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    12" iBook Selling Price

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by fnp, Aug 14, 2006.

  1. fnp

    fnp Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've got a 12" iBook that I bought last year.
    It's not even a year old yet.
    It's got 1GB of ram right now, and the operating system is down to its bare minimum since I run Protools and Mbox for music production.

    I'm thinking about selling this unit.
    It still looks brand spankin new.
    How much do you think I could sell it for?
     
    fnp, Aug 14, 2006
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  2. EagleDevil

    EagleDevil Notebook Evangelist

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    Man, I feel for you. Today, no one with any sense would pay much for a G4 iBook. Nevertheless, there are obviously a lot of people out there without any sense. A quick Froogle search turned up G4 iBooks selling for $1000 and even more. As Mr. T said, I pity da foo'.

    My wife has a G3 iBook. I was thinking if I could get $100-200 for it I'd be happy.

    Chris
     
    EagleDevil, Aug 14, 2006
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  3. zadillo

    zadillo Notebook Virtuoso

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    There's plenty of people who would still be interested in a 12" iBook G4; it's still perfectly useable, and someone who just needs it for word processing, etc. doesn't specifically need to have a MacBook. Someone who doesn't need that is happy to spend $500-750 or so for an older machine. From looking at the Marketplace on MacNN's forums, for example, it seems like you might be able to get around $600-700 for it (I saw someone selling a 1.2GHz iBook G4 12" with 1.25 gigs of RAM for $650, for example.
     
    zadillo, Aug 14, 2006
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  4. fnp

    fnp Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the realistic numbers!!
    I appreciate the feeback very much.
     
    fnp, Aug 14, 2006
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  5. cashmonee

    cashmonee Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Check sold auctions on ebay. 500-750 seems about right though.
     
    cashmonee, Aug 15, 2006
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