Is it just my imagination or is $175 for a Mac G4 an EXTREMELY good price?

[athlonxp2200]

I just bought a used Mac G4 for only $175, I think it is a really good price and am wondering what you all think I should have paid. Here are the specs:

867 MHz processor (I think it is Motorola)
One 512MB pc133 memory module (with two more slots available)
nVidia Geforce4 MX with 32MB of memory (don't know the exact model)
IBM 40GB hard drive
Phillips CD-RW/DVD-ROM
Iomega Zip 250 drive (internal)
with two keyboards, a mouse and a bunch of monitor adaptors.

 

[cmv]

Seems decent:

http://lowendmac.com/ppc/deals.html

 

[smthmlk]

IMO: that mac isn't worth $50. Break it out and play with it... pretty slow. Maybe if you wanted to play around with linux on the PPC arch... that might be fun Just my opinion of course.

 

[manly]

Not bad, but not "extremely" good IMO. Hopefully, it already comes with Tiger and even better if you have some extra SDRAM you can put in.

 

[tshen83]

 

[tshen83]

why not get a mac mini?

 

[dBTelos]

Because their is a huge price difference?

 

[dBTelos]

Double post...

 

[tatteredpotato]

An old computer is an old computer, just because it's a Mac doesn't mean it's valuable.

 

[ForumMaster]

not that good. BTW, Motorola made the 68K CPU's that came before IBM's PowerPC.

 

[chcarnage]

Great deal. Those who say that five year old hardware is worth nothing forget that in the case of Apple computers, the price decline isn't that steep. In fact this model is sold for $300+ on ebay and this list even estimates it at $617.

By the way (simplified):
68k: Motorola
PowerPC: Motorola + IBM
PowerPC G3: Motorola + IBM
PowerPC G4: Freescale (former part of Motorola)
PowerPC G5: IBM

 

[athlonxp2200]

It's got OS 10.3, and as for the case; all it has is a few smudges witch I think I can clean off.