YouTuber makes ‘world’s first’ Apple Silicon iMac with M1 Mac mini parts [Video]

YouTuber makes ‘world’s first’ Apple Silicon iMac with M1 Mac mini parts [Video]

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While we wait for Apple to release the first Apple Silicon-powered iMac sometime this year, YouTuber Luke Miani has taken matters into his own hands. In a new video, Miani shows how he built the ‘world’s first DIY Apple Silicon iMac’ with an iMac shell and a Mac mini …

Using iFix breakdown guides, Miani started the process by tearing up a 2011 2011 inch iMac. Note that this is the model that was redesigned beforehand so that it does not have the tapered design on the sides. After that, he did research and found a switchboard with which you can convert an iMac into an HDMI screen.

After completing this process, the 2011 iMac essentially became an Apple Cinema Display, but Miani did not complete his quest to create an all-in-one iMac with Apple Silicon inside. So he took the guts of the M1 Mac mini out of the casing and found a place in the iMac to mount it.

After the Mac mini parts were installed in the iMac, the process was essentially complete. Miani created the ‘world’s first’ all-in-one Apple Silicon iMac. As impressive as it is, there are a few caveats:

The first ripple was that, when I turned it on initially, the Magic Mouse and keyboard would barely connect and the Wi-Fi was super slow. The reason for this is that the Mac mini, like most Macs, had three antenna connections, and one of the antennas is on the small metal plate we picked up when we tore the Mac mini. So it only had two out of three antennas, and it definitely got heavy when placed in the metal housing of the iMac.

To get around this, Miani relocated one of the metal antenna straps in the original iMac chassis, giving it full-speed Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Unfortunately, the other problem is that there are no ports. This means that there is no USB-C or Thunderbolt connection with this M1 iMac.

More than anything, this video serves as a pretty impressive proof of concept. As Miani notes in the video, one of the most interesting things to see is the empty space around the Mac mini parts in the iMac, especially if you consider that the M1 chip is faster than the Intel i7 chip he replaced in this particular iMac. .

Watch the full video below and let us know what you think of this DIY M1 iMac in the comments!

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