1 Take the guts from iMac and put them in a different enclosure?
Hi folks. I'm happy to say my mid 2007 24" iMac is still going strong. But I've recently bought a new mac and I'm planning on converting this iMac to a monitor using an LCD controller board.
But I feel like there's still some computing life left in this old machine! Do you think it would be feasible for me to take the logic board and the rest of the guts and place them in some other enclosure to keep using it as a server or maybe a wireless time machine?
Clearly I'd have to build a custom box, since nothing inside an iMac is standard sized.
I'd use the iMac's original power supply in the box. Is there any other major thing I'm missing?
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Tell us more. What's your RAM? What's the hard drive? Why do you feel you need to move it to another enclosure?
由 mayer 完成的
4GB RAM. I put in a 128GB SSD a few years ago. If I'm going to keep using the iMac as a computer, I need to put the guts in something else because I plan to use the screen as a monitor. I have to take the guts out to fit the LCD controller in the case.
I might try to find a way to just strap the LCD controller to the outside and keep all the iMac guts intact and working inside, but it would be a very ugly solution and I'm not confident of success.
由 clatshaw 完成的
I'd like to use the screen as a monitor for my laptop, and I'd like to use the imac's guts as a file server, time machine server, and plex server.
由 clatshaw 完成的
@mayer because I feel like it?
由 CodyR08 完成的
@codyr08 go for it!
由 mayer 完成的