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wwe2008

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Mar 10, 2008
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ive just won a 12" PowerBook in ebay for £450 it has no damage at all. it comes with photoshop microsoft office 2008 and runs leopard. is it a good buy?
thanks
 
like others stated; depending on the specs and your needs are.
and as long as they included the legitimate software discs than thats not too bad.

essentially it might also be wise to put that money towards more uptodate models that may provide bit better support for what you might wanna do, unless your doing marginal tasks such as word documents, browsing and not extensive applications. then by all means seems like a great catch.
:cool:
 
I have a mbp but the pb was for light stuff.
1.5GHz
1.25GB RAM
80GB HD
64MB Graphics Nvidia
Bluetooth
Airport Built In
SuperDrive
 
I second what everyone else has said. If the discs are there, and the machine is in good shape, you got a nice little machine on your hands. There's plenty of tasks you can get done on those too, just don't plan on running the newest version of Photoshop, et cetera. Enjoy it.
 
I have a mbp but the pb was for light stuff.
1.5GHz
1.25GB RAM
80GB HD
64MB Graphics Nvidia
Bluetooth
Airport Built In
SuperDrive

Wow good deal, definitely use it for those tasks, that should hold up quite well for some time, if it was kept in great condition and continues you have a nice little side companion.


great find! :cool:
 
will the pb run google sketchup? can anyone tell me anymore info in the program?
thanks
 
take from:
http://www.google.com/support/sketchup/bin/answer.py?answer=36208&src=top5&lev=index


Mac OS X

* Software
o Mac OS X® 10.4.1+ and 10.5+.
o QuickTime 5.0 and web browser for multimedia tutorials.
o Safari.
Neither Boot Camp nor Parallels are supported environments.
* Recommended hardware
o 2.1+ GHz G5/Intel™ processor.
o 2 GB RAM.
o 400 MB of available hard-disk space.
o 3D class Video Card with 512+ MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver is 100% OpenGL compliant and up to date.
o 3 button, scroll-wheel mouse.
* Minimum hardware
o 1 GHz PowerPC™ G4.
o 512 MB RAM.
o 160 MB of available hard-disk space.
o 3D class Video Card with 128 MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver is 100% OpenGL compliant and up to date.
o 3 button, scroll-wheel mouse.
 
Yup, a good buy indeed! I'm typing this from my 12" PowerBook now. Great machine, they still pack a bit of a punch.
A few years ago at uni I even edited a 4 minute long, 720p stop motion video on mine and it wasn't too bad of an experience!
 
another question.... whats the difference between the versions?
thanks
 
Well it works on my 32mb vid card eMac g4 1ghz 768mb ram, just have no freakin clue how to work it and its google sketch 6 on leopard. is that a good enough answer for ya :D ?

Here i made you a house. :p

Myhouse.jpg


It'll get better over time..... :eek:
 
I suppose you got a good deal. However, in not the one to invest in pretty old technology. Enjoy it!
 
I think its a good deal. However under no circumstance should you pay more than that because you start getting into MacBook territory. But for those specs/condition 450 is a good price
 
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