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iMac- is this a good buy?
Posted on 8/17/14 at 4:00 pm
Posted on 8/17/14 at 4:00 pm
So I offered a guy online $350 for a 2009 iMac desktop. It's a 21.5", 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of memory, 1067 MHz DDR3. It's Graphics specs: NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB.
It appears to be in great shape, box and everything included. I see them on eBay for upwards of $500. What say ye Tech board?
It appears to be in great shape, box and everything included. I see them on eBay for upwards of $500. What say ye Tech board?
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Posted on 8/17/14 at 4:05 pm to Blastoise
Yes, that's a good price. Assuming this is just going to be a general use (browsing, pictures, video, documents) machine?
Posted on 8/17/14 at 4:12 pm to ILikeLSUToo
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Assuming this is just going to be a general use (browsing, pictures, video, documents) machine?
Yeah, just general use. I don't do video editing, photoshop, or anything that people usually buy iMacs for, but for $350 I don't see how this could be a bad purchase.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 5:07 pm to Blastoise
It sure looks like it. What's the hard drive size?
Posted on 8/17/14 at 6:09 pm to ILikeLSUToo
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Yes, that's a good price.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 6:28 pm to Blastoise
You can buy a new laptop or desktop with MUCH better hardware for just a little more money.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 6:31 pm to SG_Geaux
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You can buy a new laptop or desktop with MUCH better hardware for just a little more money.
Well he could get a Mac Mini for $599 but he still needs a screen.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 7:09 pm to SG_Geaux
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You can buy a new laptop or desktop with MUCH better hardware for just a little more money.
That's obvious, but he's looking at a Mac, and I'm tired of the 5-page rehashes of the same anti-Mac unhelpful trolling and anti-Windows clumsy defensiveness.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 7:43 pm to Blastoise
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iMac- is this a good buy?
No. iMac is never a good buy.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 7:48 pm to Blastoise
I would check to see if it's an early 2009 model. There's a defect in the video card that causes overheating. Only reason I know this is a client recently bought one off of eBay and the display would go nuts and the machine would freeze. I thought it was just defective, so I ordered one through my wholesaler. It did the same thing. Researched it and it seems to be pretty common with that model.
I can't find the apple forum discussion that I saw originally but found this one that describes what happened to us. LINK
It was a great price point but they ended up just buying a new one from the apple store. Just a heads up. At least make sure there's a return policy on the eBay item.
I can't find the apple forum discussion that I saw originally but found this one that describes what happened to us. LINK
It was a great price point but they ended up just buying a new one from the apple store. Just a heads up. At least make sure there's a return policy on the eBay item.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 8:03 pm to ILikeLSUToo
Still not sure why you try
Posted on 8/17/14 at 8:31 pm to Blastoise
Thanks everyone for your input.
Its got a 500 gb harddrive and expandable memory to 16 gb. I've never owned an apple product and honestly have hated on mac many times in my life. But for $350 I'll take a chance.
Also, its a late 2009- good looking out
Its got a 500 gb harddrive and expandable memory to 16 gb. I've never owned an apple product and honestly have hated on mac many times in my life. But for $350 I'll take a chance.
Also, its a late 2009- good looking out
Posted on 8/18/14 at 9:40 am to Blastoise
I bought that same model in 2009, but with the ATi card.
It was a great computer until I ran into the issue the previous poster posted.
I would ask the guy if he ran into that issue. You can boot the machine and it'll look fine until you start to use it, then that's when it would start to freeze.
If you do buy it, the first thing I would do is open everything on it, and let it run for a good 2 hours to make sure you don't have the issue.
It was a great computer until I ran into the issue the previous poster posted.
I would ask the guy if he ran into that issue. You can boot the machine and it'll look fine until you start to use it, then that's when it would start to freeze.
If you do buy it, the first thing I would do is open everything on it, and let it run for a good 2 hours to make sure you don't have the issue.
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