Turn Your Broken iMac Into A New Standalone Display!

Today we’re turning my broken old 27” 2011 iMac into a functional standalone display with the help of Juicy Crumb Systems and their new logic board. #imac #display #repair

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More about the kickstarter project:
"Dust off your old iMac and turn it into an external display, dock, or fully fledged computer! These "CrumbGrades" are a simple drop in replacement for the original Logic Board of your 2011 27” iMac"

[TCHGY]

Man those old iMacs still has some of the best resolutions for viewing around! simply amazing!

[rebelliousreptile]

Absolutly love the idea, especially the use of existing hardware on the monitor like the webcam and the optical drive. Ive seen these macs pretty cheap that are stuffed in the motherboard, cpu or gpu area so this could be a very affordable way of getting a great monitor with a ton of other goodies.

[lasbrujazz]

I can only imagine when this product is finalized, the shape of the board would actually align with external ports on iMac chassis, making it a complete sleeper.

[ericbauer]

Nice to see someone trying to make something out of these old but very nice iMacs. I have a 2010 27" that I put an M1 Mac mini inside along with connecting the speakers to USB amp, and installed a 2011 iSight camera. After accidentally killing the ebay display driver board, I took apart a 4k LG display and installed that instead. Just waiting on a replacement front glass panel and it'll be finished.

[demorbe-official]

I love your creativity it's really awesome seeing you bring old stuff back to life.

[Aldo.flores]

That’s an incredible way to turn an old iMac into a Thunderbolt Display for a couple bucks, hope they fix the cable position in the future and manage a way to reuse the existing ports on the iMac

[hazel_]

really looking forward to this! i have a 2009 imac with a broken graphics card and i wanted to turn it into a display for quite a while!

[joel.davey]

thank you for releasing this it's really helpful bro.

[videogalore]

Really interesting and long overdue too! Makes perfect sense as they begin to reduce support for the older macs, which are otherwise perfectly good!

[HGAMES]

Let's hope Apple doesn't try to shut this project down because it looks promising and shows potential reverse engineering.

[jorge]

Your video has answered my questions. Thank you very much for sharing this method that works for all platforms.

[Abhidoesfirestuff]

love your vids mane keep these innovative bits coming !!

[hackintoshslovakia]

absolut fantastic project, as always !

[thebusinessfirm]

Great video, mate. Thanks for making it.

[TimurTripp]

This is amazing. I'd like to see a version for the iMac 5K as it can save people (myself included) so much money vs. buying a new Studio Display! The panel in our aging iMacs is still nearly as good as Apple's $1, 600 display and it frustrates me so much that it can't be used as a standalone display, especially now with Apple's attempt to discontinue MacOS support for early models of iMac 5K. Unlike the 2011 it may not be a standard DisplayPort connector inside which is a problem though, at the time the DisplayPort standard couldn't handle 5K. I believe they got around this by using 2x DisplayPorts for the one display but I could be wrong.

[cashwood]

I remember when you could do a similar thing with Target Display Mode on the pre-5K iMacs but the functionality was disabled in a later version of macOS (I think it might've been Mojave not sure)

[rntt]

Happy to see you posting again, my friend.

[BronyumHexofloride]

I do hope they go back as far as the G4, i got one collecting dust that hasn't worked in over a decade due to a logic board issue that id Love to turn into a stylish display for my various computers

[jameslangridge]

I love the idea of being able to reuse something that would otherwise be thrown away or recycled.

[LetsPlayKeldeo]

Really cool video ! I did the same thing Years ago I have an Imac Lamp / an 2011 and 2009 Imac as Displays