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Macs: What Do You Own - How Much Spent?
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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What kinds of Macs do you currently own and/or use and what have you spent, collectively, over the years on Macs?
I own and use an eMac (Superdrive) and two PowerBooks that are 15-inch 1.67Mhz Superdrive models. I also have a G4 Cube that is in the original retail box and in the closet and not being used. I am saving it.
What about any of you? While you're at it, what do you use them for?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: May 2001
Location: North Dakota, USA
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Saving the G4 Cube? May I ask for what?
Mac mini here, though I've bought... 4 Macs in the past 4 years. Sheesh, that averages out to too many!
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Baninated
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Illinois might be cold and flat, but at least it's ugly.
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Eleventy-Billion-Dollars.
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The Cube now can be upgraded to a Dual 1.5Ghz machine. See front page news of MacNN. Maybe that is why?
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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I am saving it for a special room that is being rebuilt. A den. It was an outdoor patio area and now we are making it a new addition to the house and it is going to be an office/den area and I am going to set it up in there in it's own spot as a piece of retro equipment/art.
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Boston, MA
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My span of time with Apple goes back to 1983. Don't really even want to think of all that I've spent. Received great pleasure from each and everyone though.
Currently using a Power Mac G4 dual 450 as my main computer. Us it to track finances, diary, and browsing. web.
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Silicon Valley
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Dual800 Quicksilver. Very solid machine, still used as my primary computer.
12" iBook 1.2 for travel and couch use.
2-G4/400's
2-9500's I bought used.
8500/120 Second Mac purchased
6100/60AV First mac purchased. Still have this one stowed in my closet.
iBook500 sold
2nd G4/400. Gift to my parents.
I really do not want to think of the total money spent and this list doesn't include the 4 iPods, monitors, HD's, software and other stuff.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
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Originally Posted by budster101
Eleventy-Billion-Dollars.
Me too 
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I just picked up a single 800 G4 Quicksilver 512/40/CD with a 15" Apple Studio LCD for $350.00 in perfect shape from a friend.
I put a fast Hitachi 160 gig drive in, and am waiting for a Radeon 9000 64 meg vid card and another 512 megs of ram.
I would like to upgrade it to at least a dual 800 G4 processor!
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Originally Posted by funkboy
Saving the G4 Cube? May I ask for what?
Mac mini here, though I've bought... 4 Macs in the past 4 years. Sheesh, that averages out to too many!
Before the mini it was the smallest and the coolest. Now it is just a bit of a collectors item.
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"That's okay, I'd like to keep it on manual control for a while."
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Martha's Vineyard
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We have an older imac, and three ibooks floating around here. Love to get a new imac, but now that I have the ibook, I'll hold off til the intel version.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Winnipeg, MB
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One Rev D iMac 2 Grand
One Pro Keyboard and Pro Mouse 200 dollars
One Copy of OS X.0 150 dollars
One 900Mhz iBook 2014.16 (yes I remember down to the cent)
One copy of Panther 100 dollars
One copy of iLife 04 80 dollars
One Replacement of iBook with 12inch 1ghz PowerBook after logic board problems, 500 dollars.
One iPod mini 320 dollars
One copy of iWork 69 dollars
One copy of Final Cut Express 178 dollars
Knowing that I've never had a single virus, blue screen of death, or even had to own a copy of MS Word... priceless.
There are some things money can't buy.
For everything else, there's Apple Computer.
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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too much money spent on macs for me, i am going run this ibook until it dies
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"I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's."
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Not Quite Phoenix
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PowerBook 150... Returned to Store. (1st toe into Apple's pool. Never really gave it a chance). - $ ???
Newton MessagePad 120... Bought used, then sold via eBay. - $ ???
iMac DV-SE... Sold on eBay. (My most bulletproof computer ever).  - $1,499
5 GB iPod... Sold on eBay. - $299
15" iMac G4... Gave it to in-laws just last week. - $1,499
12" PowerBook G4... Still have it! - $1,799
20 GB iPod... Sold to a co-worker. - $299
40 GB iPod photo... Still have it! - $499 ( Should've waited). 
512 MB iPod Shuffle... Still have it! - $99
512 MB iPod Shuffle... My wife still has it (Hardly ever used / waste of money). - $99
17" iMac G5 (Great screen, otherwise underwhelming) - $1,499
That's a sh!tload of money when I look back on it like that. Gee, thanks for depressing me. 
All that great hardware... And the most expensive computer I bought was my 1st. A Tandy 386 beige box running Win 3.11, for something like $2,100. How embarrassing in retrospect. I was had. Frakkin' Radio Shack!
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Jalen's dad. Carrie's husband. partisan. Bleu blanc et rouge.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Mar 2005
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My fiancé and I combined:
Powermac G4 Dual Ighz 1.5 gb ram Quicksilver and 17" studio display: ~$6000
Powermac G5 Dual 2ghz 8GB Ram and 20" Cinema display: ~$9875
PowerBook 17" 1Ghz 1gb ram: ~$3800
40 GB Ipod: $399
Bondi Blue iMac 233mhz (the beginning..) $50
Also:
iWork
iLife (all of them)
Panther
Tiger
and countless other accessories from the apple store.
Oh Lord, that adds up to more than I was ready to think about this evening.
SAm
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Westside Island
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I don't even want to add it up - I've had about 8 Mac over the years, and just the Mac IIsi and PowerBook 180 were 4 grand each!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Boynton Beach, Florida, USA
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1996 Powercomputing Powerwave 120DT 32MB RAM 1GB HD 4MB VRAM ~$3500
1998 Apple Powermac G3 266MT 32MB RAM 6GB HD 6MB VRAM ~$3000
2001 Apple Powermac G4 466 128MB RAM 30GB HD 16MB VRAM ~$1699
2003 Apple Powerbook 1Ghz 512MB RAM 60 GB HD 64MB VRAM ~$2999
2004 Apple Powermac G4 DP 1.25 Rev. B 512MB RAM 80GB HD 64MB VRAM Trade for PB
2004 Apple Powermac G5 DP 1.8 Rev. A 512MB RAM 160GB HD 64MB VRAM ~2199
So, quite a lot really.... coming soon DP G5 2.3 or 2.5.. or maybe something different depending on what happens next month
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2.7Ghz 15" Mid 2012 MBP 16GB RAM 7.2k 750GB HD anti-glare display|64GB iPad4 ATT LTE|
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Banned
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Indy.
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Currently I have a 1 Ghz eMac w/Superdrive. 02/2004 $1000
Systems I had and sold:
Pismo DVD 400Mhz 05/01 $2100
iMac 233Mhz (rev.a) 8/15/98 $1300
Total: $4400
All have been awesome computers with zero defects. (Except OS 10.0. That thing stunk)
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Yamanashi, Japan
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1.33 G4 Powerbook 12in. Superdrive. 80 GIG. 768 RAM. Plus you always have to have tons of addons. Total price, like $1800 at the time. But then again, I am a poor teacher.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Somerville, MA and San Jose, CA
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I'm sure I've forgotten some stuff, but not including software or many many PCs I've owned (since it was about Macs...), this is how I remember the last 12 years:
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1993-1994:
Mac Classic II - $800
2400 bps modem - $40
Apple 300 CD-ROM drive - $525
1995-1997:
Mac Performa 575 - $800
Umax Astra 610S scanner- $200
ADB grfx tablet - $200
14.4 modem - $70
RAM and CPU upgrade - $500
CommSlot Ethernet card - $70
Zip 100 drive + disks - $500
33.6 modem - $70
1.2 GB hard disk - $400
TurboMouse - $100
1998-2002:
PowerMac G3 - $1700
56.7 modem - $90
Sony 17" CRT - $700
RAM - $500
12 GB Hard disk - $200
Zip 250 drive + disks - $400
4x8 LaCie CD-R - $200
19" ViewSonic CRT - $525
17" ViewSonic CRT - $325
Rage Orion PCI card - $130
CPU upgrade to 500 MHz - $300
Radeon Mac Edition - $150
USB card - $50
9 GB SCSI drive - $300
6 MB VRAM upgrade - $30
MIDI interface, kb - $600
Yamaha speakers - $80
Olympus digital camera - $500
2000:
iBook G3 - $1600
128 MB of RAM - $200
Palm and accessories - $300
2002:
PowerMac G3 on ebay - $300
2003-2005:
PowerMac G4 MDD - $1300
2 GB RAM upgrade - $400
2x80 GB FW drives - $320
120 GB internal drive - $120
Radeon 9200 PCI - $130
2x19" VP191b LCDs - $1300
18" generic LCD - $425
Mixer, mic, etc - $300
USB grfx tablet - $200
various keyboards - $300
Canon digital camera - $400
Canon scanner - $80
2004:
used G4 from Craigslist - $400
iBook G4/1.2 GHz w/ 768 MB RAM - $1100
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