Friday, May 8, 2009

Buy Old Macs

Some of you will surely be glad to read this article, but I am really sad to write it. Just as a side note, when I got my latest computer, in late 2007, it only took me a few minutes of research to decide that I won't sell the old one. Why? Because I really love that machine, and it helped me learn(and earn) a lot. In the end, I sold the video card, moved some memory and the 250GB hard drive to my wife's computer, and turned the old Athlon XP machine into a Linux box for emergency situations, after adding some old memory and a 8.4GB drive to it.

There's no ending to the story above, I still have that machine, and it will probably keep working for at least 4-5 years, but I told you about it because that would help you understand better the feelings Blair Saldanah has these days. Who is he? One Apple lover in need, that's enough said, and if you want to help him and buy old Macs and then some...let's see what's for sale and why, shall we?The sad reason for selling 25 years of Mac memorabilia is that his wife needs medical care, and they don't have health insurance. These being said, I hope you won't try to bargain too much, because we're talking about more than just taking apart a collection here.<-300x250 Medium Rectangle - center->Now, if we leave aside the awesome posters, brochures, T-Shirts, stickers, manuals, or books, we get to the most interesting part - hardware! The items currently available on the hardware sales page are these: an Apple Macintosh Portable in working condition, with case, disks, manuals and power supply, for only $300 and shipping; a PowerBook Duo 2300c, for $400 and shipping; three PowerBooks - PowerBook 150, a PowerBook 180, and a PowerBook 180c, all with power supply and battery, even an extra power supply, but none of them booting up, for only $50 and shipping!That's all for those looking to buy old Macs for now, but it seems more will come in the near future. Let's hope everything will come out fine for Blair and his wife, and maybe some of his great collection will be spared. Good luck to him, and good luck to you, those who will buy items from his awesome collection!