I can't believe this modification has worked the world's first M2 Pro iMac
so then guys with the release of those new Macs that just come out we got some brand new Mac
Minis and specifically we got the M2 and the M2 Pro chipset put inside them and then M2 Pro or a
pro chipset is a first for a Mac Mini this time round now as much as the brand new Mac Mini is
fantastic and it's small and everything like that one thing we're missing out there is the IMAX to
be updated with an M2 chipset inside it or even to have an M2 Pro chipset put inside them and from
what we've heard recently it doesn't seem likely that the iMac is going to be getting an M2 variant
of any of the chipsets this time around we're gonna have to wait till basically the M3 series
and potentially the M3 Pro so with this this got me thinking can we create an actual sort of an M2
Pro iMac right now in early part of 2023 so this here is the world's first iMac with an M2 Pro
chipset on it being displayed right here and to be honest let me show you the little secret
and how this is done so what I've done here is I've mounted a brand new Mac Mini with an
M2 Pro inside it onto the back of one of these Apple displays and this whole setup here minus
the actual Mac Mini has cost me only about two hundred dollars to do it and it is really easy
to do this yourself this modification and as you can see here from the front it looks like
that everything is all in one I'm gonna have to give some credit to Luke mahani because back in
2021 Luke actually created the world's first sort of M1 iMac out there and what he got was
he got older sort of iMac and he actually stuck sort of the Chip And the board off of standard
Mac Mini actually inside the actual sort of frame of an original sort of 2009 to 2011
27 inch iMac now for me what I haven't done is actually put the Mac Mini actually inside this
display and the main reason behind us is to do with thermals and calling because what I didn't
want to do was move an M2 Pro inside the casing of one of his iMac just in case it overheated that
fan is needed any of the M2 sort of pro chipsets out there the M2 Max and even the sort of M1 Ultra
I'm sure the M2 Ultra is definitely going to need cooling especially that we've heard in the past
even with the standard M2 chipset inside the likes of the MacBook Air what doesn't have a fan on it
at all we have ran into some thermal difficulties so I knew I wouldn't be able to actually stick it
inside the casing for this because I would need space for a fan and also all the sort of circuitry
and things like this but I think this is the next best thing what you can do and in fact if I show
you here you can see The Thermals with this all switched on are quite low and the main reason is
is because everything is left intact inside this actual Mac Mini and also as you can see
here it's actually all the air is blowing up to the top now the modification I've actually done
to this Apple display is a little bit different to your traditional monitor better with the sort
of Apple displays that are out there sadly you don't actually get sort of the sort of verse
amounts on them this is the thing to sort of like hang it on the sort of like your own sort of stand
or anything like this or hang it on the wall you can't do this with apple displays and some people
actually do map that sort of Mount their map minis onto the back of these as sort of mounts that you
can get on the normal display but I want to do something a little bit different I wanted to use
everything apple and the way how I managed to actually do this is actually buy one of these
this here is an iMac vesser adapter plate and this basically makes your iMac display or makes
your Cinema display into something what you could sort of hang on the wall or you can hang on its
own sort of stand with one of these and they're quite cheap to buy I actually managed to pick
this up for 30 pounds on Amazon and after taxes and everything if you translate that's probably
about 37 but probably you could probably pick up 30 in the US as well and then what I decided
to do was to combine that with one of these this is basically a Mac Mini wall mount and the great
thing about the Mac Mini because the size of it hasn't sort of changed in about 12 years and the
design hasn't changed overall one of these is compatible with any sort of Mac Mini that is
out there right now in the last sort of 12 Years so if you earn like a 2010 model 2012 model 2014
18 or even the recent M1 or M2 versions of the Mac Mini this will also work for you too and
to be honest even this thing here this map that I got here only cost me about 15 pounds to buy
so again that's probably about 18 19 US dollars but again probably we've got different tax rules
to you you could probably still pick this up for about 15 16 yourself what is really really
cool then the actual Apple Cinema display that I have here this actual Cinema display actually cost
me around about 140 pounds and again you could probably pick up one of these displays in the US
for about 150 to 160 sort of US dollars but one thing I would say is you've got to make sure it
is a thunderbolt 2 Cinema display make sure you get one there and also one extra thing you'll
need is one of these what this is this this is a thunderbolt 2 to a USB 3 or Thunderbolt free
adapter what you'll need for doing this sort of setup and again you can pick these up for around
about twenty dollars twenty pounds or so and this is a key thing you'll need inside this build and
with that guys I'm going to now show you how I actually managed to set up and create this sort
of M2 Pro iMac with the Mac Mini and how you can do it exactly the same as I've said already guys
I'm going to leave everything in my description of where you can buy all these parts but for maybe
the Apple Cinema display you're gonna have to go and find one of them yourself but everything else
will be in the links below but with that let's go over to my desk so just getting started here just
wanted to show you guys what I've got is I've got my Mac Mini and I've also got my cinema
display now the similar display has two cables coming out of it here one is to charge the good
old style Max 82 and Max 8 original but you don't need that what we're interested in is this other
cable the Thunderbolt 2 cable and what we want to do is plug in that adapter that Thunderbolt to to
USB C adapter or Thunderbolt 3 adapter we're going to plug that in and then that's also going to go
in the back of the Mac Mini and there we go that's all in and we're just going to see if we're going
to get a display here and as you can see here it all works perfectly fine without anything mounted
up so we definitely know that this sort of idea is definitely going to work so with that guys let's
get out everything else out onto my desk so I've got all the components out I've got the vesa Mount
out and I've also got the mounting bracket for the Mac Mini and I've got some screws out as well and
bitside pieces like that and then basically as you can see here what you actually need to do is just
get the main sort of mounting sort of bracket The Vessel one here and there's back sort of play sort
of line up the four sort of holes at the back here put the actual sort of main plate what the
actual Mac Mini is going to sit on and it's gonna be the force or inner screws here this is one bits
and pieces that I bought here and I'm just going to screw these bits it's together as you can see
here they're quite easy using my iFixit kit and with that done what I'm going to do is I'm just
going to show you here as you can see the sort of Mac Mini is going to sit in here it slots in
lovely like that and we're ready to go now to actually attach this Mount now to the actual
Cinema display and next of all so lifting up the bracket and sticking on the back of the IMAX quite
simple we'll just slot in line up with the holes you can see I'm sticking my finger through here
and then what we do is we just want the other plate here and we want to connect it into Sloss
into the back here now what I do have I'm just going to hold it there I'm going to show you here
you do have these sort of plastic Rings here to make things a little bit more comfortable that's
if it's not loose enough you can stick those in but we don't need it here for this Thunderbolt
um sort of display so yeah I don't think I'll actually be using these plastic Rings whatsoever
so we'll put those to one side but I'll just tilt the screen back towards you guys and what I'm
going to do is I'm just going to get the screws here and I'm going to thread them through the good
news is the back plate where my other hand is not one was threading sort of holds it all in place
they're already threaded so you just have to twist with your hand initially to get this in a place
that's quite easy I'm just going to tighten it up a bit not too tight with my screwdriver here and
I'm just going to twist it round and I'm just going to do the other one just down the bottom
here I'm just going to line up those screws again put this other screw in here again like I said
it's already threaded just twist it in like this with your handle it initially get your screwdriver
and then twist this up as you can see and I'm just speeding it along here I'm just going to put the
other two screws in as well so tilting around the display you can see it's all lined up lightly the
screws are in in place and it's nice and secure there again I'm trying to pull it here there's a
nice it's nice and fixed on there's no Gap you've got the hole and everything there we don't need
these plastic bits like I said use them if you do need so if you have got some space and the same
with these white plastic screws you don't really need them again they would have been just to make
a bit more sort of space you know if you had some gaps here you could use those screws to tighten up
bits and pieces but again we just don't need them for this so next of all I'm going to do is I'm
actually going to skip my Mac Mini with the ports and everything facing up to the top as you can see
here and it just slots in really easily so that is really really nice and cool that that just fits in
absolutely perfectly so that is really good now and next of all we're going to do is we're just
going to get this white cable and we're just going to wrap this around and everything like that and
then we've also got that Thunderbolt to USB sort of cable there as well so that all works perfectly
so we're really really happy with that so I'm just gonna keep wrapping this round and then make it
nice and tidy and then as you can see here I just need to connect it up to the top and everything is
done last two steps then first of all we just have the main power supply then 4 or the actual Mac
committee and I'm going to feed this through the hole at the back here up through to the top and
then power and plug it into the power sort of Port at the top of the Mac Mini and then after this
what I've also got is the main sort of power for the actual display and that can go back through
the hole into the back where it normally belongs for everything to be really nice and tidy so there
we go and there we have it folks the world's first M2 Pro iMac sort of it's probably like I said the
best sort of alternative that is out there to stop any sort of rustling issues out there and anything
like that and also give you a 27 inch eye map until the time of the brand new sort of M3 IMAX
and we may even see an M3 Pro on even an M3 Max in maybe a larger iMac in the future we'll have
to wait and see but there again there is always the Mac Studio too so one question you guys are
probably asking already is why are you not using a brand new studio display that came out last year
with the Mac Studio and the main reason is is the stand is very different to what we have with the
sort of Cinema display and those old sort of iMacs and with that to the best of my knowledge I don't
think there is a verse amount for that to do this modification plus also at the same time if you're
paying out say 1 200 or 1 300 on an M2 Pro sort of Mac Mini then on top you've got to spend like
a total number of 1500 sort of US dollars for a studio display on top this is going to get quite
expensive it's going to cost like about three thousand dollars to do this sort of conversion
what I think is really really expensive and I think to be honest doing it with one of these
older Cinema sort of displays is far more cheaper for you guys out there being that you spend so
much on your Mac Mini M2 or M2 Pro already I do also want to say again a big shout out to
Luke mahani for giving the sort of inspiration behind this and I do hope Luke that you actually
create a sort of an iMac of a 27 inch model or something like that where you can actually get
the calling for the M2 Pro from say a Mac that would be really cool to see but until that time
this is a great solution and it's also really cheap to do for yourself too so give it a go and
let me know in the comments below of what your thoughts are of this little sort of alternative
mod I would love to know your thoughts and on that guys it's also time to wrap up this video
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