Re: pricing a S/H P29 G3 iBook

2004-07-14 Thread Rod
On 13/7/04 6:10 PM, "Christian Kotz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To avoid the whole blowing up motherboards and spontaneous combustion > of other parts, why not settle for a nice iBook SE 466mhz. It has > firewire therefore can charge your iPod and it's battery does last > longer apparently. Ther

Re: pricing a S/H P29 G3 iBook

2004-07-13 Thread Mark Secker
To avoid the whole blowing up motherboards and spontaneous combustion of other parts, why not settle for a nice iBook SE 466mhz. As much as I like the clam shell iMacs stylistically there is the slight problem that it comes in at 3.1 KG v's the snow's 2.2 KG dimension wise the clams are 2

Re: pricing a S/H P29 G3 iBook

2004-07-13 Thread Christian Kotz
To avoid the whole blowing up motherboards and spontaneous combustion of other parts, why not settle for a nice iBook SE 466mhz. It has firewire therefore can charge your iPod and it's battery does last longer apparently. There's a few of them for under $500 on ebay but a lot of people still li

Re: pricing a S/H P29 G3 iBook

2004-07-13 Thread Mark Secker
no no no not knocking and appreciate the opinion... may be I was just needed to rant a bit. I know I'd probably "over price" my PowerBook when it come time to part with it. I tell you I'd not feel comfortable biding sight unseen on something sold by some one with that level of user knowle

Re: pricing a S/H P29 G3 iBook

2004-07-13 Thread Shay Telfer
I tell you I'd not feel comfortable biding sight unseen on something sold by some one with that level of user knowledge. Also the "resale value 6 months ago" of $1500 was for run out stock of the 800 & 900 Mhz G3 iBooks I know because with educational pricing they were $1100 and i thought about

Re: pricing a S/H P29 G3 iBook

2004-07-13 Thread Mark Secker
Speaking to some of other mac experts wasn't all that helpful, While I was in X-World the guys in Syndey wer saying $200 up to $250 tops. but a couple of apple guys here I've spoken to here are saying $500 to buy The monetary worth of something is what it costs to replace it. What the m

Re: pricing a S/H P29 G3 iBook

2004-07-13 Thread Shay Telfer
I have a couple of work colleagues who each have identically specked original 2001 snow 12.1" G3 iBook (code name "P29") 500Mhz, 128 MB, 10GB, CD-ROM (no burner) original purchase academic staff price would have been about $2000ish. One of them wants $700 for it - which is, in my mind is mor

pricing a S/H P29 G3 iBook

2004-07-13 Thread Mark Secker
anybody want to offer their 2cents on this quandary please feel welcome. I have the need to acquire for a month a small (say 12") laptop preferably Apple brand. My needs are simple - a small tough laptop for travel purposes that simply needs to do e-mail, word processing, downloading pictur