Mac desktop for $300! 1.5gig ram, powerpcG4

[hardkoramerikan]

This kid at my school is selling a mac desktop pc with the following specs for $300
>proccessor-Power pc G4
>RAM-1.5gigabytes
>OS-leopard
>video card-ATI rage

I have a very low budget and I am looking to buy a mac pc so that I can run apples iphone developer tools such as SDK, xcode, and stuff.

Is this a good deal?

would you recommend this?

If not why?

p.s. please keep in mind that I have a very low budget and I cannot afford newer and more powerful macs.

thanks

 

[MattZani]

Correct me if im wrong, but cant the iPhone SDK only be run by Intel Macs?

 

[Ptyger]

Correct me if im wrong, but cant the iPhone SDK only be run by Intel Macs?

You are indeed correct. OP, you will need an Intel-based mac in order to do any development for iPhone.

 

[Erendiox]

Correct me if im wrong, but cant the iPhone SDK only be run by Intel Macs?

You're correct about this.

I wouldn't take that deal. Not for $300. At $300 you're already half way towards a mac mini, which is brand new, way faster in every way, and will run the iPhone SDK. I'd take it for $100, $150 tops.

 

[macobsession11]

ya i wouldnt buy this. just save up a little bit and buy a used mac mini or somethin man.

 

[hardkoramerikan]

thanks guys. This forum really saved me.

boy I would of been mad if I bought the mac to find out I cant run SDK on it.

know of any places where I might be able to find cheap intel based macs?

 

[TSE]

Apple refurbished would be a great place to buy a cheap mac. The best bang-for-buck mac if you don't need a portable would be the Intel Mac Mini with the 9400M graphics chip if you already have a screen. Otherwise I would go for the iMac

 

[Erendiox]

Check out the apple refurbished store. Great way to save money on a new machine.

 

[rjphoto]

I saw a Black MacBook for $400 or $500 on Craig's List a few weeks ago.

I wouldn't buy from someone that had to ship it to me. I would want to inspect it first hand.

 

[boston44]

Right, I bought my first black macbook for $500 so look for something like that on clist in person where you can inspect it. It was a 2.4 GHz, so if you find something like that snag it up.

 

[Darth.Titan]

A G4 with ATI Rage video is in the 500MHz range for processor speed. (unless they've bought an aftermarket upgrade card) That machine wouldn't run Leopard well at all.

I'm with everyone else. You should let this "deal" go.