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New England FS: Lombard PowerBook G3 laptop

Covers: Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Maine.
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pizzaengineer

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For sale is a vintage Apple Macintosh PowerBook G3 400MHz. This system has an upgraded 60GB 7200 RPM hard drive, 400MHz G3 processor, 512MB of RAM and has a modular CD-ROM drive. The system has been restored to factory defaults (Mac OS 8.6) with a backup copy of the original recovery disks. Also includes a working yo-yo adapter. Overall the machine is in very good working and physical condition. The outside lid has some discoloration and the system in decent condition for a computer that was released in 1999. All 4 original rubber feet are still on the machine. Main battery is bad and the PRAM battery is bad as well. Asking $190 shipped CONUS or best reasonable offer for the system.
 

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I would recommend checking ebay prices on sold items first. They sell for a much lower price, like ebay #325598697402 - and that was even in way better condition.
 
Timo W. said:
I would recommend checking ebay prices on sold items first. They sell for a much lower price, like ebay #325598697402 - and that was even in way better condition.
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I wouldn't call it "way better condition". Two of the rubber feet are missing off the bottom on the eBay system and it has scuffing and scratches all over the top as well. Also only has a 6GB hard drive instead of a 7200RPM 60GB drive and I am including two power adapters. And like I've always posted here... "best reasonable offer".
 
pizzaengineer said:
I wouldn't call it "way better condition". Two of the rubber feet are missing off the bottom on the eBay system and it has scuffing and scratches all over the top as well. Also only has a 6GB hard drive instead of a 7200RPM 60GB drive and I am including two power adapters. And like I've always posted here... "best reasonable offer".
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Are we looking at the same listing? Because your laptop is in far worse cosmetic shape than the ebay listing. Yours looks to have rubber rot, and someone looks like they took a belt sander to the lid of the unit. The palm rest and track pad are heavily worn, and the keys are yellowing and have damage to the labels.

The larger hard drive really isn't a selling point on a machine this old, as is the speed of the drive. Old Macs had terrible IDE controllers that were painfully slow, not even an SSD is going to give that much of a benefit. As for the rubber feet being missing, we're all well used to that by now. Even if it did have the original rubber feet, they'd likely have to be replaced anyway from rubber rot.
 
"Main battery is bad and the PRAM battery is bad as well"

I've been using Wallstreet era PowerBooks for long time now (I keep them around for their external SCSI interface), and am a bit stunned by how expensive Lombard and Pismo replacement batteries are
and the fact you can't really find used systems with functional batteries.
 
GiGaBiTe said:
Are we looking at the same listing? Because your laptop is in far worse cosmetic shape than the ebay listing. Yours looks to have rubber rot, and someone looks like they took a belt sander to the lid of the unit. The palm rest and track pad are heavily worn, and the keys are yellowing and have damage to the labels.

The larger hard drive really isn't a selling point on a machine this old, as is the speed of the drive. Old Macs had terrible IDE controllers that were painfully slow, not even an SSD is going to give that much of a benefit. As for the rubber feet being missing, we're all well used to that by now. Even if it did have the original rubber feet, they'd likely have to be replaced anyway from rubber rot.
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I guess it is worthless then. I'll send it to e-waste for scrap.
 
pizzaengineer said:
I guess it is worthless then. I'll send it to e-waste for scrap.
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It's not worthless, it's just worth less than your expectations. More along the lines of $40-60, rather than your original want.

maxfli said:
Does the system run with the power adapter plugged in?
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Yeah, it does. I'm pretty sure most Apple laptops from that era will run fine from the power adapter. You'd still want to remove the battery to avoid potentially causing damage to the machine from charging dead cells.
 
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