So, I'm getting ready to sell a couple of 12in" ibooks 1.33 g4s on ebay and need advice:
first some background.
Theyre both the base 40 gb 1.33, combo drive, wireless, blutooth from a few years back.
ibook one has 1.5gbs of ram, but is having the gray screen, diagnosed at the apple store as a faulty logic board.
ibook two is standard allt eh way around, but the case is skewed from a drop, and the battery jack is messed up (had the charger broke inside) and can no longer be charged as a result. apple store diagnosed this as an approximately 100 dollar fix.
Other than what's mentioned, all parts on both are good, screens have no dead pixels, etc.
Questions:
1. should i sell the two together, or separately on ebay?
2. i no longer have a charger or any way to turn these on, so both have hard drives with all the info i had on them before they stopped working (not refreshed/osx reinstalled)
3. between them i have one battery which accepts a charger but only lasts approximately 20 minutes (good for using as a desktop replacement, one brand newish battery (maybe 10 charges) and a last one which charges normally but isnt new.
so, how should i package these on ebay (both together, separately, all bateries or no?)
and two, what can i do to make certain that the info on that HD doesnt get tampered with. i contacted a local apple store who said theyd remove it for a startling 400 bucks...
I'm a little hesitant about removing the HDs myself and would really prefer not to.
is there any protection offered by ebay, or any way i can write in my auction to have the information guaranteed to be deleted to have peace of mind?
thanks so much.
first some background.
Theyre both the base 40 gb 1.33, combo drive, wireless, blutooth from a few years back.
ibook one has 1.5gbs of ram, but is having the gray screen, diagnosed at the apple store as a faulty logic board.
ibook two is standard allt eh way around, but the case is skewed from a drop, and the battery jack is messed up (had the charger broke inside) and can no longer be charged as a result. apple store diagnosed this as an approximately 100 dollar fix.
Other than what's mentioned, all parts on both are good, screens have no dead pixels, etc.
Questions:
1. should i sell the two together, or separately on ebay?
2. i no longer have a charger or any way to turn these on, so both have hard drives with all the info i had on them before they stopped working (not refreshed/osx reinstalled)
3. between them i have one battery which accepts a charger but only lasts approximately 20 minutes (good for using as a desktop replacement, one brand newish battery (maybe 10 charges) and a last one which charges normally but isnt new.
so, how should i package these on ebay (both together, separately, all bateries or no?)
and two, what can i do to make certain that the info on that HD doesnt get tampered with. i contacted a local apple store who said theyd remove it for a startling 400 bucks...
I'm a little hesitant about removing the HDs myself and would really prefer not to.
is there any protection offered by ebay, or any way i can write in my auction to have the information guaranteed to be deleted to have peace of mind?
thanks so much.
