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'!
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.
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 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!
@@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
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!
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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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?)
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.
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.
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.
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! :)
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.
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.
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. 🙁)
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.
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.
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 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)
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
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.
@Expression I don’t agree with that. The eMac was made as a low cost alternative to the iMac G4 and was originally designed for schools. It would probably be very simpler though.
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?
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.
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” 😎
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..... 😀
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 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.
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.
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.
I had one of these two but the display arm kept sagging and eventually the dvd drive stopped working. I wish Apple would do one thing and get rid of jobs hatred of it support for Blu-ray so I can watch a movie on my Macs. I have over 250 Blu-ray videos.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Came to this video today just after I found this iMac buried in my basement. Found a power cord, and the original keyboard and mouse and she booted up just fine...much faster than my newest 2017 iMac! I last used it in 2008! Any 7nique ideas what to do with this? I can’t seem to find a newer browser that renders web pages correctly.
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)
Honestly I never wasted my time with them. I've always owned the Power Mac towers and the reason being that they are just simply slower and held back. But, I have always admired the design despite the flaws. But the one thing nobody could claim was that they're boring. Unlike Apple today. I mean the same basic designs for a decade plus? Add to it, owning a Macbook is no longer a unique experience, anyone who wants one has one and you can only get it in one color until recently: Aluminum. Not that any of this is necessarily bad. But it would be pretty tough to deny this was one of Apple's best eras. That 5 fruit color g3 was pretty cool but to go on to a flat screen? Oh my!
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
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
Apple press release: Apple is now announcing the new iMac. The new iMac have a Apple designed pro hinge which can be restated and adjusted in the way you wanted. The iMac with separate screen will starts at 2000USD and the iMac with a connected display using Apple pro hinge will cost 3000USD.
Don't get me wrong the original apple computers like the iconic Apple II DEFINITELY changed the landscape of home computing. But its quite a stretch to say the first iMac "revolutionized" personal computing. Id hope you agree that the Apple II was a device that revolutionized personal computing. You could easily say that the iMac influenced the style and aesthetic of consumer electronics for the rest of the decade but the most revolutionary thing the G4 did was not have a floppy drive.
I always found it interesting that all of the reasons they designed the G4 like that (drives on the side, etc) were basically thrown out with the G5. The G5 was almost exactly what they said they didn’t want to design when they moved from the G3 to the G4.
Exactly. It's amusing. Maybe the technology grew enough in those few years? Haha. Coincidentally, I just made a video about the iMac G5 here: bit.ly/clan2JcQiZ9
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.
I have had my I Mac G4 since 2003. It's second hard drive crashed about a year ago and I haven't used it since. I'm not capable of fixing it myself or paying someone else to do it. The two places I took it to here in Milwaukee said it couldn't be fixed because the converters and hard drives were no longer available. I loved this computer and would hate to see it destroyed. I'm using a Macbook pro now. I'm looking for suggestions, Can it be made to function for a reasonable cost, or would someone like to take it on as a project or museum piece? It has a 15" screen, mac keyboard an mouse and pro speakers and all the original disks plus a mac floppy drive.
You might be looking at the 2.5mm Pro Speaker port. It kind of looks like a component connection, but it isn't. You can achieve s-video and composite video with a Mini-VGA adapter.
i still own my mid 2007 imac and i got it from a teacher at my school and his mom didnt want it anymore. The new hard drive i put in it wont boot the installation of mac os x 10.10 yosemite i put on it and i plan to fix it
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.
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 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
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!
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Did you count how many times Alec said "cute"?
Looking back on these G4's 😁😁
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.
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.
Has it gone yellow?
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.
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.
That hinge along can cost you $999 today
Alone
1299$ adjusted for inflation
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 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.
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
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.
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!
that last story, freaking priceless.. the 1up-man-ship of the classic mac community is something to be feared
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
they call it the sunflower..
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.
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
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.
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?)
the stand reminds me of the new pro stand but better
Thanks for having Steve and I again Ken! This was a fun video :D
Steve and me
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.
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.
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.
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! :)
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.
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.
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. 🙁)
Couldn't the Powerbook g3 play dvd's?
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.
Ah yes. The last major redesign. Everything since then is a minor revision after minor revision.
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.
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 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 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 :)
Someday I want one of these with Jaguar for the full authentic experience
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)
Here in New South Wales, Australia all the Motor registries used to have iMac G4's up until recently.
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
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.
Don’t have an iMac G4... I have an eMac though!
eMacs are cool! I recycled one a long time ago. I regret doing that, haha. They were a one-of-a-kind Apple design.
Ditto. I think it's safe to assume this is what the iMac G4 might have been if the flat screen panel was scrapped entirely.
Same! But my eMac will not boot any other Mac OS install CD I make for it so I'm stuck on 10.4 which is kinda sad.
@Computer Clan Yeah that stinks.... They were definitely one of a kind. Looks like a jet engine xD
@Expression I don’t agree with that. The eMac was made as a low cost alternative to the iMac G4 and was originally designed for schools. It would probably be very simpler though.
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?
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.
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..... 😀
Are you able to make the g4 a sleeper or is the case too proprietary to do it
I have a old mac that not two many people would have around a g4 eMac can't find much on them.
The iMac G4 is the Mac that I always wanted, simply because it looks beautiful.
The 20 inch g4 is beautiful
I have question real quick. Could I use G4 as external monitor, I am not quite sure about it??
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
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.
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.
I remember having them at graphic design school to work on projects, along with the coloured ones
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.
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.
17:45 There's Brainiac Brent! Have a nice time with your iMac G4!
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
I had one of these two but the display arm kept sagging and eventually the dvd drive stopped working.
I wish Apple would do one thing and get rid of jobs hatred of it support for Blu-ray so I can watch a movie on my Macs.
I have over 250 Blu-ray videos.
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.
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 : )
AMAZING VIDEO! So cool that you got everyone to speak!
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.
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 lost my cable for my imac g4. What is the voltage of imac g4?
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
Loving the Apple Vault series! Great job, Krazy Ole Ken!
Thank you : )
is the same arm for 15 17 and 20" screen?
Came to this video today just after I found this iMac buried in my basement. Found a power cord, and the original keyboard and mouse and she booted up just fine...much faster than my newest 2017 iMac! I last used it in 2008! Any 7nique ideas what to do with this? I can’t seem to find a newer browser that renders web pages correctly.
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)
Honestly I never wasted my time with them. I've always owned the Power Mac towers and the reason being that they are just simply slower and held back. But, I have always admired the design despite the flaws. But the one thing nobody could claim was that they're boring. Unlike Apple today. I mean the same basic designs for a decade plus? Add to it, owning a Macbook is no longer a unique experience, anyone who wants one has one and you can only get it in one color until recently: Aluminum. Not that any of this is necessarily bad. But it would be pretty tough to deny this was one of Apple's best eras. That 5 fruit color g3 was pretty cool but to go on to a flat screen? Oh my!
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
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
Apple press release:
Apple is now announcing the new iMac. The new iMac have a Apple designed pro hinge which can be restated and adjusted in the way you wanted. The iMac with separate screen will starts at 2000USD and the iMac with a connected display using Apple pro hinge will cost 3000USD.
17:38 My 2th favorite youtuber, Brent.
Don't get me wrong the original apple computers like the iconic Apple II DEFINITELY changed the landscape of home computing. But its quite a stretch to say the first iMac "revolutionized" personal computing. Id hope you agree that the Apple II was a device that revolutionized personal computing. You could easily say that the iMac influenced the style and aesthetic of consumer electronics for the rest of the decade but the most revolutionary thing the G4 did was not have a floppy drive.
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
Can i keep that AOL disc?
I always found it interesting that all of the reasons they designed the G4 like that (drives on the side, etc) were basically thrown out with the G5. The G5 was almost exactly what they said they didn’t want to design when they moved from the G3 to the G4.
Exactly. It's amusing. Maybe the technology grew enough in those few years? Haha. Coincidentally, I just made a video about the iMac G5 here: bit.ly/clan2JcQiZ9
only macs can still give u joy using them 20 years later.
Heard about Thinkpad, ever? 🤔
I picked one of them up a few years back for £30 - it works too.
Beautiful and amazing video dude. Congrats!
Thank you : )
Check out the other 6 episodes!
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
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.
I have had my I Mac G4 since 2003. It's second hard drive crashed about a year ago and I haven't used it since. I'm not capable of fixing it myself or paying someone else to do it. The two places I took it to here in Milwaukee said it couldn't be fixed because the converters and hard drives were no longer available. I loved this computer and would hate to see it destroyed. I'm using a Macbook pro now. I'm looking for suggestions, Can it be made to function for a reasonable cost, or would someone like to take it on as a project or museum piece? It has a 15" screen, mac keyboard an mouse and pro speakers and all the original disks plus a mac floppy drive.
Wish they rereleased something like this
Maybe this is where they got the new $999 display stand design from. It can swivel all around.
It is quite literally the same thing in a different package lol.
I genuinely feel so cool to own one of this, this thing gets more use than my 2016 MBP!
What model has video component connections? I thought I saw one in this video.
You might be looking at the 2.5mm Pro Speaker port. It kind of looks like a component connection, but it isn't. You can achieve s-video and composite video with a Mini-VGA adapter.
i still own my mid 2007 imac and i got it from a teacher at my school and his mom didnt want it anymore. The new hard drive i put in it wont boot the installation of mac os x 10.10 yosemite i put on it and i plan to fix it
It was beautiful. I had the first one the day it came out.
Its a perfect example of what you'd expect an Apple Product to be.
I really want to get a g4 one of these days
I still have imac G4 still works great