Ahh of course! Yes that makes total sense, I am sure you can get a 64 bit OS on it though as I did the same thing with try a Mac Pro 1,1 Mind you installed windows on a different machine first and then put the drive in it.
If that's the case, then you might want to search for something that will make Atom CPUs work on Linux (if you're putting Linux on the thing, of course). Usually it's only a file you need to put somewhere in the EFI partition.
If you like messing with this general era of Macs, I can't recommend picking up a Firewire drive of sorts enough. Works really, really well to boot installers from (especially Snow Leopard so you don't have to deal with dual layer DVDs, which are...iffy at best). Hell, if you have a Firewire-capable iPod, I've even squeaked by with those back in the day when I needed to recover Macs without working optical drives. Even then, though, getting the first gen Intel machines running sometimes can be tricky, even with all the proper tools. Always a fun time.
In all honesty Windows Vista wasn't awful, it was just Microsoft wanting to make it run on as many PCs as possible. It's a bit like how they made the Windows 10 installer start installing Windows 10 when the user clicked the red X. They stretched the truth about how Vista ran on certain hardware and everyone with low spec PCs thought it was rubbish. That wasn't the only problem, of course, but it was a big contributor to the bad reputation, methinks...
you can upgrade to win 7 then win 10 using the 1902 update assistant then update so sequoia via a processor upgrade ram supports 6gb, if not 8 with the cpu upgrade
Nice iMac, Plank! I've got one of these, mine is the 17" version. I can't remember the other specs, but I know I didn't put an SSD in it. Maybe I could do that one day! I used it for a good few years as a general workbench machine, it was handy and quite nifty. I've always liked the design of these. The iMac G4 always gets the attention design wise, and the G5 iMac is generally plagued, but these pre aluminium Intel models are really quite nice. I love this era of Apple. This is right from the 'I'm a Mac, I'm a PC' ad era. Front Row was a huge deal, Tiger was an absolute beast.... it's just a lovely era. I'm also nostalgic for it because I had the white MacBook at the time, that was also a 2.16 GHz model. I expect you feel similarly due to your ownership of an Intel Mac mini back in the day around this time too! Maybe give Tiger a whirl on this for a trip down memory lane, when was the last time you ran 10.4? These run up to Lion (puke) natively. Vista also brought back some memories for me here, I haven't played with Vista for years. I'm a weirdo that uses diskpart every single time I want to format a drive during Windows installs, I just think the UI for drive formatting and partitioning absolutely sucks in the installer. It's not so bad in this Vista installer here but it is absolute dog shit on Windows 11. I have a video releasing Boxing Day where I discover the dark side of rushing through diskpart, you may enjoy that. Hope you and the wife have had a lovely Christmas. Lots of love.
@@ItsMyNaturalColour man I want to add a 17” intel iMac back to my collection! My mother had one and I loved that thing so much and wish they kept making it. There is a lot of fun nostalgia to be had with these things, not sure if these shipped with Tiger either, can they run it or is Leopard the minimum? Or did these ship pre Leopard? Man it’s been a long time since these were new!
All these white iMacs shipped with Tiger originally, and so did the first batch of the aluminium iMacs. Tiger went on and on and on if you remember, 11 incremental updates to 10.4.11, April 2005 - October 2007. I remember hearing/reading back then that they pulled devs from OS X to help with the first iPhone, and that’s why Leopard took so long, but I choose to believe that Tiger was just so awesome they didn’t need Leopard for a good while 😂
BROOO GOOD FIND!!!!! and I just noticed I believe have the classic apple keyboard that was meant to go with that machine I am very well a fan of these older macs when I was younger I wanted an iMac G4 really badly because of how cool they looked especially with their colors. By the way I recommend trying custom operating system like chrome os flex and seeing if it will work on there at all since vista can run on it if your a little bit tech savvy you can get firefox on it and by chance might be able to use it in the modern age internet on there might be slow though due to the outdated ethernet card if it even has one
these 2006 macs have a really annoying thing and that is that they have fully 64bit capable CPU's but apple decided to stick with a 32bit efi meaning even 64bit non apple OS's wont boot
I'm just giving this video a like for the Windows Vista nostalgia
32bit EFI. I can see that straight off. You need an OS with a 32bit boot loader. This happens with the 1,1 and 2,1 Mac Pro too.
Ahh of course! Yes that makes total sense, I am sure you can get a 64 bit OS on it though as I did the same thing with try a Mac Pro 1,1
Mind you installed windows on a different machine first and then put the drive in it.
@ you might have luck with rEFInd. But often another computer is easier to get it bootstrapped.
That officially limits it to Snow Leopard OS X wise. However why do we have to be official...
If that's the case, then you might want to search for something that will make Atom CPUs work on Linux (if you're putting Linux on the thing, of course). Usually it's only a file you need to put somewhere in the EFI partition.
@@cjmillsnun you can for sure run El Capitan on a 1,1 with the right bootloader.
If you like messing with this general era of Macs, I can't recommend picking up a Firewire drive of sorts enough. Works really, really well to boot installers from (especially Snow Leopard so you don't have to deal with dual layer DVDs, which are...iffy at best). Hell, if you have a Firewire-capable iPod, I've even squeaked by with those back in the day when I needed to recover Macs without working optical drives.
Even then, though, getting the first gen Intel machines running sometimes can be tricky, even with all the proper tools. Always a fun time.
In all honesty Windows Vista wasn't awful, it was just Microsoft wanting to make it run on as many PCs as possible. It's a bit like how they made the Windows 10 installer start installing Windows 10 when the user clicked the red X. They stretched the truth about how Vista ran on certain hardware and everyone with low spec PCs thought it was rubbish.
That wasn't the only problem, of course, but it was a big contributor to the bad reputation, methinks...
you can upgrade to win 7 then win 10 using the 1902 update assistant
then update so sequoia via a processor upgrade
ram supports 6gb, if not 8 with the cpu upgrade
Good job! Subscribed!
Nice rescue Will, would never have been able to figure all of that out, especially various OS’s to boot up.
Windows Vista!? Oh no the flip3D 😭
I can't remember who but i saw a guy run a datavac thru an rgb fan and it generated enough current to power the rgb leds while it was blowing\
@@TheJimminiShow would be interesting to see, I’m gonna run some tests for sure I think and publish my results on here
itsaid GPT, so you format the disk andset it to m br
Ghost of Christmas past came to punish thy
I have a 2010 and 2011 imac that i dont really use they both work though... anyhow cheers to you and merry christmas yeah.
I remember buying one of these brand new when they came out.
@@tenminutetokyo2643 I would have killed to have one of these when they were new!
I had that same IMac many many moons ago.... Lets go Gavin and Stacey
Nice iMac, Plank! I've got one of these, mine is the 17" version. I can't remember the other specs, but I know I didn't put an SSD in it. Maybe I could do that one day! I used it for a good few years as a general workbench machine, it was handy and quite nifty. I've always liked the design of these. The iMac G4 always gets the attention design wise, and the G5 iMac is generally plagued, but these pre aluminium Intel models are really quite nice. I love this era of Apple. This is right from the 'I'm a Mac, I'm a PC' ad era. Front Row was a huge deal, Tiger was an absolute beast.... it's just a lovely era. I'm also nostalgic for it because I had the white MacBook at the time, that was also a 2.16 GHz model. I expect you feel similarly due to your ownership of an Intel Mac mini back in the day around this time too! Maybe give Tiger a whirl on this for a trip down memory lane, when was the last time you ran 10.4? These run up to Lion (puke) natively.
Vista also brought back some memories for me here, I haven't played with Vista for years. I'm a weirdo that uses diskpart every single time I want to format a drive during Windows installs, I just think the UI for drive formatting and partitioning absolutely sucks in the installer. It's not so bad in this Vista installer here but it is absolute dog shit on Windows 11. I have a video releasing Boxing Day where I discover the dark side of rushing through diskpart, you may enjoy that.
Hope you and the wife have had a lovely Christmas. Lots of love.
@@ItsMyNaturalColour man I want to add a 17” intel iMac back to my collection!
My mother had one and I loved that thing so much and wish they kept making it.
There is a lot of fun nostalgia to be had with these things, not sure if these shipped with Tiger either, can they run it or is Leopard the minimum?
Or did these ship pre Leopard? Man it’s been a long time since these were new!
All these white iMacs shipped with Tiger originally, and so did the first batch of the aluminium iMacs. Tiger went on and on and on if you remember, 11 incremental updates to 10.4.11, April 2005 - October 2007. I remember hearing/reading back then that they pulled devs from OS X to help with the first iPhone, and that’s why Leopard took so long, but I choose to believe that Tiger was just so awesome they didn’t need Leopard for a good while 😂
BROOO GOOD FIND!!!!! and I just noticed I believe have the classic apple keyboard that was meant to go with that machine I am very well a fan of these older macs when I was younger I wanted an iMac G4 really badly because of how cool they looked especially with their colors.
By the way I recommend trying custom operating system like chrome os flex and seeing if it will work on there at all since vista can run on it if your a little bit tech savvy you can get firefox on it and by chance might be able to use it in the modern age internet on there might be slow though due to the outdated ethernet card if it even has one
these 2006 macs have a really annoying thing and that is that they have fully 64bit capable CPU's but apple decided to stick with a 32bit efi meaning even 64bit non apple OS's wont boot
Max os is 10.7
install Windows 7 on it instead of Vista
Terrible video and likely a GPU issue or it don’t take x64 os’s
Thanks for watching regardless if you thought it was crap or not.
lol what a lovely comment. Will, your video was terrible apparently. All I can say is, blokeys never gonna share his kebabs with this guy.
Jason isn’t allowed any of blokeys delicious food!
@@WillThePlank ok wrong choice of words there on my part was it a gpu issue after lol ?
Not sure as of yet, filmed this and haven’t been back in to play with it since, will hopefully find out next week.