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Need help buying an iMac g4

Mat246

Mat246

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Someones asked me to make them a reasonable offer on an iMac g4 I need help deciding how much is a reasonable offer, I'm in the uk so it's in GBP
Note it has a broken cd drive.
Here's the specs:
17" Screen
1.25GHz PowerPC Processor
256MB RAM
80GB Harddrive
OS X 10.4.11(Tiger)
5 USB (3 on computer, 2 on keyboard)
Wifi enabled with Airport Card

Keyboard, Mouse & Speakers included.
 
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Any ideas?
 
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Thanks well it comes with everything except the box, Only minus is the cd drive so maybe 100?
 
With that little ram and no DVD drive I would only offer $50 US, not sure what that comes to in pounds.

Edit, looks like its about 31 pounds.
 
brendu said:
With that little ram and no DVD drive I would only offer $50 US, not sure what that comes to in pounds.

Edit, looks like its about 31 pounds.
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well his starting price is 50, i doubt he will come down much. hmm...
 
I think brendu's offer is the maximum reasonable amount. At this point, the DVD drive would have been the best thing that iMac has going for it, so without it, $50 seems reasonable.

To put it in perspective, I recently bought a 500mHz iMac G3 WITH a functioning DVD for $5.
 
Xeem said:
I think brendu's offer is the maximum reasonable amount. At this point, the DVD drive would have been the best thing that iMac has going for it, so without it, $50 seems reasonable.

To put it in perspective, I recently bought a 500mHz iMac G3 WITH a functioning DVD for $5.
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well its one of the better g4s they don't come very cheap here in the UK
 
just seen a 15 inch 1ghz go for 100 just to give you an idea of prices here
 
just an update, we agreed on £100 including postage which i think is pretty good
 
Sounds like a reasonable price in the end. Replacing the CD/DVD shouldn't cost too much money, if you want/need to replace it. Enjoy your purchase 🙂
 
Yeah I plan on replacIng the drive just not sure what's compatIble, also plan on maxing out ram to 2gb but the ram seems pricey, also adding Bluetoot.
 
miles01110 said:
Why are you even bothering with a G4 iMac at this point?
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Why are you even bothering to post in this thread if you have that attitude? 😉

It's better to recycle something if you can get some use from it rather than it ending up on a scrapheap in a third-world country.
 
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