I saw an ad in my local Craigslist for a pair of Power Mac G4s for sale, $80 each. Apparently the guy was the area sales rep for a national company that folded, he was working out of his home. The company never asked for them back, and he has since purchased a new iMac, so he decided to sell them reasonably priced. He labelled them as a 533 MHz and a 466 MHz, with unknown RAM, one with a 60 GB, one with a 120 GB hard drive. No monitors included, only one keyboard and one mouse between the two.
He had wiped the hard drives of both, so no OS was installed.
I got there, plugged in the LCD I brought along to make sure that they booted up to the standard 'no system' icon without sad Mac'ing, they both did. So I offered him $150 for the pair. He accepted.
I get them home, and there was a grand total of 2.75 GB of RAM between them, (five 512 MB modules, one 256,) and upon installing an OS, it turns out that the "533 MHz" one had been upgraded to dual 1 GHz!
Both have the stock CD-RW drives, the 466 has an ATI Rage Pro 128, and the 533, neé dual 1 GHz has a GeForce 2MX. (Their stock video cards.)
Considering PowerMax sells a 533 MHz, 256 MB RAM model for $150, I think I got a heck of a deal.
That definitely was a good upgrade from my B&W 300 MHz G3. And if I get a decent monitor, I may even use the dual 1 GHz to replace the aging 1.25 GHz eMac as my wife's main desktop.
(And just last week I missed out on a 17" Studio Display LCD with the ADC to DVI converter from Craigslist.)
He had wiped the hard drives of both, so no OS was installed.
I got there, plugged in the LCD I brought along to make sure that they booted up to the standard 'no system' icon without sad Mac'ing, they both did. So I offered him $150 for the pair. He accepted.
I get them home, and there was a grand total of 2.75 GB of RAM between them, (five 512 MB modules, one 256,) and upon installing an OS, it turns out that the "533 MHz" one had been upgraded to dual 1 GHz!
Both have the stock CD-RW drives, the 466 has an ATI Rage Pro 128, and the 533, neé dual 1 GHz has a GeForce 2MX. (Their stock video cards.)
Considering PowerMax sells a 533 MHz, 256 MB RAM model for $150, I think I got a heck of a deal.
That definitely was a good upgrade from my B&W 300 MHz G3. And if I get a decent monitor, I may even use the dual 1 GHz to replace the aging 1.25 GHz eMac as my wife's main desktop.
(And just last week I missed out on a 17" Studio Display LCD with the ADC to DVI converter from Craigslist.)
