[firefly04]

I'm going to college in less than a year, and as I'm not majoring in graphic design anymore, this PowerMac G4 1.42 DP/20" Display/expensive photo printer is severe overkill and wouldn't fit in my dorm room.

Ideally, I want to sell all three together and buy a new (or just really good) iMac, and a new iBook (I will never ever go back to Windows).

I bought the G4 last April, and it came defective from Apple. The local Apple dealer replaced both processors and it's been rock-solid and flawless since then. The G4 and the display are covered under AppleCare until 4/9/2006. The G4 would come with Apple Pro Speakers, the keyboard, and the mouse included in the original shipment.

What I want in the iMac is at least 1 GHz, 40+ gig HD, CD-R/DVD-R drive, 512 mb RAM..basically something that will get me through this year and through 4-5 years of college. I still want to do a little graphic work but nothing huge, and the computer would probably be used for typing papers, chatting, burning CDs, etc. I want about the same in the iBook, but maybe only 256 mb RAM. I've been a desktop kind of person my whole life, so just having an iBook would make me feel lost. If I can, I want to get enough for the G4/Display/Printer to be able to buy the iMac and the iBook with room to spare.

This could be totally unrealistic, but any helpful suggestions (i.e. what I need in the iMac/iBook, what to sell the G4/etc for, etc.) would be much appreciated. I'm also not fond of selling something this important and huge (seeing as shipping will probably be close to $100) on eBay, so I'm looking for another route for that.

Thanks much,
Heather E.

[Zimmerman]

Depending on how much time you have in mind to sell this system, you may want to change your all in one package strategy. It'll be a lot harder to find a buyer who's looking for all of these items and is willing to pay more for all of them. What I'd do is price them independantly (albeit at a higher sum total) as well as have a -buy-them-all-together!!- deal that is a few hundred less or offers free shipping or something. Just a suggestion, disregard at will.

[Stinkysteve]

Which printer do you have?
Maybe list separate prices, and a package deal for everything.
Good luck.

[firefly04]

I understand why selling all three separately would probably work better, but I am still using all three very frequently. I want to sell all three at once, ship them off, get the money, and then buy the iMac/iBook possibly same day, so I wouldn't be left without a decent computer for more than a week (hopefully). The "family" computer is a 6 y/o Gateway that goes at maybe 250 MHz and crashes every two minutes, I'd really rather not be downgraded to that machine for too long.

I customized the iMac and the iBook on Apple, and I'd need to get approximately $3,200 for the package to afford them both.

I'm pretty sure on eBay I could get at least that much (even if I sold all three in separate listings and had the auctions end on the same day), but I'm not a very active buyer/seller so I only have like 9 ratings, I'm not sure how many people would be comfortable bidding on something that expensive from someone w/ so few ratings.


Stinkysteve, I have the Canon S9000 Photo Printer, it retails at about $500 (well it did when I bought it, at the same time as the G4.).

[Stinkysteve]

Thanks for the info on the printer.
Right now I really want a portable, but I may buy a desktop system because of pricing... IM me before you resort to e-bay.
Thanks again.

[idyll]

I have the same printer. It's excellent .

[willab]

If the price is right (probably not) I might be interested in the G4.