Next we cut out the backs of the cases to accommodate our new backplates and I/O shield. Like a lot of people who do G5 mods, we used “ATX Low 120” kits from The Laser Hive, which were simple to work with and removed a lot of guesswork and extra labor from the project.įirst, we stripped the G5s of all their components, leaving just the bare cases. He’d never built a computer, so I helped pick out the parts for both of us. Dremels and soldering are not my forte, but I was joined on this adventure by my friend Russell, who’s an expert with electronics. I’d built 4 computers before, starting in 2012, but never a project like this, where the actual hardware needed modification. (Plus, with all the speculation in the air about ARM-based Macs, I knew that if this was gonna be one of the last Hackintoshes I ever built, I’d be kicking myself if I hadn’t gone all out.) And while scouring Craigslist one day, I came upon two working-condition G5s for a song and thought, if not now, then when? So I knew I needed to build a new workstation. When my college sent us home early because of the pandemic, I lost access to a high-powered desktop computer, one of the most vital components of my livelihood. Even Apple must have loved it because they kept it in production for ten years, a lifetime for them. Whether by rose-tinted nostalgia or the effects of advertising on the 6-year-old brain, the design of the G5 to me represents the pinnacle of conventional desktop computer construction. It’s been a longtime dream to build a Hackintosh in an old Powermac G5 case.
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