#BEST STEALTH OS FOR MAC POWERBOOK G4 CRACKED#
By the time you've done this, you may as well use the iMac as is unless you somehow found one with a cracked LCD. If anything, it will be cheaper to buy a core duo iMac and cut it up. Port connectivity - You'll still need to go with the extender cables, but it's going to be an awkward, tangled, horrific mess of wires inside of the computer.įrankly, and this is just my opinion on the matter - the cost of getting the parts for a 17" intel iMac are not going to be inexpensive. Power Supply - the power supplies for the slab form factor iMacs are relatively compact, but have short wires - you're going to have problems with where it gets mounted and how it's connected.ģ. Airflow - the flow inside the iMacs is from the bottom up - that won't really be a viable option in a g4 case.Ģ. Provided you can find it inexpensively enough (won't be cheap though), the logic board from a 17" iMac could possibly be shoehorned into the enclosure, however you now have some new problems.ġ. I've never done this, so I can't say either way.įrankly, I think the Mac Mini in a G4 tower case is going to be your best bet. The downside is that this is not recommended and not legal. A small atx board should fit just fine - supply your own power supply and spend some time getting it to work. It's also inexpensive - you could probably do this for well under $700 if you can go cheap where it counts.Ģ Get an Intel board that is noted as being one to work with OS X x86, roll the dice and pray that drivers work.
#BEST STEALTH OS FOR MAC POWERBOOK G4 MOD#
This mod does a minimum of damage to your existing Mac Mini, so it can be resold when you decide to upgrade it. socketable cpu on the mini, when a new mini model comes out with a better video card - there you go - it'll be plug and play. Cut up an external fw superdrive - mount the drive in the g4 case, run the controller board to the firewire port on the mini, and mount the power supply inside. not really.ġ Take a Mac Mini, remove the skin, route extension cables to the port cutouts in the back, move the power supply internal to the case.
If you really want to be different and want an intel Mac in a G4 tower enclosure - you have two options. Anything remotely affordable will be damaged such that the components won't be worth salvaging. As for finding damaged Mac Pros - good luck. The sheer size of the Mac Pro board, and the accompanying boards won't fit in the g4 enclosure - it's too small and narrow.
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