What's it worth?

Hi - I am a recent Mac convert from windows, via a macbook I bought this summer and absolutely love. Now I have a chance to buy a 12" powerbook, 1.5 gHz processor, 1.25 gB RAM, 80-gig HD for my son, as an alternate to his BenQ notebook, which breaks down from time to time.
The issue is - what is a fair price for this machine? It is without AppleCare, with no chance to get it, as it is a little more than a year old (bought new in July, 2005). It works fine, the seller just wants to trade up to a Macbook Pro.
I thought that, as powerbook users, you might have some idea. I was thinking of offering $750, I believe the owner would like $1000. Also, how long is it likely to last? I'm worried about the lack of applecare.
Any ideas?

$1000 seems a tad high with no AppleCare but if it's in good shape I don't think its an unreasonable price. A bunch on eBay are going for around $1000. Good luck with the purchase.

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Literally. A few days ago, while sitting at my iMac, the familiar start of Buffalo Sprinfields- 'for what it's worth' began thumping from my speakers. Pretty soon I noticed there was no Steven Stills. It was the music and the background. Not a problem, reload at some point in the future. I have a copy synced to my iPad. It played fine. Today while listening to a radio station via iTunes the same song came on. No lead singer. Odd. I found and inserted my old CD and imported the song to iTunes. No lead vocals. Played the CD in iTunes. No lead vocals. I took the CD out to my car and played the CD. Works fine. Everythings there. I've checked some of my other old music and this song seems to be the only affecte song. Anybody else have this problem?

I had something similar happen to me once when I was using my computer routed through my stereo. I had a faulty component in the wiring setup and it was just sending a single channel through both speakers. For most music you barely notice it because the stereo channel split isn't all that great. For this one track, however, all the vocals went through the channel that wasn't being played. I had never heard this track before so it wasn't until somebody else heard me playing it the 5th time and asked what had happened to the vocals I even knew there were some!

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I have one credit to use . What is one credit worth? How do i use it?

You'll have to stop shouting first.

What are we worth?

I am posing this question for two reasons. I am curious to
see what a CF
developer is worth to a company and also because I might be
switching dev
jobs to another company that is going to switch from ASP to
CF and would
like to know what I should be asking for to keep in line with
fair market.
So, where is everyone from and what do they make? (Employed
professionals
only, please.)
I am in Ann Arbor, MI and I am making $50k with full
benefits.

quote:
Originally posted by:
tclaremont
Based on cost of living, etc, I am going to venture that $50K
is quite a bit on the low side. The DC area or the hot tech spots
in Flordia will likely see that increase by 50% or more.
Agreed, $50K is too low.
And you don't necessarily have to be in a major center to
pull in a good buck (though it certainly doesn't hurt). A lot
depends on the company in question. I work for a mid-sized bank (so
they've got a few bucks), and though we're two hours outside of any
real population center, the compensation is most agreeable.

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I was wondering what apps/games are worth paying for and they have no viruses? thanks

The apps in the Apple app store are checked to be sure they are free of virus and other malcontents.
The ones to buy are based on your needs or likes...do you need to word process - Pages, on an iPad, do you need to read/use PDF files - GoodReader, do you need to make presentations - Keynote, games depends on what kind you like to play, solitaire, and so on.

I don't think I'm paid what I'm worth...

This brings back memories, I was almost in the same situation with the exact same pay. Left after a year and found better pay with a better title.

DerickBrown wrote:Matthew5502 wrote:Well, That's a loaded question. What is your experience? How many years in IT? Certs, Degree (I know it's an HR foot in the door but still)? I started out in a help desk roll making $28,000 and was running the shop while my two other co-workers would be out of the office at conferences. So do the math.
I have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science with an emphasis in Information Security Systems. I have 3 years experience but I only have a CompTIA A+ ce certification.Others are right, I probably just think I'm worth more than what I am paid and just need to keep striving to be better.I have an IT degree, 7 years of experience, and get paid almost double. Most of that came in the last 2-3 years. I slogged it out as an IT Technician for quite a few years making right around where you are. Make sure...

Whats my Mac worth when sick ?

I have a DP 1.25Ghz PowerMac, 1.5 GB of Apple certified/purchased Samsung RAM , dual 80GB Seagate Barracuda drives. All original carton , manuals etc.
But I think my logic board is going out , if I were to cut my losses. What would it be worth on the net or in general ?

Spencer, just curious, what makes you think the logic board is going bad? I'm just curious because I have the same machine and it has always been kinda crash-prone... and my many troubleshooting attempts have never made it nearly as stable as other OSX machines I've used...
Does it sometimes crash/freeze for no apparent reason?

Firmware downgrade helped - for what it's worth

For quite some time now I experienced problems with my WDS Airport network at my home office (Airport Extreme base and Airport Express remote - NAT provided by OS X Server 10.3). My MacBook Pro would have problems staying connected to my Airport network. Kept on disconnecting, or showed that it was connected, but couldn't see any of the Airport base stations. Very strange.
I also noticed that it must have had something to do with my neighbors' wireless networks around me. It seemed that whenever a neighbor's wireless network came online it bumped me off.
Anyway, after experimenting with WEP, WAP and WAP2 encryptions, as well as with Open network settings only with access control list I gave up. My MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo simply couldn't stay connected.
So I started digging around a bit and I found posts that described similar issues for others with other computer models like Power Book G4, iMac, etc. Now, my Power Book G4 never had any issues staying connected to my Airport network (used to anyway).
I read in one of the posts that it may have something to do with the Airport Extreme (V5.7) and Express (V6.3) Firmware updates. So I decided to take the plunge backwards and downgrade my Airport Extreme/Express Firmwares to V6.1.1 for Express and V5.5.1 for Extreme.
The downgrade went ok. Initially I had no connection (I guess because my last setting used WAP2 which is not available for the older Firmwares, so the config file was not the right format), but after resetting my Airport Base Stations to WAP I had connection.
At night I put all of the computers on the Airport Network to sleep. In the morning I woke my Mac Book Pro from sleep only to discover that no Airport Network was available.
So I logged in to the Airports from the server and pretty much tried everything. Set it to WEP 40, WEP 128, back to WAP encryption.. nothing worked (non of the computers on the Airport Network were able to connect anymore). So I finally gave up and had to settle for an open network without encryption, only access control list and closed network, and guess what. It worked. All computers can once again connect to the Airport network, and no matter what goes on with my neighbors and their networks I can stay connected. Putting the Mac Book Pro to sleep, waking up.. connected. No more disconnects now for the last 24 hours. I know it's too soon to tell.
But it seems that there may be some sort of problem with the latest Airport Firmware upgrades. Downgrading must have destroyed something though, because now none of the encryptions are working anymore.
If anyone has any idea on what I could do to solve this issue, that would be appreciated. Should I try to hard reset both base stations? Maybe that would do the trick?
Also, could it be that I may have copied old files with the migration assistant that belong to the PowerPC Airport drivers? Maybe that is messing things up. Anyway, have no clue.
All in all, I am happy with my Airport network, but not being able to have encryption worries me a bit. Also the speed leaves room for improvement. I have never seen my Airport network go faster than 12 Mb/s (of a theoretical 54Mb/s ... wow).
Anyway.. just thought I would throw this out there and see if someone has anything to contribute.
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I feel your pain. Started logging on this morning with our computers (once we got power back on from a broken pipe) and man is it a mess. My wifes MacBook Pro wont remember our ABES network, nor will it show up. If we select other from the drop down airport icon and manually type in the name and password it is fine until we shut it down or restart it.
Unfortunately, my daughters newer iBook G4 cant even find our network, however, it will find other networks floating around the neigborhood. Go figure!
My sons snow G3 iMac this morning is having the same problem as my daughters laptop.
Our G4 iMac has no problem at all getting on the network and/or remembering it and automatically connecting to it when restarted/shutdown.
My Toshiba M35 laptop cant find the network but will find others and connect to them.
My 2 Dell Inspiron 5100 (one with an internal and another with a Belkin PCMCIA wireless) both connected to the base stattion with no problems.
Now, isnt that weird or what? We have soft reset the AEBS several times as well as hard reset with the same results as above. Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks,
Sean
P.S. This is after we have been running the current network/setup for about a year with no hiccups. Got to love apple and its firmware upgrades!

Apple TV (v2) and movie rentals - my experiences, for what it's worth...

I’ve been reading a lot of posts over the past couple of days about problems streaming rented movies, and thought i’d share my experiences as i’ve had a couple of days of head scratching and frustration trying to watch one of my own:
I unwrapped an Apple TV v2 at the weekend, which was a gift form a friend, and tried it out by renting a movie. This was yesterday:
Now I’m a Virgin media customer in the UK, with 10MB broadband (wired), which I figured would be fast enough to easily stream HD video - and sure enough my rental started up and played fine. For about 30 mins...
After this it froze, and gave me the dreaded ‘loading’ dialogue, which showed 7 hours as my wait, and it got longer as the day went on - not shorter.
I gave up, and decided to come back to it later, which of course was a foolish move, as everything that had been buffered was erased and i was back at square one.
I then tried again today and had the exact same problem. After turning on, and being pleasantly surprised to see that my HD rental began streaming perfectly with almost no delay, I was again kicked off after about half an hour.
So i decided to look at my ISP’s terms and conditions, and sure enough there are cap’s on my data traffic of 1.5gb during the day, and 750mb in the evening (until 9pm). Exceed either of these and your traffic speed is cut back by 75% for 5 hours.
So i did some digging, and found that the average HD movie file size is about 4gb. This means that it’s impossible for me to stream and watch a film in one sitting, as i’ll never have enough uncapped bandwidth to stream the whole movie in one hit.
Now some folks have talked about getting ahead of the game, and beginning a download ahead of time (like first thing in the morning) so that by the evening a film is waiting for you no matter how long the download time. But even if this works, you run the risk of losing the buffered file by hitting the wrong button on your apple remote. This to me is unacceptable.
So lets drill down to the details here:
Problem 1: the manner Apple TV v2 stores video. I’m no technical expert, but understand that the latest Apple TV has no hard drive - rather an 8GB flash drive. This would be enough to download and store an HD movie as a semi-permanent file, but Apple TV v2 doesn’t do this - it just uses it as a streaming buffer, which is cleared out periodically, and is easy to accidentally lose.
Problem 2: my ISP just won’t allow the amount of data transfer required to stream an HD movie without capping my download speed. Not between 9am and 9pm anyway (i’m going to see if i can stream the end of my film later without the beggars cutting me off).
Problem 2a (more of a gripe): Apple TV doesn’t warn you that the file you’re about to stream when you rent a movie will very likely trigger your ISP’s bandwidth throttling policy. It might be in their small print, but it should be there in big letters at the point of sale, just before you hit ‘buy’.
The Solution: There isn’t a satisfactory one for me really. I don’t imagine I’ll be renting any more movies directly from Apple TV. It’s too pricey to take the risk that I won’t be able to watch it, so back to DVD for me.
Now I could rent or buy through iTunes, and then stream to Apple TV, as at least I’d have a ‘hard copy’ of the movie on my MacBook and would be safe in the knowledge that once i had downloaded the file i could watch it from start to finish without interruption - but this is also less than ideal. I can’t get HD movies from iTunes, i’d have to go through the ‘planning ahead’ phase of starting downloading early in the day, and there’s still no guarantee it wouldn’t trigger the bandwidth throttling if it was a long movie.
The only other solution would be to max out my broadband package, although currently the most expensive package (which costs double what i pay now) still had a 3.5gb cap, so could kick me off just as i’m near the end of the film. Plus, i don’t watch that many films to make the expense worthwhile.
To wrap up...
If you’re on a decent broadband connection that in theory should be able to handle HD streaming then check your ISP’s regs regarding throttling. Even with throttling on, YouTube, iPlayer and other similar sites still worked for me, as they’ll happily cope with reduced transfer speeds. Apple movie rentals won’t. This might explain why some can use these services perfectly at the same time as being unable to view their rental.
If you’re an occasional film watcher in a similar position to me, don’t bother with movie rentals. Unless you’re on an uncapped, unthrottled broadband package it’s unlikely you’ll be able to stream an HD movie in one hit due to the file size.
Back to Blockbuster Video for me i’m afraid. At least until we get NetFlix in the UK
Hope you have more luck than I did,
McGinty

Thanks for the pointers folks. Yeah, 1.5GB is pretty poor isn't it? There are other suppliers, but you have to get a their phone line installed to access the internet so it's an £85 setup fee plus a day off work for a guy to come round and drill a hole in your wall before you even get to the monthly costs.
Don't get me wrong though - I'm certainly not an Apple basher, but am equally frustrated with both them and the ISP.
Virgin Media spend all kinds of money advertising their broadband as the fastest in the UK, but don't tell you (up front anyway) that you'll be cut off if you actually try and use it.
Apple on the other hand carry on with their 'it just works' mantra, but with Apple TV this only applies if you meet certain criteria (again, not mentioned up front).
I guess it aint a biggie, as i was gifted my Apple TV, and love all the other stuff it does, but from the number of posts on this forum can see that there's a lot of angry customers out there who want explanations as to why they're having similar problems to me.
Will be very interesting to see if Apple release any kind of software update that turns the flash drive from a buffer to permanent storage, to at least ease some of the pain...
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What's it worth without LCD?

I have a PowerBook G4 12" 1.33 GHz. Upgraded to 768MB RAM. It's a great computer, but about seven months ago the screen stopped working. I didn't even notice, as I had been using it as a desktop computer for a while, hooked to an external monitor and accessories. If I had noticed in time, it would have been in warranty and I could have had it fixed, but I didn't notice the problem until about 20 days after my warranty expired.
Repair is out of the question, at least as far as Apple or third-party repair shops go, because they're all asking about 1/2 the value of the PowerBook to fix it. That's not cost-effective for me when I've had the thing just over a year.
It could be a dead screen (though the backlight works), or it could be an unseated cable, or something with the logic board. I just don't know, and don't particularly want to crack it open to find out.
So I bought a G3 (Bronze) PowerBook, and I'll use that when I need to be on the go. However, I think it's a waste to have this G4 PowerBook just sitting on my desk when someone might be able to fix it and use it as a portable again. Not to mention, I might want to pick up a newer Mac desktop system since the PowerBook G4 is now essentially a desktop computer as far as I'm concerned.
So my question is this: What kind of price do you think I could fairly ask for a $1,700 computer (when new) with a non-working LCD display? How much do you think it would cost for a tech-savvy person to privately fix it? I'm not talking labor costs, but do-it-themselves costs (parts, etc.)
This computer is great otherwise! There's nothing wrong with the computer itself. It's just the display problem that makes it "defective." When running on the external monitor I've even had it on a cooling pad to keep it from suffering any heat problems. It's well taken care of and well upgraded.
Any ideas what the mark-down should fairly be for a bad display?

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I had the same problem (mine was clearly defective after driving over it with a car)... and we evaluated the price to around 400 to 600 Euros (for a friend that was). It works since then as a perfect desktop computer
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MacBook Appraisal Advice. Tests to See What it's Worth.

A fellow student is selling his black MacBook and I'd like to buy it. I've taken a few courses and I'm pretty handy with Macs, plus I own the newer version of the same computer, but I wonder if anyone has advice on tests they would do if buying a used Mac.
Stats: 2.2GHz/2GB RAM/160GB HDD. I'm assuming by the stats it still has Tiger, but I have a family pack upgrade DVD that I've only used on one computer.
The only tests I can think of running are Verify Disk in the Disk Utility and Apple Hardware Test with the install CD's.
If you were buying this Mac, for what red flags would you search? And are there any other good tests to run? Or maybe a program that diagnoses problems that Apple Hardware test doesn't?
Thanks in advance! I hope maybe this can be a good used MacBook buying guide for others as well.

S.M.A.R.T. status? Perhaps maybe running a few intensive applications to see if it holds out?

What's StyleContext worth for?

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I learned hot to color a PlainDocument following
Timothy Prinzing's article Customizing a Text Editor
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/text/editor_kit/index.html
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What it's worth (for what it's worth).

Folks,
I bought an iPhone for $600 because it was worth more than that to me. Now it's $400, but to me? I can't live without it. I use it every single day--starting when I first wake up, finishing when I go to sleep. And I can't imagine I'm alone.
The US dollar was worth a Euro five years ago--now it's worth 3/4 that. None of us can get a refund, and the longer one waits to spend our money, the lower the value will be in Gold, Silver, and certainly Oil. But gadgets? One expects not. It's not a commodity.
Another consideration is that Apple is in the business of selling Macs, iPhones, and iPods, and whomever wanted the newest and greatest (myself included) paid $600--and would have thought it was worth double that if Apple had distribution problems. But everyone knew even before it was launched it was expensive--but had we ever seen anything like it? No.
But Apple sold out the first round as fast as they could without causing widespread distribution problems--something Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony have never managed with new hardware--then, once the water cleared a little, dropped the price for the holidays. Yay! Early adopters have done their business, and now it's time for our friends and family. It's gift giving time.
Apple's primary consideration is their shareholders, and that's where this move makes the most sense. The hardcore acted first--some waiting in long lines, even. Now that the smoke has cleared and the novelty has faded, they are discounting the price. Far from being a sign of greed, it is a sign they desire that they continue to grow. As it should be.
Lastly: I haven't bought an Intel Mac yet, but I plan on it, and when I do, I expect it to be the same price as it is now or cheaper: not more expensive. The same goes for the iPhone G2, just as it has with my G4s, G3s, G1 Power-Macs and earlier. That's how it works folks. Competition gets more fierce, the price goes down, and ultimately all we are left with is a product. In this case, and iPhone. And is it any less awesome than it was on day 1? No.
--Mitch

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My MacBook Pro (early 2011) is moving as slow as a dinosaur... we are hoping if I get a MacBook Air for school and we only use one account on the Pro (instead of leaving both logged on and switching back and forth), we can get by for a few years without the cost of a new Pro. (I am a grad student. Money problems make it almost tempting to even get a PC at this point.)
With a minor "refresh" rumored in the upcoming days for the MacBook Air, and the 12" Retina coming a few months down the road... and with my next school term starting in May-- when should I get a MacBook Air?
I will be getting the 11" since it is cheapest.
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For what it's worth Steve, I have to give you some credit.

Watching the press conference yesterday I did seem to notice that Steve was a testy at times, but who among us would have held our tongue any better after a month of trying to come up with a solution, directing the company experts to find a fix, fielding questions, and on and on and on.
Where I have to give you credit is that what other CEO would voluntarily put themselves on a stage like a duck in a shooting gallery and have reporter take pot shots at them? MS puts out a bad product and people just stop buying it. Nobody holds Bill G personally responsible. But because Steve J will stand up and be seen he has to take all the crap with the credit.

ben101 wrote:
Based on those figures i actually think apple are being generous providing everyone with a free case (obviously they are only doing it for good pr, but even so, its going to cost them a fortune)
This I'm going to have to disagree with you on -- and it's not as if they're mailing a free case to each of the 3 million purchasers of the phone. They'll probably end up sending free cases to between 1% and 20% of the installed base. Even if it's 20%, and even if they sell 2 million more iPhones in the next three months before the offer ends, that's only 1 million cases.
Apple sells the bumper for $29, but best estimates as to its marginal cost are in the $2 to $3 range. So that's somewhere on the order of $3 million in materials costs, plus let's be insanely generous and say $3 million in G&A costs and shipping.
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