Cameron148

Q: is it possible to swap out an imac g4 (800 mhz) motherboard with a mac mini

recently i found an old imac G4 (800 mhz) and i brought it back to its former glory, however ive noticed its preformance to be laggy and inefficent, so ive been considering getting a mac mini. but i dont want to leave the design of the imac G4, so is it possible to take out the imacs motherboard and such and make it a moniter to use in a mac mini?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Mar 18, 2014 11:29 PM

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Q: is it possible to swap out an imac g4 (800 mhz) motherboard with a mac mini

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  • by a brody,

    a brody a brody Mar 19, 2014 4:44 AM in response to Cameron148
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    Mar 19, 2014 4:44 AM in response to Cameron148

    No.  The heat and cooling mechanisms are different.

     

    But you can use a Mac Mini temporarily in Target Disk Mode for extra storage, as long as you don't setup the extra storage to try to boot the Mac Mini.  Partitions allow you to select what you will boot on a Mac, if you have the right machines.  Note, new Mac Minis are formatted differently than the iMac G4 can support for reading.   An older Mac Mini G4 could double as external storage for the iMac G4 via Target Disk Mode.  Target Disk Mode does not transfer the processing power of the other machine, it merely makes the storage available.  And also the optical drive.