A good deal?

[bling]

Is this worth what it costs? It has superdrive and 1 gig of memory.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3403206956&category=14912

[xyle_one]

doesnt seem like a bad deal. and i have actually had good deals on ebay, meaning, i didnt get screwed. (well, once, but that was resolved). i had pretty much that exact same setup (less memory, no superdrive) and it was a great machine.

[bling]

you can get a 1 ghz g4 with 256 megs of faster ram, no superdrive, and a better vid card for 1,500 at apple.com. Its proscessor and memory are faster, but like I said, it only has 256 megs of ram and no superdrive. The ram does run twice as fast though.

[xyle_one]

would you really use the super drive?? i think i have only used mine like once. i think it would be best to buy it from apple, but you seemed to want to get the one off of ebay so i gave my opinion on that system. you can always upgrade the ram.

[bling]

wouldn't you have to upgrade the motherboard to get ddr ram? the one on ebay is just 133 not 266

[xyle_one]

probably. i was thinking you should buy the one at apple.com and upgrade the ram on that machine.

[bling]

yeah I guess... 1500 is still just alot of money. Thanks for the help though

[xyle_one]

you can always get an apple loan...

[cocoamix]

It's an OK deal, not great. You could buy the DUAL processor 867's for just a little more.

[bling]

loans you end up paying more

[xyle_one]

not neccesarily..i took out an apple loan for 2900 and if i pay it off before may, then i dont have to pay the interest. i pay exactly how much it costs nothing more... and it will be paid off before then. so im stoked.

[bling]

??? how did you do that? I thought they had to be atleast 2 years

[xyle_one]

if i choose to pay only what my bill says every month, then it will take a few years. i guess they are just nice, they gave me until May to pay it off completely with no interest, after that deadline, i have to start paying interest...