Want to sell PC for Mac Mini. How much?

Chazam

Chazam

Apple Virgin
I'm thinking about selling my PC to put towards geting a ma mini and was wondeing if anybody had any ideas what i could get for it?
It's spec is as follows:

Athlon XP 2100+
Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT AGP 128MB
512MB PC 2700 DDR Memory
ePox 8RGA+ Motherboard
80GB IBM Deskstar HDD
32X CD/RW
16X DVD-Rom Drive
2X USB Wireless Network Dongles
Logitech Optical Wheelmouse
Standard Keyboard

Software Includes:

Quake III Arena
Quake III Team Arena
Farcry
Serious Sam Second Encounter
Black And White
Norton Systemworks 2003

Any ideas what it's worth? (£)

Thanks.
Chaz
 
You have a quite good graphic card, which will make the system worth a lot more. The ePox motherboard is rather low cost, but the athlon xp 2100+ should be ok for this system. By now the system should be 300Euro. For the rest (ram, hdd, optical drives, mouse and keyboard) I would add another 100Euro to the system-price. So, 400Euro for your system "could" be a realistic price on ebay.
However, you might be more successful in selling the components one by one. The graphic card, cpu+mb+ram, hdd...

Ahhh, 400Euro should be 270£
 
No... ditch the keyboard for a standard Mac keyboard. It'll have all the right decals.

I would gladly pay you $600 for that machine, were I in the market and had I the money.
 
As far as the PC is concerned (not including software), here's an estimate of what it would cost to rebuild.

Athlon XP 2100+ $65.00
Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT AGP 128MB $188.00
512MB PC 2700 DDR Memory $67.25
ePox 8RGA+ Motherboard $38.00
80GB IBM Deskstar HDD $55.00
32X CD/RW $19.99
16X DVD-Rom Drive $22.00
2X USB Wireless Network Dongles (???)
Logitech Optical Wheelmouse $15.95
Standard Keyboard $7.88

TOTAL: $479.09

That doesn't include a case or CPU fan, but generally speaking you can get both from $40 to $100. Chances are it could cost less...I didn't shop it much and choose brand-name parts for some of the parts you didn't specify on (memory, drives, keyboard, etc.).


With a case, probably cost somewhere between $520 to $580 to rebuild it. We'll use $550 as a good estimate since it's in the middle of that range.

Subtract about 30% ($180) for it being used. So that leaves it at around $370.


Looks worse after checking Ebay to see what's selling and for what. New machines that have XP2600/2800 processors are grabbing $299 to $399 with specs similar to yours, less the video card. Yours though is still used, so that'll hurt it a bit.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=51136&item=5159889981&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=51136&item=5159874287&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=51136&item=5159255194&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=51136&item=5160647022&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=51136&item=5159755277&rd=1
 
Thanks everyone.
People on other forums have suggested that it'l possibly get £300.
Why don't Apple do a trade in for the Mac Mini.

Swap your PC for a Mini Mac! :cool:

I'm not too sure what to do yet.

Thanks for all the suggestions!

(P.S Would this be a worthy trade <PC>---<Mac Mini>)

I have a spare USB 2.0 caddy with an 80GB HDD for my storage so I'd be fine for HDD space.
 
Reminds me that possibly many people think their PS/2 keyboard would work with the Mac mini - but it doesn't. Only USB peripherals. So get rid of the keyboard as well, yes.
 
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