Price for a secondhand PowerBook G4?

luckat

How much would a 1.5GHz PowerBook G4 go for?

gerry87

What size? Condition? Are you looking to buy one or sell one?

su_dios

I'd be interested to know this aswell as I'll be selling in a month or so.

80gb 1gb ram, new screen, hard drive airport cable and logic board.

2 of the above were done to fix the poor wireless signal problem common to these models and the logic board to replace the common lower ram slot fault.

luckat

Mine is as bought, but a bit battered, with a couple of the keys rather worn. A faithful old workhorse though.

Oriel

luckat,
Please provide the collowing info:
Screen size
RAM
Hard Drive
Wireless enabled?
Condition of exterior

Oriel

su_dios,
The repairs work for and against it - it's good that the new parts are there, but it also shows that the machine is prone to faults.
I'd say you could get about €700 for it.

su_dios

700 sounds good for it.
Yeah I understand it would work against it. Unfortunately I was one of the unlucky few to get a powerbook riddled with (common)faults. Therefore it was barely used but as I needed it more lately everything was replaced on it. Practically a brand new laptop apart from the casing which hasn't even got a scratch

Its now more reliable than my old ibook g4 and my brothers new macbook oh and pretty much any pc

Oriel

Personlly, if you sold it on ebay and didn't say anythign about the new parts, you'd get €700 for it with little problem.

luckat

It's a 15" 1.25GHz aluminium case model with an 80GB hard drive and 1GB of RAM. Wireless, yes - I have an AirPort network at home. Condition - two of the keys are a bit worn.

Name: PowerBook G4 (Aluminum screen=15 FireWire 800)
Model: M8981 PowerBook G4 1.25GHz
Bus speed: 167MHz
Family name: A1046
Screen size: 15 inch
Factory: V7 (Taiwan)
URL: Technical specifications by apple-history.com code_to_number: 1DS - 2A6395Y4UG0

Model introduced: 2003
Production year: 2003
Production week: 47 (November)
Production number: 1624 (within this week)

luckat

And su_dios, if you want to find out all about your own PowerBook, go to http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html and enter the serial number (which you'll find by clicking on the Apple symbol on the top left of your screen, then going to About This Mac, then to Get Info.

su_dios

luckat wrote:

And su_dios, if you want to find out all about your own PowerBook, go to http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html and enter the serial number (which you'll find by clicking on the Apple symbol on the top left of your screen, then going to About This Mac, then to Get Info.

Thanks thats great info
Good luck with the sale!!

luckat

Thanks, su_do, not sure if i'll sell it - have to decide in concert with job news.