Turn Your Broken iMac Into A New Standalone Display!

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Today we’re turning my broken old 27” 2011 iMac into a functional standalone display with the help of Juicy Crumb Systems and their new logic board. #imac #display #repair
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"Dust off your old iMac and turn it into an external display, dock, or fully fledged computer! These "CrumbGrades" are a simple drop in replacement for the original Logic Board of your 2011 27” iMac"

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@psivewri Год назад

This seems like a pretty interesting endeavour, check out their kickstarter if it interests you :) www.kickstarter.com/projects/juicycrumb/juicy-crumb-upgrade-logic-board

@iamdmc Год назад

absolutely stupid pricing you can buy a great 27" 1440p or 4K monitor at these prices! And it would have warranty and be 10 years newer tech disappointed in your promotion of this overpriced kickstarter that will probably never ship

@digitalrampage Год назад

Thanks @Psivewri - Hopefully all the people who like the idea even those who dont have a compatible Mac can throw in a few dollars support (even a single $) to show the development team there is some love out there. We were over half funded in a week, so hopefully people see the value in this and future projects of the same style on other products

@iamdmc Год назад

@@digitalrampage your project is bad and you should feel bad

@ekoprasetiyo Год назад

How about the drives on the imac? Can it be connected to the board so it can function as a storage via usb?

@Goldenboi69akacunt Год назад

one question do you have a macOS Seirra install usb by any chance if you do pls can u respond because i have the exact same iMac 27"

@T3CHGY007 Год назад

Man those old iMacs still has some of the best resolutions for viewing around! simply amazing!

@rebelliousreptile7336 Год назад

Absolutly love the idea, especially the use of existing hardware on the monitor like the webcam and the optical drive. Ive seen these macs pretty cheap that are stuffed in the motherboard, cpu or gpu area so this could be a very affordable way of getting a great monitor with a ton of other goodies.

@stevearkwright Год назад

Alas, it’s not affordable. They’re asking US$249 for the *cheapest* board. You can buy a fancy HP 32" silver monitor - brand new - with $50 left over.

@rebelliousreptile7336 Год назад

@@stevearkwright hold on there. The boards are expensive, sure, but when you add up the total costs, it can be a very good deal. You get 5k resolution, and then all the io including an optical drive, a USB hub and even a webcam. If you get the iMac for say $100, then try to find a monitor with all the same items as that.

@thumbwarriordx Год назад

Be very afraid of the VESA mounting option tho. They specced the screws to self-destruct and shear apart if you look at them too hard.

@sf95super 4 месяца назад

@@rebelliousreptile733650$ a monitor and 10$ a webcam also with the european price that it's more expensive then American ones.

@demorbe-official Год назад

I love your creativity it's really awesome seeing you bring old stuff back to life.

@ericbauer4559 Год назад

Nice to see someone trying to make something out of these old but very nice iMacs. I have a 2010 27" that I put an M1 Mac mini inside along with connecting the speakers to USB amp, and installed a 2011 iSight camera. After accidentally killing the ebay display driver board, I took apart a 4k LG display and installed that instead. Just waiting on a replacement front glass panel and it'll be finished.

@giorgos7six Год назад

Hi Eric, you actually placed a MacMini inside that iMac?

@ericbauer4559 Год назад

@@giorgos7six Yes, just the logic board and the power supply.

@giorgos7six Год назад

@@ericbauer4559 Wow this sounds awesome! Do you have a video of this installation?

@ericbauer4559 Год назад

@@giorgos7six Not yet. It's pretty nice to use even though I don't get to use it daily since I just have it at work on my work bench.

@HGAMES69 Год назад

Let's hope Apple doesn't try to shut this project down because it looks promising and shows potential reverse engineering.

@poble Год назад

have they actually gone after these kind of projects though?

@zoomosis Год назад

I don't see how they could.

@elfedorausado Год назад

I don't think they can. Controller boards for display panels have been sold for years now. There's a wealth of RU-vid content around repurposing displays from otherwise damaged laptop and turning them into external monitors. In the Apple camp, Luke Miani did something similar with an iMac, turning it into a 4k display some months ago, so I guess there is no problem.

@AmazedStoner Год назад

I’m more curious as to why apple hasn’t thought of this as an available service already

@GalenlevyPhoto Год назад

Nah Apple won’t. People have done repurposing Macs for years. Swapping boards or making custom boards for older Macs.

@jorge7282 Год назад

Your video has answered my questions. Thank you very much for sharing this method that works for all platforms.

@lasbrujazz Год назад

I can only imagine when this product is finalized, the shape of the board would actually align with external ports on iMac chassis, making it a complete sleeper.

@videogalore Год назад

Really interesting and long overdue too! Makes perfect sense as they begin to reduce support for the older macs, which are otherwise perfectly good!

@joel.davey04 Год назад

thank you for releasing this it's really helpful bro.

@hackintoshslovakia368 Год назад

absolut fantastic project, as always !

@thebusinessfirm9862 Год назад

Great video, mate. Thanks for making it.

@Abhidoesfirestuff Год назад

love your vids mane keep these innovative bits coming !!

@Roberto_79 Год назад

Looks amazing I have a 27 inch iMac up in the loft with a failed logic board which I was loath to get rid of as it was working so will before that. This is definitely a project I would like to attempt

@LetsPlayKeldeo Год назад

Really cool video ! I did the same thing Years ago I have an Imac Lamp / an 2011 and 2009 Imac as Displays

@BronyumHexofloride Год назад

I do hope they go back as far as the G4, i got one collecting dust that hasn't worked in over a decade due to a logic board issue that id Love to turn into a stylish display for my various computers

@rnt45t1 Год назад

Happy to see you posting again, my friend.

@calebandkylerock Год назад

Dang it bro! You beat me. I'm in the process of editing my video of a 2011 imac monitor! Great video as always mate!

@hazel_888 Год назад

really looking forward to this! i have a 2009 imac with a broken graphics card and i wanted to turn it into a display for quite a while!

@Tom2404 Год назад

For 300AUD you can probably just buy another GPU and a usb capture card.

@adamren7467 Год назад

Only compatible with 2011 27 inch ones.

@samlawrence4670 Год назад

Disable the graphics card that one will work in target display mode.

@zaamuro8408 Год назад

Great idea and amazing way of keeping Apple aesthetics around!

@TimurTripp2 Год назад

This is amazing. I'd like to see a version for the iMac 5K as it can save people (myself included) so much money vs. buying a new Studio Display! The panel in our aging iMacs is still nearly as good as Apple's $1,600 display and it frustrates me so much that it can't be used as a standalone display, especially now with Apple's attempt to discontinue MacOS support for early models of iMac 5K. Unlike the 2011 it may not be a standard DisplayPort connector inside which is a problem though, at the time the DisplayPort standard couldn't handle 5K. I believe they got around this by using 2x DisplayPorts for the one display but I could be wrong.

@c1bersnake Год назад

Imagine dumping in the internals of a mac mini M2 pro and having a fully functional iMac pro lol

@HughJeffreys Год назад

These guys reached out to me. I was keen to cover the product but they wanted me to sign an NDA that was marked as being from "iFixit". I said I wouldn't sign anything and asked them why they where calling themselves iFixit and never heard anything more...

@cbee402 Год назад

@butterfox863 Год назад

thats odd, btw love your videos #righttorepair

@psivewri Год назад

Their "IFIXIT Australia PTY LTD" ABN was registered back in 2012. They are trading as the business "Juicy Crumb Systems" as of August 2021. Maybe it's some sort of inside joke and they registered the company name prior to the American "iFixit" company having a presence here in Australia.

@digitalrampage Год назад

Juicy Crumb and its original parent company has owned the name iFixit in Australia since 2006. Someone from Juicy Crumb will be in touch soon to re-affirm this.

@CHGOfficial512 Год назад

Shh apple might hear

@nuherbleath461 Год назад

It’s a very good up cycle. The need to make some sort of brightness knob for the newer Apple cinema displays as they can no longer have their brightness adjusted due to it being in the os and that being removed.

@RobertMizen Год назад

This is awesome, such a great project.

@dash8brj Год назад

I hope this comes out for the 2014 iMacs, as my one has a stuffed logic board. I'd love to use it as a second monitor for my m1 macbook :)

@Bort_86 Год назад

I was thinking about doing something exactly like that (well, with the cheap AliExpress-stuff that’s around, USB-hubs and a lot of tinkering) and am on the lookout for a cheap broken iMac for that. While this kickstarter-project is pretty neat, due to budget constraints I will still stick to what I imagined.

@FadiQv Год назад

My thoughts exactly. The product is amazing, but at a £250 buy in, Its too expensive to be viable. Im sure cost will come down with time though.

@cashwood Год назад

I remember when you could do a similar thing with Target Display Mode on the pre-5K iMacs but the functionality was disabled in a later version of macOS (I think it might've been Mojave not sure)

@THEcoolGAMER60 Год назад

Do u know why it was removed?

@Sauceyjames Год назад

@@THEcoolGAMER60 Apple needs to make money 💰

@elu9780 Год назад

@@THEcoolGAMER60 Apple only removes functionality and usability to make more profit for themselves. That's it. There's literally no deeper reasoning for this - they don't care about end users. If they did, they would release unlockers for older iPad and iPhone models so that they would remain usable and not just stuck wherever they happened to be the last time they were used.

@memediatek Год назад

@@THEcoolGAMER60 they started selling displays

@NickelLight Год назад

@@sys-administrator /\

@virgomunoz Год назад

I’m planning on doing this with a 2006 white iMac! The idea was to use it with newer software as if it had original hardware inside of it. I have a special connection to these computers because it’s what they had in the computer lab in elementary school

@theburntcrumpet8371 Год назад

This is so cool - I've always been a huge fan of the displays apple use in the iMacs so to be able to repurpose computers which would otherwise be ewaste as high quality, high resolution monitors is quite the achievement

@Aldo.flores Год назад

That’s an incredible way to turn an old iMac into a Thunderbolt Display for a couple bucks, hope they fix the cable position in the future and manage a way to reuse the existing ports on the iMac

@andresbravo2003 Год назад

Looks good! I was really impressed! 😇👍🏻💙

@digitalrampage Год назад

Thank you! You can support the efforts with a crumbs up on the project!

@RestInRaxys Год назад

This looks so cool, hope they keep their promises

@ncwplaneteer7007 Год назад

I love this. I would love to see more retro apple videos

@AsenIkonomov Год назад

Pretty cool idea!

@uchihasasuke7436 Год назад

This is sick as hell, might try to make one myself

@avrel820 Год назад

Nice I enjoyed watching 😃

@Matthew_Finn Год назад

Solid video!

@BossBen1 Год назад

Really good video. Keep it up

@Pennerman Год назад

I am currently using my 27“ 2011 iMac as a display for my 2012 Mac Mini via a 0.5m Thunderbolt cable. It would be nice to be able to use newer computers with different cables though!

@austinmerath9733 Год назад

Dreams do come true! I love it! But now we need one for the iMac G3 😆😆

@digitalrampage Год назад

Throw in a dollar of support to the campaign if you can! The G3 is certainly something we would love to do one day, but its much further down the list

@jameslangridge8849 Год назад

I love the idea of being able to reuse something that would otherwise be thrown away or recycled.

@digitalrampage Год назад

Thanks! Please throw a dollar of support in if you could to help =)

@ericrhill Год назад

Oh wow I've got a 2011 gathering dust under my desk. If this would let me upcycle it cleanly into an m1 I'd be so happy!

@bramvandenbroeck5060 Год назад

I am quite interested in a 2008 20 inch version of this mod, i have an old imac i would like to convert this way to be able to work with my m1 pro macbook pro! This would be so awesome! And i hope the G4 mod sees the light of day in the near future!

@digitalrampage Год назад

The G4 will be the next project when this crosses the line and ships. Throw some support on the kickstart with a Crumb Up if you can! Every support and dollar helps, and allows us to keep in touch in regards to the G4 project.

@zerocks88 Год назад

using this to put a new mac mini in is SUCH an awesome idea!

@digitalrampage Год назад

Thanks! Shoot us a Crumbs Up on the kickstarter if you can! =)

@spoons4904 Год назад

Great video

@TheSpotify95 Год назад

4:29 Nice, it's good to know that other people also play the older F1 games :). Even without seeing the banner, I guessed it was from 2012 (or similar).

@psivewri Год назад

Yes, 2012 🙂

@TheSpotify95 Год назад

@@psivewri F1 2012 was one of the first games I played on a PC - it was back when I was using a weak laptop, could barely get 20fps with everything set to low 😛

@nenadtarlac Год назад

Hope they make one for the 5k 2017 iMac. That’s a stunning display.

@RandomActivities Год назад

This is very cool!

@ngannon80 Год назад

Very cool!

@Geardos1 Год назад

really promising product, these displays are still good by modern standards and highly functional. Great way to prevent iMac e-waste.

@digitalrampage Год назад

Thank you for your kind words! People forget how good these displays are. When people say “But I can buy a better display for $200” they clearly haven’t used one of these as a standalone display! Give us a crumbsup on the Kickstarter

@harkiratkathuria318 Год назад

Yes! Another mac video !!!

@tunnandaaung2 Год назад

cool dude now i going to buy broken imac and try to test this :3

@MyFriendlyPup Год назад

You're rad dude.

@andrewdupuis1151 Год назад

i like imac monitors i have early 2008 imac it still works great

@markredf150 Год назад

Awesome video! This is a heck of a way to prevent some huge e-waste. Do you know if it'll be available for the 21.5" models as well?

@digitalrampage Год назад

Throw us a dollar to show your support. We are planning on the 21.5 and the 2009-2010 models as well. The reason targeting this model occurred as a first was due to the significant number of dead units floating around for cheap.

@a1m598 Год назад

@@digitalrampage your prices are ridiculous

@digitalrampage Год назад

@@a1m598 Yet we are over half funded. We respect your choice not to like the project and welcome you to attempt to build a competitor for a lower price.

@RageQuitSon Год назад

@@digitalrampage (remove the ! For your website in your last public update) yo I LOVE your project but realistically, no. Preventing e-waste isn't worth over $250 USD. And I don't like the cockiness. Congrats on exceeding your goal! But a diy hack can't cost more than a brand new monitor. And if you release cheaper that's a HUGE middle finger to your backers.

@serg3615 Год назад

The Boards start at $386? For that money, you can buy a decent 4k or buy a Chinese board for $200 to convert 2015 images into screens.

@Sentinel-USA Год назад

Amazing!

@AztkSmooth Год назад

Man I need this my 2012 27 inch hasn’t been working for the last year due to similar issues. Still turns on though.

@caviar_dreamz Год назад

You can switch the integrated GPU off using an application. I forgot what it was called, but I've used it on a Macbook Pro with a failing GPU and it switches back to Intel graphics. I think there's also a verbose command to switch it off too.

@GayDingo Год назад

Would love this to upgrade my late 2013 iMac my dad uses with M1 hardware.

@jasmidotormythrilaon Год назад

Wow imagine using 3 2010 imacs as displays that sounds awesome

@mdanehenry Год назад

Really interesting! I have an old 2007 iMac that I’d like to repurpose as a display only…

@digitalrampage Год назад

throw us a dollar. If this project gets over the line, the plan is to replicate it on to many older Mac models. The iMac G4 is the next in the pipeline currently due to demand.

@giorgos7six Год назад

Awesome board and video, congrats #Psivewri! Is the camera operational? 🙂

@Pendleton115 Год назад

Hi, the camera, SD reader and other accessories are all operational on the "DockPro" model!

@giorgos7six Год назад

@@Pendleton115 what other accessories are operational on the Dock Pro and what on the Dock Lite model?

@lands1459 Год назад

could you maybe do a video on GPU replacement? i have a 2011 21.5" iMac, A1311 with an HD 6750M in it. works fine but i heard they have issues so it would be nice to know how to replace it should i ever need to

@ShockingPikachu Год назад

Got to love upcycling!

@digitalrampage Год назад

Thank you! So do we, throw a dollar of support in if you can!

@TheBasementChannel Год назад

I’d be so stoked to get a 5k version of this board

@LoftechUK Год назад

Great idea.

@digitalrampage Год назад

Thanks! Shoot us a Crumbs Up on the kickstarter if you can! =)

@thomasandrews9355 Год назад

Ha, they are using Newark / Farnell caps. nothing wrong with that, just surprising :) I use them myself.

@feedmyintellect 6 месяцев назад

I installed Chrome OS Flex on my 2011 iMAC and turned it into a fantastic Chromebook that will receive security updates for many years to come. The Core i5 in my iMAC along with 8GB if RAM makes it quite a powerful Chromebook.

@ptfrodrigues9300 Год назад

I want new car videos :D xD Keep up the good work!

@rnicoles9355 Год назад

This is actually a good idea Like I can now use more monitors for paying less and more resolution, instead of buying a cheap monitor with less resolution

@AlexisNicoleMunoz 5 месяцев назад

I have 2015 imac, i love the retina resolution and it’s in good condition like new. I would like to use as a monitor. Everything is ok only the processor and ram can’t change because it’s obsolete and welded 😫

@georgesenda1952 Год назад

I have a Thunderbolt display with the front glass broken out & what looks like rust on the aluminum edges. I'm hoping to restore it if possible. I found it while walking on the street.

@gracejune3426 6 месяцев назад

I have a 27 inch 2009 imac that has 32 G of ram and a 512 SATA drive. It works wonderfully, other than how it fries my external drives so I can't edit photos. Also can't upgrade OS so I can't upgrade Adobe programs. Of course XD The computer experts locally said it sounds like a power supply issue and isn't worth fixing, but having paid to upgrade this already I'm possibly in denial that this is the end of the road. You said you installed an M1 in your 2011 computer. Do you think I could do something similar with this? Thanks for the video! I am interested in learning how to work on these myself.

@elfedorausado Год назад

I love this concept. I'm currently looking for a decent monitor for work at home, but 1) I'm on a budget and 2) what I've managed to find used is usually in auction sites, and am always beaten in bidding 😆. Older Macs, however, are plentiful and cheap. I might embark on this project when they are established

@digitalrampage Год назад

Throw us a dollar to show your support. The project will ship, its looking like the Lite will be shipped by Christmas.

@digitalrampage Год назад

@UC_-YfGnOdxgepHOYdwutzUA $189USD is the current cheapest board on offer with early bird special

@TamarinPamarin Год назад

Nice one

@tld8102 Год назад

wow. i think there would definitely be a aftermarket for this modification to microsoft’s surface studio

@joelcarterramadge183 Год назад

Would be even better in a 5K iMac, both for higher res screen and speakers. I have always wanted to do this because the body of the iMac looks so great.

@paulb4uk Год назад

Very neat idea to reuse these as a stand alone monitor if the computer fails .

@fatgrouch 3 месяца назад

I wish there is an easy way to use an old 5K iMac as a monitor in Australia, strip it down and adding a board as the controller for using it as a monitor is a good idea ?

@The_10mm_socket_you_lost Год назад

Ngl, i hope that this can support the older iMacs like the 2007 iMacs. I have one with a bad gpu and would love to connect a m1 Mac mini into it.

@digitalrampage Год назад

Throw us a dollar in support of the campaign. Next is the iMac G4, then we go with demand based feedback on which models are thereafter. We have gone for one of the most technically challenging up front. We are nearly there. The revision 5 is far more polished.

@calvinficenec7538 Год назад

I did this a while ago with an $80 board from eBay on a free, dead 2009 27” iMac, and this does everything that I had imagined I would want from the board. The one I got has a lot less features.

@digitalrampage Год назад

The benefit of this is the lack of need for soldering, a power supply and backlight driver. We use the original Apple Power and Backlight meaning you get great quality display and full brightness. Yes its more expensive, but it has more features and requires little technical experience.

@maxymko Год назад

Would you please advise the search keywords? I’ve been looking for a while, and wasn’t able to find anything like this.

@calvinficenec7538 Год назад

@@maxymko I just found a sticker on the back of the panel with the model number and typed that into eBay with the phrase “driver board” or “control board” after it.

@maxymko Год назад

@@calvinficenec7538 Ah, I see. Thanks for feedback.

@claudiad5751 Год назад

I have that 27 inch iMac but when it turns on it has a gray display bought this 10 years ago; not sure if it’s worth fixing. What do u think.

@MoeGravey Год назад

I like the idea of the m1 in an old Mac. would be interesting to see guts of a framework laptop thrown into it.

@BrianJones-wk8cx Год назад

Very very interesting! Will be keeping my eyes on this project, thanks for the heads-up!

@digitalrampage Год назад

Thanks Brian. Throw your support behind this project with a dollar if you can. The lite is expected to ship earlier then expected as we are now just arranging a last minute change and manufacturing partner - The pro has greater challenges but everything is possible!

@retrogamereviews7323 Год назад

Do you happen to know what the refresh rate is of that panel?

@Supercon57 Год назад

What a great way to bring new life to an otherwise unusable great screen just collecting dust

@digitalrampage Год назад

Thanks! Shoot us a Crumbs Up on the kickstarter if you can! =)

@edmn Год назад

Would love this for a 2015 5k iMac.

@musicCheckers Год назад

Look at Luke Miani he has one 😊

@digitalrampage Год назад

Throw a dollar to support the team. The 5K iMac is likely second in line after the iMac G4 for this project.

@lowlowseesee Год назад

This looks like what I’m looking for

@PurpleSucks. Год назад

I saw your comment on luke's vid and i wasnt sure u were gonna make this lol

@SPARTAN_Cayde-26 Год назад

I would make a all in one pc out of my old laptop with this thing!

@digitalrampage Год назад

Throw a dollar in support if you can! The best thing is, eventually when this is commercially successful, the M1 bracket solution could be repurposed for any stick PC or mini PC that runs on 12V power

@ronkemperful Год назад

Much better and more practical than converting the iMac to an aquarium. And no skinny fish needed. Sadly I got rid of my 2011 iMac because it would have cost 400$ to replace a broken power button… this would have been a great project for it, especially with a secret M1 Mac Mini inside.

@CesareVesdani Год назад

Does this mean that you can turn any broken computer into a standalone display? That's cool. Turning a broken iMac into a tablet.

@SkyAce200 7 месяцев назад

I NEED THIS but my old iMac is a 21.5" model, does this fit in one of those??

Год назад

This is so weird! I just today have researched how to convert my dying imac 27"into a monitor. I guess Big Brother google is everywhere. But really weird since I was already subscribed!