iMac G4 Appreciation Thread

[KingDingus]

iMac G4
Model 4.2
800 Mhz
1 GB RAM
120 GB SSD
Leopard Sorbet 10.12.14
macOS Sierra mask

Absolutely love this machine and form factor. It’s not quite as unique as the cube, but it is certainly a marvel of Steve Jobs era engineering.

 

[Patrick]

at least the iMac G4 is still somewhat available to get.

(maybe i'm just not looking at the right places)

 

[ClassicHasClass]

I still have a 1.25GHz iMac G4 I use for watching DVDs and playing music in the kitchen, and as a security monitor (I have an old video concentrator for the security cameras). It's a 15", so the arm is still great.

 

[Jess-b]

This Is Linzey. She's my 700 MHz G4. She was the second machine I bought to add to my then fledgling Mac collection. She was also the first machine that needed repair. I got her for €80 and all that was wrong was that someone had tried to install windows on there! a little disk utility fun later and she's now running 10.4.

despite many machines finding a way to me this past year, the iMac G4 is my, favourite. The design is just fantastic.

Jess B

 

[Kai Robinson]

Wait - someone tried to install Windows?!

 

[3lectr1c]

Hahahaha that's hilarious! I'm guessing the guy formatted the drive as NTFS?

 

[3lectr1c]

Hahahaha that's hilarious! I'm guessing the guy formatted the drive as NTFS?

 

[Jess-b]

Hahahaha that's hilarious! I'm guessing the guy formatted the drive as NTFS?

Yup. he claimed it had just ‘stopped working’. When I got the machine home, I booted it up and found a copy of Apple’s hardware test in the cd drive. I grabbed a copy of tiger on CD and ran disk utility. Sure enough the drive was formatted NTFS. One quick reformat later and Linzey is alive and well.

 

[KingDingus]

Grabbed another one and destroyed my car and possibly my neck in the process. Going to the tow yard tomorrow to retrieve the contents of my car and the computer.

Thankfully, everyone in our car is okay.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Ugh, I see little hands in the backseat. Hope everyone is ok & everything works out for you (health, insurance etc.) nice Mac!

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Here’s the 15 that supervises.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Here’s the 17”

I just realized I forgot to reconnect the cdrom drive to the pata cable from when I had this one open last lol. Oops.

 

[Trash80toG4]

I've got the original iLamp I'd love to play with at some point and another that's hobbled by intentional X-ONLY infestation.

For me it's more of a beautiful industrial design curiosity than a usable computer. If I could hack a PCI VidCard into the optical cubic I'd put it on my desk KVM'd to the main setup in a heartbeat. Great adjustable stand set up as a secondary display, otherwise it's basically just a PowerBook on a stand to my way of thinking.

Portrait rotation capability would be a vast improvement, but that's a hack backburnered until retirement in a couple of years.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

What I wish I could do is use my ADC cinema displays with the imacg4. I have multiple a1006's but it converts to DVI and when I slap a DVI to VGA adapter on it, I connect that to the video display port to vga adapter I have coming out the back end of the imacg4 and it outputs garbage unfortunately. I'll need to hunt down a video port to dvi adapter I guess. - Really would like to extend the desktop that way.

Adapter soup lol

 

[Trash80toG4]

My first gen G4/OS9 only supports mirroring at a pathetic 800x600 on that port. Which one are you using and in what generation was extended desktop hacked or released as a standard feature? Are any resolutions supported that would do your Cinema Display justice?

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

The imac in question is a 17" 800mhz, so mirror only. I was thinking extended DT was an option but not yet.

Oh well, dems da breaks

 

[KingDingus]

Good news! I recovered all my stuff from the wrecking yard and they saved it for me.

 

[luminescentsimian]

What I wish I could do is use my ADC cinema displays with the imacg4. I have multiple a1006's but it converts to DVI and when I slap a DVI to VGA adapter on it, I connect that to the video display port to vga adapter I have coming out the back end of the imacg4 and it outputs garbage unfortunately. I'll need to hunt down a video port to dvi adapter I guess. - Really would like to extend the desktop that way.

Adapter soup lol

A quick glance through everymac.com suggests that the lamp shades only supported VGA output, so you'd need an active (read: expensive) VGA to DVI(or HDMI) convertor to then feed into the DVI to ADC adapter.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

A quick glance through everymac.com suggests that the lamp shades only supported VGA output, so you'd need an active (read: expensive) VGA to DVI(or HDMI) convertor to then feed into the DVI to ADC adapter.

Makes sense, however this model only supported mirroring, so Im unable to extend the desktop either way with the 17" unit I was considering. Bummer!

 

[KingDingus]

Love the packaging!