Project91 The Original Macintosh can draw a straight line to the iMac as Apple’s first All in One for consumers. So can we bring this one into the modern age? We’re going Full Miani. M1 inside (Intel sound) I adore old Macs. I only came to Apple in 2010 after the iPhone 4 was released, and while it was incredibly hard to lay your hands on at the time, I randomly found my local phone store had one in stock and went with it on a whim. That turned out pretty well for Apple I think. Later that year I moved overseas, working in Dubai for a year, and when I got back, I got my first Mac. The 2011, 11” MacBook Air. And I still have it, 11 year later. But, having a slightly obsessive personality as I do, I really threw myself into the history of Apple, and started collecting some of the older models that I found at Car Boot sales, from eBay and more, and built a bit of a collection going back to the G3s. And then, a couple of years ago, I found this, Macintosh Classic 2 on Facebook Marketplace for almost no money and around the corner from my home. No keyboard or mouse, not working, but it hails back to that original 1984 Macintosh in design terms. This thing packs a 16Mhz Motorola 68030 processor, 2mb of ram and a 9” monochrome display. I’ve always been impressed with how even a 350mhz G3 PowerMac still felt snappy when I rescued it from a car boot for £10, but while the Macintosh Classic is a beautiful piece of history, it’s annoying that it’s non-functional. But what if it could be useable again. Keeping its awesome retro look and making it truly functional, the core of my home network? What would that take? Well, since I bought the M2 MacBook Air when it came out at WWDC this year, my Mac mini M1 desktop has become less busy. But what if that could become the heart of a new all in one? What would we need to make this functional? Well, a Retina display wouldn’t go amiss. Modern peripherals that look the part, M1 at the heart of it, lots of storage and networking so the files can be accessed all over the home, and maybe even beyond, who knows. A sub 10” Retina display is relatively simple, I have a 4th generation iPad with Retina display that is basically obsolete at this point. The M1 Mac mini will fit inside the Macintosh casing with bags of room to spare, so we’ll also fill some of that extra space with the external storage that’s currently all over my desk. Oh, and hopefully all the cable mess on the desk will be a bit less… messy too. Oh, audio would be pretty good too, as the internal speaker on the Mac mini is very much designed for accessibility more than listening pleasure. But as it's a desktop, I can deal with that later and maybe go external if needs be. Most importantly, I’d like it to change externally as little as possible. I’d like to be able to use the original power switch if I can, as well as still being able to use an external display when needed. So let’s get to work. First, we need to tear this thing down. "Industrial Cinematic" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Join the conversation http://iCaveDave.com/twitter​ http://iCaveDave.com/facebook​ http://iCaveDave.com/instagram​ http://iCaveDave.com/youtube​ http://iCaveDave.com/merch​ http://iCaveDave.com/discord​