anybody want to offer their 2cents on this quandary please feel welcome.
I have the need to acquire for a month a small (say 12") laptop preferably Apple brand. My needs are simple - a small tough laptop for travel purposes that simply needs to do e-mail, word processing, downloading pictures from a digital camera - a bonus would to keep my iPod charged without needing a second power point. Given the cost of hiring, bond (deposit), insurance etc I've decided that it would probably be cheaper and easier to buy before I go and then sell it when I get back and at a low enough price (below $700) it can be added to my existing travel insurance without updating my policy.
I have a couple of work colleagues who each have identically specked original 2001 snow 12.1" G3 iBook (code name "P29") 500Mhz, 128 MB, 10GB, CD-ROM (no burner) original purchase academic staff price would have been about $2000ish.
One of them wants $700 for it - which is, in my mind is more than just a bit too much for a 4 year old laptop that even in its day was entry level. The other owner is undecided about if she want's to sell _right_ now. As I plan to purchase this week I may not be able to acquire it soon enough. The first person has given me e-bay action bid details and to be quite blunt it only shows how thick some people are as some of these bids are for more than the cost of a new G4 iBook.
Speaking to some of other mac experts wasn't all that helpful, While I was in X-World the guys in Syndey wer saying $200 up to $250 tops. but a couple of apple guys here I've spoken to here are saying $500 to buy
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