04-14-2018, 01:02 AM
DavidS wrote:
I have a 24" iMac, 2008 edition. Core 2 Duo, 2.8Ghz, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD. Mac2Sell says that it's worth $610, but I cannot fathom asking/getting nearly that much for a 10 year old computer.
A neighbor is interested in buying it for her 19yo son to do some music and video production. I'm not sure if it is even up to the task after upgrading the RAM to 6GB (about $70 extra), but he wants to check it out.
Any thoughts/opinions on this?
I was recently offered 3 of them for an art project that would have involved stripping them for components. When I opted to go another way, they offered to pay me to take the old Macs away.
The boot drive is not likely to keep chugging for very long. The logic board and display are not long for the world. An SSD would cost more than it's worth. Installing the SSD would be more effort than it's worth.
The ports are slow. The WiFi is slow. The display is dim with age. It can't run a modern OS and even a fairly old OS will feel slow on that thing. Just booting it feels painful and creaky after booting a modern Mac.
Informed consent: Tell your neighbor that it's worthless and near death, but she's welcome to take it for her son so long as she promises not to give it back to you.