There are millions of previous aluminum iMacs sitting around the globe, doing nothing (the one in Macworld’s Podcast studio involves thoughts, changed by a more moderen M4 iMac). Plenty of these previous iMacs have completely good, even nice, shows, and wouldn’t or not it’s cool if you happen to may use them as a standalone monitor for that model new M5 MacBook Professional you simply purchased?
That’s what Quinn Nelson at Snazzy Labs thought, and he made it occur–he turned an previous aluminum iMac into what he calls a “Studio Show” for a Mac. Being the YouTuber that he’s, he posted concerning the challenge on the Snazzy Labs channel.
Now, earlier than you get all excited, begin clearing house in your desk and dig out that previous iMac of storage whereas proclaiming, “Let’s do that!” you need to know that this isn’t a easy plug-and-play challenge. It took Nelson a month’s value of planning, analysis, procuring, and labor to get it completed. Since he needed to make use of the previous iMac simply as a show, he gutted it and put in a number of {hardware} parts to make it work as such. For instance, he needed to determine which driver board to make use of that would offer the decision, refresh price, and energy that’s required. And he designed plastic assist brackets and used a 3D printer to make them.
After numerous disassembling, splicing, soldering, crimping, hole-cutting, energy testing, reassembling, and different handiwork, Nelson obtained a working 5K show that he’s very happy with and spent lower than the $1,599 it will price for a brand new Apple Studio Show–sure time does equal cash, however he did get a really cool video out of it. And you may reward him for a few of that point by watching the video above.
If this feels like a challenge for you, the Snazzy Labs video is a wonderful reference supply. As Nelson factors out within the video, “data on-line is scarce or just fallacious” on how to do that, and Snazzy Labs supplies nice perception. Give it a watch.
