Apple’s M1 chip has ended up in the iMac G4!
The powerful chip M1 It has changed Apple computers forever. But not only the current ones. In one of the most incredible interventions of old devices with the logo of the bitten apple, iOS developer Colby Sheets succeeded in transforming the iMac G4, launched almost two decades ago in a powerful machine with the chip developed by Apple.
Sheets shared his great achievement through a video that collects the step by step of placing the internal components of the in an iMac G4 with 8 GB of RAM and the M1 processor.
The M1 processor ends up in an iMac G4
Through your account Twitter, Sheets shared that the result regarding the tenth anniversary of Steve Jobs death, stating that it would be a project that Steve Job would be proud of.
In celebration of Steve Job’s life and his inspiration to many, I wanted to show a passion project I’ve been working on that I think Steve would be proud of. Something that wasn’t possible 20 years ago but is now.
Hello, iMac G4 with an M1 chip. pic.twitter.com/q6zUpyFrwu
– Colby Sheets (@ColbySheets) October 5, 2021
The original iMac G4 was officially introduced in January 2002 with a PowerPC chip, up to 256MB of SDRAM and up to 80GB of storage. Although it was popularly better known as iLamp, due to its resemblance to the Pixar lamp and without a doubt, it is one of the most iconic Mac designs of the firm.
“I’ve always wanted the iMac G4 since I was a kid and I knew some people did some hackintosh with them, but I didn’t want that, I wanted a real Mac. I always thought about putting the internals from the Mac mini in it, but with Intel chips it won’t work. for a couple of reasons (size, heat / airflow). Well now with the M1 how thermally cool it works, I thought I’d give it another try! “
Sheets acknowledged that a 2019 video of how to turn iMac G4 into an external monitor, published by the YouTube channel Pendleton115, was one of the tutorials that helped him to materialize his project.
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