{"id":1530,"date":"2022-03-15T14:54:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T14:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/15\/the-mashup-of-an-m1-and-g4-is-the-whimsical-apple-desktop-i-want\/"},"modified":"2022-03-15T14:54:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T14:54:29","slug":"the-mashup-of-an-m1-and-g4-is-the-whimsical-apple-desktop-i-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/15\/the-mashup-of-an-m1-and-g4-is-the-whimsical-apple-desktop-i-want\/","title":{"rendered":"The mashup of an M1 and G4 is the whimsical Apple desktop I want"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/14\/22973567\/m1-imac-g4-mod-apple-desktop-computer-project<\/a>
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Apple is releasing cool new desktop Macs again<\/a>, but people are still doing plenty of fun projects using older Apple machines. A fun example that we spotted recently (h\/t Input<\/em><\/a>) was this mod by someone named Connor, who took the internals of an M1 Mac Mini and put them into one of Apple\u2019s most iconic desktops, the iMac G4.<\/p>\n

As Connor shows in a YouTube video<\/a>, the G4 still has all of its original functionality after his mod \u2014 it can play DVDs from an internal drive (though they did have to swap out the original one, which connected using IDE<\/a>) \u2014 and at first glance, it hasn\u2019t been changed at all. But with the screen on, it\u2019s obvious the computer is running the modern macOS Monterey, instead of OS X 10.5 Leopard, the last operating system that officially supported the G4\u2019s original hardware. <\/p>\n

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