tigerofsweden Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 (edited) 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. Edited February 15, 2004 by tigerofsweden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerofsweden Posted February 15, 2004 Author Share Posted February 15, 2004 Oh some mod please change the title to something more, "catchy" :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seethru Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 200-300 for a mac? that'll be the day. The only mac thing you could buy with 200-300 is an ipod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerofsweden Posted February 15, 2004 Author Share Posted February 15, 2004 uhm, i mean the money i get from the pc +- 200-300 dollars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerofsweden Posted February 15, 2004 Author Share Posted February 15, 2004 ANYONE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tran Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 Why did you post two of the same topics? There's already one in the General Discussion! Anyway you won't be able to buy a brand new Mac with $300. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerofsweden Posted February 15, 2004 Author Share Posted February 15, 2004 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted February 15, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 15, 2004 Font size please. :no: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron901 Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpablo Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 I have a MAC LC II i'm not using anymore, you can have it for $150.00 :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbalsh Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 I think he means he will use the money he gets from he selling his PC + $300 extra on top of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Veteran Posted February 15, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 15, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the evn show Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerofsweden Posted February 15, 2004 Author Share Posted February 15, 2004 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.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuka_t Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 start the bid at 750 on ebay and see how much u get 4 it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 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+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the evn show Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerofsweden Posted February 15, 2004 Author Share Posted February 15, 2004 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.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerofsweden Posted February 15, 2004 Author Share Posted February 15, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the evn show Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 (edited) 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). Edited February 15, 2004 by the evn show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fusion Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 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.. Hah. Good Luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isus Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 go to macrumors.com and look in their classifieds (in the forums). as for your pc, you will get the most money for it on ebay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron901 Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerofsweden Posted February 16, 2004 Author Share Posted February 16, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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