On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 01:08 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: > On 2/27/03 3:34 PM, "Hal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: > >> I thought I'd offer this one up to the list before I post it to any of >> the boards or eBay: >> >> This is an Apple OEM IBM Travelstar 60GB hard drive pulled from a >> Powerbook G4. This is the high end drive that was an option on the >> Powerbook G4/800 last year. To my knowledge, it's the largest capacity >> hard drive you can put in a Powerbook. >> >> It's a 5400rpm drive with 2mb cache, it's 12.5mm high and is very >> fast. >> It should work in any laptop that'll take a 12.5mm high drive, >> including all recent Powerbooks. >> >> These drives are not easy to find and when you can find them, they're >> expensive. I've seen them anywhere from $300-389. This one is like >> new. >> >> Asking $250 plus shipping or best reasonable offer. > > I might be interested. The price is a little high though. I am not a > haggler either. That drive is $299 and in stock at Transinternational. > Here's why I think your asking price is a little too high and no one is > going to bite. If I were to buy the drive from you there is no > warranty. > Even if Apple somehow extended the warranty to a 3rd person it would > only be > a 1 year warranty. If I were to buy that exact same drive from > Transinternational I would get a 3 year warranty. So as it stands > it's not > worth the risk. Now if you dropped your asking price to $180 or so > I'd buy > it. > --
Let me think about it. -Hal -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
