What is a PowerBook G4 Titanuim 17-Inch worth?

I have a PowerBook G4 Titanium 17-Inch that I am trying to sell online. I have installed 512 extra MB of Ram and it has a 40GB hard drive. I also put 10.5.6 on it, with many other fancy programs. I estimated the whole computer at $800. Is this correct? What would be a good cost for this computer. It has iLife '07 on it, and iWork '09, plus all of the new Adobe Suite programs (i.e. InDesign, Photoshop, etc.). Thanks for the help!

Hi, sammywol, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
There is no such thing as a Titanium 17" Powerbook. If it has a 17" display, it's Aluminum. Its value will depend on the speed of its processor, its age, its visible (exterior) condition, the size of its hard drive (40GB is tiny nowadays — much smaller than any drive that was ever shipped from the factory in any 17" Powerbook).
Use this article to identify your Powerbook model accurately, before you advertise it falsely.
Any commercial software that you've installed on the Powerbook will be pirated and illegal — and will have no market value at all — unless you also give the original installation discs for all of it to the buyer of the machine. If you do that, any copies that you keep of the software will be pirated and illegal. The only software you are obliged to provide with the machine is the software that was originally supplied with it, and you should include the PB's original Install and Restore CDs or DVDs in the price of the machine, just as they were included originally. You can't buy and keep commercial software for your own use, then sell copies of it to anyone else, with or without a computer: that's a clear violation of the law.
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I've been offered $700 for the entire set up.If that's true, take it. You're not going to get anything near that from someone who knows how to shop.

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