Apple's Iconic iMac G4 (ft. Hrutkay Mods) - Vintage Apple Vault #6
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- Apple's iMac G4 is iconic. Despite being released years ago, people still admire its design. Apple was successful with the iMac G3, now they need to step it up and push the "digital hub" with the new iMac G4.
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I found my G4 in front of the dumpsters on a walk with my friend! Brought it inside, turned it on and it worked perfectly! I display it and use it for music and the occasional email. I feel honored to be so fortunate to have this along with my 2010 MacBook Pro and iPad and iPhone. Mac is the only one for me.
This was the computer that got me into Apple. I was pretty heavily a die-hard PC guy before hand. Many years ago, I found this channel and watched the death out of the Vintage Apple Tours. Couple years later, I saw one of these on Craigslist with the Pro Speakers for $25! I picked it up that day and still use it for managing my music library, since the iTunes it has actually works. It's a great computer and easily one of the best Apple computers of all time. Love these videos! Keep 'em comin'!
This and the cube are my two favorite mac designs.
Same
Inazarab the day I fri3d my G4 motherboard was very sad. Hav t been able to watch this video till now.
The iMac G4 was the mac to start it all. When i was 12, i picked up up locally just because of how amazing it looked, Before that, i only use Windows, but it made me change my mind. From that day on, i started collected "vintage" apple products. Although my parents didnt like the idea, i still loved doing it. My iMac G4 still holds strong and will always be part of my collection.
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Did you count how many times Alec said "cute"?
Looking back on these G4's 😁😁
I have two 17-inch iMac G4s. I brought one to work and left it on the receptionist's desk. (We don't have a receptionist.) I use it to play music in the lobby/kitchen area when we have a production happening in the building. But more often I use it to scan timecode-noted scripts when I engineer voice-over sessions. The only scanner we have is old as dirt which happens to work with my iMac G4. Last week we had a shoot and I overheard two crew members commenting on how cool it was to see the old machine fully functional. I keep the other one next to my workbench in the basement and use it as an audio player while I work on my other Mac finds.
Thank you for another great video!
Chris Sebes 3:29 this clip explains where half the population of Power Mac G5s went
Like really does that guy not have enough of them?
Silas McGee He has enough to heat his entire house.
@@cjsebes cleaning those things and maintaining them is already a pet peeve with proprietary Parts Etc it's hard enough maintaining one but however many more than what we see in the video frame alone? you're insane at that point
I bought mine from the state of Illinois for $45.00. I have edited a movie on it, the rendering is slow but I am retired so I look at "time" a little differently than most.
Great video. We have a fully functional 15” iMac G4 in our kitchen. We’ve had it since 2002 and still has its pro speakers etc. It’s a beautiful machine and how the screen swivels is still amazing.
It would be great if Apple would make modern iMac with this design!
The 2002 iMac G4 Widescreen was a very important part of my childhood. All my friends would come home and we would play Otto-Matic (which by the way came pre-installed). The old System 7 PowerMacintosh upgraded to Mac OS 9 went to my bedroom when I was 6 years old (2003), because this one became the main computer.
The iMac G4 was my first modern Mac. Growing up I had some hand me down badly outdated Macs, but had always had a PC as our main “modern” computer. Heading off to college I saw the commercial for the iMac G4 in 2002 and begged my Grandma, who had just bought me a new PC the previous year, to get it for me.
I cherished this computer for many years, until I let go of it in 2011 when I didn’t think I had any further use for it. I almost immediately regretted my decision and several years later decided I was going to purchase another one off eBay. I looked for the same model I had before, 800mhz, 15 inch with 768mb of ram or better. I found one! When it arrived and I turned it on I noticed it had a dead pixel in the exact same area my previous iMac had, I looked at the serial number...it was the SAME Mac I had sold years earlier...Daisy was destined to come back to me and I will never let her go again!
I have a 700 MHz G4 with 512 MB ram and a superdrive, I loved that thing when I first got it. Still have too.
Aaaaah. My university's graphic design lab had an original one for the prof's desk. Even when they updated to student computers to the newer iMacs with intel, they kept that one for the prof, and even today they have it someplace as a piece.
I bought mine for my son, as his university computer, at a used computer store in Toronto, in 2008. It’s has a 1.25 processor, 20 inch monitor, and all the OEM equipment. It does not have a wireless card, sadly. It got my son through 3 years of a 4 year degree, and then he migrated to a Mac Book Pro.
It still works, running OS 10.5.8, even the CD/DVD drive still authors content. It’s a distinctive machine, and lives in the attic, waiting to be brought back to life again!
I remember this mac, and see it in a shell. I frickin loved it, the arm is so frickin cool and the design is so minimalist.
I remembered that a company sell a motherboard to modern standards and run Windows XP, vista and 7. Also I've got one but my dad decided to against it.
Also a guy makes lamps with broken iMac G4's and they look awesome.
Do you remember anything else about this motherboard? I'm very interested to learn more.
@@AintNobodyAtAll I don't remember the site, but you can check it out on Google. There's so many sites that you can do the mod
that last story, freaking priceless.. the 1up-man-ship of the classic mac community is something to be feared
I still have my G4 in my house complete with all of the components. We have some old school games and music tracks still installed on it. It’s practically a thing of beauty. I love the neck and how flexible it is.
Yeah, the G4 looks awesome. Way cooler than modern iMac computers.
They should remake it in 2030 but with good specs
I find the new 24 inch M1 imacs quite pretty. Incredibly thin and elegant beautiful colors, it feels like the culmination of what the iMac was building towards.
I got an iMac G4, the last models that were produced. Came with keyboard and mice that was bought with the machine when it came out. It was configured to have an AirPort Extreme card, 1.25GHZ G4, and a 1GB of RAM. Runs Leopard. I love this machine.
Loving the Apple Vault series! Great job, Krazy Ole Ken!
Thank you : )
These were the computers we had at first for graphic design classes in Jr high school. I love them and I still want one in 2019.
Damn your school must’ve been rich!
Loving this collection of videos!!! GREAT JOB guys!!! I have my late 2008 MacBook Pro 15" and still loving it... This machine still working great! Well... see you!
Thanks for watching : )
I literally got my iMac G4 three weeks ago, 800MHz 15 inch. It's a beaut. £20. Had to lug it from Wimbledon to Kent, I was knackered.
Managed to get some pro speakers too.
This is the best Apple computer ever made. I had the 800mhz and love it!! Wish I would of never sold it
I have so many of these for sale like well over 20 of em
AMAZING VIDEO! So cool that you got everyone to speak!
This was what I wanted more than ANYTHING when I was a kid. Now I feel like I should just buy one to make my inner child happy! 😂 Thanks for the video.
That hinge along can cost you $999 today
Alone
Loved this one!
Thanks for having Steve and I again Ken! This was a fun video :D
Steve and me
Beautiful and amazing video dude. Congrats!
Thank you : )
Check out the other 6 episodes!
There was an iMac G4 put in the alt ed classroom about halfway through my 8th grade year. I think it was a 15 inch. But at the time I hadn't seen such an odd machine; having been a PC user my whole life all I knew were beige towers and Dell Optiplexes. So when it came in I got to set it up and tinker around with it. I din't even know what a PowerPC was at the time and admittedly 8th grade me cared very little because this was a time when Leopard was still relevant and G4s could still natively run the modern web. Later on my tinkering ended up landing me into the "advanced computers" course, which was an all-Mac class. I ended up nearly failing because I left a swear word in my final project.
I finally get to revitalise that fascination for vintage Apple machines as about a year ago I bought a 15 inch PowerBook G4 from the university surplus that looked kinda sad. So I made it not sad.
(btw 12 inch PowerBook G4 episode when?)
I love the iMac G4, I always admired the design of it! I have a 17” 800Mhz model, in the process of upgrading the Hard drive and putting some new thermal Paste. I also have an eMac as well lol I got that at the thrift store for $5! They had like 10 of them at the time.
Such a great video! Thank you for this.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
Amazing episode as always :)
Thank you : )
I just got an iMac G4 off eBay this past weekend! It came with Leopard on it, but I installed Tiger because it just feels snappier (and I'm a sucker for the Aqua Blue look and feel)
Nice video and, I enjoyed that you added the comments of other owners. When these were new, I almost bought a 20 inch imac G4 desktop but just before paying for it, apple came out with their newer 20 inch imac G5 desktop. While, I love my 20 inch imac with its PowerPC G5 and use it every week. Yet, the 20 inch G4 imac still has a special place in my heart. Hope, to someday add one to my apple computer collection.
That’s great. Lately, I have been intrigued by the G5 line. I’ll post videos about that soon.
back in 2nd grade the classroom i was in had a mix of powerpc imacs and intel imacs and even a emac and i fell in love with the imac g4 and then in 2017 i got one from goodwill a 700mhz model and i love having one in my room
Josh S same I got my parents old one one in 2017 because my dad was about to bin it but I asked if I could keep it and it is sitting in my room as well, the model I have is the 15 inch 1ghz model with USB 2
I’m so jealous
My sister gave me her early 2003 iMac 17-inch 1GHz model, the version prior to the USB 2.0 model. Pretty cool iMac. I heavily upgraded it to 2GB RAM, bigger hard drive, faster SuperDrive, added the AirPort Extreme card, and also added the internal Bluetooth card. It was the first model to feature internal Bluetooth, but only available as a Build-to-Order add-on from Apple. I got the Bluetooth card from eBay and the Bluetooth antenna was already pre-installed in the iMac. Only the board was needed. It was pretty cool because the iMac G4 could then have a wireless Apple Keyboard and wireless Apple mouse. I used it for a few years and later sold it on eBay and made good money on it with all the upgrades.
My mother still has her Powerbook (400 Mhz G4?) from some years back. It's still in her house downstairs sitting near the wall of boxes! I took it out once earlier this month (I think...) to try recording some audio from the audio in jack into Audacity for lols. The laptop was a bit slow, but it still worked just fine (apart from the CMOS battery... that died already. 🙁)
17:45 There's Brainiac Brent! Have a nice time with your iMac G4!
I remember Ad for this Mac, it was so good :D
The G4 was one of the earliest retro computers I collected, possibly the second or third. I found it at a flea market for like $20. I later found a second one complete in the box on Craigslist, and they're a lot of fun. I loved the hotel lobby story, I planned on taking my iBook G3 Clamshell to my university campus and using it for a day just for fun, but never did because of the virus and now I've graduated. Guess I'll have to do it somewhere else now
I remember having them at graphic design school to work on projects, along with the coloured ones
I used this iMac as a Point of Sale device at the Apple Store in North Carolina i used to work at. We had the 15inch models. They were and still are an iconic and a true piece of art in computer history. I recently bought the 20inch model in an excellent condition and with its original box and everything. I am installing Mac OS 10.5.4 while i am typing this. Is going to be used as a jukebox and placed somewhere in my living room.
This video was a ton of fun to watch. I have eight (!) iMac G4s. One 17" second generation, the rest 15" first generations. I came across a guy who got them from a school auction and found that he didn't have the capacity to restore them all, so I got them for a song. The 15'ers are very grungy and covered in sharpie marker, while the 17" is pristine. They're a lot of fun to use. I can't help but be sad that the modern Internet is tough to browse on them, and I wish it was easier to mod the display's input to accept other standards. There is a well-documented HDMI mod out there, but I don't know if I have the stomach to try it... but it would be really cool to stick a Raspberri Pi 4 in one of these.
I bought my first 15inch iMac G4 a few months ago and picked up my 17inch iMac G4 today ... now shooting for the stars with a 20inch :)
In around 2008 I managed to stumble upon a student selling his fully boxed and original end of the line iMac G4, a 20 inch model with the speedy processor. It was a fantastic machine and I used it constantly for 6 years. Sadly the screen got damaged during a move and it wrote it off, although in hindsight I should have kept the thing as the parts would be sorely in demand now. Fantastic machine.
The iMac G4 is the Mac that I always wanted, simply because it looks beautiful.
the stand reminds me of the new pro stand but better
Great video. I am restoring my iMac G4 for using it as a music streamer in a nice hifi audio system which I am building. If you have any suggestions I would love to hear them
I had forgotten about those things.
Man, and to thing I dismissed them as "just macs" back then. Those are beautiful machines and I think they'd kick up a storm if someone built a machine in the same spirit & quality today.
I have loved all except the G5 iMacs and still have a G4 17" I plan to use as a flac player next to my stereo system
Here in New South Wales, Australia all the Motor registries used to have iMac G4's up until recently.
You’re glad this was in my recommended ! I probably would not have seen this if that never happened.
Thanks for watching. I highly recommend binging the 5 other episodes, too… especially episode 5. That one is special. : o
It was beautiful. I had the first one the day it came out.
My sixth grade teacher had an iMac G4 on her desk, and she was the only one in the school that had one since she was also the lead IT tech in the school itself.
Use it for syncing old iPods and me and my kid use the G4 imac for child games (primarely pixeline games).
We played as late as yesterday! Awesome design -awesome computer.. love the above average sound quality. We use harman kardon soundsticks w sub
this was great
Thank you : )
I really want to get one of these for my collection. It's absolutely beautiful. I remember using one in high school back when they were new and one of the teachers used them so we could use something other than Windows and actually see what was out there. My favourite machine in my collection so far is the black MacBook.
Thanks for commenting! Yes, the black MacBook is beautiful. I should add that to my collection, one day. Basically, anything black from Apple is something I want in my collection; that's why I went after the Macintosh TV! -Ken
@@ComputerClan I need to do a video on it one of these days because it's just a beautiful machine! Thanks for doing these videos - they're a great walk down memory lane! :)
Still awesome by looks
I have a 17 inch 1.25 Ghz 1.5GB, and a 15 inch 700 Mhz 256GB iMac G4. The 15 inch must be an original release I guess, as it has the factory OS 9.2 / OS X 10.1.5 systems on it. I haven't looked it up to know really but I do know 10.1.x was pretty much the first actual OS X release. What amazes me about these machines is not only the out of the box design but how that design and it's implementation has held up over time.
Not that any others afterward shared in it, but simply that, the pivoting stainless steel arm mechanisms all still work, 17 years onward without a hitch. When was the last time you saw one sagging that wouldn't stay in place? They probably exist but I haven't seen one. That, my friend, is excellence in design AND execution. One in that the mechanical outlast the technical. Brilliant.
Oh, and yes they both work just as they did then. In fact, the 17 inch being more powerful and running Tiger can still run Ten4Fox and browse decently. And the 15" original still runs a few old school games on it and OS 9 runs the long lost AfterDark Twisted screensaver LOL. Well done Apple.
I'm not all that big into PowerPC computers only because they are so slow, but that 20 inch G4 looked so good, even compared to my 2007 iMac
Great video. I still have my G4 in the garage, in a box. I just couldn't part with it. I think I'll bring it in and hook it up. Is there a way to get the keyboard back to white and not yellow?
17:38 My 2th favorite youtuber, Brent.
The 20 inch g4 is beautiful
I just found this Mac in an antique shop today. Sure it may not boot or turn on at all but I will fix you...Maccy
I have a 17in I lamp is what I like to call it, and a 2009 Mac Pro cheese grater honestly the G4 I Mac is what got me into Apple I love the design and the functionality of it. It’s an amazing machine that I with Apple would do something like it again as a special tribute to Apple and when they were dominating the game with machines that not only looked amazing and beautiful but also powerful as well.
I still use my 2009 Mac Pro as a primary computer to this day with a fully up graded duo 6 core Xeon processors to make a 12 core beast with 32 gigs of ram I want to fully Mac it out with the 128 but haven’t had the resources for that yet. Absolute beast of a machine.
I genuinely feel so cool to own one of this, this thing gets more use than my 2016 MBP!
I still have imac G4 still works great
I need to bring one of my old Mac machines to a coffee shop. Probably my titanium PowerBook g4(although my 17 inch g4 or 17 inch 2007 MacBook Pro will work)
I brought a G4 Cube and a 23' display. I wish I had bought one of the 20" iMacs.
i just got a 1.25 ghz fx 5200 17 inch . im so happy to have it i literally cried LOL i had to leave my little 15 700 mhz one behind when i moved
I once went to this guys shop in Milwuakee Wisconsin to look at some PowerPC based computers he had posted on Craigslist. And by shop I basically mean storage building. But anyways, this place was LOADED with PowerPC machines from wall to wall. iBooks, Powerbooks, iMacs, and Powermacs stacked to the ceiling. I ended up walking out with 2 Powermacs, 3 iBooks (all had issues), and a 17" iMac G4 in pretty good shape. I wish I could go back but he has since sold all his stock.
Ive finally got one, I’ve have been on the hunt for more that 1 year, I had a small budget, and got one for less than 55$. Shipping included to Portugal
i bought a second 17" to convert it into a DVI-Monitor! and OS X even recognizes it as imac display :D its insane :D
I picked one of them up a few years back for £30 - it works too.
1:48 I'd love to know how many complete houses could be built out of AOL discs at this point. I bet you could build a medium sized town if you collected all of them.
Was a great machine.
I really want to get a g4 one of these days
I have an iMac G4 17” 800mhz.... I upgraded the ram, hard drive and also the WiFi card (to the slightly newer version)..... I have since made it a dedicated OS9 machine..... blazing fast for my old favorite graphics and DTP apps I use to use professionally in the ‘old days’.... Macs fed my family in those days (pre-OS X)...... oh yea..... found it on the floor of a thrift shop in Bisbee Arizona.... no keyboard no nothing.... mint condition and marked in a sharpie “works! $10.00” 😎
Good find : )
Computer Clan .... yea.... just got lucky one day..... I went back to OS9 so I could work on some old projects in PageMaker and Adobe Illustrator.... I’m thinking about working with some music apps in OS9 ..... these things where blazing fast in the day .... the apps where ‘tiny’ and efficient..... 😀
17:38 Woah, I did not expect Brent to be in VAV! (I know I'm late) He also wears the shirt from that live stream you did last year when you were at a hotel.
You're not late! It's only been a few days! Thanks for watching.
A friend of mine's wife worked for Apple when this product came out. The secret wasn't the screen, nor the base computer part, but the seemingly impossible neck. She had the screen on her's in Apple supported by a bunch of books because the concept for the neck was so top secret.
Really? That’s cool.
@@ComputerClan Yep! I think Apple was before she went to work for TiVo in Milpitas.
Not an apple fan but if they made the iMac in this style again I would buy one, it was the most radical design in a while and still is.
Cool vid! I foresee an iMac G5 video if you haven't done one. This is strangely keeping up with my collection from the iMac G3 as I recently acquired a 1st gen iMac g4 700MHz. Aside from watching this video at the moment, I've been comparing my iMac G3 700MHz vs the iMac G4 700MHz in both 9.2 and 10.4 with a few retro games. So Far the G4 is coming out on top by ~14% in games like diablo 2. Could be the geforce 2mx, could be something with the G4 architecture, not sure since I ran both systems with software rendering as it runs best on both systems. Both have 640MB of RAM, and I do plan to upgrade them to the full 1GB in the future.
Anyway, really enjoyed the video, keep up the good work!
"I foresee an iMac G5 video". Are you PSYCHIC? I literally just finished filming an iMac G5 for Krazy Ken's Tech Misadventures : o
Still use mine
Wish they rereleased something like this
I have a g4 imac I bought from ebay a few years ago and my neice wanted it so for christmas I gave it to her and years later it ended up comming back to me just like the saying if you love something set it free if it comes back its meant to be well the g4 was meant to be for me because I still have it I call it ET now a days he just sits on my shelf in my room but I love it never the less and this is its forever home
The hinge design is similar to the new powermac monitor stand. While the price-tag for the stand (999.00) seems outrageous, most professionals using display in leu of a 40k reference monitor will likely use their own mounting brackets for their existing production bays. That means whatever stands do sell are going to be minimal (economies of scale are basically shot). On the added plus side, third parties are going to have a field-day making lower-cost solutions for high-end power-users vs industry pros.
Are you going to do a Apple vault episode on the Macintosh 128k or plus
We have some footage of a Mac Plus that didn't make the final cut. I might upload that bonus material to the Vintage Apple Vault Patreon soon. As for the Macintosh 128K, I'd LOVE to do an episode on that, but I do not have that item in my collection, at this moment.
I have a old mac that not two many people would have around a g4 eMac can't find much on them.
I have question real quick. Could I use G4 as external monitor, I am not quite sure about it??
4:34 Fast forward to 2005, the iMac G5 😂
iMacs are generally designed with the idea of looking like monitors without computers, but here they created a monitor with a conspicuously large base for it to sit on. An iMac should have a look that makes people unfamiliar with iMacs say "there's the monitor, but where's the computer?" Of course, in the old days when people were being introduced to computers for the first time, they were constantly mistaking the monitor for the computer because that's where all the stuff they see the computer doing is. So smart learning had to be un-learned when the iMac was introduced.
i do love resetting products back to day 1 software and os, even if it means reupgrading to the current software
I traded my dell vostro 200 to own one of these iconic pieces of art. 700mhz g4 with 768mb of ram dual boot with Mac OS 9.2.2 and 10.5.8 with an unofficial patch. I also own an Ibook g4, and the Mainstreet Powerbook g3
I need 1000 hours of AOL!
Hey awesome video, I just walked by a classroom in my daughter's elementary School in southern California and they are using g5 iMacs still 🔥 I am the original owner of a mid 2007 iMac 20 inch 2ghz dou core that I have out of the 13 years I've had it it's only been out of commission for 1 year. Running El capitain. Next mods are a 2.4ghz CPU and a crucial SSD ! Can't wait to Finnish this and maybe find a g5 like that one's at the school.
@computer clan
I purchased a g4 from illinois surplus. I added some ram. found out it would only take one 556g stick I ordered two. Tried to add a apple express card the antenna cord was too short. Hard to get difinitive answers on how to upgrade. Oh. well I ony spent (wasted) $30 bucks.
Are you able to make the g4 a sleeper or is the case too proprietary to do it
I have a g3 iMac an a g4 powerbook the 15inch aluminum. I still use both even. now that its 20 20 an I have a 2019 iMac . my g3 iMac has full versions of all the software I use the fact I can load up a full copy of adobe photo shop with out having to deal with the cloud. is great. I love the simplicity of older editing/business software. an my powerbook I take to my shop with me. no more than I do an need a laptop for. there's no reason to buy a new laptop