What Can I get for my G3

[nhamze]

I have a g3 ibook 800. It is in pretty good condition, the only problem is that the headphone jack is broken. But I use an imic instead which has even better sound quality. It has a 30 gig harddrive and 640 memory. I recently installed a MCE 8x superdrive. The battery gets about 3 hours I was hoping to get a macbook what do you think I could get for it.

Nick

 

[viperguy]

I hope you ain't thinking someone will give you a macbook for that
I think you could sell it on ebay, who knows... People buy everything there. Maybe you could get a 400-600 dolars for it

 

[nhamze]

No I didn't think that I meant I wanted to sell it to put the money towards a macbook. Just if someone wanted to trade straight up I wouldn't say no hehe

Nick

 

[Fleetwood Mac]

No I didn't think that I meant I wanted to sell it to put the money towards a macbook. Just if someone wanted to trade straight up I wouldn't say no hehe

Nick

I didn't expect you meant that..

Its too bad, but iBooks value took a nose dive the day the MacBook was released. They are some real nice machines. Personally, I think they were the best consumer notebooks around while they were new.

You might be better off waiting a bit until MacBook fever cools down and people actully start looking for a good deal rather than oggling.

 

[alec]

I'm sure you can do well if you sell it on ebay -- have you kept it updated (tiger, etc) and in good condition? Sounds like you've installed some nice pieces for this computer too.

 

[nhamze]

It has the normal surface scratches on the lid but is in pretty good condition. I have tiger on there and have been tweaking it for a while so it runs just right I would hate to sell it but I use illustrator a lot and it doesn't have enought power to run it well.

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

Just put it up on eBay with lots of photos and info. If you're feeling adventurous you could follow the guides at http://www.pbfixit.com and disassemble it to try to see what exactly is wrong? Maybe it'll be easily fixed with a smidgen of soldering? Its probably not worth the hassle so I'd stick to the eBay idea.

 

[nhamze]

I bought it used at my local mac store and when I got home it didn't work so I brought it back and they took the thing apart and found it to be a logic board problem the jack broke at the logic board or something like that but they gave me the imic and took a bit off the price so I was happy. But I may try ebay soon, maybe my desire for the macbook will wear off before too long and I can save myself some money hehe thanks to all that replied

 

[JosiahPB]

My sister sold a model like this recently for 650.

 

[nhamze]

Did she sell it locally or on ebay.

 

[nhamze]

Thanks for all the replies if anyone is interested I have decided to sell it

Nick