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spiceyweasel
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Mating a Mini and iMac G3 - 2009/10/09 04:10 Hi. Ever since Apple's announcement they were not going to support G-Series Macs in Snow Leopard, I've had a bad case of Intel fever. Only problem is, I can't afford anything but a Mini, but I want upgrade options beyond it's capabilities. I decided, therefore, to retrofit my old machines with Intel mobos from Intel Minis. I mighty even see if the Mac Pro board will fit in my G4 tower. Are there any of those ribbons like my G4 has that hooks all the Hard drives together available to slap on the Mini? I figure I'll be needing a better power supply, and splitters for it as well, since I'll probably slap a Blu-Ray...or two, in that little green monkey. (It has that little alcove on the side above the port door that just screams secondary optical device.) Any way, it was either soup up an old computer, or soup up an old car....and, well, I don't own an old car. Any suggestions on what other gear I might need?

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krowmagnum
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Re:Mating a Mini and iMac G3 - 2009/10/12 20:27 Anything is possible but what you want to do is practically impossible. It will take a lot of work and possibly some homemade cables. Mini's use entirely different cables for optical and hard drives than a G4 Mac tower. A Mac Pro mobo will cost way too much money and will take a lot of case modding to get it to fit a G4. Then you will have serious cooling issues with the G4 case that is made for much cooler running CPU's.

It would be much easier and more feasible to build an X86 Intel hackintosh than to do what you propose.

Check out the info on this site:

http://www.osx86project.org/

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