Buying a used Ibook G4 12''

[LoWiTUsA]

A friend have a ibook G4 12'' to sell for 1100 USD.
Its a 1Ghz 512 Ram Combo 12'' with the extreme air card installed.
It comes with a logitech wireless mouse and it is still over 7 months of warranty. The condition of the ibook is very good, so should I go for it at this price ?????
Thanks

[iSaint]

If you qualify for an education discount, you can buy this new for $1,110 (except the wireless mouse).

Apple Education Store (http://store.apple.com/1-800-780-5009/WebObjects/EducationIndividual.woa/71105/wo/iB3pHyp2NVH03Aeuaf92LFYhyMK/7.0.9.1.0.6.45.0.0.1)

Without the edu discount, it's $1,278

Of course, you can save a little on memory by buying third party from Crucial (http://www.crucial.com)

[apple_iBoy]

A friend have a ibook G4 12'' to sell for 1100 USD.
Its a 1Ghz 512 Ram Combo 12'' with the extreme air card installed.
It comes with a logitech wireless mouse and it is still over 7 months of warranty. The condition of the ibook is very good, so should I go for it at this price ?????
Thanks

You'd save a few bucks over getting a brand new one, but if you're in the market for a new laptop immediately (before the Cram & Jam deals ends on Saturday) and you have a little bit more money to start with, you could do what I did:

12" iBook (ed. discount): $999
Airport Extreme Card (ed. discount): $69
20 GB iPod (ed. discount): $269
Sales Tax (at 6%): $80.22
256 MB RAM from Crucial.com (free shipping): $52.99
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total cost: $1470.21




- $250 private sale of iPod (sold in just a couple hours on craigslist.com)
- $200 mail-in rebate for Cram & Jam (took about 4 weeks to receive)
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new total cost: $1021.21

With the money you have left over, you could go out and get your fancy wireless mouse... AND you'd have a brand spanking new iBook with the full year's warrenty. Just a bit more work on your part.

[jcook793]

Also you can get a refurb 1GHz G4 iBook for $949 from Apple. So:

$949 iBook
$ 79 Airport Extreme from Apple
$ 53 256MB module from Crucial
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$1081 Total

That leaves you with $19 for a mouse. His deal isn't great, get him down to $1000 or so and then it looks better.

[apple_iBoy]

Sorry -- regarding my post a few minutes ago, I was working under the assumption that your were eligible for the educational discount program, which you may very well not be! Silly me.

[jtgotsjets]

As everyone said, he's not ripping you off, but he's also not giving you a great deal.

Basically, you could get a practically new one from Apple Refurb for almost the same price.

[yoda13]

I would have to get him to go down to $999 before I would buy it, but that is just me, he's not ripping you off, but he's not doing you any favors either.