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I think the issue with telling if they are warm is that the plastic shell does not get warm even if the inside metal shell does. But I can definitely feel the warmth in the base of the neck and from the flowing out. When I push my 1.25ghz hard for hours on end, they are definitely warm. But...

I should preface this by saying I have a 1.25GHz model and I run it at 75% CPU constantly for hours and it never overheats. But you are right, the bottom gets warm. I think the metal-inner-shell-based cooling system works well, even though the plastic shell outer-shell keeps all the heat inside...

I really want to do this display upgrade seen in this video on one of the broken leftover iMacs, but I don't think I have the skills or the patience to painfully wire through the EDP connector 1 wire at a time like that. But those displays he showed are super nice spec wise and cheap AliExpress...

Thanks for the reply, yeah let's share the love haha. I am a little surprised because in another forum JDW mentioned that these Macs don't get enough love. And I wonder why? They're so iconic. Like such an adorable, odd-ball, design. With brilliant solutions for things like the power supply...

I was going to ask where we could suggest some board consolidation. I am open to ideas but the boards are split in a very fine grain way and considering the volume of the forum is not super high, it might make sense to consolidate a lot of boards. Also, there are very strange separations like on...

Getting this iMac to work properly was kind of an ordeal. I even contacted Kay Koba from this forum for help. He offered me just the kind of positive vibes I needed. I ended up buying 3 junk ones in order to get 1 fully functional one that was 1.25GHz. Something about the hot Japanese summers...

Hey folks, I have been working to get my iMac G4 to a state where I could share it with everyone here, so please give me a moment to introduce いちご大福 (Ichigo Daifuku). When I was in high school, I was becoming so obsessed with Macs (mostly because of the promise of OS X). When the iMac G4 was...

I also just noticed in the service manual that there is also a hidden thermal contact on the back of the logic board. So I am not sure if you removed the whole logic board or not or just the heatsink that you can see when you open the computer. If you had not already removed the logic board, you...

Sorry, I don't have a solution to your problem. But I remember those iMac G5 ALS models as being so cool when I was a genius at the Apple Store way back in the day. So easy to open and repair everything. Of course, always the reason they failed was caps... even back in 2008-11 when I was doing...

Totally! I usually hang out in the G4/G5 section here because those were my high school days. I recently got my dream high school set up, an iMac G4 17" 1.25 GHz and I maxed it out. I am having a blast. While the G4/G5 area of this forum is kind of quiet now, I am confident it will only get more...

Thanks so much for the video. I'm relatively new to the retro Mac community... because when I started using Macs in 2001 they weren't retro, they were just old lol. But anyway, I wanted to say I really enjoyed the video and have watched several others. I like your approach and clarity and it is...

I originally wrote this article as a followup on my article on how to get iPhone development working on PowerPC Macs like my iMacG4. But as I was writing it I realized, it had nothing to do with the host Mac and was all about the Original iPhone. So I changed the title and the focus a bit, and I...

Hey everyone, since I got my iMac G4, I have wanted to get a retro iPhone development workstation setup. While PPC Macs were never supported for iPhone development, I did see tutorial online for how to force install it. Like the one on Macintosh Garden / Repository. However, those were only the...

On this thread you can see what it looks like to remove the paint and repaint with custom color https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/power-mac-g4-rainbow-apple-build-repost.326902/

Yeah, I suspect this is a different issue that ends in similar results because these panels are clear plastic that are painted on the inside to create this effect. I don't have any advice but I would like to know how any attempts go. But if I remember correctly, modification of these types of...