The Apple Macintosh 128K, launched in 1984, was a cute little beige box with a nine-inch monochrome ... in the form of the iMac G4. In place of the G3's CRT was a 15-inch TFT LCD that, in the ...

the entire board is smaller than the stock iMac G4’s hard drive. It still took plenty of cramming, with a multitude of adapters finagled and massaged to fit inside the original housing.

Sometimes this succeeded, as in the case of the iMac G4, but there were also notable failures, like the Power Mac G4 Cube. The last radical Mac design was arguably the 2013 Mac Pro, sometimes ...

“Flickr user Rusty saw his busted G4 iMac, his iPad and had a chocolate-and-peanut butter moment. He removed the iMac’s innards and display. Next he cut and molded some acrylic to accommodate the iPad ...