (my first ever computer), but the G4 is the most beautiful computer ever made.

Thank you so much for this video. I have a 17" inch iMac G4 that I have always wanted to turn into an M1 iMac G4. Now that you've created this video, I will be on the lookout for a 20" inch iMac G4, since Juicy Crumb only sells a board for the 20" inch iMac! Besides being a MAC User, I also collect old Macs. I have 5 old iMacs going back to 2000, 7 old Apple Laptops going back to 1995 and 2 old desktops going back to 1993. Keep up with the great content! Love your show!!!

One of my teachers had a sunflower mac and I always loved the way it looked

This is fabulous!! I have the iMac G4 20" - I am considering this!

This is very rad. And it looks very do-able

The problem is in the firmware. They need to add a routine to the firmware to detect if there is input to the hdmi. If there is, it sends the signal, if there is not: 1. Cuts the power supply to the monitor through a relay (requires re-wiring) 2. Adjusts the screen brightness to minimum (or completely turns off the backling, if possible) and Leave it like this, as soon as it is plugged into the socket, it will be on. Another cool solution would be to add an HDMI CEC controller to be able to control the computer through HDMI, this would allow a physical on/off button on the motherboard, which will make the computer sleep/turn off via HDMI. The motherboard's USB should be a USB 3.0+ hub that derives all ports from a single port on the Mac mini, connected internally, as well as HDMI

Man! .... from Retro to fast Future 2024! iMac G4 is surely an antique! This Video shows it WORKS !

this is the coolest channel ever, im 24 and picked up a g4 powermac recently and shoved my windows pc inside, your channel makes me wanna do it again. im also in an emo band playing 90's - early 00's inspired stuff and your stuff sounded. badass

Such a sweet sleeper build, always loved the G4 design!

This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.

my dream pc design with the latest tech well done

I have one of these iMac packed up in my garage. Now this give me some idea on what to do with it. Thanks.

Fun! I loved this model back in the day.

What a great and beautiful project. The quality of the display and. the resolution look amazing. If this would be offered in shops, I would consider buying it. Really great.

I have a dead 20” iMac G4 and I’ve been waiting for YEARS for something like this and have carted it around the country with me as I moved from place to place- if they decide to produce these with the Mac Mini (even an older intel one) already mounted to the board they can just take my money!!! 😍😍😍😍

iMac G4 is the best mac ever I love that you did this

That's my dream computer too. Nice work Sean!

thats so cool looking and works amazing

This is the EXACT type of video I want to make on my channel.

this is totally brilliant, i need to do this as i have a dead 20" imac also

Awesome, as always ! Cheers from Quebec

Absolutely awesome and beautiful, well done!

This is awesome! The iMac G4 is so iconic with such a cool design. The one flaw of this that I imagine is that the display isn't Retina, which is unfortunate

That’s awesome. Def going to try and get a board for mine.

Excelent. Love it. Well done. A model I have loved since it came out.

Man, this is amazing! I have a 20" iMac with a broken motherboard and this would be perfect for that. Whenever they are widely available, I totally am gonna snag one of these.

Holy crap that is one of the coolest things I've ever seen!!!!!

That is just AMAZING! I'm so envious - I wish I had an iMac G4 customised for Intel i7 capable of running everything from Mavericks to Catalina, I'd be using it every day...

I always wanted to do that, but I"'m not that good to rewire it again. This solution is fantastic. I just ordered mine!

this is such a great nostalgia video!

I bought the original 15" monitor iMac the day it came out, back in 2002. It still works (although I don't use it, as I have a 2015 27" iMac) but I love what you've done with yours!

I love the form factor!

Im from Australia so, Im glad we could help.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! To me it looks bloody awrful.

WoW When I come across A iMac G4 I will have to due that mod very clean install great job Sean

This is amazing. You are living the dream.

I have always wanted to do this. And with the Power Mac G4 Cube. Such beautiful computers.

but THANK you for pointing us in the Juicy Crumb up-scaling direction :D

This iMac is what i ever wanted

My girlfriend had one of these 20 years ago. It was such a pleasure to use. Such a beautiful machine. I can't believe you managed this. If Apple started churning these out again (25th Anniversary Model!), they'd sell out.

Just ordered and now watching this again

Been waiting for someone to do this 🙏

This is my kind of recycling and reuse. Nice!

Seriously cool retro project!

Cool hack. It’s the only old Mac I’ve saved. The design is so great. Not sure I will make it “new” but very cool you can!

This is crazy awesome! G4 iMacs need not be collecting dust anymore.

Wow! Very inspired idea, and it had just the right amount jank.

such cool aesthetics

The iMac G4, to this day, is my ideal computer. I used them in school, and the sheer beauty of it is seared into me to this day.

So niiice !! I turned 30 yo and I was on that comptuer at 10/12 !!! So much nostalgie :D

Yeah! finally more Mac shenanigans :D

The juicy crumb looks like a map of towns sprinkled across an Australian (or Kansan) plain.

I would totally buy this. It’s gorgeous.

BRO! I’ve been wanting this EXACT thing for my 2002 iMac G4! Like I’ve literally been praying to every deity known and unknown for something like this. I’ve wanted to restore my old iMac to modern glory for so long and now it feels like I’m finally a step closer! 🥲

That right there is **Shenanigans Hall of Fame** material!!! Awesome, Sean 😂😂😂