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What's this PowerMac G4 worth?

post #1 of 17
12/7/09 at 7:07pm
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Probably a stab in the dark since I know nothing about this thing or Macs in general. Looks to be in pretty good shape. Untested. Found it at work in a storage unit. Don't know if it works. Assuming it is dead, nonfunctional and is for parts only, is it worth anything?


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post #2 of 17
12/7/09 at 7:10pm
Try powering it on? Typically the value is higher if it works hehe
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12/7/09 at 7:12pm
That looks to be a ZIF based G4 (which was actually a G3 with a G4 CPU and a grey case), so it's not worth much. The latest OS it can run is 10.4, and it's not capable of much (youtube is a struggle for it, 1/4 at best). I'd say just keep it just for running old OS 9 and 10.0-4 games
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12/7/09 at 7:13pm
If it doesn't work, mod it to fit a Micro ATX board. be a nice fun pain in the ass project
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12/7/09 at 7:13pm
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Obviously. as I said assuming I dont want to screw with it and just make it go away......
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12/7/09 at 7:14pm
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Looks like it's going to Freebietown. Population: Mac.
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post #7 of 17
12/7/09 at 7:15pm
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Obviously. as I said assuming I dont want to screw with it and just make it go away......
Well that's no fun Just donate it to Goodwill or a place like that and use it as a $50 tax write-off
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12/7/09 at 7:15pm
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Looks like it's going to Freebietown. Population: Mac.
Probably the best choice.
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post #9 of 17
12/7/09 at 7:18pm
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That looks to be a ZIF based G4 (which was actually a G3 with a G4 CPU and a grey case), so it's not worth much. The latest OS it can run is 10.4, and it's not capable of much (youtube is a struggle for it, 1/4 at best). I'd say just keep it just for running old OS 9 and 10.0-4 games
Quite. If you had picked up one of the "Quicksilver" flavors this would have been a bit better, but this probably has a 450 MHz dual core CPU, somewhere under 2GB RAM and possibly an AGP slot.

But as far as price goes...$50 if it works? Or donate?

Hell make it a freebie on here.
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post #10 of 17
12/7/09 at 7:23pm
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I did open it and spotted 3 sticks of PC100. This can't be good.
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