$50 iBook!

I search the forums for Virginia and iBook and got no results so I decided to make a topic about it.

Henrico County Public Schools have announced that its used Apple iBooks it has been using in a four-year laptop program will be sold off in a one-day sale. And they are gonna be selling them for $50 a piece. All i gotta say is, if you live in Virginia then you are one lucky man. Here is a link:

http://www.methodshop.com/2005/07/50-ibook-sale.shtml

Here are the specs:

• White iBook, Power PC G3

• Operating System 10.2.8

• Installed with AppleWorks version 6.2.9 only

• CPU Speed: 500 MHz

• Memory: 320 MB

• Hard drive: 10G

• CD-ROM drive

• Screen: 12.1 inches

• AC charger

• Built-in 10/100 Base-TX

• Wireless card — IEEE 802.11

• Fire wire 400

• Two 12 Mbps USB ports

F.A.Q.S

• Laptop sale Aug. 9

• Location change to Richmond International Raceway at 600 E. Laburnum Ave.

• Parking gates open and line forms at 7 a.m.

• Camping, overnight parking prohibited

• Sale begins at 9 a.m.

• 1,000 laptops available

• Limit: one per person

• First-come, first-serve basis

• $50 each

• Cash or personal checks accepted with proper ID

• Out-of-state checks accepted with proper ID

• All sales final

• Sold as is, no warranty

http://henrico.k12.va.us/ibooksale/index.html

*If there is another topic about it/it's old news, feel free to remove it or whatever.

#304554

argh.. why this things doesnt happen in argentina... :

#304555

That's the same iBook model I had... sold it for $500.00 a few month's ago.

#304557

^ 500! OMG a $450 turn over!

...... too bad i live in michigan driving or flying down there jsut to buy the iBOok would not be worth it

#304568

has anyone heard of the outcome from this??!!??

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/na...ation-headlines

#309092

yeah, i heard that on the news last nite. i think it's ****ing hysterical!

"hey ma! i got us portable computing machine and it only cost us 50 bucks and a ruptured spleen!"

#309094

Poor Latoya!

OH THE HUMANITY!

#309106

"Who said chairs were only made fo' sittin?"

-Jesse

#309116

just got that news a couple of hours ago. now, i'm thinking: how far would you go to get an ibook? stealing it from someone using it at starbucks? break in somebody's house just to steal their ipods? break into whitehouse security to force the president to mail 2000 powermac g5s to your home? even kill somebody to get a powerbook? man this is pretty funny and horrifying at the same time. those people in that scene are like zombies you see in movies seriously.

#309158

That is ****ing hilarious! You really don't even have to read the story, just look at the picture...look at the face of the police officer! I had a feeling this would happen.

#309174

It's not funny, it's sad and the lack of planning on the part of the people holding the sale was terrible.

I find it disgusting that people find humor in the fact that several people were hospitalized because others couldn't behave like civilized humans.

#309176

CNN's lead story: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/16/computer....y.ap/index.html

Beating people with chairs to get a laptop? An old laptop at that?? Sheesh....

#309177

yea I read about that mob scene in the paper... I wouldn't push an old man to the ground for a cruddy old G3...

#309192

http://www.nbc12.com/servlet/Satellite?pag...d=1031784465955

see the videoon this page "LOOK AT MA STROLLA, LOOK AT IT"

#309193

Actually it was quite funny

I was watching CNN and first they aired a report how they got ass raped by a Win 2000 virus and the one titled "Mac mania" about the iBook iSmashing that happened at that school.

I laughed my ass off

On one side, CNN staff starring with glassy eyes at their perpetually re-booting PCs, on the other, chairs and fists flying in a fight over Apple's iBooks

Life is too good sometimes

#309194

speaking of the virus, i think it was a cnn anchor that said something to the effect of:

"you're vulnerable without the patch if you're running windows 2000. if you're running windows 97, 98, or 99, then you're fine."

who's running the show at that network?

#309200

naaah

wasn`t the CNN anchor.

It was their "technical adviser" xD

I think he works for McAfee (not sure though) or some other big-ass AV company.

Oh and i`m saving those iMob videos for posterity

#309202