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This is it, I'm 16 years old and playing games isn't that fun anymore. I want something cool, and slick. I want a mac. I wonder if anyone is interested in buying my PC system. I'm putting it up on the swedish contrary to ebay, so don't give me any phony prices.

And which Mac do you suggest that I'll buy. It can cost as much as what I'm selling my PC for, + - 200/300 USD.

PC Specs:

Pentium 4 2.53 GHZ 533 FSB

512 MB DDR

QDI PlatiniX 8/333

Excalibur Radeon 9700 PRO

Sound Blaster AUDIGY 2

BenQ V991 19"

Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard and Intellimouse Optical (BLACK)

Creative Inspire 2.1

Plextor Plexwriter PREMIUM

BenQ x16 DVD

Thermaltake XASER II Case

Included:

Barely used PC Games:

- EVE Online: The Second Genesis

- Call Of Duty

- Battlefield 1942 Deluxe Edition

- Command And Conquer Generals

- TOCA Race Driver

- Warcraft 3

- Diablo II

- Diablo II: Lord Of Destruction

MP3 Player

- Creative Nomad Jukebox ZEN NX 30GB with SONY Earphones

If you want to know anything else, please ask.

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is it my bad english????? what i am saying is that i will sell my computer, and for the money i earn seeling it, i will buy a mac, + - 200 -300 USD extra.. do you get it?

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is it my bad english????? what i am saying is that i will sell my computer, and for the money i earn seeling it, i will buy a mac, + - 200 -300 USD extra.. do you get it?

i don't get it, what does + - 200 - 300 mean? too many signs.. :wacko:

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For a person who has never used a Mac before, and to do general/medium task stuff I would probably go for the SuperDrive eMac, or possibly the 15"/17" iMac if you have some money spare.

You will probably get a minimum of $500 for that PC, so you will at least probably be able to afford the eMac.

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Don't you think that trying to sell your non-apple wares to a bunch of apple users is a little silly? The people who read the macintosh forum typically already have macs - maybe you'd have some more luck trying to unload your system in the PC forums or on ebay.

Which mac? Well your pc is worth <$500 and adding $2-300 to that will get you enough to start looking at a bottom end eMac or a used G4 powermac. A lot of people have been picking up G4 cubes for prices starting around $600 so that might be a good choice. If you pan to get an eMac or Cube you'd do well to keep your monitor to save some cash. Apple displays are pretty expensive ($700-$2000 new) given the budget you're working with. If you can get $1000 together than an iBook is a pretty good bet.

Oh, and if I'm blind I'll let my browser increase the font size. There's no need for you to do it for me.

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uhm, youre crazy, i dont think you understand, the pc, without all the stuff, is worth more then 500, and with all the stuff that is INCLUDED in the package, itll cost more..

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uhm, youre crazy, i dont think you understand, the pc, without all the stuff, is worth more then 500, and with all the stuff that is INCLUDED in the package, itll cost more..

Yeah all that MAY be worth more than 500. You have to realize the market you are selling it to. A object is worth what someone will pay for it. In this, a Mac market, I doubt you'll find anyone to pay 500 for that pc. Now if you went to arstechnica, anandtech, or ebay, you will probably find someone to give you more than 500.

You'll find most here are too in love (literally) with their Macs to sell them. On that note, I'd be willing to sell mine for the right price...900+

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I priced out just the PC+monitor on pricewatch and it came to about $1000US including shipping.

Without warranty and being used your hardware becomes worth significantly less than new.

if you want to try for more fine - you might even get $700 from someone. But looking on neowin where most of us know how to assemble a computer from parts I think you'll either have to take a price hit or look somewhere else.

I can get a slightly fastersystem from dell (2.8ghz P4, 512mb ram, radeon 9800 pro, cd-rw/dvd, audigy2, 19" crt) for the same price. You can rant and rave about quality if you want: dell offers a pretty good set of warranty options - can you match that? To me, new harware with 1 year of warranty and support is worth a lot more than used gear without support.

I noticed you don't list a Windows OS as part of the deal: is that intentional?

What do you think a reasonable asking price for you system is.

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uhm, as i dont sell it without the speakers, and probably not without the mp3, i think that 1300 usd is a good price, thats with monitor, speakers, mp3 player..

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Yeah all that MAY be worth more than 500. You have to realize the market you are selling it to. A object is worth what someone will pay for it. In this, a Mac market, I doubt you'll find anyone to pay 500 for that pc. Now if you went to arstechnica, anandtech, or ebay, you will probably find someone to give you more than 500.

You'll find most here are too in love (literally) with their Macs to sell them. On that note, I'd be willing to sell mine for the right price...900+

what kind of mac do you have

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I priced out just the PC+monitor on pricewatch and it came to about $1000US including shipping.

Without warranty and being used your hardware becomes worth significantly less than new.

if you want to try for more fine - you might even get $700 from someone. But looking on neowin where most of us know how to assemble a computer from parts I think you'll either have to take a price hit or look somewhere else.

I can get a slightly fastersystem from dell (2.8ghz P4, 512mb ram, radeon 9800 pro, cd-rw/dvd, audigy2, 19" crt) for the same price. You can rant and rave about quality if you want: dell offers a pretty good set of warranty options - can you match that? To me, new harware with 1 year of warranty and support is worth a lot more than used gear without support.

I noticed you don't list a Windows OS as part of the deal: is that intentional?

What do you think a reasonable asking price for you system is.

You can't compare a Dell with a homemade computer. Dell will win everytime.

what kind of mac do you have

867Mhz G4 Quicksilver model

1.5gig ram

superdrive

Course I probably wouldn't sell it NOW, as the next Mac I'll get is a G5, and I don't have the extra funds yet.

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uhm, as i dont sell it without the speakers, and probably not without the mp3, i think that 1300 usd is a good price, thats with monitor, speakers, mp3 player..

Your speakers are worth $37 new according to pricewatch.

Your mp3 player is worth $250 at the same place.

You do realize you're asking more for your used computer than it's worth new right?

EDIT: and are you including a license for Windows?

EDIT 2: If you want to compare something higher end - you can get an alienware PC with an athlon 64, 128mb geforce FX, audigy2, 52x cdrw, 512mb ram, 17" crt and those same speakers for $1500. That includes a warranty, support, and new hardware (it's also significantly faster an 64-bit capable).

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uhm, as i dont sell it without the speakers, and probably not without the mp3, i think that 1300 usd is a good price, thats with monitor, speakers, mp3 player..

good luck :rolleyes: you know, you're very lucky if you can get $700 for all those stuff. $1300? in your dream tiger.

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uhm i dont think you understand, im getting higher bids then 1000 on swedish "ebay".. so should i continue dreaming?

oh and, theyre not on pricewatch ;) and they cost more then 37 usd :p i promise

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