Value of my oldish computer
iMatt711
I'm debating on selling my old computer and I'd like to know if anyone can help me figure out what its worth. I Built it myself, specs are as follows:
P4 530 HT 3.0 GHz
MSI 915 P/G Mobo
80 Gig IDE 7200RPM Hdd
1 GB PC2700 Value Ram
Geforce 6600GT
16X DL DVD Burner
No OS
Does anyone have an idea of what it's worth or even how i should go about selling it?
P4 530 HT 3.0 GHz
MSI 915 P/G Mobo
80 Gig IDE 7200RPM Hdd
1 GB PC2700 Value Ram
Geforce 6600GT
16X DL DVD Burner
No OS
Does anyone have an idea of what it's worth or even how i should go about selling it?
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Hey, I'd love to. But a Sempron @ 2.2ghz (the overclock was just for fun, rather than any useful performance gain) running as a host for my many hard drives does the job and will continue to do so for a good while I'm sure.
If I want to use Windows, I use Parallels! That PC barely sees 20 mins of use a day. -
Easiest way to find thee value is to compare it to what the current budget-category offerings of DELL (or Gateway, or whatever) are.
250-300$ would be an optimistic estimate.
It's still a nice rig though. Unless you really need a MAC (honestly though, who *really* needs a Mac?), I think you're just losing money & performance if you end up doing the switch. -
Why not.
I'm looking at it from the perspective of an engineer who uses WinXP/Linux as his OS, along with MatLab and some CAD tools for work, as well as several standard C/C++ compliers modified to work for a few embedded systems as target platform. I also game occasionnaly on my WinXP. A MAC would not offer me such flexibility.
But I'd be interested to know about the cases where a MAC does make sense, and justify its price premium. So go ahead by all means. -
Well the 'what good is a Macintosh anyway' thread has been done to death, and you don't sound like you want to be convinced of anything so I shan't bother listing how a Macintosh benifits my industry.
But I will point out that there isn't actually a price premium - I costed my Mini up against a similar PC before I bought it and it was only about £20 more, plus had all the advantages - running Mac OS and Windows (with Parallels or Boot Camp), small, and completely silent. And at the high end, I've read quite a few articles from PC sites which were surpised that the Mac Pro was in fact cheaper than an equiv. Dell.
I wouldn't say I'm an 'elitist', but I do think Macs are the better choice for most people right now. Of course gamers and people in certain CAD jobs or whatever will need a PC instead, but a better computer for browsing the internet, IM, MS Word, listening to music and digital camera organisation you will not find. So pretty much every home user who buys a Dell would be better off with a Mini or an iMac.
Not the point, really...this was my attempt at a 'lets not go there' post, which apparently gave a guided tour of where 'there' is. But yeah, let's not.
Oh and people, please PM the mods and get us a Macintosh forum.
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