The mashup of an M1 and G4 is the whimsical Apple desktop I want
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#5X3MC)
The modder behind the project went all the way for the peak early 2000s aesthetic. | Image: Connor55 on MacRumors Apple is releasing cool new desktop Macs again, but people are still doing plenty of fun projects using older Apple machines. A fun example that we spotted recently (h/t Input) was this mod by someone named Connor, who took the internals of an M1 Mac Mini and put them into one of Apple's most iconic desktops, the iMac G4.
As Connor shows in a YouTube video, the G4 still has all of its original functionality after his mod - it can play DVDs from an internal drive (though they did have to swap out the original one, which connected using IDE) - and at first glance, it hasn't been changed at all. But with the screen on, it's obvious the computer is running the modern macOS Monterey, instead of OS X 10.5 Leopard, the last operating system...