Feeler: iBook G3, 800mhz

[Star Destroyer]

Hey, this is to see what i can get for this:

iBook G3, dual USB
800mhz
640mhz Ram
20GB HDD (i think, i will check when later tonight)
Battery gets about 2-3 hours charge still
Airport
12.1 inch
Case is in good condition, nothing really major but there are lots of light scratches (ya know cause its older)

However, the logic board is going... i have shimmed it, and its been working for me constantly for about about 2 months now. I take it to school every now and again, but i do have a macbook so its rare.

I want to see how much this is worth (for the ipod touch fund).

Currently its running Tiger (it came with panther), i dont have install disks that i want to sell. But i can wipe it and leave it blank, or put it back to factory, or put it back to a fresh tiger before it goes (what ever the rules state).

So what is this worth ?

[MacDann]

I just sold a 14" 600MHz, 640M, 20G HD, nearly new battery, AirPort, in good to great condition to a fellow lister for $200 shipped yesterday, if that gives you an idea of where the market is...

MacDann

[SthrnCmfrtr]

You won't get much for a machine with known logic board troubles. The stock drives are getting old too (just had one croak on my yesterday, happy happy joy joy). The airport card is a dependable value, of course.

As shu82 pointed out in another thread, the bottom has fallen out of the G3 iBook market. It's just not worth that much anymore, especially with known trouble.

In my experience, at least.

[TSE]

I can offer you 100$, plus or minus the condition of it. As the above person pointed out, about 60% of those models of iBooks have had logic board problems, and if you go on the official Apple Forums for those, almost all of them are about that, and they all end with,"It's dead."

I just want one as a backup for my MacBook.

Pictures would be great.

[shu82]

Its not really the ibook itself that makes it valuable. The parts are what is important. In the previous case the battery is interchangable with a G4, so if its good it has held its value. The ram is still usable in clamshells all the way up to the tibooks. Airport cards are cross platform too. I figured I could benefit enough from these parts by selling/spreading around my other macs. Then I would still have a functional ibook, at a price cheap enough to give to one of my nephews.

Also, if there are LB issues, I would take the previous offer of 100 shipped, if I were you.

[MacMan33]

recently sold a G3 Ibook with a 120gig HD 768ram and a CD/DVD for 400.00 in chicago

[Star Destroyer]

hrmmm... i see, personally i think its worth more then 100 shipped, especially since it would cost me about 25-30$ to ship it, 70$ profit for me doesnt seem worth it since its actually working fine in my dinning room.

Granted it does have a logic board issue, but that issue can be fixed with the shim. I guess i dont really consider the issue that bad, since it is currently working fine.

But that is why this is a feeler thread. I can always put it up on Ebay with a reserve and see what happens right ?

Thanks for the appraisals, but i dont think i will be letting it go for 100 shipped, shipping is just to much from Canada to the US.

[SthrnCmfrtr]

recently sold a G3 Ibook with a 120gig HD 768ram and a CD/DVD for 400.00 in chicago

O RLY? All of the G3 iBooks came with 128MB soldered to the mobo and one slot, so you must either be misremembering the RAM, and the buyer was drunk... or it was a G4 iBook, in which case that's a fairly sensible price.

hrmmm... i see, personally i think its worth more then 100 shipped, especially since it would cost me about 25-30$ to ship it, 70$ profit for me doesnt seem worth it since its actually working fine in my dinning room.

Yep, that's sensible. I hate to be a downer, but I don't think I'd pay more than $100 for an iBook with logic board trouble either. Maybe with shipping I'd pay $120, but I think that's about the limit. I don't doubt that it's worth more to you than that. These are very nice machines but their track record is awful.

Bleah, eBay. I've just sold my last item there...