Kevin 'Dr. Frankenstein' Rose creates a revolutionary hybrid PC built from Mac and PC hardware.

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Assembly instructions
  1. First, you need to build the homemade G4, which I've already done in a previous project. Click here for details.
  2. Install the Little PC. This couldn't be easier. Simply slide the Little PC into the 5 1/4-inch drive bay and mount it above the G4's CD-ROM drive. See the pic below.



  3. Plug keyboard, mouse, and monitor into the Belkin switch.
  4. Connect the keyboard and monitor cables from the G4 into connector No. 1 on the Belkin. To do this, you need to plug one side of a two-sided USB cable into any of the G4's USB ports and the other side into the Belkin (you don't need a separate mouse cable because the wireless mouse and keyboard are a combo).
  5. Do the same with the monitor cable, plugging one side into the G4 and the other into the Belkin. Now when you set the Belkin to button one, you will have full-screen keyboard and mouse control of the G4 machine.
  6. Plug a VGA splitter into the Little PC's video card. Plug one end of a two-sided monitor cable into the VGA splitter and the other end into Belkin connector No. 2. See an image of the VGA splitter below.



  7. Do the same with the keyboard controls, plugging one side of a USB cable into the Little PC's USB port and the other end into Belkin connector No. 2. Now, when you set the Belkin to button two, you will have full-screen keyboard and mouse control of the PC.
  8. Plug a second USB cable from any open USB port on the G4 into Belkin connector No. 3.
  9. Plug another monitor cable from the VGA splitter into Belkin connector No. 3.
  10. Run an s-video cable from the G4's ATI Radeon graphics card to the video input No. 2 on the Samsung monitor. The s-video cable is the white-tipped cord in the picture below.



    Here's where it plugs into the monitor:




The results
  • Button one equals full control of the G4 with full-screen display.
  • Button two equals full control of the PC with full-screen display.
  • Button three equals the press the PIP (picture-in-picture) button on the monitor and you will be able to view both operating systems running at once. You will only have control of the G4, which will run on the smaller screen. See the pic below.



    To control the PC in picture-in-picture mode, simply press button two again.

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