"Market" for old macs?

[Cameron Kaiser]

> At orchestra rehearsal last night, one of the bassists proudly told me that
> he'd bought a new computer--a Mac Mini for about $800, which included a 14"
>  LCD monitor and a gig of DRAM.  I must admit that I'm not sure if he got a
> good deal or not.  You're definitely limited on expansion options and I'd
> sure hate to repair the thing.

They're not that hard to get into. Literally all you need is a putty knife.
I've done some work on the mini a friend of mine has and it was fairly
straightforward to do surgery on hers.

> DVD/CD-RW drive, but no floppy.

So? ^_^ Macs haven't had floppies in them since the original iMac. This
isn't a new thing. For my dual G4, I just use a USB floppy drive.

The mini is basically an iBook G4 in a smaller case with no screen.

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