Follow-Up On Thrift Store PowerBook

[Thrift Store Scott]

Re: Next-to-last post in http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,620515

It's a 15" PowerBook, 667 Mhz/256 Mb RAM, for (drum roll please)...

$499! (

Ummm... not in this lifetime.

Clearly the Thrift Gods are not happy with me right now.

Or maybe they just want me to know they have a sense of humor. :dunno:

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Maybe they just forgot the decimal point ....

[GGD]

Thrift Store Scott wrote:
Re: Next-to-last post in http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,620515

It's a 15" PowerBook, 667 Mhz/256 Mb RAM, for (drum roll please)...

$499! (

Ummm... not in this lifetime.

Clearly the Thrift Gods are not happy with me right now.

Or maybe they just want me to know they have a sense of humor. :dunno:

There were two 667MHz models, the older one had VGA video out, and lacked an L3 cache. The newer one had DVI video out and had a 1MB L3 cache and performed much better.

[Thrift Store Scott]

GGD wrote:
There were two 667MHz models, the older one had VGA video out, and lacked an L3 cache. The newer one had DVI video out and had a 1MB L3 cache and performed much better.

I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the heads-up.

However, the current baseline formula I use for computing used Mac value is as follows: 25 cents per MHz on laptops and 15 cents per MHz on desktop models.

At that rate, the PowerBook I saw would be worth $166.75 or thereabouts. Of course maxed-out RAM and included options and/or peripherals can raise the final acceptable price somewhat, but not by 200%.