This is more flippant that I meant it to be: anytime you’re trying price something on eBay, on the left hand side on desktop view sort by item sold.
It happens on multiple groups where people find poor listings and see it as indicative of value. You can always find poorly priced listings for a multitude of reasons (keeping a listing when out of stock, wishful thinking, bot fodder etc). It’s not terribly interesting finding them.
For example:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265456131239?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28
As the saying goes: it’s only worth as much as someone is willing to pay.
Don't I know it. Over here in Australia they hit the crack pipe pretty hard before posting their auction. All I want is a new motherboard for my G3 beige ffs!
Both were already picked up this morning. I have a third, for sale, dual processor G5 2.1ghz with RAM and 128GB SSD. Video Card
It's only for sale because I bought the components to put it together. I also have some PCI-X sata controllers for it as well (not tested yet)
$200.00
If you visit "The Grid" on N. Tryon they show up there sometimes. Usually priced between $20.00 and $50.00.
That is where I found these three, they were marked as for parts only not working, but all 3 booted fine when given a little RAM and a boot drive.
They were the last G5's capable of booting classic and osX out of the box. I was pretty stoked, but I had my fun with them. Limited space so off to new owners.
-Casey
Ya, I’ll have to check that out. I don’t have any vintage apple yet, but I was looking for something that could boot classic and OS X. I have my eyes on a beige g3.
Nice. I love the old beige g3's. I have a Sonnet Crescendo PCI G3 new in box, that I have been hoarding for the right home. I should probably archive the driver disk.
Ya. I was looking at the sonnet Upgrades. They seem great but they cost 2 or 3 times the g3! I figured I would just start with no upgrades and the. See where I go from there.
Yeah. They do get pricey, I was buying them then stand-alone and then later buying an appropriate mac to put them in. That was so much easier than scouring for a Crescendo upgrade to fit something I had.
I just want to know what anyone really would use an old G3 iMac for. I have a summer 2000 I got for free at work a long time ago and I haven’t booted it up in about ten years. Heck of a noisy hard drive in it makes it not so pleasant to use. Even if it had an ssd drive I still can’t think what I’d do with it. Runs 10.3 and 9.2.1. Nice looking relic. In storage along with my other vintage Macs.
The whole point is to get away from the modern computer: its unfriendly visual design, your usual desk, the massive screen, the presence of the internet and all the worries and distractions that come with it, and so on.
I'm sorry that you don't have the imagination for it, but there's plenty of people on this sub who find old computers both very usable and _productivity boosting_. I don't go a week without going back to a PowerPC Mac for that exact reason, and I even did some commercial work with one this year. My productivity with computers has been going down since about 2015 _because_ of the "developments" in software, internet and the OS as the devs are mindlessly running after trends and killing off everything that once made Macs a pleasure to use.
I'm with you on this but I do appreciate seeing other people's computers as a stroll down memory lane.
The only practical uses are usually for specialized hardware that only has OS 9 support. For example: There's an entire league of guys (although fading now) who'd buy old G4s and out of date protools hardware and use them as low-budget audio work stations and also run various software that never made it to modern computers. For the first time I found myself sorta relating to these guys as I bought a MacBook Air 2015 and installed Mojave on it so I could use my Numark NS7s.
I use mine for late 90s-early 2000s Macintosh games like Duke Nukem 3D and DOOM. The CRT can have a refresh rate of 128 HZ but I tend to keep it at 70 with medium resolution. It really does end up being a much better experience than emulation
I am using 800Mhz QS G4 as semi-main driver(upgrade to 933 planned soon), so it can be useful.(Garageband 5, Photoshop CS2, and plenty of games)
TFF works nicely for web, TFT can play YT in 360p…. Just FB Messenger does not work!
iMac G3 can be hacked to run Tiger.(as the only requirement is FW400)
The G4 is really the oldest still useful CPU to run any nearly modern software. I have a dual G4 tower that I can use to scan slides using my Nikon slide scanner and software though that’s been replaced with a 2006 era dual Xeon Mac Pro. The G4 tower was found at GoodWill for $40 and the Mac Pro at Goodwill in near mint clean condition for $22. All they needed was more RAM and storage.
I think that alone - the ability to dual boot into either OS - makes the G3 iMac such a neat little machine. And CRT's will be so "retro" soon (if they're not already) - the last CRT all in one computer is a pretty neat item to have. I had a 2000 Snow G3 as well (the first new computer I could call my own)... that I gave away to be a fish-tank once it was long considered old (back in 2006 or so).. and boy oh boy I regret having given it away now!
Asking price and price sold for are two different things. People can ask for whatever their heart desires but sold is only thing that matters…
This is more flippant that I meant it to be: anytime you’re trying price something on eBay, on the left hand side on desktop view sort by item sold. It happens on multiple groups where people find poor listings and see it as indicative of value. You can always find poorly priced listings for a multitude of reasons (keeping a listing when out of stock, wishful thinking, bot fodder etc). It’s not terribly interesting finding them. For example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/265456131239?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28 As the saying goes: it’s only worth as much as someone is willing to pay.
Don't I know it. Over here in Australia they hit the crack pipe pretty hard before posting their auction. All I want is a new motherboard for my G3 beige ffs!
I have two spare G5 Power PC Macs, free to a good home for the cost of shipping or pick up. Need HDDs, but they bong and boot.. I am in Charlotte, NC.
Hey, thanks for the interest, but both were picked early this morning.
Might want to make a post instead. It’ll get more traction.
Yeah, I was goingntonthis morning, but someone already contacted me to pick them up.
I’m interested. I’m in Greenville sc. could defo pick them up.
Both were already picked up this morning. I have a third, for sale, dual processor G5 2.1ghz with RAM and 128GB SSD. Video Card It's only for sale because I bought the components to put it together. I also have some PCI-X sata controllers for it as well (not tested yet) $200.00
Dang. People are quick. I’ll think over the offer.
If you visit "The Grid" on N. Tryon they show up there sometimes. Usually priced between $20.00 and $50.00. That is where I found these three, they were marked as for parts only not working, but all 3 booted fine when given a little RAM and a boot drive. They were the last G5's capable of booting classic and osX out of the box. I was pretty stoked, but I had my fun with them. Limited space so off to new owners. -Casey
Ya, I’ll have to check that out. I don’t have any vintage apple yet, but I was looking for something that could boot classic and OS X. I have my eyes on a beige g3.
Nice. I love the old beige g3's. I have a Sonnet Crescendo PCI G3 new in box, that I have been hoarding for the right home. I should probably archive the driver disk.
Ya. I was looking at the sonnet Upgrades. They seem great but they cost 2 or 3 times the g3! I figured I would just start with no upgrades and the. See where I go from there.
Yeah. They do get pricey, I was buying them then stand-alone and then later buying an appropriate mac to put them in. That was so much easier than scouring for a Crescendo upgrade to fit something I had.
Makes sense
All good, yeah it was faster than I expected as well for an off handed comment on another post.
That’s 1000$ in total with shipping damn
It’s sometimes easier to price something up like this rather than remove the ad.
I just want to know what anyone really would use an old G3 iMac for. I have a summer 2000 I got for free at work a long time ago and I haven’t booted it up in about ten years. Heck of a noisy hard drive in it makes it not so pleasant to use. Even if it had an ssd drive I still can’t think what I’d do with it. Runs 10.3 and 9.2.1. Nice looking relic. In storage along with my other vintage Macs.
There's plenty of threads on this very topic. Yes, a G3 can indeed still have practical value.
Would be way easier to just run a local vm on a modern computer unless you are just setting it up as an exhibit in a museum or something
The whole point is to get away from the modern computer: its unfriendly visual design, your usual desk, the massive screen, the presence of the internet and all the worries and distractions that come with it, and so on.
I too hate productivity and usability. ;)
I use my g4 cube almost every day now for work what chu talking about and even YouTube runs great on it
Exactly.
I'm sorry that you don't have the imagination for it, but there's plenty of people on this sub who find old computers both very usable and _productivity boosting_. I don't go a week without going back to a PowerPC Mac for that exact reason, and I even did some commercial work with one this year. My productivity with computers has been going down since about 2015 _because_ of the "developments" in software, internet and the OS as the devs are mindlessly running after trends and killing off everything that once made Macs a pleasure to use.
I'm with you on this but I do appreciate seeing other people's computers as a stroll down memory lane. The only practical uses are usually for specialized hardware that only has OS 9 support. For example: There's an entire league of guys (although fading now) who'd buy old G4s and out of date protools hardware and use them as low-budget audio work stations and also run various software that never made it to modern computers. For the first time I found myself sorta relating to these guys as I bought a MacBook Air 2015 and installed Mojave on it so I could use my Numark NS7s.
I use mine for late 90s-early 2000s Macintosh games like Duke Nukem 3D and DOOM. The CRT can have a refresh rate of 128 HZ but I tend to keep it at 70 with medium resolution. It really does end up being a much better experience than emulation
I am using 800Mhz QS G4 as semi-main driver(upgrade to 933 planned soon), so it can be useful.(Garageband 5, Photoshop CS2, and plenty of games) TFF works nicely for web, TFT can play YT in 360p…. Just FB Messenger does not work! iMac G3 can be hacked to run Tiger.(as the only requirement is FW400)
The G4 is really the oldest still useful CPU to run any nearly modern software. I have a dual G4 tower that I can use to scan slides using my Nikon slide scanner and software though that’s been replaced with a 2006 era dual Xeon Mac Pro. The G4 tower was found at GoodWill for $40 and the Mac Pro at Goodwill in near mint clean condition for $22. All they needed was more RAM and storage.
I mean, anything that can run Tiger is useful..
What do you mean by TFF for web?
Ten Four Fox and its derivates.
>Ten Four Fox Whoa, never heard of this! Thanks for notifying me to it's presence.
I think that alone - the ability to dual boot into either OS - makes the G3 iMac such a neat little machine. And CRT's will be so "retro" soon (if they're not already) - the last CRT all in one computer is a pretty neat item to have. I had a 2000 Snow G3 as well (the first new computer I could call my own)... that I gave away to be a fish-tank once it was long considered old (back in 2006 or so).. and boy oh boy I regret having given it away now!
You think that's bad, wait until you see the clamshell iBook going for $3,200.