Does anyone buy used apple from applepalace.com?

[jackhandall]

Hi people,

i m planning to get a 24" imac, I saw these guys online selling a used 24" imac 2.16 intel for $1045 wit 2 months warranty. I called them and they told me they even have Apple Refurbished 24 inches in the box with all accessories with 1 yr warranty from their store for $1250.

my question is, price is reasonable but is there any one who bought stuff from them or how is their customer service ? I saw that they also have a local store in Los Angeles.

Thanks for any advices in advance
Jack

 

[jackhandall]

and I just wanted to ask if I buy a 24" imac can i also install a 64 bit Windows XP on it ?

thanks

 

[scienide09]

You'd be better off buying a refurbished product direct from Apple, though the site you mentioned looks like it could be legit.

Oh, and while the iMac will take Windows, I'm not sure if the 64-bit version will serve you any better.

 

[mascola]

warrenty

apple will give you a much better warrenty

 

[Sun Baked]

Hard to tell, little if nothing with that phone number.

Lot of different names for the same address, hope it isn't the Mail Box place...

edit: Been around awhile http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://applepalace.com looks like they shifted to a new phone number and address, which made it hard to find.

Always wonder about a site that says they have been around since 2004 and you get six recent hits on the phone, but the number change probably did that.

 

[jackhandall]

Hi guys,

I have decided to go to their place, and I saw its still computer graphics & networking. PHone correct , they said www.applepalace.com is their second website. They convinced me about buying the 24" Apple refurbished price is $1299 + Tax becomes $1400 total ( new style ) , so I bought white 24" imac for $1045 Cash total. Power of cash huh its a between 1 - 2 years old but $300 difference makes sense I think.

Sales guy was nice , as always I dont know whats gonna after but one thing I realized, these guys are authorized apple reseller & repair service. They gave me 2 months warranty. Hope nothing goes wrong.

I also asked what happens if I was in a different state. How 2 months warranty work. They said you need to pay shipping one way to them, they fix it or change it they they pay the shipping on the way back.

I ll be writing here if anything goes wrong with my machine, so far it works great. I ran the diagnosis test for the machine for 3 times ( 3 loop ) and it passes so I think it was a good deal.

Did any one tried the 64 bit XP installation on a core 2 duo mac ?

 

[topgunn]

The 64-bit version will work on a C2D iMac.

What features of the 64-bit version are of interest to you?