On Jun 29, 3:01 am, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2009, at 1:46 AM, Mullin9 wrote:
>
> > DoES anyone make a casing that looks like an oversized iMac G4, yet
> > accept Powermac G5 logic board, the one that have the LCD that pivot,
> > but the base is larger to accept the lobo from a G5 tower, but it's
> > still round, or at least round-cornered.?
>
> No.
>
> The video card and cooling fans in a G5 tower would make it impossible
> to fit under ANY dome shape. About the smallest you could do with a
> desktop logicboard would be to turn a G5 on it's side and place the
> monitor on top of it.
>
> If you need a G5 iMac get a G5 iMac, although they suffer from
> overheating and popped capacitors, so they're not one of the preferred
> models of Mac. The Intel iMacs are better, but way expensive. If you
> like the G4 iMac style, you'll need to buy one. There's a chance you
> could mod a G4 iMac case/display to accept an Intel or G4 Mini
> innards? G5 is out of the question.
There's a good chance that you could fit an Intel Mac mini logic board
inside that casing. The only major problem I can imagine is hooking up
the monitor. I'd assume that they don't use a standard VGA or DVI
connector inside there. Another small problem is the disk drive. I
don't know if you can keep the same drive and just hook it up via a
IDE or SATA connector. There's pretty much no chance that the Mac mini
Combo or Superdrive would fit it in. I think that the iMac G4 uses a
standard sized laptop drive (like the Mac mini) so that shouldn't be a
problem if you can fit the proper cables in there.
Remember that you'll need to modify the back of the case for the Mac
mini's ports.
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