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ryanflucas
  
| | #1 posted December 15, 2006 at 12:47pm (EST) |
Ok I can see Mac's holding their value, but this is getting ridiculous. I keep seeing people at garage sales, ebay, craigslist, etc trying to get $200+ for Powermac G4's. What's crazier is they are actually getting what they are asking too or really close to it. I'm not even talking dual processors here. I've even been seeing Powermac G3's going for $100+. With the new Mac's I'd assume these prices would have dropped much lower by now? |
UnSpOkEn
| | #2 posted December 15, 2006 at 3:41pm (EST) |
I sold a G4 Powermac for $250+shipping with a BIN on ebay in about 6 hours. The Mac itself was manufactured in 1999 and this was only about 4 months ago I sold this. It worked perfectly and ran tons of current PowerPC software to this day. They retain value because they work and don't become outdated as quickly as PC's do.
That's just my take on it. |
savior
| | #3 posted December 15, 2006 at 9:38pm (EST) |
I believe the reason Macs hold onto so much of their value is because Apple rarely drops the price on an item, but instead is constantly putting out a newer version of the product (or replacing the product) and charging just as much or more for it. An iPod Mini doesn't lose a ton of value because you can't still buy an iPod Mini for a reduced price from Apple... you now have the iPod Nano. So people who want a Mini and nothing else have one option, buying preowned. |
ryanflucas
| | #4 posted December 16, 2006 at 12:27am (EST) |
UnSpOkEn wrote:
> I sold a G4 Powermac for $250+shipping with a BIN on ebay
> in about 6 hours. The Mac itself was manufactured in 1999
> and this was only about 4 months ago I sold this. It worked
> perfectly and ran tons of current PowerPC software to this
> day. They retain value because they work and don't become
> outdated as quickly as PC's do.
>
> That's just my take on it.
I can see in comparison to PC's, but in comparison to Mac Mini's and newer Intel based Mac's I don't see it. Unless theres a huge advantage to owning the PowerPC based Mac's instead? |
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