Best way to sell?

Hello,
Ive been back in forth between upgrading to a blackbook and staying put with what I have and as I weigh my options I cant seem to decide what the best route would be for selling my old macbook. Unfortunately, none of my friends are interested in buying it so my options are limited to ebay, and a trade-in on powermax.com. Has anybody done a trade-in with them before? They have offered me 790$ for my macbook, but there is a 4 to 6 week inspection wait before they actually give you that money. Any help, input, or ideas are welcome. Thanks in advance.
Joe

Actually, $800 for a used MacBook (provided it's a basic model) doesn't sound all that bad. I wouldn't be thrilled about having to give it to them today... and not getting the $$ for a month and a half though. I would imagine you would want that money to get your new MacBook. You could give them a perfectly good MacBook... and during that 6 week "inspection" period, who knows what they could do to it and claim there was a problem and offer you less. eBay isn't a bad option. To be honest... the other option, which may be best, is just keep what you have. Why are you looking to get a new MacBook?

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>
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thanks Hatter. I'll let you know how things go, including what happens with the SSD. I don't have speed test software so I won't be able to track it's performance like that guy in the post you gave me did...
JQ
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Besides this the workflow in iBA is simply more effective and time saving. So, at the moment for me everything points into the iBooks Author direction.
Maybe in later versions we will have ways to export into other formats.
Bye and good luck with your work!!
rockie

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What is the best way to share a video with someone in another city?
I know that FCPX contains all sorts of share options which create different resolutions and file sizes appropriate for different sites like YouTube, Facebook, and others. But how to create the videos really isn't the problem.
I want to know how to share them. I'm creating videos that are ultimately to be viewed on the internet. When I have a completed video, I want to show it to the person who it is for before I finalize it. I know that if it very small, I could email it. And if it's larger, I could use something like Dropbox. But I don't necessarily want them to have a copy of it (though I could do that and put a watermark on it).
I'd like to upload it to a site like YouTube or Vimeo, but those sites seem to be about sharing videos with a wide audience. I know you can make a video private on YouTube, but, from what I've read, they permanently have the right to use the content, which I definitely don't want.
So what's the best way to do this? I'm going to have to do it regularly, so I'm willing to pay for a service if it assures privacy and does not try to assert some right to my content.
I know there is an issue to be considered with people screen capturing content, but I'll use a watermark to lessen the chances of that.

Hi Russ--
I'll have to read through Vimeo's terms of service, but I have to think they're asserting some right to the content like YouTube does.
Plus, these are commercial videos, and I don't think they allow that. Of course, if they're private, I'm obviously not trying to sell anything. But I have to think that it somehow is against their TOS since me posting a bunch of private videos that nobody can see really doesn't do them any good at all.

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