isitafox Posted November 20, 2012 Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 My laptop is finally on its last legs (not done bad for 6 years) so I'm looking at a replacement. I've decided I'm gonna look at a 2nd hand apple and have been looking on ebay and there's quite a few apple powerbooks going cheap. As we mostly use it purely for websurfing and watching the occasional vid I wondered would this be up to the job despite being quite old? Anyone used one before that can give me some advice? Only gonna have about £300 to spend so don't want to go mad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitafox Posted November 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 One I've spotted runs a 1.5ghz processor, 512 ram though it's already been upgraded to 1gb and can take upto 2gb and an upgraded hard drive from 80gb to 120 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted November 20, 2012 Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 Definitely don't go for a powerbook. They run on a super old architecture which just means that they can't have any updates to the OS since about 3 main iterations ago - that's definitely more of a big deal than it seems. You want to get something intel based really, so you're looking at old MacBooks onwards. Should definitely be able to pick one of those up for £300. One thing I've come across recently are lost property auctions - got a MacBook Pro for £280 from one a couple of months ago. No charger and whatever, but so worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.Wood Posted November 20, 2012 Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 One thing I've come across recently are lost property auctions - got a MacBook Pro for £280 from one a couple of months ago. No charger and whatever, but so worth it. Off topic, but do they wipe that kinda stuff? Or is it literally as it was picked up off the train or whatever? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitafox Posted November 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 Sounds good, will look into that. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted November 20, 2012 Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 Off topic, but do they wipe that kinda stuff? Or is it literally as it was picked up off the train or whatever? Mine wasn't, which would mean that you could find a way of finding the owner and send it back. I didn't even bother looking and just wiped it straight off. The point of the auctions is that they've given the owner fair time to get in touch and claim their kit - they've probably claimed on insurance or whatever. These auctions work on the assumption that everything is sold as seen - you can't check whether stuff works, but at that sort of price for an MBP I just had to give it a go, knowing that I could probably get all the money back and more just selling it on eBay for spares if it didn't work. You can pretty much guarantee that these items wouldn't have been being transported while they didn't work, so it's likely you'll be lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted November 20, 2012 Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 thats a bargain, mine was £410 and I thought that was cheap! For £300, if you're just mostly browsing the internet, watching videos, sending emails etc (turns out this is what I do most of the time) then I think i'd recommend a new tablet over a laptop (especially if you have an old PC which you can use for non-internetty computer use) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted November 20, 2012 Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 That's also very true, I don't use anything but my iPad at home now and I've only had it 10 days or so - complete revelation on home browsing. Not saying that's only true of the iPad, I'm sure there's good ones on other platforms but I'm an Apple whore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitafox Posted November 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 Did consider a tablet but I still want the ability to edit videos and I'm not sure what's available if anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitafox Posted November 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 Just had a look and the google nexus 10 or asus transformer pad 300 look to fit the bill perfectly. Just need to source some ££ now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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