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Mike Teezie

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Nov 20, 2002
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A few weeks back, the logic board in my Powermac died. I was without Applecare, and the board failed 1 week late of the year cutoff for me to be able to buy Applecare. I called up the local authorized repair center, and the board is $1079, plus tax, and installation. So that's about $1300-$1400 to get my machine fixed. BTW, I had to take this semester off from school because I have to have my mac (graphic design major) to do school work

I don't see the point in spending that much on a g4 machine. SO.....

I see powermac parts on EvilBay from time to time, and I was thinking - I couls "part out" everything thats good in my machine and try to raise money for a G5. I could sell:

Case
Power Supply
RAM (3 512 sticks)
80 gig HD
Combo Drive
video card

How much should I ask for each of these things? And wouldn't is be better to sel this stuff individually than trying to sell a dead machine in need of a logic board?

Thanks for reading, and any help is greatly apprecitaed. Im a poor college kid, and not having my Mac is seriously making things complicated here.

EDIT: typo fix
 
Forgot to add, both 1.25 cpus could be sold as well.

Any idea what I could get for them?
 
Could a mod please delete this thread, I posted a new one in the Hardware forum.

Thanks.
 
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