Buying from Apple

**Stephen Coates** · 15th January 2007, 17:52

I actually profited there. Only by £5 but it does mean that if I get a G3 processor for it for something like £10 (they arn't expensive), I have literally got the entire machine for £5

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I wanted the money to go towards other stuff like a PowerBook and some amiga stuff

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**Harrison** · 15th January 2007, 21:08

Whilst it is cool ending up only having paid £5 for a complete system, it is a little sad at the same time that you ended up reducing the speed of the system so much just to make a few pounds.

Although, I fully support the sale of old Mac hardware to fund Amiga purchases.

What Powerbook are you getting?

**Stephen Coates** · 16th January 2007, 15:08

I'm not all that bothered about reducing the speed of it. I don;t use it as my main computer any more. (My main intention for it was to use it as my main computer for a while to see how good it was compared to other machines).

I have bought a powerbook G3 'WallStreet'. I'm not saying anythingmore about it until I get it.

Oh, and I bought a Presario 1615 laptop as well. Thats the same one as the one I was always having problems with a while back. (In case you're wondering why, I want to try Windows XP on it mainly).

**Harrison** · 16th January 2007, 15:33

Lets hope your new Presario laptop works. Was it a good price? Was the powermac a good price?

**Stephen Coates** · 16th January 2007, 15:53

Got the presario for £5.50 + £5 postage.

I probably wouldn;t have bothered with it if it was more.

**Harrison** · 16th January 2007, 16:32

Well you can't really go wrong at those sort of prices.

**TiredOfLife** · 16th January 2007, 17:53

What is the spec for the presario?

**Stephen Coates** · 16th January 2007, 18:43

150MHz Pentium MMX
Not sure about Memory but I have some which I can use if it doesn't come with any
12" crappy dual scan screen. Hopefully though this new one will be better than mine as it isn;t scratched.
Floppy/CDROM
Doesn't include HD but I'll have a spare one somewhere
Graphics card is a NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD.
2x USB ports/Parrallel/Serial/Port Replicator port/VGA/v.90 modem/2xCardbus/PS/2

**J T** · 16th January 2007, 18:47

You're going to run XP on that? As a project I take it, not as a machine for day to day usage?

Still, a fiver is a decent price for that. Even woth shipping being practically 50% of the cost.

**Stephen Coates** · 16th January 2007, 20:22

Originally Posted by J T

You're going to run XP on that? As a project I take it, not as a machine for day to day usage?

Guess. Is it likely I'd want to run XP on anything for more than a project?

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