Rebuilding a Mac
February 28, 2010admin No Comments »I found this Imac 17″ 2.1Ghz dualcore with a defective panel. I thought that such a nice machine should not die like this and that is why i decided to rebuild me a Mac with the guts from this one.
Next step ,disassemble the imac 17″, -you will find plenty of videos on how to do that on youtube.
Every part inside the Imac is connected with nice long cables so you can rearrange everything very easy.
I did that and mounted everything on a 9mm white plywood 250*600mm with use of plastic spacers and plywoodscrews.
Here you see the Wlan antenna and the Bluetooth antenna, they also have long cables and can be placed away from big metalparts.
There is a buildin webcamera with mic which happens to be an USB camera. I have not yet desided what to do with it.
The only 3 cables i had to extend was the power ON cable and the 2 cables for the small integrated loudspeakers.
Next part was to make the white plastic cover . It’s mounted with only 4 screws , 2 in each side.
Here is some pics to se the difference.
Finally I added some perforated sheetmetal like the original Imac had in the bottom, but with larger holes.
The final result. It took aprox 8 hours from start to finish to make me a brand new Mac !
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