Jocelyn here are my 2 cents; You could always get the serial number and go yourself to a Mac Resellers, get it check 1) To make certain that it is not stolen good (in that case no Apple resellers will repair it) 2) To know exactly it's age and who was the original owner. If the sellers does seems to eager to get his $$$ be careful, it's always better to walk away with your $$ than a Mac that is going to become a headache over time and that will end up costing 2 or 3 times as much just in parts.
Yeah, I'd be nervous if the seller is in such a hurry.
On 1-Feb-04, at 7:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, I test drove the Wall street PowerBook that is for sale for $200 today. The date and time is not holding, so I assume it needs a Pram battery.
Sometimes the PRAM battery runs down and won't power the PRAM/clock. In some cases the battery will recharge if the computer is left plugged in overnight.
The guy told me laptop don't have a PRAM battery. Is that true? If it does have a PRAM battery, I need a webpage for PRAM batteries with prices.
It does have a PRAM battery. It's a rechargeable battery but it can eventually fail. It's harder to replace than a PRAM battery on a desktop machine.
Also, it has a SCSI adapter since the SCSI port on the Wall street is
nonstandard. His adapter looks like a pin is missing. He said it came looking like
that. He did not have a SCSI peripheral to demo the adapter.
It's a standard PowerPook SCSI port. The missing pin is normal. Adapters with all the pins let you attach the Powerbook to another computer as a disk drive.
When he did a demo on the internal zip drive, he just opened the ZIP Tools
disc window and commented on the loud sound of the ZIP drive. It sounds like my
old ZIP, but I'm remembering that some ZIPs were recalled due to chatter
problem and for ruining zip discs.
I don't know if he had a recalled zip drive.
ZIP disk drive chatter can be a bad drive or a bad disk, it's actually sign of one of several problems.
Then, when he unplugged the laptop from the wall, it died. He finally confessed that the battery was not holding a charge. So I need a website for a battery and the price.
Batteries run somewhere around $180 IIRC. Try Battery Technologies Inc. (<http://www.batterytech.com> maybe).
I went to the webpage that a nice list person sent me today. It says that
this model usually goes for $500- $700. So, I'm a little nervous about the low
price. I asked him to meet me at a Mac place to have it checked over next week.
I have a gift certificate to that store from my User group. I told him I'd
apply my $50 gift cert toward the inspection of the laptop. Maybe that was too
generous on my part.
He is giving me several licensed software programs that I need, but I need to iron out these other issues. He seemed a bit too attached to receiving the $200 right away.
Is he giving you the original disks along with any required serial numbers or just including the installed software on the disk?
Any help and info regarding these issues would me appreciated. Wow, this is like buying a used car.
Wallstreets are good machines, I'm typing this on one upgraded to 40Gb HD, 320Mb RAM running OS x.2.8.
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