I love this! The G4 Mac is by far my favourite Apple design ever, its such a shame it was such as short lived design aesthetic.<p>My wish is that as Apple seems to be moving its iMac (and soon MacBook I believe) range back towards a more "fun" look reminiscent of the original iMac period they could resurrect this design.<p>I would love a touch screen iMac or Apple Monitor that used this design, its perfect for folding forward into a position for touch interaction and sketching.
Oh man I’m so much lazier, I would just set the G4 on top of the mini and try to figure out how to send video to the G4s screen, give up, and just use a new monitor.
Am I the only one sad to see the original machine gutted out? I get that these machines aren't particularly useful (I have one myself) but it really does seem a shame for it to be modified in this way.
Amaaaazing. The iMac G4 is the single most aesthetically beautiful computer, ever.<p>I've still got a functional maxed-out one in the corner of my living room/studio. If the internals ever break, I'm doing this kind of mod in half a second.
I love this. I put an Intel Atom mini-ITX board in an old G4 cube about 13 years ago. For a time it gave my wife a modern-ish machine (though a Hackintosh) with a style that was relatively unique.<p>It sadly lives in our garage right now as we don't really need it. Occasionally I think about dusting it off and replacing the internals with a Mac Mini, just for fun.
I remember how damned amazing the display on the iLamp was. At the time, if you weren't directly in front of an LCD display, everything got dim and you could practically read the G4 display from the side. Kids today don't have any idea how bad those early generation LCD displays.
A bit off topic but the PowerMac translucent towers were beautiful. I wish apple brought those back albeit in a smaller form factor. It wouldn't hurt to see the Mac Pro in such a casing.
The lamp iMac design was really so nice compared to any iMac made before or after since it made adjusting the screen so easy. This really highlights a problem with the iMacs, however: they use gorgeous screens but the displays have a useful life 5-10 years longer than the CPU. I really wish there was something like an e-waste law to encourage manufacturers to either make them upgradeable or recyclable.
Extra credit:<p>Use ML (and some servos and counterweights) to make it do this: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCrdla_BljQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCrdla_BljQ</a>
It really is remarkable how small the logic board on those new M1 minis is. It'll be interesting to see what the rumoured new smaller mac mini looks like.
Great. Being a software guy in my life all these are overwhelming I think. Still very much appreciated as the author said it is sad to give this up as such a beauty.<p>Would the square glass on easier without the screen I wonder.
Random aside, does anyone know if the M1 (well, M series chips) are likely to migrate to the iPhones? I'm upgrading soon, but if the 14 is going to have an M-series chip, I may hold off.