scoobyboy

are there places that do trade in for computers? i've got a 1.6ghz g5 power mac with 1gb of memory and im thinking of going for one of the new imacs for space reasons. just wondered what it would be worth and if i could trade it in as well that would be good.

Gilesdwrc

for christs sake don't unless you get the hard drive cleaned/formated by a expert! All your personal info (bank accounts, address, ect, ect) big issue with 2nd hand bits ending up in the hands of crims who steal your identity!

corradoboy

Apple Disc Utility will wipe your HDD and write all 1's or all 0's on every segment. For extra security, after that fill the entire HDD with something trivial so everything has been wiped and rewritten. Then try restoring something with Norton Utilities, it shouldn't find anything. Although, when my Mac was new I ran Nortons and found allsorts on my HDD

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

Its more the home made **** I'd be concerned with

ScoobyDoo555

As it's a SATA drive, why not just keep it, and put in a new one before floggin it?

DAn

scoobyboy

that sounds the best idea would i get more for it if it had a brand new drie in it?

ScoobyDoo555

doubtful, but you'd get piece of mind. PLus they're not that expensive now........

DAn

Markus

As said by others, Disk Utility will happily security erase the hard drive so nothing is left on it, we've done this and tested it before and can't fault it

I've had a very quick look on ebay and prices for your spec of machine range from between 200 - 500. Some Apple resellers might take the machine as trade in, I doubt the Apple Stores themselves would though. Might be worth seeing what resellers are in your area and asking them.

scoobyboy

is that all was hoping it would have been worth more than that

bob269

Sadly Computers, as with Cars these days are worthless 5mins after use.

corradoboy

Unfortunate, but under £400 now gets you a faster 1.83ghz Intel Mini. May not have the upgradeability or graphics processing, but a great little machine for the cash. Progress

messiah

The slightly underhand and not to be recommended route is to drop it down the stairs and tell the insurance company you tripped over the cat.

Mate of mine did this and they sent him a cheque for £500 to replace it and didn't even question it...

scoobyboy

hmmmm devious thoughts are emerging!