What's a QuickSilver G4/1.0 GHz Dual worth?

[Shakes]

I have one a friend wants to buy and I want to give her a fair price and not feel I'm giving it away. I see prices all over the place but what are they actually going for? It has 2 - 120 gig drives and 1.5 gigs of ram.

[C(-)ris]

$200 sounds fair to me.

[AAA]

$175

Nowadays, I use two rules to measure value on older Macs.

1) Can I do the same or MORE with the $419 refurb Mac Mini
2) Can I do the same or MORE with the sub$200 Dell Mini 9.

It's hard to beat both of those pricepoints to run OS X.

[C(-)ris]

AAA wrote:
$175

Nowadays, I use two rules to measure value on older Macs.

1) Can I do the same or MORE with the $419 refurb Mac Mini
2) Can I do the same or MORE with the sub$200 Dell Mini 9.

It's hard to beat both of those pricepoints to run OS X.

I had no idea you could put 220GB of disk space in the Mini9. Or hook up a DVI monitor. Also, for under $200 you won't be running OS X on a Dell Mini. So you also won't be able to run any OS X applications. Seems to me that the QS can do a LOT more than a mini. Unless all she wants to do is surf the web in Ubuntu.

[AAA]

Hence my "do same or more" disclaimer/requisite.

I have a Mac Mini, and I have a PBM4 (with SIX drives in it) and they both do something for me.

As a friend, I would advise her of those two options above. Likewise I'd likely tell my friend/family that they could take possession of my Mac and if they ever get the money to buy a better solution, I'd like it back when they are done.

I have an iMac within reach of me that came back from just such a situation.

If I were trying to make money on a Mac, then the answer to your question is whatever the market will bear.

[decay]

what's a PBG4 (with SIX drives in it)?

[AAA]

Typo. PMG4. Fixed.

Four drives in bottom. Two up top. One optical (or 7 if you count the optical)

Yes, I know, and from the first time I posted this photo years ago on DM, those drives are unconnected. It was to be able to see them in the photo. I have another photo of them with the cables attached, as they have been ever since.

[ka jowct]

$150, maybe: depends on what your friend wants to do with it. Can that QS model handle drives larger than 120GB?

[AAA]

I was looking at this PMG4 earlier WITH 22" monitor for $200

http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/sys/1126018906.html

But THIS CL post sums it up nicely, I think.

http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/sys/1124446880.html

Reply to: sale-dzva5-1124446880@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-04-15, 9:19PM EDT


Does everyone realize that all of the pre intel mac computers are not going to be able to use the latest new mac os when it's released this summer?
The prices I'm seeing sure don't reflect that.

$325.00 for a mac mini g4, get real.
Powermac g4 800MHz for $500.00? It doesn't matter that ist has 2 800MHz processors, it's still way past it's prime. Are there really idiots out there that would pay $500.00 for a 4 year old obsolete computer?
I'm a mac person myself, but I realize times are changing and the old g4's and g5 computers, powermacs, mac mini's, and imac's are fast becoming dinosaurs. So maybe it's time to step back down to reality
and sell those computers for what they are really worth... Less than $200.00.

[Buzz]

somewhere between $150 & $200 lies the "fair" price...

it pretty much boils down to which one of you is going to be servicing the other one after the sale.

the QS's are pretty robust machines, though it would have been nicer w/ an add'l RAM slot. throw in a USB 2 & FW800 card, and you've got modern connectivity. keep it out of the landfill.