Why do ibook g3's still sell for over $350? - Page 3

nixgeek · #17 November 5th, 2005, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Lt Major Burns

MHZ myth sort of explained, i think. someone will no doubt correct me :P

Around the time of the 1ghz pentium, a 500mhz G4 was able to beat it. 2 500mhz g4's working together in a dual machine worked twice as fast as 1 1ghz pentium. but that was a few years back now.

the Mhz myth is still apparent, but the G5's aren't turning out to be the amazing pentium killer the G4 was in it's time. however, we turn to AMD for proof that the Mhz Myth still exists. their pentium thrashers often run at half the clock speed of their intel rivals, but beat them quite handsomly. AMD often hides this by calling their processors things like Athlon 3400 or something, when actually it';s running around 2ghz.

Yeah, that's AMD's performance rating when compared to a Pentium 4. In other words, it's supposed to perform as well as a Pentium 4 running at 3.4 GHz. AMD used performance ratings before, but the current rating set is more up to par than the previous one was. I remember having an AMD 5x86 PR133 which only performed as well as a 75 MHz Pentium. When AMD announced that it would be using PR ratings again on its Athlon XP and later chips, people were afraid of history repeating itself. Thankfully, this wasn't the case and now you actually see the matched performance.

This is also the reason why Intel decided to use the numbers it uses now (ex: Pentium M 755). This was to make it difficult for the consumer to tie AMD's performace rating to an Intel CPU. Not that this much to deter consumption of AMD chips over Intel's.

M_a_c_X · #18 December 3rd, 2005, 07:31 PM

it's simple, macs are fast, their stable, and hell they always look good :").. thats why i love macs, they will always be great computers. a ibook-500 is just as fast as any 500 doller pc, easy :P

-MacX

baldprof · #19 December 6th, 2005, 01:47 PM

There is one factor that no one has mentioned yet. There are a lot of "die hards" who want the capability to boot into OS9. The G3 iBooks have that capability. So if one has a legacy app that doesn't run well in classic, then the G3 iBook would be the one to have.

The same thing may happen when the "Macintels" are released. Someone may have an older app which either hasn't been ported to the Intel chip, or the upgrade would be expensive. So those G4s and G5s may retain their value for a long time.

HateEternal · #20 December 10th, 2005, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by M_a_c_X

it's simple, macs are fast, their stable, and hell they always look good :").. thats why i love macs, they will always be great computers. a ibook-500 is just as fast as any 500 doller pc, easy :P

-MacX

That has got to be the silliest thing I have read. I could build a 500 dollar PC that would beat the pants off of that iBook and would probably be faster than most of Apple's current consumer level computers.

I like Macs, but some of us still have to come to grips with reality. Even my 700 dollar PC makes a good match for my G5 in a few things

ecirtap · #21 January 5th, 2006, 12:45 AM

After all the problems I had with my G3 iBook (six logic board failures!!!), I would never ever buy one second hand.

What I found interesting to read, not too long ago, is that some iPods (was it the mini iPod?) sold for a higher price on eBay than what they cost when they were still available!!! Crazy!!!

patrice
patriceschneider.com/apple-osx/blog/

baldprof · #22 January 5th, 2006, 07:38 AM

People can form some strange emotional attachments to objects. I have the last of the G4 Powermac series, which is a good computer for me. I was contemplating how I could justify buying a mactel, whenever they become avaialble. Tha was until someone told me that if I ever decided to sell that I should call him. Sigh.

It's going to real entertaining to see what happens to the value of the "used" g4 and G5 Powermacs.

But it's not just computers. Mid Century modern as it's called is all the rage now. I grew up during that period and I thought and still think most of that style is "art yucko".

Cherrio · #23 January 10th, 2006, 08:51 AM

I have an iBook G3 with Airport 2.0 card installed. Also have a Link SYS router in home that tenant connects to and others can successfully connect to on their laptops. BUT…I cannot connect! Can’t even get onto the Internet through my old method of dialup AOL anymore!!!
I’m absolutely no wizard at this stuff and need someone with patience to help me reconfigure, etc. The system gets stuck in a loop asking for a password of which I have no idea what it is….bad grammar but surely someone can take a minute to chat with me? Thanks

Cherrio

nixgeek · #24 January 10th, 2006, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Cherrio

I have an iBook G3 with Airport 2.0 card installed. Also have a Link SYS router in home that tenant connects to and others can successfully connect to on their laptops. BUT…I cannot connect! Can’t even get onto the Internet through my old method of dialup AOL anymore!!!
I’m absolutely no wizard at this stuff and need someone with patience to help me reconfigure, etc. The system gets stuck in a loop asking for a password of which I have no idea what it is….bad grammar but surely someone can take a minute to chat with me? Thanks

Cherrio

Um, you might want to move this into one of the other sections as a new thread, since this is rather off topic. Do that and you'll get more responses to your question.