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Oh man I’m so much lazier, I would just set the G4 on top of the mini and try to figure out how to send video to the G4s screen, give up, and just use a new mon
by dwighttk 5y ago
Oh man I’m so much lazier, I would just set the G4 on top of the mini and try to figure out how to send video to the G4s screen, give up, and just use a new monitor.
- sgjohnson 5y agoThe 17” 1440x900 display would be an absolute dealbreaker for me personally, so I’d also have to figure a way how to fit a better display in. Which would probably be trickier than everything else in this project, because where can you get a 17” 1440p IPS panel these days?
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoThe arm that holds up the monitor is designed for a specific weight. It would be difficult to swap out the display.
- tjoff 5y agoNew LED displays are much lighter, so you probably have lots of margin to just put in dead weight.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoMost of these arms lack the strength to hold up the original screen anymore. Probably due to fatigue of the spring. I still have one and it's just enough to hold it up but every time I hit the table it flops down :'(
- classichasclass 5y agoMostly an issue for the 17" and up. The 15" screens seem to be okay with the arm spring.
- Jolter 5y agoYou might be able to find a metalworking shop that could manufacture a new spring for you. If you’re willing to pay for it.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoI'm willing to pay for it sure, but I'm very worried about actually replacing it.. The force on that thing makes me feel like I'm unleashing a dragon and I have a feeling this is why they used very special screws, to avoid people messing with it. It's also the shortest-lived Mac design ever so I wonder if this had something to do with it. Too bad though because it was very beautiful and it had form and function, unlike current iMacs which are not height-adjustable at all.
- ballenf 5y agoAnd if you don't get it exactly right, the mouse ball pops out, expands to a massive size and tries to flatten you.
- matthewmcg 5y agoPro tip/life hack: bring a small sack of sand to match the weight, but be ready to run if you misjudge.
- opencl 5y agoIt's not hard to find 4K 17" panels as spare parts for laptops, but they're generally 16:9 rather than 16:10.
- ycui1986 5y agoLenovo is releasing 16:10 screen for their next generation laptops lines. So it is a matter of time till replacement screens for those to come up on ebay. I guess?
- rzzzt 5y agoAdd letterbox bars to the front glass then, job done.
- hultner 5y agoInch is diagonal so a 17” 16:9 would be to wide. Unless I’m thinking wrong we’d need something at (sqrt(17)*(16^2+9^2)/(16^2+10^2))^2, which should put us at 15.23”, I know 15,4” exists so that might be doable depending on how much room there is to spare, 5mm is a bit but it could maybe work.
- hultner 5y agoSorry I did this wrong yesterday, wrote it late in bed and lost an exponent a long the way, should be 16,54” With the following calculation, 1.6 is for 16/10 sqrt((1.617/sqrt(1.6^2+1))^2+((9/16)(1.6*17/sqrt(1.6^2+1)))^2)
- titzer 5y agoIt's not so bad. Especially if you spend most of your time in a terminal, as I often do. It's somewhat nostalgic, even. Ah, my first display, a 80x25 text mode DOS 5.0 terminal on a CRT...sigh
- eddieroger 5y agoThat does sound delightfully nostalgic. Sometimes when I use my iPad for SSH'ing in to things, I get that same sense. I don't need a dedicated SSH box that badly, and I wouldn't gut an iMac for the privilege when it can run SSH natively, but that would be a fun box to have.
- jrockway 5y agoI might be misremembering, but I feel like when LCDs became mainstream, they were ostensibly worse in resolution than CRTs. CRTs were commonly at 1024x768 for a while, but I remember running specially-selected ones at 1600x1200 or even higher (1860xsomething?). LCDs replaced my nice high res CRTs with 1024x768, and then I waited a decade for 3840x2160, which was definitely a step up. I remember being ridiculously excited by my circa-2004 24" LCD. How could a screen be that big? 1920x1200 pixels? How can there be so many!? And now that is like a tiny garbage dumb LCD that you find in the storage closet and decide isn't worth the desk space. (My favorite thing is the HDTV craze. You can still buy laptops with a 720p display these days, because "HD" is supposed to be a positive marketing term! But it's really 1995-era resolutions at 2022 prices!)
- titzer 5y ago> they were ostensibly worse in resolution than CRTs That fits my recollection too. I remember 1280x1024 being very common on 19-21" CRTs circa 2000.
- idonotknowwhy 5y agoMy cheap 19 inch dell does 1600x1200. I sometimes run it at 1024x768 120hz and it's much clearer than my 240hz lcd
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- jandrese 5y agoSome of them came with 1680x1050 displays which are still respectable.
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- sixothree 5y agoHonestly I have three of these things and they aren't great. Maybe for a side or "kitchen" computer. If Mac had a decent RDP protocol, that would be a great way to use them.
- bastardoperator 5y agoSame, I'm running a Samsung Neo G9 at 5120x1440 and I could still use more room. Total deal breaker, and almost silly considering it can power a much nicer screen.
- thegagne 5y ago1600p, 16:10 https://www.panelook.com/LP170WQ1-SPE1_LG%20Display_17.0_LCM_parameter_51969.html https://www.panelook.com/LP170WQ1-SPE1_LG%20Display_17.0_LCM...
- chasil 5y agoThe original hardware runs OpenBSD. Is VNC (or another remote desktop) an option without all this surgery? https://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html https://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html
- stonewareslord 5y agoYou can install dualboot voidlinux and run pretty much anything ppc, so yes