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Well, here goes another project: a mint condition iMac G4 15" 1Ghz, graciously donated by a family member ready to have an old Core Duo laptop sans screen transplanted inside
Now, I realise the 15" is rather small, it is a present for my sister to replace a POS VAIO laptop and I've also been given a less presentable 17" I'll be putting a NUC in at some point in the future once it's cleaned up nicely.
This Japanese site seems to be the only successful 15" documented conversion
http://hidekyan.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2009/08/imac-g4-dvi-4-9.html
http://hidekyan.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2009/07/imac-g4-windo-5.html
I'm hoping the dimming function is the same as its' larger siblings - MacTester's PICAXE work is fantastic!
The laptop in question does have a 'breathing' standby LED in a different colour (presumably colour is via switched polarity), I'll see if I can use this directly with the iMac LED.
The most important thing is for the screen backlight to turn off during sleep - reading through MacTester's HemiMac and Esterhand's build, it seems this has not been solved as of yet?
Speakers: use the original amplifier http://www.tonymacx86.com/imac-mods...arance-including-pro-speakers.html#post773156
I'm hoping to take the output to the original active LED indicator and run that as the 'on' trigger for the backlight.
The laptop is still in Birmingham, so this particular project will be going slowly for now.
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If the laptop turns out to be far too slow, I'll just throw in one of the Celeron NUCs; the i3/5 NUCs are rather expensive over here and for little more than facebook and word seems overkill.
The Celeron iGPU isn't compatible with OSX ... don't want the faff anyway(!)
Now, I realise the 15" is rather small, it is a present for my sister to replace a POS VAIO laptop and I've also been given a less presentable 17" I'll be putting a NUC in at some point in the future once it's cleaned up nicely.
This Japanese site seems to be the only successful 15" documented conversion
http://hidekyan.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2009/08/imac-g4-dvi-4-9.html
http://hidekyan.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2009/07/imac-g4-windo-5.html
I'm hoping the dimming function is the same as its' larger siblings - MacTester's PICAXE work is fantastic!
The laptop in question does have a 'breathing' standby LED in a different colour (presumably colour is via switched polarity), I'll see if I can use this directly with the iMac LED.
The most important thing is for the screen backlight to turn off during sleep - reading through MacTester's HemiMac and Esterhand's build, it seems this has not been solved as of yet?
Speakers: use the original amplifier http://www.tonymacx86.com/imac-mods...arance-including-pro-speakers.html#post773156
I'm hoping to take the output to the original active LED indicator and run that as the 'on' trigger for the backlight.
The laptop is still in Birmingham, so this particular project will be going slowly for now.
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If the laptop turns out to be far too slow, I'll just throw in one of the Celeron NUCs; the i3/5 NUCs are rather expensive over here and for little more than facebook and word seems overkill.
The Celeron iGPU isn't compatible with OSX ... don't want the faff anyway(!)