Buying from Apple

[Stephen Coates]

Yeah, the price of a refurbished machine will depend on its cosmetic condition, spec and of course how much work they have to do on it.

I just tend to buy Apple products second hand off ebay. Now all the Macs are Intel based the prices of PowerPC machines should be coming down quite a bit.

[Harrison]

That is true. PPC Macs should start to drop quite a bit, especially as new software releases start to phase out their PPC support and start to only run on Intel Macs.

Anyone wanting a PPC Mac should be able to get quite a bargain soon this is for sure. They will just have to take into account that system support and future development will be limited.

[Stephen Coates]

I think people will develop PPC software for a few years.

Look at the 68ks.

On the subject of money, remember that powermac g3 which I got for £35 inc postage. Well, I decided to list it's G4 upgrade on ebay and someone in Germany bought it at the buy it now price for £39.99 +£10 postage. Just got to hope that it doesn't get lost in the post now.

[Harrison]

How come you sold the G4 upgrade? DO you have a better G4 based Mac now? And what are you going to do with the G3?

[Stephen Coates]

I sold the G4 to get some money. I'll probably get a G3 for it now.

[Harrison]

Let me get this straight. You sold a G4 upgrade for your Mac, and are going to use the money to buy an older and slower G3 to replace it.

So you are in effect downgrading your Mac?

[Stephen Coates]

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 .

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