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Teacher, stage lighting designer, audio consultant, musician and videographer, Volvo enthusiast. Avid vintage radio enthusiast. My goal is to create value and help buyers solve problems.

Location: United StatesMember since: Jul 16, 2002

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Jul 02, 2015

Fear not going used and going cheap on an adequate Mac laptop. Risk is low.

There are several determining factors to consider before buying a used, eight year-old Mac laptop. First is chipset and memory. Intel chips will run the latest operating systems and software. Two GB of memory will do the heavy lifting. Size of hard drive is another - 80 gb is adequate for my needs but doesn't allow much headroom for expansion. The third is condition - this Mac hardly seemed used and the DVD drive had never had a region designated, meaning little use. But the most important factor is up to the end user - to what use will this computer be put? I bought it to sync to a projector for presentations. It's small, light, has USB and Firewire inputs plus a mini-DV output. My presentations are all stored on external drives so the 80 gb HD is not a problem. I am not relying on this Mac as my main laptop - I have three others, all later with more applications. Price of thus unit is right - $80 plus shipping for an excellent Mac is a reasonable investment. It did not come with a power supply, but I have some left over from dead Macs. In fact, external drives are so cheap, size of the drive in a laptop is no longer much of a limitation. I can also clone any of my other laptops for use on this one. By the way: I install Coconut battery monitor on all my laptops and run Diskwarrior before using to optimize directories and solve other issues. With an Intel Mac, don’t fear going used and going cheap. Condition, capacity and end use are what counts.

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Dec 08, 2012

Be cautious entrusting valuable data to a used hard drive

My experience with this drive illustrates the risk of using a low-cost hard drive, The drive was D.O.A. and could not be recognized by my computer. The seller issued a refund without question, so I lost nothing but some time and frustration. Slipping an HD into an existing external enclosure is easy. The experience illustrates my cautionary tale about used hard drives: Don’t trust them with critical data. I had planned to use this one only as a system boot backup in a recycled Firewire enclosure. I purchased another used HD on Ebay which works well. However, if I need to store a lot of valuable data, I will go with a new drive every time, at least 3TB and BACK THAT UP!!!

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Apple A1186 Mac Tower 2GHz Dual Core Intel Xeon 8GB DDR2 DVDRW w/ Graphics Card

Mar 19, 2017

Lots of life left in Mac Pro 1,1

Horses for courses as they say. When this Mac Pro came up for buy-it-now I bought it. Why a 17 year-old Mac? This model is a workhorse for certain applications. RAM is upgradable to 32 gb. Four hard drives can be mounted on sleds, hot swappable. This allows me to run older operating systems with plenty of storage for video and audio files. It runs at a respectable bus speed (faster than any laptop or I-Mac of that era. Ample USB and firewire ports. Its cheese grater design is not sexy-looking, but better than the bizarre flower pot or wastebasket design of other Macs. More versatile than a Mac Mini, it accepts a variety of video cards. Since it lives under my desk, I care not for looks or for latest, only for performance on my applications, which include older versions of Quark, Adobe, Final Cut Pro and various audio applications. The Mac Pro 1,1 will run Lion and may be coaxed or tweaked into running Yosemite. It will run a legacy version of Firefox also. But that's all I need from an $80 computer. Every OS upgrade from Mac makes more older software obsolete, requiring more investment or paying rental for Cloud access. BTW: I am still running some applications on OS 9.2 and OS 10.4.11 on G4 and G5 Macs. Ask not what purchasing newer Mac will do for Apple's bottom line. Ask instead what a cost-effective older Mac will do for you!!!

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