I’m selling my busted old 600MHz G3 iBook on eBay. Last week I tried to turn it on and…nada. Maybe the power supply is dead, maybe the logic board is fried, I have no idea. But if anybody needs a fixer-upper or just some parts, now’s your chance. On a related note, if anybody in the C’ville area has an old iBook that I could borrow to swap out hard drives long enough to wipe clean the one I’m selling, I’d appreciate it.
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What, no iPhone for sale?
(Looking forward to hearing about it. Finally played with one last week. It pleasantly surprised me with the aesthetics (wish I had that grease-free glass on my Treo), but confirmed all my suppositions about the keyboard)
Can’t you mount that HD on another apple machine of any kind? Is the interface the same?
I am an idiot after a certain point in Apple’s history. Anything after about 1998 I am sketchy on.
Assuming it’s a standard laptop-profile drive, you don’t need another iBook for that.
You could plop it into a 2nd bay on a notebook (like my Thinkpad; I have a bay adapter) or a desktop system (with a notebook-drive adapter; I have one of these at my desk) and wipe the drive.
Good luck selling it. Computers don’t retain their value. I just paid a recycling service to carry away my old computers and printers. Of course, they were more than ten years old.
Happily, Apples retain their value wonderfully. One can expect to sell a two-year-old Apple for 40-50% of what one paid for it, and this has been true for some years. The trick with this laptop is that it’s probably only useful to somebody for parts, which I can’t imagine there’s a market for. If it was able to start up and function — if it was in the condition it was in last week — then I’d have set a reserve of $300 for it.