What is the potential worth of a 3 year old imac with a bad graphics card and/or logic board. My mom has been having issues with the mac for about 5 months and finally it stop booting to the OS. She saw green lines randomly when it still worked and after trying to reinstall the OS by formatting the drive failed she decided to buy a new Imac. My question is what do you think it is worth? Any help would be appreciated.

4/11/2010 10:22:00 PM

zero. honest.

4/11/2010 10:35:08 PM

jesus chris

4/11/2010 11:38:51 PM

put it up on CL. It will be worth something to someone for parts. you'd be surprised.

4/11/2010 11:57:35 PM

^

4/12/2010 9:19:00 AM

Apples tend to hold their value well. For about the past 6 years, I've bought an Apple laptop near the end of summer, and sell a year later for ~$1-200 less than I paid for it when I upgrade.

Then again you're asking about a 3 year old computer that's broken. As said above, I'd throw it on Craigslist and be happy to get anything for it, really...

4/12/2010 9:31:55 AM

What about iMacs?

I have one that I bought at the beginning of last Fall. Everything is 100% working on it. Cost around 1300 i believe.

4/12/2010 9:33:46 AM

I've never bought a desktop before. I used to build desktops, then basically give them away when I upgraded, since a personally built aging desktop is nearly worthless.

Generally the best "value" in purchase price vs. resale is at the low end of most products. A 10 year old BMW is generally worth the same, if not less than a 10 year old Honda for example...

Anyway, good luck.

4/12/2010 9:59:04 AM

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/
Contains every Apple computer ever produced with approximate current value.

4/12/2010 10:08:12 AM

ooh yay! i've been thinking about this lately.

i have a 20" imac i got in summer 2006. it's intel based fwiw. 320gb hdd, osx 10.5 (it came with 10.4). it's basically a giant hard drive b/c that's about all i do with it. i have a dell mini hackintosh i use 99% of the time, i just store pics on the imac. what do you think i could get for this if i was going to sell it?

4/12/2010 10:14:37 AM

I recently sold an iMac ive had for a few years for $1000 but it was in working order. Put it on CL.

4/12/2010 10:42:53 AM

Quote :

"Then again you're asking about a 3 year old computer that's broken. As said above, I'd throw it on Craigslist and be happy to get anything for it, really..."

4/12/2010 1:36:43 PM

^^^
$600 or more, probably.

is it one of these?
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/stats/imac_cd_2.0_20.html
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/stats/imac-core-2-duo-2.16-20-inch-specs.html

[Edited on April 12, 2010 at 1:37 PM. Reason : 3^]

4/12/2010 1:36:54 PM

I don't know whether they sell them or not but there's always macs with bad logic boards on the Charlotte CL priced at $500-600. I don't know who the hell would pay that much for them but they're on there enough for that price that I'd probably try it at $500 for a week or so.

4/12/2010 1:42:00 PM

Just look on the bright side, if you had a similar aged PC with similar specs but in full working order you'd get next to nothing if you're lucky.

4/12/2010 1:44:40 PM

For one thanks for all the responses. Do you think it is worth actually taking it apart and selling the parts one by one, or selling the entire unit as is?

4/12/2010 8:47:53 PM

Quote :

"Just look on the bright side, if you had a similar aged PC with similar specs but in full working order you'd get next to nothing if you're lucky."

So it's pretty much even considering the price he probably paid for the Mac

4/12/2010 9:16:06 PM