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> One wife, two kids, two car payments, etc.... One job at a community college... > > Every little bit helps. > > Also, we already have a 'good' computer at home and have no room for others, so why >hoard this very useful machine with plenty of life left. If someone can use it, good >for them. If they'll pay me something for it, good for me. > > Joe Hey, I hear ya there. It seems that Mac users, like Amiga users, aren't used to spending $1200 on a box, and having it be worth $50 in six months, as every PC user thinks is the norm. As a great example of this, I sold my 10 year old Amiga 3000T for $125, and that was a steal for the guy who bought it, I could have held out for twice that. What 10 year old PC based ANYTHING is still worth $125? Let alone the couple hundred that your S900 is probably worth. If I had $150 lying around, I'd offer that in a hearbeat as it would be all I could afford. I am also trying to sell an almost new PC. It has a KT3Ultra2 Via KT333 chipset motherboard, which came out a month ago. 1.1GHz Duron (the mobo will do a 2400+ easily) 256MB DDR266 RAM@2-2-2; 32MB Matrox G400 video card, 6 channel onboard sound, 6 (!) USB 2.0 ports, 103GB total HDD space, 350 watt Enermax dual fan power supply, and every PC operating system you could think of, just about ;-). With the CD burner, DVD drive and so on I'm into this box probably over a thousand dollars. However no used computer place will give me more than $200 for it-although there's nothing more than a year old inside it. Including the Maxtor ATA133 controller card which unfortunately won't work in a Mac or I'd be using it. Unfortunately, the PC has made hardware such a cheap commodity that it is difficult to own anything which will hold its value very long. Of course when it comes to cheap x86 hardware, you get what you pay for ;-) however that is most of the reason why Macs don't rule the world-people go in and they don't see one on sale for $399 with monitor and printer after rebate. Nevermind what total junk that system is, and worse yet, how trashy its OS is-all they see is price, price, price. Most American consumers don't know what real value is if it comes up and bites them. The many, many painful nights spent on hold to various PC software tech support places to find out why Windows can't find/utilize a given piece of hardware, don't seem to factor in to their equations. Their time apparently isn't worth as much money, or they would not have spent years fighting Microsoft OS after Microsoft OS, throwing good money after bad, hoping that this version of WIndows will finally be the one that correctly plugs and plays like Gates has been promising them since 1995 or so.. I think I'll just spend the extra $1000 for the new Mac instead, and consider the lack of frustration and acid reflux attacks well worth it. Mac people, like Amigans back in the day, are used to - and indeed expect - to be able to plug stuff in and have it just work. No annoying 'new hardware found' dances with death, just plug it in , turn it on and boom! Its in the house.. No IRQ conflicts to be found here. Like the painless USB card install I just did last night. How refreshing after fighting Win2K for a few hours the night before with the same task! Now, if there were only an active, viable power PC clone hardware market, most of the high dollar aspect of the Mac would go away. However so would Apple's comfy forty percent profit margin.. So, I understand and hope you soon manage to sell your S900.. Bolton -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:supermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:supermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:supermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
