iBook sale causes stampede...

[fryke]

I don't know where you live, but here, I can't really survive in this modern world without a decent computer. So actually, it _is_ comparable, and it IS understandable. buy an iBook for 50 bucks and sell it for 300. Means 250 bucks. 250 bucks is a lot of bread and water. Can even get some meat with that.

[Gig']

Fryke Not sure, for once, I understand you point

yes $250 ( about chf 300) would do to make food shopping here in Nyon switzerland (CH), the cost of living might even be higher than where you live, and I love meat

But "participating" in a stampede for that is pushing it a bit far AFAIC

[pds]

From the henrico website about their iBooks at the school.

The laptop issued to students offers the following:
Hardware:
Macintosh operating system X.2.6
500-800 Mhz PowerPC G3
320 mega bytes of memory
Wireless and Ethernet cards

So they would have been the first gen icebooks.

[TommyWillB]

Originally Posted by Gig'

Sounds like you got the right info according to this : http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet...=1031784106593

Quote :
"The PowerPC 750s are white and feature a 12-inch screen, a 10-gigabyte hard drive, 320 megabytes of memory, Mac OS 10.2.8 and AppleWorks 6.2.9."

and this model was discountinued in October 2001 according to mactracker so that fits the 4 years old story.

Okay...

So if that is what machines they were talking about, then do you think they would be correctly described as having "less-than- desirable attributes".

IMHO any machine capable of running OS X is a good machine... especially for $50. I absolutely would have got in line for one!

I just bought my used iBook a couple months ago and I had to pay $750! ...of course that's a newer G4.

[mdnky]

I would have loved to get my hands on a few of them. I have a few little cousins (8 to 14) who could use a computer for school work, and those would have been an excellent one for them. I probably would have bought 10 if they let me.