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Sealed iBook G4 value?
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For at least 15 years, self-proclaimed "e-girl" girls have been selling their bath water, bottled farts, used underwear and the kind of sick fetish to their fans for ridiculously high prices. I've read on forums that there are people who drink this water, I wonder where this world will end up.
There are also several fetishes to collect things, the best known are figurines, postage stamps, electronics... But I've seen people who collect dead insects, lawn mowers, and even saws. I'm not talking about having 8 or 10 decorative items on a wall, I mean those guys who have every room in the house full of these things.
I appreciate the concerns people in this thread have over swelling / leaking batteries. It's something to keep in mind as a potential risk factor especially with laptops and iOS devices (the chance of a CMOS battery leaking inside a sealed Intel-based iMac or Mac mini is extremely slim even though the battery is likely dead after the item has been sealed for 10+ years). That being said, I've acquired a few sealed Apple products (for reasonable prices, not the $1,000+ prices from eBay sellers in la-la land) because I personally find the idea of vintage NOS tech that somehow escaped being used in its heyday to be appealing. Unboxing it for the first time is like unboxing a time capsule, and in terms of monetary value the products aren't likely to depreciate massively unless opened.
iBooks don't have a cmos battery, they use a capacitor that keeps the pram for a few hours away from the outlet. Lithium battery is very difficult to swell and leak. They swell only when subjected to high temperatures or in the event of a short circuit. And they only leak at high temperatures.
I have several notebooks from 95 to 99, which have been unused for many years, and I purchased them around 2014, I use them very rarely, and yet their batteries have never leaked.
The only batteries I see leaking are the non-lithium ones that were used until the intel 486 era. Not even CMOS CR2032 batteries leak easily
I have several notebooks from 95 to 99, which have been unused for many years, and I purchased them around 2014, I use them very rarely, and yet their batteries have never leaked.
The only batteries I see leaking are the non-lithium ones that were used until the intel 486 era. Not even CMOS CR2032 batteries leak easily
That's a good point, if the item is stored at room temperature then battery swelling is pretty unlikely. More likely that the battery is just completely dead and no longer holds a charge (which is still a disappointment when opening a NOS item but definitely fixable).
I miss this design, it was so clean. Apple never quite cracked how to make it durable, but boy is it pretty. I also miss the whimsy and fun of starting a Mac for the first time. The welcome video was also a tone setter and another sign of the dwindling joyfulness in the Apple product line these days.
The issue was mainly that they didn't stay clean like this for long. But there's at least one more of this design of MacBook that hasn't been opened yet
The secret for them not to get dirty is to use automotive wax with carnauba in the composition and/or a waterproofing agent. I've always used this swap for my stuff, it also avoided a lot of scratch marks.The issue was mainly that they didn't stay clean like this for long. But there's at least one more of this design of MacBook that hasn't been opened yet
I don’t need the lecture.
That exclusiveness often doesn’t come from the possession itself, but rather in partaking a poorly reproducible experience (like travelling to Antarctica to witness a total solar eclipse, or drinking a vintage wine for which only one bottle remains) which others either may not or cannot have. But that exclusiveness is still based in rules of greed and self-possession which vaunt a law of supply and demand.
That’s why the act of potlatch is so much more enriching. That’s why giving to others is so much more fulfilling and rewarding. What value is an exclusive experience if you’re unable to share it with others you care about and/or want to see do well for themselves? The joy comes in seeing others experience a bit of what you’ve already had in spades.
Sometimes that value almost takes hold but gets misdirected to the money itself. This may afford others the ability to access those experiences, yet are not the experiences themselves. This is where eliminating estate taxes and promoting trust funds are believed to pass forward those experiences, but instead they just pass forward a hollow rot of greed and self-possession.
Rinse and repeat.
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It does not matter. The human being is made 60% of imbecility. If you don't spend your stupidity on this, you'd spend it on something else. It has always been like this and always will be, it is part of the nature of the human being. Just look at how thousands of years ago some things were superstitiously prized and deified, and today they are just ****. One day, we used salt as currency, having too much salt was synonymous with wealth, and today, it just means that you will have heart problems.
Context is everything.
Salt, when its supply and availability was constrained, was currency for a very good reason: without salt, people died. Without access to salt licks, land mammals die.
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