[byteseller]

Selling my desktop...

Dual G4 800Mhz Quicksilver
1.25GB Ram
Stock Apple SuperDrive DVD-R,-RW, CDRW, etc
Two * 80GB Seagate Barracuda IV drives(super quiet)
Airport Card
Internal 250 ZIP Drive
Apple Stock SCSI
SIIG ATA-133 PCI card (add up to 4 extra internal drives)
Apple Pro keyboard and mouse (both white for low-light visibility)
Apple Pro Speakers
Original Manuals / CDs / packaging
OS 10.2.4 and 9.22
Unlike new machines this BOOTS OS 9

All work perfectly and all equipment is in very nice cosmetic shape. The dual 80GB drives makes a very nice photoshop of digital video machine without having to add anything.

$1,800 OBO

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[byteseller]

Please make me a reasonable offer. I'd rather not have to post it on eBay.

[byteseller]

Am I asking for too much here or is this a reasonable price? What do you all think this machine is worth?

[Zimmerman]

Originally posted by byteseller:
Am I asking for too much here or is this a reasonable price? What do you all think this machine is worth?

Well, lets see. The average well equipped Dual 876 goes for between $1000 and $1200. For your money, a person could get a brand new superdrive 1.25ghz from Apple. Yea, way too much. Cut about $500 and sell with free shipping.

Damn I want one of these.. No dinero tho. *sigh*

[byteseller]

Zimmerman,

Thanks for the feedback. When I initially posted this I did sort of what you are suggesting - compare it to other used G4 and the price of a new (sort for comparable systems).

When I did this with a G4 1.25 (obvioulsy faster but also won't boot 9) and added 1GB of RAM and a 120GB HD (both less than my machine), a Superdrive, and a SCSI and Airport Cards- just like my machine, the price came to well above what I'm asking (did it again today and got $2,800 without shipping or taxes- see below).

I had figured that a price 1/3 less than that was reasonable - not so you think?

****** Summary
? Power Mac G4 Dual 1.25GHz w/1MB L3 per proc.
? 1GB DDR333 SDRAM (PC2700) - 2 DIMMs
? 120GB Ultra ATA drive
? Optical 1 - Apple SuperDrive
? Optical 2 - None
? ATI Radeon 9000 Pro w/64MB DDR
? AirPort Extreme Card
? Ultra SCSI PCI card & cable adapter
? 56K internal modem
? Apple Pro Keyboard - U.S. English
? Mac OS - U.S. English

Subtotal $2,797.00

[Lateralus]

Do not buy RAM from Apple.

That said, I think you are somewhat near the price range of what your machine is actually worth, but that doesnt mean you are going to get that much.

You really need to take into account the age of the machine, and the fact that the new models offer more than a few advantages over yours acrhitectually speaking (Faster bus, DDR RAM, etc...).

[Zimmerman]

Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
Do not buy RAM from Apple.

That said, I think you are somewhat near the price range of what your machine is actually worth, but that doesnt mean you are going to get that much.

You really need to take into account the age of the machine, and the fact that the new models offer more than a few advantages over yours acrhitectually speaking (Faster bus, DDR RAM, etc...).

I concure. Apple's ram prices about twice or three times the street price. Upon re-evaluation, I'd expect you could swing $1400 - $1500; you do have some very nice upgrades in there, especially the nice HDD, and the ATA133 controller. The buku ram doesn't do much, maybe adds and extra $100 or so... You have to consider what people would actually pay like on eBay for all these things; that is, the scsi controller costs $30 shipped (I'm actually trying to sell one on ebay right now), the bare single 800 tower; about $900-$1000, the drives, another $100... you know. You price compare with your substitutes, not new.

[byteseller]

True I certainly wouldnt buy RAM from Apple (I I could find a person that would I would sell this machine for $3K) but keep in mind that the comparison price did not even include the Apple speakers, 250 Internal Zip, or the ATA-133 card. I think these are EASILY worth more than the extra that you pay for RAM at Apple.

[byteseller]

Z-

You did notice that this was a dual G4 and not a single, right?