iMac G4 17″ 1Ghz upgrade to 2GB of memory 500 GB hard-drive and Leopard
Upgrade iMac G4 17″ 1Ghz to 2GB of memory and 500 GB hard-drive. Parts used OWC 1GB PC2700 DDR 333MHz CAS 2.5 184pin / OWC 2700 PC2700 DDR SO-DIMM and 500GB Western Digital ATA hard drive. The iMac came with no hard drive and no hard drive cable! So I used an old PC IDE cable and tried to stuff the drive in so many ways. The hard drive recognize only 465.76 GB of the 500 GB why have no clue ? Sorry for the ruff editing made to fit youtube 10 min rule. Apparently 500 GB = 465.76 GB the capacity advertised by hard disk drive manufacturers isn’t the real drive capacity.
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May 5, 20101:18 PM
what kind of RAM did you use? what type is it?
May 5, 20102:16 PM
@machiavellos Invest in a new mac, you fucking cheapskate.
May 5, 20103:00 PM
@TheAnimeLover569 Jesus christ how long does it take? 
May 5, 20103:28 PM
I got one of these free from a friend, broken dvd drive, no HDD and no ram. 2 days later, 512 mb ram salvaged from an old AMD pc, HDD from same pc, and DVD drive fixed completely (That was the hardest bit).
Runs OS10.5 perfectly, working on getting a gig of the laptop-looking pc-2700 to boost it.
May 5, 20104:17 PM
Nice job, but the problem is that those macs are was to packed in. I got an iMac g5 off of eBay for only $300 amd it works great! It came with the new wireless keyboard and the majic mouse! It has a 180 GB hard drive and 2 GBS of RAM. you should really look into a new computer. Also, those macs are great and all, but I think the g4 is very ugly
May 5, 20105:14 PM
Hey guys – ive recently accquired an iMac G4 and am looking to uprgrade the RAM from it’s current 512MB to 1GB+ by putting a 1GB card in one of the two RAM ports. Can anyone give me the lowdown on how I do it? Is it simple or should I take it to a shop? Cheers!
May 5, 20105:25 PM
probably the biggest upgrade ever
May 5, 20105:29 PM
I just bought the imac g5 style intel version, and I am very happy with it. but how hard would it be to upgrade a hard drive yourself for a mac? mine only has 250gb.
May 5, 20106:20 PM
Must’ve made this video so he didn’t forget how to put it back together
May 5, 20106:32 PM
My school uses stock ones in the Preschool room.
May 5, 20107:27 PM
@irulethe70s osx86 runs on intelx86 pc and
amd64 pcs.
May 5, 20108:20 PM
10.6 only runs on intel
May 5, 20109:17 PM
any one can help me about speed up video…. look like my g4 the video run too slow
May 5, 20109:45 PM
@Tilu1996
HP, Dell, Fujitsu are bigger than apple apple has a small market share i computing.
May 5, 201010:43 PM
@redwolf4k
anyone? do you see the prices for the latest mac, from € 1000 to almost 3000 euros wtf man
May 5, 201010:58 PM
ok 32gb ram with 8gb graphics memory 12tb hdd octo core 3.33ghz nope thats not gaming for anything…
May 5, 201011:25 PM
lmao this is not a game machine by any standards
May 5, 201011:53 PM
no im a programmer and somtimes i want to take a break so ill play video games
May 6, 201012:03 AM
you should put mac osx86 10.6 on it 
May 6, 201012:56 AM
my total for vram is 4gb
cause i have 2 gpu
May 6, 20101:11 AM
theres a serious gaming machine youve got there
May 6, 20102:06 AM
thanks for the tutorial… ya tengo el hdd solo me hace falta la pasta termica para cambiar el disco gracias
May 6, 20102:20 AM
動画にはない写真の良さがわかる動画だ！Good
May 6, 20103:15 AM
OHH SHIT YOU LEFT THE CAPS OPEN
Stop with your nonsense shitty Spam already
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12:57 PM
I thought the iMac G4′s could only have 1GB RAM?