How to build your own DIY Apple Silicon iMac!
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- Опубліковано 2 бер 2021
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I'm tired of waiting for the new 2021 iMacs with Apple Silicon processors, so I decided that I'd take matters into my own hands and make my very own Apple Silicon iMac powered by the M1 chip. And this is a real iMac, not just a monitor! It's... the iMac mini! In this video I’ll show you how to build a DIY iMac with Apple Silicon at home! It’s super cheap and easy!
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What do you guys think of the iMac mini? Personally I can't wait until the real Apple Silicon iMacs come out, but this will do in the meantime :P
:D
Bombastic 👍😁
That’s cool
I've still got my late 2011 iMac that I retired because I got a MacBook Pro. I'd try something this but I ain't crazy like you.
I think it’s ok but you should cut out some sort of hole and run at least a usb hub through it.
Luke: “I don’t have any ports”
Apple: “Hired”
LOL 😂
*1 years later* "the new 2022 imac has no ports"
@@xadventures9125 to love this problem we are introducing the revolutionary iPort starting at only 2 Kidneys ,1 liver and your soul
So smart lol
😆😆😆😆
You’re a mad man.
Did you mean a mac man?
@@midleno8364 why but no.... he really did mean mad man.
Mad mac man
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lol
"Even though it's 10 years old, the connector is the same."
Apple: "Oh shit we have to change that now"
Lmao
Luke: Calls a 1440p display "Hilariously low resolution"
Me watching on a 1080p display:
Me watching with a 720p display
Me watching on 640p display (iphone SE-1)
Me watching on a 240p display (Chinese Smartwatch)
Me watching not knowing my own screen's resolution: 🤓
I thought he was saying that the game itself was low resolution from having to scale up to a 27" display
Now I know what to do with my 27" iMac with a dead GPU that's sitting in my shed 😉 Great video Luke!
Wow i would like to see a video of that
Hello I love your channel it’s the best and your jokes about the technology you work with. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😀😀😀😀😀😀😃😃😃😃😃😁😁😁😁😁😆😆😆😆😆
If only the gpu’s dead, sell motherboard they still cost a quite bit
Oh and also remember to clean everything with EWCALYPTUS OIL
Oh man will you record the process? Pls show people what you can do with this idea.
Apple is taking notes very fast. 📝📝
first
Faster than the speed of light
...And sending them to their legal team
What are you doing here
shouldn't you be waiting for one of your scam buster products to arrive
oh, wait ...
Computer clan yea boi
It's been a Year since I watched this. Today I was even MORE moved by your seemingly endless talents with an iFixit tool kit and your sense of Creativity. In fact, I was soooo moved that I've hand-written a letter to the Boy Scouts of America asking that they respectfully add a "Luke Miani Merit Badge" to their lineup. You're one of the Best....Thanks for what you do. :)
Luke you really provided tremendous amount of humor, tutorial(s), quality editing and delivering inspiration to the concept of "what if?" I was genuinely laughing all the way through this which is rare for tech videos. Keep it up and I truly appreciate your time and energy in all your videos.
(Every other tech UA-camr desperately waiting to post new-product content)
*Luke: Fine... I'll do it myself*
i have a great idea, what if someone built the mac mini m1 in a mac pro 5.1 chassis with huge capacities HDD and SSD storage and many other accessories!
@@alanmay7929 I really would like to see that!! 😎
“World’s First Apple Silicon iMac”
Apple working on one in the labs: 👁 👄 👁
Yes. Apple probably already has a few sitting around
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This comment aged so well
July 2023 - still waiting
God damn it, I want one.
Windows Users: “Macs are garbage because you can’t upgrade them or use them like our cool windows pc/all in ones”
Luke: “ *Observe.* “
Yeah, I'm observing and what I saw is him buying a new mac and frankensteining it into his old one.
In case you haven't noticed, apple does everything they can to prevent you from changing anything about their machines (except for the new mac pro, that one was a legitimately well thought machine with good upgradability). SSD's are tied to the board, sometimes even soldered, ram is soldered too, sometimes the CPU is too and the GPU almost always is soldered too. No PCI-e to be seen on most machines and good luck getting extra disk space or USB ports. Also, I'm a linux user, so blocking it with the T2 chip really doesn't go well with me. The M1 chips just makes every single one of these worse.
@@mohomonkey9906 yeah! and i (a windows user) think that this was very awesome because i dont like intel xD i ean i dont hate apple the m1 is good but im a windows user so yeah lol
Sticking a computer into another computer is not an upgrade.
@@mohomonkey9906 true, but what's the point of better (single core) performance when you also get a worse everything else?
@@andrewhanson1180 it kinda is because the computer he put inside is faster
Ok this is kinda epic ngl
Hello ur 500 dollar budget pc video was amazing . Keep it up 👍
Bruh just before this video I watched your video about 500 dollar pc, thats kinda funny
lol
Bro what’s up I didn’t know u liked apple hahah
Luke wasn't the first... ua-cam.com/video/7OZf-vpvthI/v-deo.html
Plus the old man kept some of the functionality of the original iMac case.
This is gold! haha nicely done
i have a great idea, what if someone built the mac mini m1 in a mac pro 5.1 chassis with huge capacities HDD and SSD storage and many other accessories!
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This isn’t the first... this idea was done over a month ago by someone else (Mac Repairman)
The little comedic skits in this video are amazing! Keep up the great work!
More like the "iMac Miani"
Am I rite lol
ayyooooooo
Ahahaha wow so funi
Yes
*Tim Cook sees this video*
Tim Cook: He's too dangerous to be kept alive.
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@@positivejams wtf
Thanks Luke for the very creative renovation of your broken iMac. Turing it to the monitor gives me the good ideas for the future projects. This is one of your best Yourube videos you created! Thanks.
Great job Luke, this is something very different to what all the other Apple tech nerd have done , and this nerd really appreciates your effort in giving us something unique... Keep up the great work 👍
Luke: “I don’t have any ports”
Apple: “Write it down!”
🤣🤣
Apple at their Keynote: "This is the world's first Apple Silicon iMac"
Luke: Mmm right 👁👄👁
This is the only channel that has motivated to upgrade my old macs and make them useful. Thanks Luke!!!
I swear all the tech UA-camrs little smiles are so overwhelmingly cute I could literally explode
Cringe
I'm surprised you weren't running around screaming "It's alive! Alive!"
I knew there would eventually be a way to use my 2011 iMac for something other than target mode! Thank you bigly for bringing this adapter to light for me.
Great project Luke, and what a nice presentation you also made. This should be mandatory seeing for all those involved in iMac design in Apple.....
Best apple channel without doubt dude!
The fact that you went through all of this to make a video really says something. Great work man!
This video is awesome!!! Luke you did a fine job and I love your creativity!! Their displays are the best looking for sure!!
This is brilliant! While I also have 3D printer, it might end up being less "janky" than what you did here. Thanks for the idea! I'll watch the end of this video after I'm done with ebay.
The broken old iMac haunting you in the intro.. this is gold, thank you for the laugh. Inspiring video!
I like that your sort of theme now is warm colors. Like your profile picture has an orange ring around it, and you've got orange lights in the background, and even your intro has all the orange. It's honestly really nice.
Fabulous to see, that always was the most iconic design of iMac for me. Well done, more inspirational ideas.
One of your best videos! Love the tech aspect... but also... very funny opening. Great work!
I used a 2012 imac as a display for a long time using a controller board. You can pretty easily solder the power button connections from the original imac to the pcb with the buttons on it. That way you can turn it on using the original button and not have to worry about those controls hanging out of the ram slot at the bottom like I originally had it.
I was considering converting my 2011 and perfectly working iMac like this. Now I know it is possible ! Thanks 🙏
For someone with only screw drivers and tape, this is EXTREMELY AMAZING!!!
Plus it's my first time in your channel and I'm entertained 😝 Subbing!
Perfect solution to avoid more e-Waste. Love it. Would love to see someone to use the original connectors of the iMac to the Mac mini logicboard to make it perfect.
I love this, but you should go for a part 2. Get those ports and power button working.
Imagine the police at Luke's door just being like "we have had reports of a library iMac being stolen" and that would just be Luke's career over with probably a collection of a dozen iMac's
This is soooo simple yet so cool. Love the video!
I loved this video. Very well done. Your content is always great.
I chose this video over the LTT video in my subscriptions. Thank you for the great content! :)
Never clicked so fast
heh
Omg.. so much humour in this video. Probably your best video 🤣😂
So cool! Well done as always :)
The amount of humour in this is amazing. Love it!
The project of the iMac you used is one of the videos that inspired me to buy the mid 2011 27 inch iMac I type this on. I hope mine doesn't end up like yours, atleast before it was M1
I wasn't into the subject of video but your energy keeps me going to watch the video fully.keep going😂👍🏽🔥
😂😂very funny! You brighten my evening. Thanks a lot!❤❤
Luke, seriously, thank you for your content.
This is so cool! I love it when people reuse old computers like this. Love seeing your videos man, you do an awesome job every time!!
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This video is gonna blow up. Luke is going for the kill on this one.
Love this video, fantastic new video style Luke
🤣 Luke you are a mad man for real. Much Love from Cameroon!
This was a very well-made video. Genuinely impressed you went out of your way to do justice to the video title, and the skits were integrated really well to tell a believable redemption story. A great watch.
I had thought that the M1-MacMini was ripe for deconstructing into rack-mountable server. Get a bunch of macminis and put them in one rack. Your project definitely validates that thought. Nicely done.
Ok the “not so” iMac mini. 😂
Brilliant idea. I’m gonna steal this. 👍🏻
Well done sir.
Luke, can you install an USB extensor at back of imac to usb input Mac Mini silicon and start use them?
Apple pretty much killed using an iMac display for any mac mini, that idea was Long gone before he started.
Probably he could, but it wouldn't look nice.
@@SomeUnremarkableGuy They gonne be inside, if he finds a flat usb extensor, should look nice. Usb C to usb A, to match the back´s usb entrace.
Just drill a big hole in the iMac housing and connect multiport dongle cables (run through the hole) to each of the USB-C ports on the MacMini and one will have lots of ports. Can even get dongles with SD Card Slot. Problem solved. Or maybe the other end of the dongle cable could be mounted in the existing port holes on the iMac housing (might need special cables, but shouldn't be a problem for Luke).
@@timgurr1876 I’m saying that you can’t connect two different CPU’s with two different chips, that’s why he took everything out of the housing and connected the panels and dongles with the internals of the Mac mini.
I'm digging the iMac dude, just wonderful
Awesome video! Very funny and a cool idea!
I love this. Imagine buying out a dysfunctional 4k/5k imac (Just make sure the screen is working, everything else doesn't matter) and doing this mod for the m1 Mini. Glorious.
been waiting for this all day 😍
FINALLY something new and interesting :D I love but also was little tired with replacement of SSD and adding Ram to old macs :)
Awesome project and great sense of humor, keep it up :)
I think it's a great mod, for the ones with power tools they can drill in holes for power buttons, ports etc etc and you have a fully functional imac
I wonder if you can keep most of the components this way if you theoritically want to keep a computer as a backup plan
Literally everyone in the world: waiting for Apple to launch their Apple silicon iMac
Luke saving the world: I'll do it myself
Awesome video BTW
“Fine, I’ll do it myself”
I love Tobey Maguire!! Bully Maaguire hahaha
Hey spiders 😁
@@severusclay5886 I missed the part where thats my problem.
@@Sarcasmka14 Aww look at my fan little jr.
@@Emobullymaguire sticking to character I see! Do the Emo dance bully maguire
BRAVO!!! I have a 2010 iMac 27" lying around. You have inspired me to give it a try 😂
Hellacool Bro!
Can't wait for the new iMacs!
"you just have take the screen off" noice🤣🤣🤣
You could extend the ports using a multi-port hub. An interesting idea for my poor 2008,1
Absolutely brilliant! I have a dead (PSU) late 2013 27" iMac and was considering options - I like the idea of sticking in a Mini and also the idea of just using the iMac as a monitor. Seems like I now have a lot more options to play with 🙂
your channel is the nuts! Definitely worth building on this idea!
Hi Luke, great work here!
I now kind of regret to have upgraded my 10 year old iMac to (almost) the max last year (i9 and 1TB SSD).
Do you think it would be possible to add ports by using simple extension cables with some kind of fixture plate where the original ports sat?
Do you think the original iMac power button can be connected or is the one on the mac mini soldered on?
Last thing: It would be great to use the excess power of the mac mini to power the screen ...
World’s first? No. Macrepairman did this a month ago :)
Here in Germany you are with this Project you are in all technikchannels and online newspaper. Heavy! Best project!
Dam good hack ! I like the just monitor idea better, but heck ya...awesome. Thanks Luke :)
It would be awesome to see all the ports working and the optical drive slot working as well.
there's prob an adapter to go from USB-C to the internal cables uses by the optical drive and SD card. And then get a Male USB-C to Female USB-C cable to extend the reach from the Mac mini's port to outside the iMac shell.
You're killing it Luke, your content was good but it's getting so much better!
I am HERE for this new Luke that’s somehow even sillier?? Had to laugh quite loud considering my partner was trying to sleep next to me
Great idea and great video!
Absolute mad lad. Great work, Luke!
great job 👍
the haunted imac skit at the beginning SENT ME omg omg
I subscribed just because i like the humour you have thanks
Apple: "WRITE THAT DOWN!! WRITE THAT DOWN!!"
Damn... This is cool. 😍
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Ayo...om moldy jangan mau kalah...bikin versi lokalnya
You are amazing Luke and just love it...😉👍
Apple Silicon in that gorgeous old design from 2012? Ultimate iMac in my heart!
Tell Tim- he won’t be happy!
I was thinking of putting the mini mobo it on a keyboard... please do it 🙏
You nailed it dude, on laterClips today :)) super cool!
subscribed, btw awesome production quality mate.
Honestly, I was skeptical coming in. I had recalled the prior project and wondered how disappointed we were going to be. This is an interesting idea, however, and caveats aside, it turned out pretty well. I also appreciate the display idea-I have an old retired 2011 iMac that I could repurpose in that very way.
Look at Mac Repairman's G5 conversion video for pointers. If you 3D print a bracket that holds USB ports and an Ethernet port, you could reuse the existing I/O board holes to connect external devices and you can make a board so the power switch on the iMac can be used to power the M1 Mac Mini so you don't need to take the screen apart. A 3D printed power adapter would enable the power connector to fit snugly in the case and prevent creepy crawlies from entering the case. If you can get the camera working, it would be a fully functional iMac.
This is pretty awesome man!
Luke Miani is when Superman is actually a normal super tech guy.