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05/19/2006, 7:35pm, EDT

Friday, May 19th

Apple offers refurb iBooks, iMacs

Apple is offering its refurbished 14-inch G4 1.42GHz SuperDrive iBook for $1,049, a 20 percent savings, as well as the 17-inch eMac 1.42GHz Combo Drive for $639, 21 percent off the original price. The company is selling a wide array of refurbished iMacs that includes the 17-inch G5 1.6GHz 256MB 80GB Combo for $749, 43 percent off the new $1,299 price tag, the 17-inch G5 1.8GHz 256MB 80GB SuperDrive for $799, 47 percent less than the original $1,499, the 17-inch G5 1.9GHz SuperDrive for $999, a $300 savings, the 17-inch Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz for $1,099, $200 less than the list price, the 20-inch G5 1.8GHz 256MB 160GB SuperDrive for $1,099, a 43 percent savings on the original $1,899, the 20-inch G5 2GHz SuperDrive for $1,249, $550 less than retail, and the 20-inch 2GHz Intel Core Duo for $1,399, 18 percent less than the original $1,699. All refurbished items come with free shipping, and are backed by Apple's one-year limited warranty.


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Intel iMac A-OK
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05/20, 10:26am, EDT
I received my refurb'd 20" CoreDuo iMac yesterday. Works great. Only "bad" thing is the carton. Apple uses a plain brown horizontal carton instead of the vertical one with the handle. The latter makes it convenient for transport.

Wow; had to really dig hard to find something about which I could complain. ;D
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re: intel imac a-ok
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05/20, 1:14pm, EDT
I have over $2000 tied up into the same thing you bought. $300 for packaging? I'd say you got a good deal. I've had really good luck with refurbs. They're tested more than the new machines, so they're usually good. I got the extended warranty and 2 GB RAM plus the wireless keyboard and mouse. I'm happy with mine. Good luck!
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refurb iBooks
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05/20, 1:57pm, EDT
They're going to have to slash the prices on those refurbished iBooks well below $1049 if they want anyone to buy them now that the MacBooks are here!
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iBook vs. MacBook
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05/20, 7:30pm, EDT
Believe it or not, there are actually some crazy people out there who still want PPC computers over the x86 Apple's.
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MacBookPro refurb's so-s
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05/20, 9:59pm, EDT
Macgeek50,

Thanks for your kind wishes. I've been running this iMac for about 24 hours so far and the only thing that's interrupted my work has been the need to locate some Intel-native codecs. However, for those I couldn't find, I simply made a copy of QT Player, switched it to run in Rosetta, and have it available for when some quirky AVI doesn't want to play nice; the Rosetta-enabled version works with all of the codecs I dragged over from my old G5.

Now I just need more RAM (and isn't that an old story?).
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