About a month ago I picked up a powerbook 5,6 for $100. It was in perfect cosmetic condition. Having been away from macs for about 6 months I was craving a new project. The first thing I did was order 2GB of ram and a new battery for the system, and then installed leopard. After that I ordered a 120GB IDE SSD from owc. And just this morning I added the final touch. I removed the optical drive and replaced it with a hard drive caddy and a 500GB sata drive.
Obviously for the same 400 or so I could have found an early macbook but I dont need a macbook. I'll probably even get most if not all of my money out of it here in Detroit. About 6 months ago I sold a 800mhz G4 ibook for 300 with quite a few upgrades, so you never know.
Obviously for the same 400 or so I could have found an early macbook but I dont need a macbook. I'll probably even get most if not all of my money out of it here in Detroit. About 6 months ago I sold a 800mhz G4 ibook for 300 with quite a few upgrades, so you never know.