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Applefreak01
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Jan 7, 2003, 08:47 PM
 
Hi, with the announcment of the new PowerBook G4's, I want to sell my current computer and get one. I need some help pricing it though.

I have a Hewlett Packard 9900 Desktop. Here are the specs for the HP:

1.33GHz AMD Athlon Processor
512MB PC2100 DDR RAM
1 Maxtor 7200 RPM 80GB HD as master
1 Maxtor 7200 RPM 40GB HD as slave
16x DVD Drive
12x10x32 CD-RW Drive
The orginal CD Drive from HP
Sound Blaster Audigy xGamer sound card
Creative Inspire 4400 4.1 speakers
Keyboard and mouse included
HP Pavilion v70s 17" monitor
Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440
Windows ME with system restore disc
and maybe a Iomega Zip 250 Drive with 5 100MB zip disk and 1 250MB zip disk

Software included (All orginal disc included:
Norton Antivirus 2003
Norton Personal Firewall 2002
Norton Utilities 2002
Unreal Tournament 2003 game
Battlefield 1942 game
Partition Magic 7.0
Comanche 4 game
Half Life Counter Strike game
Wolfenstein 3D old computer game
Unreal Tournament Game of the Year computer game
Star Wars: Jedi Knight Outcast game
Ballistics game
Deus EX Game of the Year game
Might include Office XP Pro (don't know if I'll need Access for any of my classes in the future, I'll use Virtual PC by the way). Thanks.
     
Applefreak01  (op)
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Jan 7, 2003, 08:54 PM
 
Forgot to mentition that I also have Quake III and Team Arena games
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Jan 8, 2003, 03:47 AM
 
At a glance, I'd guess a really rough estimate of $900-$1200, not really sure because of how much the monitor, speakers, zip drive and software would be worth used.
12" PB 1 GHz Combo, 60GB, 512MB, AE
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Jan 8, 2003, 08:33 AM
 
As a general rule, go to www.dell.com and configure a similar machine. Take about 30% off that. People don't figure bundled software into their offer to you, so you may want to try to sell it separately. PCs don't have near the retail value of Macs. I tried to sell a PIII 650 system for $250 and couldn't get an offer.
     
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Jan 8, 2003, 11:49 AM
 
I went to Dell and priced out a 1.7GHz Dimension 2350 Intel Celeron computer with everything else the same as what I've got besides the sound card and video card because they were intergrated and got $1,676.00.Thanks for the help. I can't wait to get my new PowerBook.
     
   
 
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