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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Berkeley, CA
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I'm about to buy a PowerBook, as you probably know from my other three threads  .
Anyway, I have a little bit a problem. I might want to sell it on eBay after 1-2 years, hopefully for around 60% of the purchase price. Thus, I want to have options that won't turn buyers away from it.
The upgrades to a 128 MB graphics card and a SuperDrive do seem nice, but I don't see myself really needing these upgrades. For one, I don't play any games, and I don't have a video camera. Still, I might get a camcorder in the next two years or so, but by that time I might already be selling this computer (I might keep it for four years, though). I'm trying to keep the cost low, and these options seem a little unnecessary at the moment...
...but I'm worried about resell value. By the time I sell it, won't 64 MB be considered awfully low? Furthermore, all high-end PowerBooks come with the SuperDrive built in, unless you manually remove it. If people see that I only have a Combo Drive, they'll assume that my PowerBook was never "top of the line," and will be less likely to buy it. I feel that paying the $180 now might increase the resell value by more than that, considering consumer mindset.
I don't know what to do!
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"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." -Archimedes
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Take some ridlin, or aderol, whatever you prefer, buy your powerbook and enjoy it. Go have some fun, outside, too. There's a whole world out there with much more important things to stress about.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Originally posted by Jwylie:
Take some ridlin, or aderol, whatever you prefer, buy your powerbook and enjoy it. Go have some fun, outside, too. There's a whole world out there with much more important things to stress about.
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"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." -Archimedes
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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Definitely just buy what you want man. In 2 years there will be much faster DVD burners than the superdrive. I would add the extra ram if you intend to do any photowork or gaming; however, it's not needed for day to day use. I would say that since you can't get an external video card (okay a good performing one) that you should maybe go with the 128mb vram over the SD, as you can easily connect a firewire DVD-RW of your choice. Heck you can buy a dual layer 8x burner and an external enclosure for less than the cost of the SD upgrade...
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Mac: 15" 1.5ghz PB w/ 128mb vid, 5400rpm 80gb, combo drive, 2gb ram
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