Here in Wales I have 5 working eMacs, bought over the last three years.and they are still fetching reasonable prices on ebay. Obviously the 1.42 GHz is the desirable one - fairly recent, adequately fast, USB 2, big hard drives, good optical drives - people are asking (and sometimes getting) £100plus for these. 800's and 1GHz are still very capable and are perfectly adequate Surfing machines. The 1.25 is problematic - mainly due to the possibility of capacitor plague - but it is USB2.
Yes they are heavy, slippery brutes: a place to get both hands under would have been nice for carrying them about - I don't think a G3 top handle would have been practicable given the weight that the 17"CRT adds to what is basically a big white G3 iMac. If nothing else they are a very capable DVD player that will surf, and comes with a very nice looking screen, and will support a mirror display if you have something bigger to use. As to parting out the duff or scruffy ones.....spares or repair machines go pretty cheaply here, because they are normally Collect only....I wouldn't really want to entrust one of these to a carrier (even in original box and packing) just because they are boat anchors and heavier than they look......the most I've paid was £20 for one, and often they go for their starting price....if you take out opticals and hard drives they have a value. as do 256 or 512 memory DIMMS - becuse they're not the easiest of machines to work on, mainboards probably won't have many takers (easier to buy a working machine than fix a dead one!) There seem to be a lot of ex-educational (presumably?) ones available at the moment from traders, starting around £40 for 700/800's. HTH Dan -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
