[Nobody]

Thanks. Ill still be here

[rockinphotog]

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The whole reason I'm getting rid of this is to own a mac, DUH!!

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I completely understood that, and I think it's cool. But like others said, it's unlikely that you are going to get a Mac user to part with their iBook in exchange for the PC. I do think it's a good idea to try to sell it to a PC user. When you get the money together, let us know, and well help you find something nice. We love shopping for Mac bargains! /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[urrl78]

I just imagined trading my light, thin, quiet, cool running 17" with an equally equipped plastic, heavy, turbo fan, thick, creaky PC laptop and the groan curdling from my throat could hardly be contained. I find this thread suddenly nauseating. Pardon me while I run to the bathroom to hurl..
"-WAGGHHHHHHT! AURGGHHHH! URRRRRRRRRRRRGH!"

/forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Nobody]

I am going to have to agree with everyone else here Stwain... Good luck though.. No Mac lover will trade for a PC.. they just won't. I have a stellar PC (if you can ever call a PC stellar) built for gaming and i gaurantee i couldn't get a PB G3 500 PISMO.. like what i already have, for it...
Just to make my point.. here are my PC stats...
Altec File server full tower case 420watt power supply
SOYO KT400 Dragon Platinum MB (with RAID, USB 2.0)(this board can run up to 8 IDE devices)
AMD Athalon 2600+
1GB Samsung PC 2700 ram
230GB Storage
--120GB WD w 8mb buffer
--80GB Seagate Barracuda
--30GB IBM Deskstar
56x CDRom
TDK VeloCD 40x12x48 CD-RW
Smart Card Reader
PNY NVidia GForce 4 TI4600 128MB AGP Graphics Card
Audigy 2 Sound card
WaterCool cooling system
Creative 6.1 Surround Speakers
21" Sony Trinitron MultiScan E540
All round wire
get the picture..
This thing was expensive to build, and if you know your hardware (unfortunately for my job i must know PC inside and out) you would know that the stuff i put in this thing is top of line and high priced... and i can garantee you, no one with a Mac will trade for it... not a chance.. Mac is just plain superior...
I think it is great that you want to upgrade to Mac though.. so.. Sell your PC to some unsuspecting dope (who has not yet learned that Mac is by far superior), then pinch pennies for a bit.. then get your Mac and join the ranks of the Technologically Enlightened...
BTW... Just so we are all perfectly clear.. I still regret building the PC.. I curse myself for it daily.. but I wanted to do some heavy gaming and my Mac just wouldn't do it... (the new macs can though DOH!!) should have just saved my money and bought a new Mac.. oh well.. we are all entitled to make a few mistakes i guess...
LONG LIVE THE MAC

[iloveitaly]

try to sell on e-bay, but note: PC ARE WORTH NOTHING!!!!?!??!?!?!?!?!
the reason i say this is because I want to get rid of my 1 year old compaq LAPTOP for a 2-3 year old mac, and yes i tried selling it to e-bay, I tried e-mailed use labtop places, but they wont buy it for 700$$$$. It is 1.3 ghz with all the original stuff, plus a case and everything??!?!?!?!? does anybody know anybody that would want it. I want a powerbook 400 for it. Its kind of annoying that there worth nothing.

[Nobody]

ya i know.. you can't get rid of a PC.. nobody wants them and everyone has them.. plus why pay a high price (700 for a PC is high now) when they can get a brand new one for less... The only people willing to pay a decent amount for a PC are PC enthusiasts , or PC users that really know their stuff about them.. and in those cases they want high high end and they build them themselves.. so you are pretty much outta luck.. you might try selling on ebay with a buy it now for less than 700.. i know it sucks.. but if you want to sell your PC you have to bite the bullet.. The machine i listed off previously was worth, when i built it, around 3000.. but i could never get that much for it.. Now it is worth around 2000.. but i would be lucky to get even 700 for it.. Your best bet is to sell it a bit cheaper than what you really want for it.. save that money and a bit to it when you can and when you have enough, buy your mac. You gotta hate PCs

[MacCheetah3]

Hi

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if you can ever call a PC stellar

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Not in my experience.

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Altec File server full tower case 420watt power supply
SOYO KT400 Dragon Platinum MB (with RAID, USB 2.0)(this board can run up to 8 IDE devices)
AMD Athalon 2600+
1GB Samsung PC 2700 ram
230GB Storage
--120GB WD w 8mb buffer
--80GB Seagate Barracuda
--30GB IBM Deskstar
56x CDRom
TDK VeloCD 40x12x48 CD-RW
Smart Card Reader
PNY NVidia GForce 4 TI4600 128MB AGP Graphics Card
Audigy 2 Sound card
WaterCool cooling system
Creative 6.1 Surround Speakers
21" Sony Trinitron MultiScan E540
All round wire

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Not too shabby at all.

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BTW... Just so we are all perfectly clear.. I still regret building the PC.. I curse myself for it daily.. but I wanted to do some heavy gaming and my Mac just wouldn't do it... (the new macs can though DOH!!) should have just saved my money and bought a new Mac.. oh well.. we are all entitled to make a few mistakes i guess...

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If you have the same experience as I do with the Windows compatible arena, yet doubtful, than just using it is punishment enough.
MacCheetah3
"Donuts...Is there anything they can't do?"

[Nobody]

Oh trust me.. I have more than just experience with it.. I am MCSE certified.. i ahve been working with that terrible mostrousity in the professional world for years.. (unfortunately not many companies have seen fit to upgrade to Mac) so i am forced (not by any choice of mine) to not only work with it.. but know it inside and out... and I hate it!!!!! IT with PC and windows sucks!!!

[sebimeyer]

I personally think the use of full stops and exclamation points in this thread is punishement as well.
Put that thing on ebay and get a Mac. Or keep it as gaming PC.

[MacCheetah3]

Hi
Well, Andranicus. I did go to college for a PC Tech/Network Admin for two years but experience does hold the cake for learning the "tricks of the trade." Anywho. Have you ever had it so bad that you had to reformat your hard drive about every week or two for an entire year from using XP Pro on a Dell? I have. That's after trying every sort of repair utility I could find and it still had a blue screen on startup, where I couldn't even access the hard drive through DOS and so I found out that the easiest way was just to start over. I finally got it to stay "up" for at least a few weeks in a row at a time by not installing ANY third party software. Plus, you have to restart it at least every few weeks because otherwise it gets very cranky and slow. That Dell is my first home PC. Now, of course, I have used PCs in high school, college, etc so I do have experience however I have owned Macs at home for...oh...about thirteen years now. I have owned that Dell since I started college which was about two years ago. As you can probably tell, I have a good reason to hate M$, because their products hate me.
For the whole gaming arena. What I can't play on my Mac I get for my GameCube. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
MacCheetah3
"Relax. What is mind?..No matter...What is matter?..Never mind!"

[SueG]

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Put that thing on ebay and get a Mac. Or keep it as gaming PC.

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You will miss all your old familiar games, it's the main thing many switchers moan about (and there are likely to be other programs you can't buy for the Mac right away). A two year old PC is getting a bit long in the tooth (even Mac owners start dreaming about upgrades after three years). Will what you can get for it equal what you will miss from it? If you do use eBay, don't forget to figure in the fees when setting your base price.
Is the September deadline firm? Maybe Christmas is more realistic?
Can you work? (I once knew a high school kid with a nice income from helping people set up new home computer systems.)

[gunb0y]

i bought an ibook for college and 4 months later i was buulding a pc for games. 2 years later and i'm finally ready to kick windows altogether. but to do so i need to upgrade from my ibook to a 15" powerbook. too bad i can't get anyone to buy my pc :-(

[Nobody]

cheetah... Ya that is pretty bad.. you should have used Ghost to make an image of the drive and do a simple install from the image, takes a whole lot less time and you loose no info!
to answer your question... Yes.. And worse.. lol.. Try the (HP Server - god how i hate HP) the PDC for the network i was administering running NT 4 crashing 2-3 times per week b/c of various conflicting softwares and hardwares (keep in mind that this thing worked well for more than a year -- well meaning only crashing a few times), and then unexplicably began this crap... for no truly aparent reason at all... Keep in mind that i have to redo the RAID every single time.. run all of the IAVAs and recover directories, data, and permissions each time. I have to say though, as irritating as that was.. it is even more irritating when it is a home machine. ha ha. I too took many Networking courses, that is my profession.. i am a network admin. Oh and don't get me started on Exchange! Of course there have been multitudes of client machines dying and crashing (blue screenage) every time you turn around. I think the worst part is having to deal with the end user -- they always seem to think you can fix it in 2 seconds, and don't understand why you don't just know the problem when they explain what happened and what is going on in that wierd end-user tongue, not to mention bugging you every ten seconds reaffirming how important their job is and that they can't work b/c their machine is down.. ARGHHH!!!
If only all networks were Mac -- we wouldn't have half of these problems - at least then when an error occurs it isn't a fluke or inexplicable... M$ bites the big one!

[Nobody]

Right now i use it merely as a file server.. I don't really game any more. If i thought i could get a decent price for it, i would sell it on e-bay.. but as previously stated people aren't willing to pay that kind of price.