Rebekah, I've bought a "previously loved" 27" iMac and a Mac Book on eBay recently (£1000 and £320 respectively) and both, touch wood, seem absolutely fine. I think the important thing is not to snap one up without spending a good while researching what's available and what is a fair price. I think you can also tell a good bit about the likely good sense of a purchase by looking at how the listing is written and how well the pictures are taken. For example, if you go for a laptop, the pictures should show you how hard a life the thing has had and if it was treated with respect (if it's covered in scratches and stickers its previous owner(s) probably didn't show it much). Don't get suckered into paying for something with lots of apps installed - without the installation CDs and serial numbers the apps aren't yours and you'll loose them if you ever have to replace the machine's HD (there could also be all sorts of unwelcome stuff lurking on the HD if there's ready installed apps). And take a good look at the seller's feedback. And don't bid on, or buy, anything you have the slightest doubts about.
Phil PS. Your dead iMac probably isn't completely worthless. My old 2006 24" iMac with a fatal power supply/logic board fault (and its HD removed) sold on eBay for £150. -- Phil Ward Skype: aphilw E: [email protected] W: www.philward.biz W: http://soundcloud.com/philberish W: www.thegalleons.com W: https://www.facebook.com/thegalleons W: http://thegalleons.bandcamp.com/album/the-galleons W: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-galleons/id520549816 * Freelance writer and product designer. * Exclusive UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. www.veilletteguitars.com. * Contributor to Sound on Sound magazine. On 19 Feb 2014, at 14:34, Derek Cross <[email protected]> wrote: > Which version of Photoshop do you have? (the latest version is 14.2). > Derek > > > On 19 Feb 2014, at 12:56, Rebekah K <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi >> I need a new mac and for once am torn between all the different choices. My >> imac's display is intermittently buggered so I have already bought a spare >> monitor. I have about £700 max to spend. Not sure whether to get a laptop >> (would come in handy for watching films as I don't have a smart tv), a mac >> mini (but then I have to buy a DVD drive) or another imac (but am seriously >> unimpressed that my current one is now worthless because the display is >> buggered). Then there is the decision of second hand or new - not sure how >> risky it is to buy off ebay. I need something with at least 4mb RAM, 500mb >> hard disk that happily runs Photoshop but I mainly use it for surfing and >> email and playing music. Any advice gratefully received and if anyone has >> anything for sale please elt me knwo. I've had Macs for 20 years and this is >> the first time I've had to buy one because the old one has malfunctioned. >> >> Cheers >> >> Rebekah >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
